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It’s time for another Living Books Consortium video, this time with special guest Amy Roberts! Tabitha and I have had the pleasure of knowing Amy in real life in addition to gleaning tips and inspiration from her blog RaisingArrows.net over the years. We were thrilled to have her join us and to get to catch up a bit. 🙂 We hope you’ll join us for a few laughs and be blessed to hear from Amy about how she has incorporated living books into her family’s homeschool from the beginning, seeking to encourage a love of reading and learning in her kids at every age and stage.
Enjoy!
For easy navigating:
00:00 – 02:53 Intro and Inspiration
02:53 – 04:24 Curriculum and Living Books
04:24 – 12:02 Wide Range of Ages and Fitting in Read Aloud Time
12:02 – 13:44 What the Big Kids have Taken with Them
13:44 – 19:30 Tips for Enticing Young Readers and Keeping Voracious Readers in Books
19:30 – 31:55 Potpourri: Hard Books for…Babies?!? Science, History, Messes, and Gaps
31:52 – End Where to Find Amy Online
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Friends, I am so excited to share this with you! About six months ago my friend Tabitha Alloway (of Pursuing Logos) started a community on Facebook dedicated to living books–discussing the books we find, asking for recommendations, sharing reviews, and yes, even sharing some hilarious book memes. Sifting through all the books out there is a big job. But it’s a little easier (and more fun) if we do it together!
What is a living book? Well, that’s what we sought to address in this first video chat (below!) where we discuss the motivation behind the Facebook group, our own relationship with books, what living books are, and how we go about choosing them for our families.
Want to chime in? Request to join the Living Books Consortium group on Facebook. Here’s the group description:
Welcome to the Living Books Consortium! We share a passion for books here–but not just any books. We’re interested in good books; books that fire the imagination, stir the soul, and challenge the mind and spirit. As John Milton said, “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
Charlotte Mason was the nineteenth century British educator who coined the phrase “living books.” To her, a book was a living book (as opposed to dull and lifeless “twaddle”) if its text was engaging, its literary elements fine, its teaching qualities commendable, and its truths timeless.
She wrote, “As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child’s intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.”
Here in this group we share with one another “the best that we can find.” This page is meant to be a tool and resource for those in search of good literature as we share reviews and exchange recommendations with one another: be it a children’s picture book, a classic, or a fine work of non-fiction, etc.
So whether contributing to this page or just browsing it, enjoy your time here and be inspired to pursue the treasure and pleasure that good literature holds–in the company of fellow book enthusiasts. Ultimately, whether we “eat,” “drink,” or “read books,” we desire to do all to the glory of God. 🙂
We’ll be releasing a new video chat each month in the group. We hope you’ll join us!
Show Notes Below!
For easy navigating:
00:00 – 09:44 — Group History and Introduction
09:44 – 24:00 — Discussion of Some of OUR Favorite Books
24:00 – 33:00 — What is a Living Book? How Do We Choose Them?
33:00 – 35:04 — Handling Questionable Content
35:04 – 40:35 — Resources We’ve Used
40:35 – End — Preview Next Month and Wrap-Up
Books Mentioned:
How to be Romantic
A Gospel Primer
Trusting God
Sherlock Holmes
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
Sense and Sensibility (Check out Close Reads podcast on this book now!)
Close Reads is covering Sense and Sensibility right now!
The Ultimate Living Book: The Bible
May we suggest this Bible Reading Plan?
