Living books make life sweeter, especially if you are a homeschool mom! Our rooms are lined with bookshelves filled with living books. In fact, we spend more money on books than curriculum.
My daughter Katie Beth Curtis is an amazing homeschool mom! She creates her own curriculum. At Easter time, she weaves these adorable Easter picture books into her curriculum. I just had to share them with you!
Legend of the Candy Cane Murder is FREE for your Kindle from Wednesday, December 8, 2021 until Sunday, December 12, 2021.
Treasure, ancient artifacts, and a mystery that needs solving is the perfect plot for young adult readers in Quest for the King’s Crown by Robert Vernon from Focus on the Family. Mike, Winnie, Spence, and Ben make up the club, The Last Chance Detectives and no case is too difficult for these young people.
September 6 is National Read-A-Book-Day – a great day to celebrate! I love reading and have a massive collection of books, so this is a holiday near and dear to my heart. It’s also a great holiday for homeschoolers to celebrate. After all, we love books!
Since 1678, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan has delighted readers. This allegory of the Christian life is timeline – folks in every generation can related to Christian’s journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City along the King’s Highway.
These Christian classics have stood the test of time. Christians have read and reread them over the past centuries and you will love them too!
God has a unique way of bringing beauty from ashes. When the horrid COVID lockdown hit Florida in 2020, like many churches, we were forced to livestream our services. One major difficulty we immediately discovered was that the children were becoming disengaged and pulling sweet mom and dad from the service (aka their laptops).
All the Christ-honoring stories from Imagination Station teach a moral lesson in a subtle way, but that’s not the only reason kids love them. Islands and Enemies by Mariann Hering from Tyndale gives children likeable characters to cheer on and an adventure to keep them on the edge of their seat for the entire book.
Prisoner of War by Kinsey M. Rockett from Whatsoever Stories took me back in time to World War II to meet pilots, gunner, and soldiers who risk their lives behind enemy lines. Thrilling, wholesome, and adventurous are the words that come to mind about this work of Christian fiction, but they are inadequate to describe…