Take your Pick -- Lifelong Learning Adventures for Curious Hearts

Take your Pick -- Lifelong Learning Adventures for Curious Hearts
" It is almost impossible to go through a whole day without learning something .. " so go ahead, take your pick and start your journey .. Lifelong Learning Adventures inspired by Charlotte Mason Homeschooling with a Living Books Curriculum

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Author List - A-Z - CM friendly Living Books

  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Marguerite De Angli
  • Richard Atwater
  • Ingri D'Aulaire 
  • Hans Christian Andersen 
  • (William C. Bagley Jr.)
  • Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Robert Browning  
  • Thomas Bulfinch
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Sheila Burnford 
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Rebecca Caudill
  • ( Anna Botsford Comstock ) Nature
  • Barbara Cooney
  • Daniel Defoe 
  • Charles Dickens
  • George MacDonald
  • Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Elizabeth Enright
  • (Jean-Henri Fabre )Science
  • (Robert Friedhoffer)Science
  • Esther Forbes
  • (Carol Greene)
  • Lucretia Hale
  • James Norman Hall
  • Richard Hannula
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Marguerite Henry
  • James Hilton
  • (Holling C. Holling )
  • Irene Hunt 
  • Washington Irving 
  • Joseph Jacobs
  • Meindert De Jong
  • Helen Keller
  • Harold Keith 
  • Charles Kingsley
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Eric Knight
  • (Manuel Komroff)  
  • Jean Lee Latham
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Hugh Lofting
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  • Charles Ludwig
  • Charles Major 
  • H.E. Marshall  
  • Ralph Moody 
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Walt Morey 
  • George MacDonald 
  • Edith Nesbit 
  • Eleanor Porter
  • Arthur Ransome
  • (Milton Rugoff) 
  • Edna Mitchell Preston 
  • Howard Pyle 
  • Felix Salten
  • Constance Savery
  • Anna Sewell 
  • Margaret Sidney 
  • Elizabeth George Speare 
  • Joanna Spyri 
  • Diane Stanley
  • Albert Payson Terhune
  • P.L. Travers 
  • (Peter Vennema )
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Elizabeth Yates
  • Charlotte Yonge 
  •  Feenie Ziner

List of Potentials for us  to investigate


yr2
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Chanticleer and the Fox Barbara Cooney's is one version
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angli

yr3
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
*Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
King of the Wind Marguerite Henry (18th century, Africa, France and England)
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong


  • HISTORY yr 3 - required
  • An Island Story H.E. Marshall  
  • Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
  • Leonardo Da Vinci by Emily Hahn
  • Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Peter Vennema and Diane Stanley
  • Squanto by Feenie Ziner
  • Marco Polo: A Story of the Middle Ages by Edna Mitchell Preston  
  • To Far Cathay by William C. Bagley Jr.
  • Marco Polo: Voyager to the Orient by Carol Greene
  • Marco Polo by Manuel Komroff
  • Marco Polo's Adventures in China by Milton Rugoff 
  • Marco Polo: Journey Across the World by Charles P. Graves
  • Marco Polo for Kids (His Marvelous Journey to China) by Janis Herbert 
  • Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman



NATURE STUDY
  • The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock 


yr4
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge
Bambi by Felix Salten
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Little Britches series by Ralph Moody
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
(Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright)
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Return To Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Complete Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale
**Calico Captive (girl interest) or The Sign of the Beaver (boy interest) by Elizabeth George Speare
***Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
***The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery (British view of revolution)
Justin Morgan had a Horse, Marguerite Henry



yr 4 History
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Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober

Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling

SCIENCE
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley
The Storybook of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre
Physics Lab in the Home by Robert Friedhoffer

Literature
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch preface to 14 (Minerva-Niobe)
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving




yr5
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig
*Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
**Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
**Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
***Rilla of Ingleside (7 of the Anne series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery; shows WWI effects on a community
***Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
***Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller


Poetry of Walter de la Mare
Poetry of William Blake
William Blake
** Sara Teasdale and Hilda Conkling
*** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
** Emily Dickinson
*** William Wordsworth

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