I want to list some of the books we are reading in our free time so the kids can look back over time & see the great literature they have read.  Some of it is twaddle (I love that word, thank you Charlotte Mason) but most of it is valuable.

Abby (9yr):

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay

Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled by Milton Meltzer

Math Talk by Theoni Pappas (These are math poems that 2 to 3 people read simultaneously.  I thought they looked cute but not very beneficial until we read & learned what fibonacci meant.  Now I am much more impressed w/ the living math books I purchased)

Mathematicians Are People, Too by Luetta Reimer & Wilbert Reimer

Viking Tales by Jennie Hall

The Light Princess by George MacDonald

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (We are reading the play & taking turns with the different characters, we actually doing this one together)

Science in Ancient Mesopotamia by Carol Moss 

Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill

Little Britches by Ralph Moody (This is actually one I am reading aloud to her b/c I wanted to read it also.)

Erin (7yr):

The Waterbabies by Charles Kingsley (Avoid the movie at ALL costs but the book is great)

The Pied Piper of Hamlin by robert Browning

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

...she also reads lots of the books aloud to the little ones, see list below...

Read alouds to Jack (4.5yr), Seth (3yr), and Katy (11mo):

* these are favorites that we always keep around, we read these a lot.  All the other books we will rotate out in a week or so but this is what we are reading (over & over) right now.

From Zero To Ten: the story of numbers by Vivian French & Ross Collins

The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

Missing Mittens by Stuart J Murphy

*The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese

*Mother Mother I Feel Sick Send For The Doctor Quick Quick Quick by Remy Charlip

*Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

*Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Ahlberg

*On Mother's Lap by Ann Herbert Scott

Kon-Tiki and I by Erik Hesselberg

Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne

Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young

*Curious George by HA Rey

What Do You Say, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin

David and Goliath by Heather Amery

*Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

*I Love You The Purplest (This is Seth's favorite but I can't remember who wrote it & I am not going to search for it right now, maybe later)

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

*Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall

Me (34yr):

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Managers of Their Home by Steven and Teri Maxwell

Managers of Their Chores by Steven and Teri Maxwell

For The Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Birthing God's Mighty Warriors by Rachel Giove Scott

Home Education by Charlotte Mason

How Should We Then Live? by Francis A Schaeffer

This seems like a ton of books but we keep them scattered throughout the house and read as the mood strikes.  Personally, I like to have something to read while I nurse the baby (maybe that's why I nurse them for so long, so I will have an excuse to sit & read!)  The Managers of Their... books I read in the morning after my bible study & I hope to be finished w/ those soon.  Abby will read a chapter from a few different books at one sitting & then move on to something else so she really benefits from the short incremental readings/lessons recommended by Charlotte Mason.  I really need to reduce my book list so I can finish books faster, or maybe not...

.....so many books so little time.

Gotta run, my babies need me!

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