Feb. 22, 2008 - Uncle Eric books

Have you read any of these?  I just love them.. Recently, I ordered Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and Are you… Liberal? Conservative? or Confused? and  was very impressed!  I read the Penny Candy one while at my daughters’ basketball practice last week .  >     They are both books written by Richard Maybury that are easy to understand but have deep concepts as well.   He writes them as an uncle answering his nephew’s questions about Economics (Penny Candy) and Politics (Liberal? Conservative?)  I’m planning to do them with all four of my kids, ages 8-14.  My older two will get a lot out of them and I’ll have them do really good projects and essay’s from the corresponding study guide but they are written so that my younger ones will be able to understand most of the concepts.  Eventually, I’d love to have the whole series (there are more on law, judicial, more economic concepts etc…)  I know I’d like my older to do the Clipper Ship next year as well.   I learned a lot reading the book.  It’s not just the basics you get in many texts or unit studies but the history and places the concepts and ideas come from as well.  Check them out or if you already have leave me a comment and let me know how you used them in your family.

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Feb. 22, 2008 - Hello

Posted by Anonymous

I have seen these books and have wondered if they were any good. Thanks for the reccomendation. Vanessa http://mcalhaney.blogspot.com/

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Feb. 23, 2008 - Thanks for sharing!

Posted by ReviewsbyHeidi

We have these books on our "to buy" list for next school year. I appreciate your opinion. Heidi

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Mar. 30, 2008 - Study Guide for Whatever Happened to Penny Candy

Posted by dgallew

Do you have a link to go to the study guide? I looked for it but couldn't find it. Darla

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Mar. 30, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by tlpgina

here's a link for the study guide, http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=617573&event=CF I ordered them all from christianbook.com so you could just do a search on that site to find them as well. Gina

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