Yikes, that was a while back...I never got around to finishing this post, but of course collecting books is a lifelong thing, so when would it ever really be finished. Maybe I can update it from time-to-time. Well, it's really September now, and even though I started this is May, I'm cheating and changing the posting date because, if you know me at all, you know I'm kind of anal. The future me isn't going to like to see that 'July 2007' is missing from the nice little archive listing on the side. So the past me (the one who wrote it in May) is gifting it to July. Although not reflected in what is written below, the last time I consciously thought about adding to this post was in July. So there. A nice, tidy explanation.
5/24/07
For a while now I've been wanting to record these all in one place, as the books I have which are related to homeschooling seem to be scattered all about this little house. Some of them have been recently acquired for use as actual homeschooling references, others are books that aren't even necessarily related to homeschooling, but in one way or another, influenced my decision to homeschool. It's a nap day for Jacob, but as the clock approaches 4pm, I'm anxious to get up there and see about trying to wake him, so this is going to be real quick and possibly disjointed.
1) My Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn - I had the prequel to this book sitting on my shelf, leftover from an anthropology class I ended up dropping before I got around to reading the book. It wasn't til a couple years later, when I was pregnant, that I picked up Ishmael and read it. It totally changed the way I looked at everything. I can't explain this in better detail because it's been a few years and only the general message of the book remains. I did pick it up again and read it maybe 2 years ago. It still affected me, and I love how you can do that with some books - pick them up years later and still love it, but totally experience the effect in different ways because you are so different from when you first read it. Yikes, I'd better cut to the chase...yeah, so I read My Ish after that and that the central character is a 12 year old girl, so it seemed to examine the authors viewpoints from a different perspective. Again, I can't exactly say what it was about the book, but I realized from reading it that I believed in a more natural, 'it takes a village' mentality to education. And that book explains this part of me. It was the first book I read that made me consider homeschooling, even though it isn't a homeschooling book. I guess that also explain part of the 'organic' approach to learning that I have...I find my own paths to the same conclusions that other people have made.
The Influence Books
2) The Natural Child, Jan Hunt
3) The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff
4) The Unschooling Handbook, Mary Griffith
5) How Children Learn, John Holt - but really all his books (which I haven't fully read all of but I'm pretty sure I'm in line with them).
The actual homeschooling books:
The Homeschooling Handbook, Mary Griffith
Homeschoolers' Success Stories, Linda Dobson
The Library Books
The Homeschooling Book of Answers, Linda Dobson
Parents' Guide to Alternatives In Education, Ronald E. Koetzsch Ph.D.
The Activity Books
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas, Linda Dobson
Kitchen Table Play & Learn, Tara Copley & Andrea Custer
Great Explorations, Amy Nolan
Great Greek Gods and Goddesses, Patricia Rowe Gilkerson & Kathy Zaun (for much older kids)
The Idea books
Re-Creative, Steve Dodds
The 'Text' Books
The Garden Book, Wes Porter
Sugar-Free Toddlers, Susan Watson
Healthy Kids, Marilu Henner
(my sign language books)
My Amazing Body, Pat Thomas
Baby Animals, Treasure Press
Explore the World of Forces of Nature, Anita Ganeri, Ill. Mike Saunders
My Big Books of Animals, Gerald Durrell
The Answers Books
Big Questions Little Kids Ask, Dr. Rita Book
How Do I Know? Questions and Answers About the Senses, Robert Carola
Big Book About How Things Work, Joe Kaufman
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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