Reading good books to appreciative children has to be one of the great simple pleasures of life. Andrew Carnegie knew […]
The John Newbery Medal was named for the eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. He was born in 1713, was apprenticed
Last month, I wrote about Randolph Caldecott, the children’s picture book artist, born in Chester in northwest England in 1846.
When my favourite three-year-old brought me a new picture book to read to her I noticed that it had a
Last weekend I spoke at a women’s retreat about the richness of everyday life in a homeschooling family, looking at
I was thrilled by an article I read online recently. The photos showed a startlingly beautiful Roman mosaic dating from
When someone starts thinking about homeschooling it’s tempting to consider how to reproduce what goes on in school. The reason
Who regrets homeschooling? Most people who have finished homeschooling their children say they are glad they did it. They are
Today, 28 November is the first Sunday of Advent. So what’s Advent and why should we, as homeschoolers, bother with
Every December the world moves into a frenzy of shopping, end-of-year preparations, and crazy busy-ness. And this year, despite a
