This year I was (very) brave…I printed and bound (by hand) most of Buck’s books for next year myself. With finances a bit tight, and the books freely available online, I made a plan!
I used Ambleside Online as guide as to what is age-appropriate, and adapted the curriculum a touch, since there were some books we’ve covered already.
The binding was a LOT of work! But I enjoyed every minute of it, especially when I saw the end-product. But it WAS a lot of work, and very time-consuming.
BUT this is what my handiwork resulted in:
The learning (non-fiction) books…
The readers (literature)
The read-out-loud (mostly bedtime) story-books:
The complete collection:
The list consist of: (click on the links to download)
The learning books:
- Alexander Graham Bell from Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Bachman (Science Bio)
- The Story of David Livingstone by Vautier Golding
- First Studies of Plant Life by GF Atkinson
- Galileo (Science Bio) from Stories of Great Scientists by Charles Gibson and from Children’s Stories of the Great Scientiests by H. C. Wright
- Great Astronomers (Ptolemy, Copernicus Brahe) by RS Ball
- Isaac Newton from True Stories from History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Science Bio)
- Lewis & Clark (History Biography) from Trail of the Pathfinders by GB Grinnell
- Ourselves (Book 1 Volume 4 of the Charlotte Mason series)
- Plutarch (Publicola, Marcus Cato, Philopoemen)
- Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleisher (from http://amblesideonline.org/ContentsSecretsofUniverse.shtml)
- South Africa by Ian D Colvin
- The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp
- The Life of the Spider by JH Fabre
- The Story of Theodore Roosevelt by J Walker McSpadden (History Biography)
- The Wonder Book of Chemistry by JH Fabre
The readers (literature)
- Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Jack and Jill by LM Alcott
- Penrod by Booth Tarkington
- The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
Short Stories Collection, consisting of:
- Jim Wolf and the Cats by Mark Twain
- The Golden Touch by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Time Shop by John Kendrick Bangs
- The Send and Fotch Book by Esther Greenacre Hall
- The Million Pound Banknote
- The Journey Of Life
- Try Again by Charlotte Elizabeth
- True Manliness
- The Miller Of The Dee by CHARLES MACKEY
- A boy on a farm by Charles Dudley Warner
- Meddlesome Mattie by Ann Taylor
- Harry And His Dog by Mary Russell Mitford
- Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field
- If I were a boy
- The Tempest by James T. Fields
- The Sounding Of The Call by Jack London
Poems Collection consisting of:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Carl Sandburg
- Robert Frost
The read-out-loud (mostly bedtime) story-books:
- Chip, the Dam Builder by Jim Kjelgaard
- Fire Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle
- The Man Without a Country by Edward E. Hale
(The Read-Out-Loud books are not many, since by the time it is bed-time, I am quite tired, and we read about a chapter a night. Needless to say I fall asleep before the little guy does…)
