Based on Faith Academy Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 There are the books that my son uses on a daily or weekly basis such as a dictionary or thesaurus. What do you feel are "your" must haves in your home? They can be home schooling books, research books, or even personal books. What books do you turn to throughout a day, week, year? Mine would be: the Bible dictionary thesaurus The Well Trained Mind whatever novel I am reading Encyclopedia(wish I owned the set) I am sure there are a ton more, but for right now that will do. What about you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Oh mercy, I was going to say comics, which I'm sure is not what you want. :D Seriously though, in our house comics rule. TinTin, you name it. Anything else could be Kindle. I have enough books in my house that we could go up in flames pretty quickly (probably 7K at this point), but only the comics are indispensable. Anything else on the list would be leisure reading (Sam Campbell, mysteries, blah blah). I wouldn't buy a set of encyclopedias anymore. I have some older versions that are simplified with lots of pictures, and those are nice at that 1st-2nd gr level where they're reading but don't want anything heavy. After that it's wikipedia. As far as buying guidelines, I would buy anything my kid reads over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 If you are asking for a list of actual paper books that I use repeatedly throughout the year, then the answer is probably none. If however you are asking for a list of books that I have saved so that I can share them with my grandchildren, then the list is too long to type. :) I did save: all of my B4FIAR books a ton of Dr Suess books A ton of poetry books including Eloise Wilken's Poems to Read to the Very Young Good Night, Moon Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day Sylvester's Magic Pebble Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang The Little Red Hen I Love You the Purplest William's Doll Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Cappyboppy Owl Moon Chika Chika Boom Boom And literally hundreds of others, too many to remember all the titles. :D Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedmom4 Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 We have all kinds of books and I can't part with any of them! The encyclopedia set that my grandparents bought me in 1986 has been invaluable. I know that anyone can just google topics but my kids have always enjoyed looking through them. I like that they have been able to learn how to look information up in a reference book not just the computer. Some of the information is outdated but a lot isn't. I think sets of encyclopedias are fairly cheap now. Elise in NC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 We still have most of our engineering books from college, plant, bird, insect id books, First Aid Afloat, lots of cook books, english spanish dictionary, we also have lots of good leadership, political, and economic books, that we have read and really liked. We have read lots of things that we will want dd to read when she is older and have kept those books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 My home library has seasons. :) Winter - My cookbooks see the most action. The kids and I use the Better Homes and Gardens cook book as a foundation for experimentation. Spring - My gardening/homesteading books start working hard around March. Square Foot Gardening is my constant reference. Summer- TWTM and I spend a lot of time together. Autumn- Pretty much anything goes. I'm often inspired by the new school year to hit the classics hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nscribe Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Scary, but true, we have 24+ (3-4 foot across) shelves of print reference materials (Dictionaries, Foreign Language Dictionaries, Almanacs, Atlas, Field Guides, Timelines...) DH would love to digitize it all, but one week of power/phone outage with an ice storm put the issue to rest. I do purge anything that we don't refer to at least once a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Calvin and Hobbes A Short History of the World Dictionary Thesaurus Turabian: A Manual for Writers.... Strunk and White- The Elements of Style Woe is I Synonym/Antonym Dictionary Timeline Time Life books Multiple classic novels, current reads, etc. A good historical Atlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyinNNV Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 All Through the Ages!!! More than any other homeschooling book, I have used this book over and over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmamaz Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 funny, we dont use the print dictionary any more . . . we use dictionary.com on our hand-helds. once my mom and i both looked up a word, her in her unabridged and me on my ipad . . .exact same definition word for word, but the ipad i can resize and read in the dark. mostly the books we use each year are the ones we bought for that year . . and lots from the library. we have shelves of books, but mostly fiction, programming, chess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Our set of Usborne beginner series non-fiction books get read daily here. We also couldn't live without our Planet Earth, Life, and Earth: a Biography DVDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Based on Faith Academy Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 These are all great!! I have realized I want to enhance "my library". My daughter at 6 is like a sponge who loves to read, unlike my son. My son would only touch a book if it was about something he wanted to learn about or was required material for school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey Mom Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 My Walking Dead comic collection. I may even make that a top prize in my will. ;) Ted Dekker's books. All of them. Robert Liparulo's adult fiction. All of them. The Thorn Birds (I can not bring myself to part with it - trust me, I've tried) The Message Bible. In the words of Tim Hawkins, "don't judge me". The Lord of the Rings trilogy ...and literally hundreds more. I am slowly going to try and transition them to my iPad and give the actual books away, but every time I get a gift card for iTunes, I just end up buying different books. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Element Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Concise OED Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (older edition) TWTM Comstock's Handbook of Nature Study My old World History textbook from college (ETA link) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Homechooling: Latin Centered Curriculum, When Children Love to Learn, TWTM, Deconstructing Penguins, Teaching the Classics, The Writer's Jungle, For the Childrens Sake Kids: Holling C Holling books, D'Aulaire books, Exploring Creation series, poetry books, Narnia, ..pretty much every book from AO years 1 - 3. Readers digest Wildlife, From Sea to Shining Sea. Me: scriptures, other religious & political books. I'm not into fiction at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Χά�ων Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I only want every book ever writen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoamiracle Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Besides my bible and related literature. My collection has always and will always include James Herriot books - I have three copies of most of them, along with the original British editions, my Anne of Green Gables series and little house series that I've had since I was super young, my Pearl Buck collection, my health encyclopedias and a few other reference books. If I had to pare down to bare bones, that is what I would keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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