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.” [...]

Just placed an order with Blackstone Audio. Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse, read by Frederick Davidson Davidson is our favorite reader, and several here love anything by Wodehouse. Come on Seabiscuit by Ralph Moody, read by Jim Weiss This will be the first recording we have by Jim Weiss, and I’m looking forward [...]

I’m reading about your great-great grandfather Mr. Pippin.

I’ve just had a revelation revisited: A couple of years ago Laurie mentioned a good book to read aloud: Bob, Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant. One day, scanning our bookcases I came upon it! I’d picked it up a library book sale, who knows how many years before! Praise God! Another year or so [...]

…that you read aloud to your children.

Dear Mrs. Bluedorn, I thank you and your family very much for your ministry to like-minded homeschoolers such as our family. We are very excited to be learning more about your style of homeschooling, and are relieved that there are others interested in a classical style of education that is Christian and not focusing on [...]

I picked up the pamphlet that your son Nathaniel wrote entitled Hand That Rocks The Cradle. What a great blessing that little booklet has been! I have a 7 year old and a 3 year old, and they just love when mom reads to them. I know the time I have spent reading to my [...]

I started reading aloud to my children in 1981 after the birth of our fourth child. Naturally, all along I had been reading the baby picture books so often read to little children, but it was in that year that I started with the harder chapter books. I believe that first book was Treasure Island. [...]

Tomorrow is Booker T. Washington’s birthday, and La Shawn Barber writes a piece summarizing his life and accomplishments. One of the best books I ever read aloud to the kids was his autobiography Up From Slavery.

There are going to be days when you aren’t able to do much reading aloud. Blackstone Audio offers homeschooling families a 50% discount on all their regularly priced audiobooks. We just purchased The Little Colonel by Johnston, Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates, Something Fresh by Wodehouse, The Elusive Pimpernel by Orczy, Through the Wall by [...]