Victoria's Blessings

As a Christian mom, I feel like it is almost required for me to read C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to my kids.  I fi...

Catherine's literature curriculum requires that we pick four novels and read them.  This is our first one, and is proving to be far more...

Roald Dahl is one of our favorite authors.  I finally picked up Matilda at the library.  Like all of his other books, this one was silly, fu...

I am not sure why, but we have gotten out of the habit of reading chapter books.  The kids & I both love it, but I think we have just be...

Quite awhile ago we read Little House in the Big Woods (about the Ingalls family moving out west) and Little House on the Prairie (about th...

Tonight we finished a book I had never heard of before: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. This book is set in the mid-1800's in ...

I chose this book as a read-aloud because it was an interesting twist on the myth of King Midas, whom we studied last year.  Patrick Skene C...

My girls love fairy tales, so I got this chapter book - which puts a big twist on things!  Jane Yolen has written a fast paced, cute story w...

Quite some time ago we studied Helen Keller.  Then my Dad invited us to see a production of The Miracle Worker at a local theater in Jasper...

I can't remember how I ended up selecting this book to read to the girls.  I spend time late at night reading other people's blogs a...

The author Clyde Robert Bulla comes up frequently in children's literature.  He has written tons of books.  I chose this one because we ...

This is a classic children's book which I remember loving as a child, so I thought I'd read it to my girls.  They loved it.  Hugh Lo...

This book was assigned with our Language Arts curriculum last semester, but we never got around to reading it.  It has been sitting on a she...

One of the easiest things we do home schooling is reading chapter books.  My girls eat it up!  We just read a book which I have seen on vari...

My girls loved this book, set in Holland during World War II.  The main character is a young girl, Johanna.  The Little Riders of the title...

I get a lot of my chapter book ideas from the Sonlight web site.  This one, The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski, is set right af...

We have thoroughly enjoyed the most recent Roald Dahl book we read: BFG .  I have heard of it, but never read it.  I am so glad we read this...

We just finished one of our few non-fiction books ... a biography.   I loved being able to teach the girls about a new genre of literature. ...

I sometimes think that because I majored in American literature and worked for years in bookstores I should know "all" the books t...

We just finished another one of Roald Dahl's lesser known books, George's Marvelous Medicine .  This reminded me of Animal Farm , be...