May. 15, 2007 - Audio Book Review -- The Saturdays
About the Book
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright is the story of an adorable family of four children who have distinct personalities and are always finding fun and mischief! In this book the children decide if they pooled their allowance each week they could each take turns doing something really cool with the resulting $1.50! It is so neat to see what each child does with his/her Saturday and the unintended results! This is a great book about family and teamwork. This is the first book in a series of 4. We are on the third and love this series. My children will be very sad when we run out of Melendy books!
About the Reader
Pamela Dillman does an excellent job of reading this series. Her voices are distinct and fun; especially Mrs. Olephant's voice!
Book Details
ISBN: 1593160208
Running Time: 4 Hours and 1 minute
Publisher: Listen and Live Audio
Recommended Age: 4 and up
It was a very sad day in our car this afternoon as the final credits started playing for the last book in the Melendy series.
We found lots of "mini-lessons" within the books. We loved all of her descriptive phrases, and we talked about what good stories all of the characters told.
The bottom line is; We try not to insist on parent-led learning or gravitate toward child-led learning. We try instead to focus on God-led learning and ask for His input and perspective on every aspect of our home school. That way, when others fuss about what Dan and I are doing and make me second guess our decisions -- I can go back to our decision process and find God's fingerprints, reminding me that this is His way.
