13th Carnival of Homeschooling

March 28, 2006 @ 4:22 am | Filed under: Carnivals

Pop over to Why Homeschooling for thirteen categories of homeschooling wit and wisdom!

(Speaking of Carnivals, don’t forget to get your submissions to Semicolon for next week’s Carnival of Children’s Literature.)


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Jane, 13 yrs old
Rose, 10 yrs
Beanie, 7 yrs
Wonderboy, 4 yrs
Rilla, 2 yrs
baby eagerly expected Jan. 2

and Scott, the love of my life




Book Log 08


In progress:


Damosel: In Which the Lady of the Lake Renders a Frank and Often Startling Account of her Wondrous Life and Times
by Stephanie Spinner

Lots of picture books
for the Cybils
(See my mini-reviews at Twitter)

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
(reading this aloud to Jane)



Recently enjoyed:


Bend-the-Rules Sewing
by Amy Karol

Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(read-aloud to Beanie)

The King's Fifth
by Scott O'Dell
(middle-grade novel about a young Spanish cartographer's travels with Coronado in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola)

A Murder for Her Majesty
by Beth Hilgartner
(I posted about it here)


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Haystack Full of Needles
by Alice Gunther
(Here's my post about it)

The Highwaymen
by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman

Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry

Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransom

A Street in Marrakesh
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Knight's Castle
by Edward Eager (to Beanie)

(a sequel to Half Magic)



The Creative Family>
by Amanda Soule

The Losers (Vol.1): Ante Up
by Andy Diggle and Jock

Green Arrow: Year One
by Andy Diggle and Jock

Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
by John R. Stilgoe
(here's a post about it)

Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
by Madeleine L'Engle

Dogger
by Shirley Hughes

As for the rest:

They're at GoodReads


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Hey, what happened to all those booklists you used to have in your sidebars?

They're still accessible at melissawiley.typepad.com, where this blog lived from January 2005-March 2008. You can also find all my Lilting House posts there, or try the search bar here. All my previous Bonny Glen and Lilting House posts have been imported to this site.


My Big List of Booklists


Favorite Fictional Families


The Quiet Joy


Scary Junkyard Dogs





Books We Love

(a work in progress)

Picture Books


The Story of Ping
by Marjorie Flack

My First Mother Goose
illustrated by Rosemary Wells

Blue Hat, Green Hat
by Sandra Boynton

The Maggie B by Irene Haas

James in the House of Aunt Prudence by Timothy Bush


Fiction


Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling

The Tintin books
by Herge

Showcase Presents
a line of comic books
published by DC Comics
(I posted about them here)

Whinny of the Wild Horses
by Amy Laundrie

The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall

My Father's Dragon series
by Ruth Stiles Gannett

Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Wheel on the School
by Miendert Dejong

The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis

By the Great Horn Spoon
by Sid Fleischman

The Swallows & Amazon books
by Arthur Ransome


Many more to come, when I have time!




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