Letter from one of our readers in response to Kelly:
I thought I might post this to give you some encouragement. My oldest son, now a 21 year old college student, sounds just like your son. We homeschooled him all the way through high school and, even at his graduation, I felt that I had “failed” [...]

We recently ran a contest in our Homeschooling with the Trivium e-letter asking for favorite read alouds. Here are the results:
Lynn Reif — Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Debbie Speedy — Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos
Cindy Landreth — Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr.
Peggy Brooks — Look Out Jeremy Bean
Janet [...]

Books on tape from Blackstone Audiobooks
Men of Iron — Pyle
The Bronze Bow — Speare
Jo’s Boys — Alcott
Sufferings in Africa — Captain James Riley
The Captivity of the Oatman Girls — Lorenzo Oatman
The Shining Company — Sutcliff
The Elusive Pimpernel — Orczy
The Poison Belt — Doyl
The Histories — Herodotus
Barnaby Rudge — Dickens
Journey to the Center of the [...]

Here’s mine.
My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — A. A. Milne

Thank you so much for encouraging us to read above the level you think your child will understand. Recently we began to read Charlotte’s Web with our 5yo son because the play is coming to our area and we needed to know the story since we didn’t read it as children. To our surprise and [...]

Dear Laurie,
This year I began slowly shifting over to using the trivium method, but am interested in finding books I can read aloud to my 2nd and 3rd graders. Please give me any suggestions you might have.
Thank you, Julie, CA
How about these: Shasta of the Wolves by Olaf Baker; Little Lord Fauntleroy by [...]

I would like your thoughts on children listening to books on tape as a partial substitute for mom reading aloud 1-2 hours per day. My 8 year old boy has latched onto several very good books, at least two grades above his reading level, which he has gobbled up because he can listen to the [...]

Penrod by Booth Tarkington (published 1914)
Penrod Schofield is twelve and has been volunteered by his mother for “The Pageant of the Table Round” in which he is to play the Child Sir Lancelot du Lake. He gets himself into a mountain of trouble when he exchanges his gaudy costume of castoff silk stockings and flannel [...]

Sir Gibbie

I know I told you a couple of days ago that my favorite book is Men of Iron, but I need to change that. I just remembered that my true favorite book is Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. I recommend reading Robinson Crusoe in an unabridged version, but here’s an interesting edition I found on [...]