The six-volume set includes over 2,400 pages of the finest material ever written on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as the pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason's practical methods are as revolutionary today as when they were first written.

    In speeches, essays, and book reviews, the novelist Katherine Paterson discusses why she writes children's books, where her ideas come from, how she develops her characters and realistic plots, and her experiences growing up in China.

    Georgia Heard offers a method of teaching poetry that respects the intelligence of students and teachers and that can build upon their basic originality. She explores poetry from the inside as it is: a powerful and necessary way of looking at the world, and one of mankind's most durable inventions.Her book provides detailed, organized information so that teachers themselves can begin to enjoy and feel knowledgeable about poetry, and, from there, pass those feelings on to their students. The author's text is supplemented by examples of students' work in original and draft form.

    Detailed suggestions for strategy use in each of the four language skills are included as well as case studies and models for setting up similar programs.

    D. Hirsch Jr. cuts through the wealth of information available today to highlight terms that a child should be familiar with by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions and including 250 new entries (like Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series), this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to become literate in mythology, literature, U.S. history, science and technology, and more.

    America's market economy—a heritage to cherish and the key to tomorrow's prosperity—is the unifying theme of Economics: Work and Prosperity.  Contrasting the free enterprise system to the system that kills the goose that laid the golden eggs, the author takes the cheerful view that the market economy can continue to produce abundantly for years if people will learn to understand it and care for it properly.  This enlightening text will help students become informed citizens, able to make wise decisions about the crucial area of economics.

    Author-artist Francois Crozat was 1994 winner of the coveted Critici in Erba prize at the international Bologna Children's Book Fair for his illustrations in I Am a Little Panda.

    Book describes five "SHAPE Personalities" (Box, Triangle, Rectangle, Circle or Squiggle). System is FUN and easy to use and very popular with corporate managers and team leaders.

    The author challenges accepted commonsense beliefs, and in doing so, opens up the debate on language education.

    Experiment with Fiction Fiction is a natural genre for children. In this volume, experiment with ten-minute fictional occasions, write with your children, and meld work in writing fiction with your reading program.To learn more about Donald Graves, visit www.donaldgraves.org.

    A great resource book for paleontologists.

    It includes numerous illustrative examples and practical exercises that can be adapted and use in the classroom.

    cooperative discipline in the class room while promoting self-esteem.

    Investigate Nonfiction builds on what children can do before they even go to school: recount events, display learning, tell how things work, and explain processes. Explore how the various nonfiction genres extend from children's use of oral language. Children interview, record data, make early reports, read information sources, and examine the world around them.To learn more about Donald Graves, visit www.donaldgraves.org.

    The essays emphasize Shakespeare's complexity and the danger of over-simplification.

    Here are details of pigments, media and fillers; types of support and studio equipment. Descriptions, accompanied by full-colour demonstrations and numerous specially prepared illustrations, offer a complete introduction to traditional techniques of painting - oil, tempera, watercolour, fresco - and to comparative innovations such as acrylics and silica painting. The author reveals the important links between various media and makes the case for a systematic approach to painting, in which materials are working for, not against, the artist.