I am just a Catholic mum who has been home educating my children for a number of years. I have six children and have or am home educating five of them. My oldest stayed in school.

I’ve decided to put together a “non boxed” curriculum that you can pick and choose from. It will be largely literature based with all the books we have read or hoped to read as the children attain adulthood. There are a huge number of well written books now in the public domain and available as free ebooks.

You may want to consider an ereader for your children. Mine have kindle’s but there are other good ereaders on the market for you to look at. The advantage is they save money on books and save a great deal of space.

The disadvantages are the need to keep them charged (which sometimes the children forget) and there are issues over DRM protection on bought books. This Kindle Fire review is worth looking at, from Project Gutenberg

Three of my children are adults and one is married.

As this is essentially a list of good books which I hope Charlotte Mason would consider Living Books I hope it will be of use to all families whether your children go to school or ar

e home educated.

Over the years I’ve adapted the educated to the way my children learn. They are all very different people with astonishingly diverse ways of approaching things. So I’ve used a lot of Charlotte Mason’s ideas and methods as well as Dr. Maria Montessori’s and lots of Classical roots. I am no puri

st. I believe the curriculum and method should suit the child, not chips bits off the child’s learning and personality to suit the method or curriculum.

If there are books or resources you think I should add in leave a comment below.