Funny enough, she also received A Nest for Celeste, one of Gianna’s old library favorites that we didn’t yet own; we noticed after the fact that all the books are illustrated by Henry Cole! Such an odd but fun coincidence.
Daughtery’s The Magna Charta (Year 2 tie-in)
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding (for my boys’ handicraft for Term 3)
Ryan’s Echo (Year 6 tie-in)
Morpurgo’s War Horse (Year 6 tie-in)
an abridged version of Kipling’s Jungle Books (for the illustrations by Nicola Bayley– Year 3 tie-in)
Animals Marco Polo Saw (we just finished Marco Polo this term for Form I)
Seal Pup Grows Up and Manatee Winter (reminded us of the White Seal in The Jungle Books — to add to our Smithsonian nature book collection of hardcovers)
The Atlas of British History and The Atlas of European History (references for my Form II kids’ mapwork)
Diane Stanley’s Leonardo da Vinci (Year 3 tie-in)
Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures (related to our architectural sketching)
and a bunch of Dover coloring books connected to this year’s time period (given by a friend — these have useful line drawings for the Book of Centuries!)
In the Mail
First, a friend went thrifting and brought me home this! (Great friend, right?)
And I was excited when I saw a lovely (and affordable) copy of Amy Steedman In God’s Garden, which we have read off of my tablet during Morning Basket. Aren’t the plates beautiful? (You can buy the paperback sans-plates here.)
Last but not least: The First Book of the Great Musicians came in, thus completing my set!
I loooove seeing previous owner’s names in the cover, especially when they’re old. Aren’t the scripts charming? I love how they used to sign and date their books.
So, that’s a lot of books! But it’s summer break here, so we have all been doing quite a bit of reading — these new books have sure come in handy.
Did I mention I got four new bookshelves too?! ๐
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Sigh. Thank you so much! I'm always referring to these post for ideas for book giving. I'm the book Aunt in my ever growing extended family as well as my own kiddos. ๐
I love the month of st Joseph! What a charming book it is!
I love your updates on what you're all reading and seeing that we have read or are reading some of the same books! I picked up A Nest For Celeste last year at a library sale for my oldest. He wasn't quite ready yet last year, but this summer he's turning 8, might be time to re-introduce it to him.
What do you think of the Europe atlas? There are no reviews and Iโd like one for Sarah Beth. Thank You ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
Catherine.
Where do you get your bookshelves? I want to replace my cheapo Walmart ones with something more sturdy.
Caleb listened to Echo on audio a few months ago and really enjoyed it. We had never read anything from that author before, but I go it for the Y6 tie in too. =) I have never heard of Little Bo, I'll have to go look at those.
Sorry, that's from VL.
The Book Aunt — I just love that. ๐
We all enjoyed it very much!
Yes, my 9yo daughter is really enjoying it. I think it would have been too challenging/quiet for her a year ago. ๐
Catherine, I am sorry — I haven't been getting blog comments in my email for some reason, so I didn't see this until now! :/ Yes, the Europe one is great. We used it a lot. There are historical atlases that are MUCH more thorough out there, but this one is slim enough to be approachable for the kids to use themselves, if that makes sense!
Pretty much all of our bookshelves are from Ikea: Billy and Kallax. They have held up surprisingly well!
I have heard that Echo is fantastic on audio! We weren't familiar with the author either. Little Bo is very sweet!
HI Celeste,
I am wondering when you read to your littlest ones. I know thatโs a strange question but as you know, making a schedule for the whole family is quite a job. I was looking at your schedule in your post about the school year just passed (2017-2018) and noticed you have a pretty full schedule. Our schedule feels very full these days too, and thatโs the one piece that I find hard to do. Iโve been thinking of asking other family members to take turns reading to our littlest one.
The littles get read to by everyone in the home. ๐ My 9yo, 8yo and 6yo read to the littles in the mornings and in the afternoons. They happily offer, and the littles love it, so they go through lots of books together! My Big Kids will usually read a couple books as well in the afternoon. And then my husband and/or I always read at least a couple books during after-dinner time, while the Big Kids are doing after-dinner chores.