Ep 7: Our Favourite Resources and Books From the Early Years: Part 2

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This episode is the second in our two part series of our favourite books and resources from the early days of our homeschooling journey. In this episode we share all of our favourite books. This episode is a treasure trove of ideas for your family!

In This Episode We Discuss:

Our favourite non-fiction and fiction books

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Usborne, DK, Encyclopedias (costumes, countries, trucks, animals, buildings, etc…)

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty McDonald

Asterix & Tin Tin

Little House series

Stories of famous ballets (Esp. ‘Swan Lake’)

Redwall series

James Herriot. Storybooks for younger, novels and show for older

Little Bear

Lois Lenski  (Seasons, the little farm, the little fire engine, the little train, the little family…)

Little Golden book: Eloise Wilkin Stories

The Friendly Book

Olivia

Beatrix Potter (and the sweet dvd series)

5 Children and It, The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

The Penderwicks 

Frog and Toad, Owl at Home, Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Ernest and Celestine

Julie of the Wolves

My Side of the Mountain 

Elizabeth Enright

The Saturdays

The Four Story Mistake

And Then There Were Five

Harriet the Spy 

Sign of the Beaver

Burgess Animal book, bird, etc

Owls in the Family

Lost in the Barrens

Curse of the Viking Grave

Nature Guides 

Wildwood Wisdom

American Boys/Girls Handy Book

The Jungle Book

Art Fraud Detective, The Great Art Scandal, Art Auction Mystery by Anna Nielson

Little Prince, Secret Garden by Francess Hodgeson Burnett

The Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald

Famous 5, Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton

Roald Dahl

Beverly Cleary

G.A. Henty (such an amazing resource re; historical fiction). Esp. ‘In Freedoms’ Cause’ (William Wallace), In the Reign of Terror (French Revolution), The Young Carthaginian (Hannibal)

Narnia series

Tolkien series

Marcia Williams comics (Shakespeare, Dickins, Homer, Sinbad, Robin Hood, Greek Myths, The Canterbury Tales)

D’Aulaires (Greek Myths, Leif the Lucky)

Graphic Novels (Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, DaVinci, Troy, Sacajawea, Redwall, Three Musketeers, Heidi )

Horrible Histories by Terry Deary

Lantern Bearer series 

Who/What Was/Is series (ie kids curious about Frankenstien, the Bermuda Triangle, Berlin Wall, Vietnam War, The Beatles, Jaques Cousteau, Einstein, Marie Curie, Jackie Chan, Ghengis Khan, Steve Jobs, Julia Child, etc…)

James Thurber

New Yorker cartoonist and pal of Dorothy Parkers’. Popular American humorist (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). Our family LOVES his crazy stories of growing up in Columbus Ohio around the turn of the last century. ‘The Night the Bed Fell On Father’ ‘The Dog That Bit People’ ‘The Night the Ghost Got In’ etc

Clementine (Sarah Pennypacker...a modern Ramona)

Anne of Green Gables series

Richard Scary’s Busy Town

Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem…(Brambly Hedge & Corgiville illustrations kick started tons of detailed drawings) Cobble Street Cousins, Let’s Go Home-Cynthia Rylant

Tasha Tudor

Biographies: Florence Nightingale, Harriet Tubman, Sundar Singh, Gandhi, Laura Ingalls, Jules Verne etc

Iris Noble biographies-Treasure of the Caves, Joseph Pulitzer, The Courage of Dr. Lister, Interpol, etc

Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Would Have Loved or Loathed

Poop Happened. A History of the World from the Bottom Up.(Did lead pipes cause the fall of the Roman Empire? How did a knight go to the bathroom? How did poor hygiene contribute to the French Revolution? First flushing Minoan toilet, astronauts, rickets, etc…)



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