Four Homeschooled Nerds . . .

The Older the Better

Of all the extra-familial forms of influence vying to shape my kids (friends, TV, music, etc.) I hope that books have the most profound effect. And the older the book the better. Drew has just finished Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie from the famous Laura Ingalls Wilder series, and now he is beginning a book by Barbara Willard called Augustine Came to Kent, which has been out of print since the '60s, but has recently been republished by Bethlehem Books.

Do take a look at Bethlehem Books; what great titles they have! I was especially pleased to be able to track many of them down through PINES, our library system here in Georgia. If you're not using PINES then GREAT! That's more books for me! But you really should take advantage of it anyway. You'd probably be stunned to know exactly how much you've paid in taxes to support the thing!