Justin from WTM Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hello Hive, Well-Trained Mind Press is in the early stages of revising the book-lists (fiction and non-fiction) in the Activity Book of "The Story of the World, Volume 3." We'll be adding new titles that have come out in the past 15 years (or titles that we missed the first time around!), and deleting some that are so thoroughly out of print that no parent could be expected to find them. We have a plan for doing it that we think will provide a variety of parental viewpoints, and keep any one contributor from getting stuck with too much work. We've divided the book into sections (chapters 1-7, 8-14, etc). Each section would pay a little differently, based on how many books we need to find (you'll notice that some sections need a lot more work than others do). Each contributor can do one, two, or three sections, but no more (to spread the work around). Each section will end up being a combination of the work of two contributors plus our editors. Time Frame: We will ask you to submit a sample list from a particular chapter, to evaluate your abilities. Your full booklists would be due by mid-to-late January of 2019. Here's what we consider a "successfully found" book:- age appropriate - period appropriate - in print (we make occasional exceptions if it's REALLY good) - available in physical form (you can make 1 fiction exception and 1 nonfiction exception per chapter...kindle, etc...but not more than that) - relatively easy to find - write a one-sentence summary like we did in the first edition We will provide a PDF of the original booklist, and a PDF of the actual textbook; we have gone through and crossed out the out-of-print ones or ones we want to delete, and we'll tell you how many fiction and nonfiction books are now needed for each chapter (it's usually between 2 and 8 books needed from each genre). If this interests you, and you feel you could do a good job with it, please contact Justin Moore (justin@welltrainedmind.com) for further information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 @Lori D. I’m not sure if you use SOTW, but I think you would be good at this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I can’t wait for this to come out! I’m finding some of the books harder to find now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin from WTM Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thanks to everyone who emailed us! We've received enough submissions, so we'll be unpinning this thread now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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