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Big List of Homeschool (et al.) Books

04 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by calawmama in A Leadership Education, Academics, Book Review, Charlotte Mason, Emerging Curriculum, Homeschool, Homeschool Pedagogy, inspiration, Mentoring in the Classics, Parenting, Reading, Thomas Jefferson Education, unschooling

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What I’ve been wanting to do for a while is put a list together of all of the books that I want to recommend offhand to people who are new to homeschool and not sure how or where to get their bearings. I am hoping that this blog post will serve that purpose. It is not by any means comprehensive in the general sense or with regard to me personally. When we first began to consider homeschooling back in 2012, I went on a reading spree. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find many books in the library nearest to us, so essentially I put a hold on every book I could find at various branches quite a distance from us, and then I read them all. The list that follows, then draws mostly from memory (which is fallible of course), and more heavily from my goodreads list! (Please note this is also why the formatting sucks, but I don’t have the time to make it pretty, just to get it out there 🙂 )

In the beginning I was hesitant to update all of the books I was reading on there for fear of judgment from friends and family. God forbid I out myself as a homeschool before I was ready. Now though, the cat has been out of the bag for several years, and I’m so glad that I was able to save that list!

One thing I wanted to add, is that when I was first starting out, I was yearning for informative and up to date homeschool blogs. These people must be out there! I thought. Entering our 6th year I now see the reality that homeschoolers are probably just to busy out there doing things to blog. Many of us do, however, frequent instagram (the waldorf accounts are particularly aesthetically pleasing). So I would highly recommend signing up on there if you would like a more vivid depiction of the oft asked question of beginners of, “but what do you DO all day?” I asked that question several times in various facebook forums “back in the day.” Here is one post I wrote for a friend’s blog on that topic: http://www.themomstreetjournal.com/freedom-matters-day-life-homeschool-lawyer/

This list is nowhere NEAR exhaustive. There are tons and tons of other authors, books, websites, blogs, and resources, so if you do not see something here that speaks to you, do not be disheartened. I just hope this can help give some direction to those interested in learning more! Additionally, in doing this I realized how many particular curriculum/books/resources might be helpful for the actual day to day doing. I sprinkled in some websites in this post for that reason, although upon further reflection they’re pretty out of place, oh well!

Classical Ed:

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
Bauer, Susan Wise

Unschool/Life Learning Books:

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom
Griffith, Mary
Life through the Lens of Unschooling: A Living Joyfully Companion
Laricchia, Pam *
Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life (Living Joyfully with Unschooling Book 1)
Pam Laricchia
Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home (Living Joyfully with Unschooling Book 2)
Pam Laricchia 

Pam is AMAZING, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE her podcast. It always makes me think critically about things and inspires me to be a better homeschool parent. It was from one of her episodes that I learnt of The Gardener and The Carpenter book. I highly highly recommend it if you’re into that sort of thing. Check it out here: Living Joyfully With Unschooling

Pam also featured the author of this book, which I had forgotten I purchased!
Choosing Home: 20 Mothers Celebrate Staying Home, Raising Children, and Changing the World
Rachel Chaney, Kerry McDonald
What is Unschooling?: Living and Learning without School
Pam Laricchia
This is the other Pam that I know and love. http://sandradodd.com/pamsorooshian
Even if you’re not interested in unschooling, PLEASE read about strewing here: http://sandradodd.com/strewing
How Children Learn
Holt, John
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
Gray, Peter 
Free to Learn
Oldfield, Lynne
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education
Aldrich, Clark
The Unschooling Unmanual
Gestel, Nanda Van
Learning All The Time
Holt, John
Natural Born Learners: Unschooling And Autonomy In Education
Ekwa Ekoko, Beatrice

Other:

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children Hardcover –

by Alison Gopnik — I am listening to this right now and absolutely love it. I even ordered a hardcopy so I could highlite and annotate!

Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn–and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
Gatto, John Taylor
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves
McKee, Alison
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Bronson, Po
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Tough, Paul *
Homeschooling for Excellence
Colfax, David
100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing the Right Curriculum and Approach for Your Child’s Learning Style
Duffy, Cathy
So You’re Thinking About Homeschooling: Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It
Whelchel, Lisa
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Orenstein, Peggy

These series of books are amazing! They are vintage, so they are often in thrift stores or friends of the library. Very helpful for a snapshot of some things that MAY apply to your kid.

Your Nine Year Old: Thoughtful and Mysterious
Ames, Louise Bates

Thomas Jefferson Education/Leadership Education:

A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion
DeMille, OliverWaldorf Books:
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century
DeMille, Oliver
A Thomas Jefferson Education In Our Home
DeMille, Rachel
Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning
Oliver DeMille
For The Love of Learning, Giving Your Children a LOLIPOP Education
Amy Edwards

Websites for Kids:

http://more.starfall.com/m/welcome/index/load.htm

https://allinonehomeschool.com/

https://www.khanacademy.org/

https://www.education.com/

https://mathseeds.com/

https://readingeggs.com/

Charlotte Mason:

Charlotte Mason Companion
Andreola, Karen
Home Education
Charlotte Mason 

http://amblesideonline.org/index.shtml

Waldorf:


Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven
by Barbara J. Patterson
Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
by Sharifa Oppenheimer
The Kingdom of Childhood
by Rudolf Steiner

The Christopherus Waldorf Curriculum Overview for Homeschoolers

by Donna Simmons

The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook  by Donna Ashton (I haven’t actually read this one yet, but I have it on my shelf.

Chirsopherus Homeschool, Waldorf Essentials, and Earth Schooling are the three most “legit” in terms of what is out there for homeschoolers that I have limited experience with. I have also seen praise for Lavender’s Blue and Wild Onions (may be just a blog). Oak Meadow is also Waldorf ish, but does not follow the typical Waldorf format of main lessons, and rather eschew’s the model for common core alignment (or so I have heard.

Feel free to leave me a comment if you enjoyed the list or if you have a question!

See Also:

https://homeschoolingforlawyers.com/2015/07/15/homeschooling-kindergarten/

https://homeschoolingforlawyers.com/2015/07/14/back-to-home-dont-send-your-babies-to-school-this-year/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201507/k-preschool-teachers-last-stand-in-war-childhood

https://homeschoolingforlawyers.com/2015/01/26/on-following-arbirtrary-rules-and-other-life-lessons-this-week-ish-in-our-tjed/

https://homeschoolingforlawyers.com/2015/03/15/open-letter-regarding-homeschooling-legality-in-california/

https://www.tjed.org/mic/

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