More than a decade ago, I took a year, or so, to read books I’d never read while growing up. Our older children hadn’t read them either, because of the way we homeschooled them at the time. I chose books that would reflect the type of atmosphere, discipline, and life I wanted to create for our family at home. The books needed to be easy because I wasn’t a fiction reader. I “never had time for fiction.” I still (mostly) feel that way. But, I read tons and tomes of fiction at all levels to/for our family now because that time off from the perpetual study of non-fiction had basically been the accumulation of skeletal facts…reading fiction added meat to the bones. ;0)
Those that stand out to me (and the truly were light, yet deep reading):
All of a Kind Family series, by Sydney Taylor !!!!!
Mother Carey’s Chickens, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin !!!!!
Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher !!!!
Streams to the River, River to the Sea, by Scott O’Dell !!!!!
As I remember them, I will add to this list. My suggestion is to get a good book list like All Through the Ages, by Christine Miller, or Honey for a Child’s Heart, by Gladys Hunt, and choose some titles that you have never read. Stay a bit ahead of your children’s reading levels on the list and mark those you’d like to use as read aloud titles you want to be read as a family and those you think are better suited for assigned reading. It’s a great way to plan while taking a breather at the same time. 🙂
Blessings,
Becca<><
P.S. Nursing without a book in hand does more to develop an atmosphere of peace than reading a book about it. 🙂 I miss those days.
