Just as there are many different reasons we homeschool there are also many different ways. If you’re here at Living Book Press you probably like to use good literature. Some of us literature lovers like to use a set curriculum, others like to put one together themselves. If you’re in Australia and would prefer to…
About a year ago I was lucky enough to stumble across a great Facebook group called Reshelving Alexandria. From the couple of hundred people that were there when I joined it’s now grown to almost 2,000. While their name does a great job conveying their purpose here’s their focus in their own words- “Reshelving Alexandria…
All six of Charlotte Mason’s Home Education Series are now available as a PDF download, complete with bookmarks, for you to download and print in any size you like. Want to have it in the corner of the page, lost in white space for you to scribble notes in? You can! Want to print it out…
I’ve been like a kid at Christmas, waiting for the postman each day to bring me my presents, in this case, my samples of the hardcover Charlotte Mason books! And when they arrived I was not disappointed. Cloth covered with gold stamped title and author on the spine, they are beautiful and understated, you can…
The Original Home Education Series. Photo Credit Jeanne Grant Webb. It has been brought to my attention that some people online have a few questions about the Home Education Series I released recently. I thought I’d answer them all here. Please feel free to share this blog post. 1. Are my editions authorised? Charlotte Mason…
I love the CM community. The wisdom and encouragement I get from you all is what makes me confident in home-schooling my boys. There is no way I can repay all the help I get, so one of my main purposes in republishing these books was that it was my way to ‘pay it forward’….
Ever since I found Charlotte Mason I knew it was the home-schooling style for me. For our family it’s the perfect blend of structure and freedom, teaching us to think and exposing us to a wide range of ideas, while still leaving time to follow our passions. But everything I knew about Charlotte Mason was…
Hardcovers are finally shipping. I can’t wait to get my hands on some. The pages are the same size as the softcovers, the interior is identical, it’s just the cover that has been tweaked for the wraparound cover. The C.K. Thompson books aren’t available in HC, but the Books of Marvels and Little Grammar People…
I had a few requests for hardcover books, so they’re on their way. I should get digital proofs for both Books of Marvels and The Little Grammar People in the next few days, then they’ll be ready to order! There are also a few more books I just have to design a cover for before…
It’s been a long time coming, and a lot has happened. I’ve destroyed the most expensive book I’ve ever bought so that I could scan the images. There have been countless hours learning book formatting. Sleepless nights tracking down rights holders, fruitless trips to the library searching probate records, cemetery searches trying to find the…
