Bookish Life
20 Terrific Book Series to Engage Beginner Readers
My primary goal as an educator of my children is to cultivate a love of reading in their souls. If they become strong readers, they’ll be on their way towards becoming lifelong learners. It can be challenging to capture their attention when reading is still a chore. When you find a good book series that…
Read MoreThe Perfect Gift for a Book Lover: The Book a Month Club
Gifts are always so challenging for tweens and teens. For my daughter’s twelfth birthday, my mother-in-law gave her the best gift ever: a Book a Month Club. So there’s no program to subscribe to in order to automate this, but I think that makes it even better. Here’s how it works: each month on her…
Read MoreSilver Dolphin Books: Scanorama Book Review
I always have my eye out for great books that cultivate curiosity. It seems that nature provides such a fascinating range topics, that kids will spend hours pouring over books and not even know that they are reading or learning. A good animal book has not only engaging pictures, but fascinating information that will spark…
Read MoreA Few of My Favorite Things Gift Basket Giveaway!
It is no secret that I am a crazy book loving homeschool mom. We’re nearing that point where we’re going to be back into our full time fall school routine. To celebrate, I’d like to share some of my favorite things with one of my lucky readers! I’m not alone in this crazy back-to-school giveaway…
Read MoreDon’t Know Much About History? Read these Authors!
History has only become interesting to me in the last couple of years. While sitting with a friend at a Classical Conversations Parent Practicum this summer, we discussed how we didn’t remember much “history” in the elementary years. Yes, there was social studies, but where were the wars, the heroes, the civilizations, and the revolutions? I want to…
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