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I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
I am delighted that you are at this page as it means you are planning to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes. When you go searching there are a variety of different printings of the six volumes which Charlotte Mason wrote and it can be a bit confusing. To clarify: the content in the different editions is the same. In the editions listed below the page numbering has been kept identical, to facilitate quoting with page numbers. There are some poor-quality reproductions on Amazon. Below I list and provide links to quality editions for those of us in Ireland. (The links will be equally valid for those in the UK.) I read…
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Book Review of ‘The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason’ by Laurie Bestvater
When I say that we use a Classical Charlotte Mason style in our home, people think worksheets and workbooks. Actually a true Charlotte Mason style involves lots of reading of living books and creating notebooks. But the first blank page of a blank notebook can sometimes be daunting. Discussions of implementing a Charlotte Mason style talk about many different notebooks – a Book of Centuries (a timeline book), a Nature Journal, a Common Place, a Reading Journal, a Book of Firsts, Word Books and others. Many questions spring to mind: How do I create each? How do they differ? What do they look like for different ages? Might I combine…
