I'm ordering books for my bookstore!

[shanmar]

I know I haven't been around much lately. I've been crazy busy with bookstore stuff & shockingly enough, I still have 4 kids, that need me even more, now that I am so distracted!

So, I have lists and lists of books from our various distributors, which they think we should carry in our new store. However, they don't seem to think I need any homeschooling books! So I have to make my own lists.

Could you recomend your favorite homeschooling books, the "how to" kind or the "why" kind; and any parental books that you really love.

I know we've had these lists before, but I didn't find them in any searches I tried. I must not have the right key words or something.

Thank you SOOOO much for your help. I am so zombied out from all these lists, it helps to just have someone else's direction.

[Jean in Newcastle]

"The Well Trained Mind" - of course!
"For the Children's Sake" by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

[Carol in Cal.]

Parenting:
"Becoming the Parent You Want to Be"
Anything by Sears--"The Baby Book" and "The Discipline Book" especially
"You Are Your Child's First Teacher"

Homeschooing:
"The Underground History of American Education"
"And the Skylark Sings With Me"
"Family Matters"
"Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit"
The Steward books about Notebooking and Lapbooking
"Educating the Whole Hearted Child"
(TWTM, of course)
"Homeschooling, A Patchwork of Days" (May be OOP)
Everything by Ruth Beechick
Rafe Esquith's books

Obscure books that kids should read:
"The Diamond in the Window"
"The Egypt Game"
"The Red Velvet Room"
"Number the Stars"

Curriculum that everyone wants to see before they buy:
Omnibus
Real Science 4 Kids
Exploration Education
Concordia Publishing House--Voyages (Bible curricula)
Writing Strands
Writers' Jungle
Story of the World
Apologia Science books
Rainbow Science books
Learn to Write the Novel Way
Growing with Grammar
Easy Grammar
Shirley Grammar
Saxon math--get the DIVE cd's, too
Singapore math
Math U See
IEW?
Classical Writing
Phonetic Zoo

Games:
Artifact
Anything from Family Pastimes (these are several levels of engaging cooperative games)
Chess and books thereon
Go and books thereon
Equate

Consider some archeology kits where the kids chip away their own stone to find treasure. Always a hit!

[shanmar]

Yes, it is a bit like Christmas!

It is a lot of work, my head hurts, I'm not getting enough sleep, I've lost the ability to retain any train of ...um...huh? I've develped carpal tunnel. But it is so much fun, I really don't care! I just wish I had more time!

Thanks, again!

[shanmar]

Thanks, that looks great.

[Laura Corin]

Parenting
Your Baby and Child, by Penelope Leach
Hold on to your kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate

Home Education
The Homeschooling Book of Answers
Creative Homeschooling for Gifted Children

Best of luck

Laura

[momofkhm]

Anything by the Clarksons
Lamplighter books

If you have the space, a used book section would be good as well. In the homeschool store I go to, 1/2 the store is new stuff and 1/2 is consigned. I always go to the consigned stuff first. The store gets 1/2 price and the consignor the other 1/2, usually on account although I think they write checks after a while. The books are separated by grade (along the outer wall). This works well for Abeka, Rod and Staff, etc. Then others are separated by subject (on book cases). This works well for SOTW, TOG, Greenleaf guides, etc. (Can you tell I spend most of my time looking at history books?)

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I am sure it is a lot of work too.

The Well Trained Mind
Ruth Beenick (sp?) books
Charlotte Mason books
Thomas Jefferson Education
Bluedorns Trivium
100 Top Picks for Homschool(stock this book and lots of the books in it)

HIstory Through the ages I don't think people appreciate this until they see it

[hana]

No suggestions that others haven't thought of, but I just wanted to say HOW EXCITING! :)

[HollyDay]

Anything by Dr Sears.

Help for the Harried Homeschooler
The Homeschool Companion
Sally Clarkson's books
Life Skills for Children

Thats all I can think of at the moment!

[Chris in VA]

I don't know if you can carry some Nature Study books, but Cindi Rushton's Nature Study the Easy Way would be a good one, along with Comstock's tome.

How about some Henty books? You could go thru Rainbow Resources catty for ideas. Lots of homeschoolers use these.

Could you please stock Karen Andreola's beautiful A Pocketful of Pinecones? It's a lovely book, so sweet and inspiring.

Maybe the McGuffey Readers that WTM recommends? (or a full set)
Blueback Speller?

I don't have any titles, but I think there's a real dearth of books easily available on parenting teens. And, how about some books about homeschooling high school?

What a fun job--I'd love to come visit your store sometime!!

[strider]

I *love* your logo. I also love the name "Pandemonium Booksellers"--I'm glad you stuck with that one.

[mcconnellboys]

What fun!

Well Trained Mind and Well Educated Mind, of course.....

E. D. Hirsch's Books: What Your _____ Grader Needs to Know and anything else by Hirsch - I think one of his is entitled something like The Education Our Children Need and Why They Can't Get It.......

Losing Our Language (can't recall author)......

ALL of Cafi Cohen's Books (about hsing high school).....

I don't know if Inge Cannon allows her training manuals/tapes to be sold in stores, but they are also good.....

There's a book about how to homeschool for free using the Internet.....

William Bennett's books, such as Child's Book of Virtues, etc.

Regena

[Beth in Central TX]

How exciting! I would like to own a bookstore one day; maybe when I retire from homeschooling...

Here are some books that I would carry:
Educating the Wholehearted Child
Norms and Nobility
Latin Centered Curriculum
The Well Trained Mind
The Well Educated Mind
Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spririt
Bringing Up Boys
Boundaries with Kids
Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes...in You and Your Kids

Good luck!

[shanmar]

It is so nice to have recommendations, as one person certainly can't read everything! I depend a lot on Amazon reviews, but obviously, you folks are MUCH smarter than the average reviewer. ;)

[GothicGyrl]

You haven't given up hope on me yet, have you? ;)

[WTMindy]

of everything Peacehill Press puts out! I love their resources.

[Dana in OR]

Marva Collins' Way
Hold on to your Kids

Vocabulary for the College Bound Student
a good assortment of classic children's books for various ages
an assortment of titles from Yesterday's Classics (publisher)

[GothicGyrl]

Now I'll answer the question, not with book names because I don't know any, but a plea-- Please, Please stock secular books!! Of all kinds and subjects. Please. Please don't limit yourself to only Christian authors.

That said, the other side of the plea is "Please stock high school books!! I'm having such a hard time finding GOOD high school level stuff".

;)

[Eliana]

In addition to TWTM and TWEM:

The Skylark Sings with Me - Albert
Homeschooling High school - Dennis
John Holt's books
"Better than School" and "Child's Work" - Nancy Wallace
"A Charlotte Mason Education" & "More CM Education" - Levison
"With Rigor for All" and "Classics in the Classroom" - Jago
The Trivium - Joseph
How to Read a Book - Adler

SWB's History of the Ancient World
Historical Thinking - Wineburg

parenting:
Siblings w/out Rivalry & How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk
Raising a Thinking Child & Raising a Thinking Preteen
Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles
3 steps to a strong family

[Lorna]

I love these home-schooling books which are helped me decide to home educate:
'One to One (http://www.nezertbooks.net/)' by Gareth Lewis
'Home-schooling for Excellence' by David and Micki Colfax
and obviously 'The Well Trained Mind'

[shanmar]

Toni- No, I haven't given up on you yet! I figure something will show up sometime. How about a similar logo using a coffee cup? Just food for thought!

Don't worry- I will have a lot of secular stuff. We are in an area, where most of the homeschoolers are using public funding so they can only purchase secular. Also, while I am Christian, I prefer to use secular curriculum myself. And as I have some highschoolers, I'll have some of that too!