Ep 7: Our Favourite Resources and Books From the Early Years: Part 2
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
Mentioned in this episode:
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…)