What We're Reading :: November

Me:

The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur (for this month's book club selection)

Rumer Godden's The River (a random fiction pick off my shelf)

Karen Glass' Consider This (highly recommend!)

Charlotte Mason's Volume 6 (still--and will be all year, probably)

Vincent, age 8:

Henry's Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (a new-to-us, super beat-up hardcover copy I found is getting a second life at our home)

The Golden Bible: The New Testament (illustrated beautifully by the Provensens)

Brown's Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk Maiden (his Sunday reading)

Gianna, age 8:

Sarah, Plain and Tall ("It was only okay--I don't like first-person narrators, Mommy")

MacDonald's The Princess and the Curdie ("Almost as good the first one!")

Wilder's Farmer Boy (reading aloud to little sister)

Cate, age 5:

Still working through Cooper Edens' The Glorious Mother Goose

To the Big Kids:

Crossbows and Crucifixes (for a Catholic perspective on England under Queen Elizabeth)

Wilder's The Long Winter (on audio read by Cherry Jones--perfect heading into the colder season)

Burnett's A Little Princess (on audio read by Justine Eyre--fantastic!)

MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind and Kingsley's Water Babies (we'll be reading these two AO Y3 "free reads" slowly over the course of the whole school year)

To the Kindergartener:

Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks (we read a little object lesson about a family cow this week and she just loved it)

Illustrated Catechism for Little Children (a short and simple catechism for littles)

Leading Little Ones to Mary (the conversational tone of this book is perfectly suited to my Cate)

To the Littles:

Dance at Grandpa's (4yo Xavier's current favorite--the Little House picture books are always on rotation)

the Norman Rockwell-illustrated You're a Grand Old Flag (3yo Bridget's current favorite--she and Xavier love flipping through and singing their hearts out together)

Aliki's Welcome, Little Baby (2yo Clara's current favorite--all babies, all the time!)

And more happy mail:

Just a few of the new additions to our home library...

...a couple for next school year, a few hardbacks to add to our collection of "How and Why Wonder Books," more music books for my budding pianists, and a sweet collection of verse there on the top.

The rest of the books that came with this order went straight back into a box to be hidden away for Christmas gifts for my littles.  Tis the (book-buying) season. :)