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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you asked me what my favorite read-aloud book is, I’d have to say Men of Iron by Howard Pyle. I first read it to my children sometime in the mid ’80′s and again in the ’90′s and who knows how many times we’ve listened to the recorded book version. Just now I re-read the [...]

I am a homeschooling mother of ten children.We have successfully graduated our three oldest children. Currently I am teaching the other seven. The first batch of children was 4 girls and 1 boy, the second is 4 boys and 1 girl. I am struggling with what to read to them and how often to read [...]

Free Classic Audio Books is a site where you can download free audio books in either mp3 or m4b audio book format for iTunes and the iPod. They have books such as Pilgrim’s Progress, Treasure Island, War of the Worlds, Swiss Family Robinson, Emma, The Secret Garden, Robinson Crusoe, and many others. LibriVox provides free [...]

I want to share with you some of the short stories we have enjoyed over the years. Our three favorite authors of short stories are Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and O Henry, and we particularly enjoy listening to these stories as books on tape. Twain’s stories have been recorded by numerous people, some [...]

Yesterday, Walden Media announced their attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations using a passage from E.B. White’s classic book, Charlotte’s Web. Check out the Walden Media web site for details. They would like alll homeschool participants to indicate on their registration form — “homeschooler.” [...]