resources

Ongoing materials I’ve found helpful in our family’s educational adventures

Art History

What is Contemporary Art? A Guide for Kids by Jacky Klein and Suzy Klein (2012)

Creativity & Imagination

How To Be An Artist by Jerry Saltz (2020)

Critical Thinking, Logic, Debate, Rhetoric

Logic & Contemporary Rhetoric : The Use of Reason in Everyday Life by Howard Kahane (1971)
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Dr. Steven Novella (2018)

ELA & Language

English from the Roots Up: Greek & Latin by Joel Lundquist

ELA - Reading : Literature & Stories

The Book of Books : Explore America’s 100 Best-Loved Novels - PBS The Great American Read (2018)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (2003)
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig (2013)
The Year of Reading Dangerously : How Fifty Great Books (and two not-so-great ones) Saved My Life) : by Andy Miller (2014)

ELA - Reading : Poetry

101 Poems to get you through the day (and night) - presented by Daisy Goodwin (2003)
A Child’s Anthology of Poetry - edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword with Victoria Flournoy McCarthy (1995)
A Year of Living Poetically - Mensforkids.org
The Death of the Hat : A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects selected by Paul B. Janeczko & illustrated by Chris Raschka (2015)
Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy (2013)

Government & Citizenship

The Art of the Possible : An Everyday Guide to Politics by Edward Keenan, Art by Julie McLaughlin (2015)
Fault Lines in the Constitution: the Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today - Cynthia & Sanford Levinson (2017)
This Is Our Constitution: Discover America With a Gold Star Father by Khizr Khan (2017)

History

All Of Us : a young people’s history of the world by Yvan Pommaux and Christophe Ylla-Somers (2014)

Outdoors & Nature

Let Them Be Eaten by Bears : A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids into the Great Outdoors by Peter Brown Hoffmeister (2013)
Nature Anatomy : The Curious Parts & Pieces of the Natural World by Julia Rothman, with help from John Niekrasz (2015)
This Book Was a Tree : Ideas, Adventures, and Inspiration for Rediscovering the Natural World by Marcie Chambers Cuff (2014)

Philosophy

Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy - The School of Life Press (2018)
I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (2018)
The Prindle Institute - ‘Teaching Children Philosophy’ (opens in new window)

Science

Life Story: the story of Life on our Earth from its beginning up to now by Virginia Lee Burton (1962)
Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers by Andrea Beaty, illustrations by David Roberts (2017)