Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I was so excited to get my new catalog in the mail on my birthday. What a terrific present. :) We don't do full Sonlight packages, but I've loved so many of their books and resources. I'd like to purchase more for our collection, but I'm not familiar with many of them. Any favorite books you've read from their selections? (It doesn't matter to me what level or subject!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Kirsten~ Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I don't have an answer (still waiting for my own catalog), but happy birthday! Hope it's a great day and a wonderful year! :party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Happy Birthday! :party: Here are our favs from the cores we've done: If you have little ones around, or babies to buy presents for, there are some beautiful picture books in P3/4 and P4/5- Harper Collins Treasury- it's huge but packed full of good stories, my little guy has chosen stories from this over and over again. (Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crictor, Goodnight Moon, George Shrinks, etc.) Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm and The Year at Maple Hill Farm Mike Mulligan and More A Robert McCloskey Collection The Tall Book of Nursery Tales The Usborne Flip Flap Body Book All the books by Robert Wells- Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? and so on, there are several. Core K- James Herriot's Treasury for Children My Father's Dragon Cappyboppy The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Twenty and Ten Mary on Horseback The Light at Tern Rock Core 1- Charlotte's Web Henry Huggins Homer Price The Year of Miss Agnes Understood Betsy Core 3+4- Across Five Aprils Cheaper by the Dozen Caddie Woodlawn Johnny Tremain Carry On, Mr.Bowditch Moccasin Trail Miracles on Maple Hill Little Britches Walk the World's Rim Om-Kas-Toe The Matchlock Gun The Great Turkey Walk The Sign of the Beaver Sarah, Plain and Tall Core 6- The Genevieve Foster books The Westing Game A Single Shard Master Cornhill The Shakespeare Stealer Eagle of the Ninth The Bronze Bow Catherine Called Birdy The Great and Terrible Quest Theras and his Town Otto of the Silver Hand The Golden Goblet Core 7- The Genevieve Foster books The Endless Steppe A Murder for Her Majesty The Sherwood Ring The Singing Tree The Good Master I am David Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster Betsy and the Emperor The Broken Blade Homeless Bird The Iron Peacock Snow Treasure Stowaway Year of Impossible Goodbyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanNN Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 If I listed them all it would be too many! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschooltoone Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Here's some our favorites: Core K My Father's Dragon The Story about Ping Boxcart Children Family under the Bridge Core 1 Charlotte's Web Henry Higgins Homer Price Little Pear Mr. Popper's Penguins Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Core 2 Red Sails to Capri The Minstrel in the Tower Castle Diary We're doing Core 2 this year and there's more books to be read. We love Sonlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Well... I have a 7 yr ds who is reading on maybe a 6th+ grade level and we are studying medieval/early renaissance right now. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 We've read and loved all of those except Red Sails to Capri, so I'm putting that one on the list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Wow! Great list! Thank you so much for taking the time to post that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktkcb Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Ok, I have all the sonlight books.....my oldest is graduating this year, and we've collected over the years :o). So here are my picks from all the cores: K: Family under the Bridge Hundred Dresses Grandma's attic My Father's Dragon (extra good) Capyboppy 1 Detectives in Togas (great mystery) Homer Price Mrs Pigglewiggle 2 And the Word Came with Power (awesome!) Cricket in Times Square Ginger Pye Twenty one Balloons Betsy & Tacy McBroom's one acre Farm The Toothpaste Millionaire 3 Johnny Tremain Sign of the Beaver Sarah Plain and Tall Mr Revere and I 4 Cheaper by the Dozen Caddie Woodlawn Little Britches In Search of the Source Winged Watchman The Great Turkey Walk (loved it) The Great Wheel 5 Daughter of the Mountains House of Sixty Fathers The Master puppeteer Shadow Spinner (A++) Wolves of Willoughby Chase Hobbit Tales of a Korean Grandmother Ali and the Golden Eagle Around the World in 80 days Homesick Sadako Star of light 6 God King Golden Goblet Otto of the Silver Hand Second Mrs Giaconda Westing Game (my oldest dd's all time favorite) Bronze Bow Great and Terrible Quest Hittite Warrier The Ides of April Mystery of the Roman Ransom (follow up to Detectives in Togas) Phantom Tollbooth (all time favorite here) 7 God's Smuggler Banner in the Sky A Murder for Her Majesty (favorite) Great Expectations (we like Dickens, but ymmv) The Ghost of Tokaido Inn I am David In Search of Honor Its a Jungle out there (this whole series is fab) 100 Tom Sawyer Mixed up Files My Side of the Mountain To Kill a Mockingbird 200 Christmas Carol Gammage Cup Mrs Frisby.. Pride and Prejudice The Shining Company Screwtape Letters Treasure Island The Trumpeter of Krakow 300 The Great Brain (hilarious!) When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (confess my daughter is reading most of these herself...we read a couple outloud) 400 Huck Finn The Chosen (one of my favorites of all time) Eternity in their hearts (another favorite) Shadow of the Almighty. 530 Sherlock Holmes Alice in Wonderland Importance of Being Earnest Peter Pan OK, there are obviously some books I haven't read, and they put in some new ones this year....I always go through and try to buy as many new ones that look good as I can.....but those are some of our favorites. Kayleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted April 2, 2009 Author Share Posted April 2, 2009 Thank you, Kayleen! I've printed off your list. Can't wait to revisit the catalog with my pen in hand. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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