Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Homeschool Book Wish List

If I had an unlimited budget for books for our homeschool, here are the things that I would want to buy. Post your own list and comment here with a link!

BOOKS ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING
-Family Matters, David Guterson (I read a copy from the library and want a copy of my own)
-Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days: Share a Day With 30 Homeschooling Families, Nancy Lande
-For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
-The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling, Rachel Gathercole
-Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves, Alison McKee
-A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century, Oliver Van DeMille

BOOKS FOR THE KIDS
-Two of Everything, Lily Toy Hong
-Peril and Peace: Chronicles of the Ancient Church, Mindy Withrow
-Haiku Picturebook for Children, Keisuke Nishimoto
-Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, E. Nesbit
-The Burgess Animal Book for Children, Thornton W. Burgess
-The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks, F. J. Gould
-Among the Farmyard People, Clara Dillingham Pierson
-Among the Pond People, Clara Dillingham Pierson
-Among the Night People, Clara Dillingham Pierson
-Handbook of Nature Study, Anna Botsford Comstock
-Fabre's Book of Insects, Jean Henri Fabre
-Stories from the Opera, Husain Shahrukh
-Latitude and Longitude, Rebecca Aberg
-START EXPLORING Masterpieces: A Fact-Filled Coloring Book, Steven Zorn

2 comments:

Molly said...

Thanks for leaving a comment on my Wish List post @ http://counterculturalschool.blogspot.com/2009/01/library-builders-my-wish-list.html

I picked up a copy of Fabre's Insects book at a book sale for 25 cents recently...I felt like the seller had no idea the treasure they were parting with for a song!

I see you use Charlotte Mason...I also got The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady at Goodwill for 50 cents!!

I had never heard of the Dillingham Pierson books...they look wonderful! I'd love to get them! In the meantime, I did find them available as a free download at Baldwin Project.

http://www.mainlesson.com/displayauthor.php?author=pierson

And yes, I know Jennifer...for almost 20 years now! She is the one who recommended A Mother's Rule of Life, which is on my wish list!

And now I know who YOU are!! I never would have guessed, thanks for saying something!
Molly

Brenda @ Tie That Binds Us said...

Come by my post tomorrow, I'm talking about the Handbook of Nature Study! And, just wanted to tell you that The Thomas Jefferson Companion is much better then the TJE. In terms of understanding the philosophy, I mean. I would switch the order of reading the books. So, start with TJC!