Living Books and a Charlotte Mason Education

The basis of using literature as the foundation for learning is to seek out book that are twaddle-free and where possible unabridged.

To read more about Charlotte Mason we have the Charlotte Mason Companion, For the Child's Sake in our Twin City Library for lending as well as a good reference book Books Children Love; or download this introduction to Charlotte Mason.

Ambleside Online has full curriculum guidelines for free on their website and internet links to free books as well. http://www.amblesideonline.org/

General reading lists

1000 Good Book Reading list (Judeo-Christian) http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/celoop/1000.html

"1000 Good Books for Children" (1916) by National Congress of Mothers and Parent-teacher Associations. Committee on Literature

Read online http://www.archive.org/stream/1000goodbooksfor00natiiala
Download full colour pdf http://www.archive.org/download/1000goodbooksfor00natiiala/1000goodbooks...

Here are some links for title ideas per subject:

Mathematics
http://www.pennygardner.com/mathclassics.html
http://www.livingmath.net/ReadersbyConcept/tabid/268/Default.aspx

Don't forget the "Murderous Maths" series for older children.

I like to have handy one good reference book for the concepts children may read about in Math Living Books and chose ↵

Here are 2 Math Living Books we like:

English
LLATL

Subject-wide(except Mathematics)
Sonlight

Horrible Histories

A book such as All Through the Ages by Christine Miller serves as a great backbone to choosing books to read by period, geographic area etc

Geography Horrible Geographies   General literature recommendations from our Parent Discussion Evening: The Secret Seven Famous Five Enid Blyton The Sugar Creek Gang (particularly for boys) Tin Tin (may not be true Charlotte Mason but are about geography) Asterix (may not be true Charlotte Mason but are about history) Robin Hood Tom Sawyer Watership Down Henty Amazon Adventure by Willard Price Math Madness ($30 for 10 books from Dymocks) How do you lift a lion By Robert Wells and other titles How to dig a hole to the other side of the world by Edith McNulty Anno's Magic Seed by Mitsumata Anno (about multiplication) Anne De Roo – for NZ Living Books “Because of Rosie”, “The Bat's Nest” Phylis Johnston - for NZ Living Books

Art à la Charlotte Mason

Here are a collection of other online book repositories

http://www.mainlesson.com
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Young-Readers.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://classicbook.info/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1800-1899/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/books.html
http://www.ccel.org/
http://bookspot.com/onlinebooks/
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html
http://henty.ae6gn.com/listbooks.php?sort=year (Henty)