Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love.
A Tale of the Huguenots of Languedoc
Christine Farenhorst in Christian Renewal: Presenting a moving account of the weals and woes of two Huguenot families during the heavy waves of persecution in seventeenth century France, this book, although its onset is a bit slow, is fascinating and moving reading.
Covering all aspects of Huguenot life during this difficult time period, this goodsized paperback volume is a well-spring of encouragement for Christians today and highly recommended as reading for all those age twelve and over.
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Once upon a time, Joshua Gibbs was a disinterested slacker who, despite attending a classical Christian school, learned little and cared even less for his studies. He was more interested in pop culture than Great Books and performed only the bare minimum to pass. By age 27, however, he began work at a different classical institution, teaching the same literature he merely skimmed as a student. Ten years later, Gibbs has become a popular blogger and frequent speaker at education conferences. In this series of frank reflections on an unlikely career, Gibbs contemplates what it means to be a good teacher, how Great Books can change lives (and how one particular book, The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, changed his), and why effective education is primarily concerned with the acquisition of virtue.
One part literary guidebook, one part personal memoir, and one part teacher’s manual, How to Be Unlucky presents a one-of-a-kind case for ancient ways of thinking about teaching in our contemporary world.
Diagram over 100 sentences by masters of the English language, and learn how to analyze and understand clear, effective writing.
Using this book requires The Diagramming Dictionary, which explains each rule.
This complete compendium of sentence diagramming rules, including illustrated sample diagrams and accompanied by a full book of practice exercises, is an indispensable guide to diagramming and writing—throughout high school, into college, and beyond.
Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 can learn to draw many different birds by using circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, and other shapes! There are 30 pictures to create: peacock, swan, duck, cardinal, penguin, toucan, owl, ostrich, and more. Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it easy and practice pages are included. Plus, the illustrations can be colored when finished.
Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 can learn to draw many different forest animals by using circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, and other shapes! There are 30 pictures to create: skunk, fox, raccoon, moose, forest wolf spider, a star-nosed mole, a sharp-shinned hawk, a silver-haired bat, and more. Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it easy and practice pages are included. Plus, the illustrations can be colored when finished.
Budding artists can easily create a variety of different types of transportation by joining circles, ovals, rectangles, cylinders, and other common shapes!
• 30 pictures to draw: canoe, biplane, antique locomotive, ocean liner, seaplane, passenger car, modern train, and more
• Simple directions, step-by-step illustrations
• Includes blank practice pages
• Illustrations can be colored when finished
• For children ages 5 to 10
How to Grow a Young Music Lover is the ideal guide for parents who want to boost their children’s education through music; parents who want to aid in their children’s cognitive, motor, and creative development; parents who love music and want their children to do the same; and parents who wish they knew more about music and want their children to have advantages and instruction they did not.
How to Read a Book contains clear and useful instructions on how to determine what kind of book you are reading, the four levels of reading, and how to read different kinds of books. The principles in this book are applied directly to Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Memoria Press’ Classical Rhetoric.
31 hands-on field activities to connect art, science, math, and critical thinking, while encouraging students and mentors alike to recognize and record the wonder and beauty in the natural world.