living books Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/living-books/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 living books Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/living-books/ 32 32 89931359 Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Art of Historical Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:24:52 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3627 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was recently renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, a remarkably generic name for such a prestigious award. A lot has been said about the change, and most that I have seen has been negative, with reactions...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/feed/ 2 3614 How to Teach Your Child: Charlotte Mason’s Education Manifesto https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-teach-your-child-charlotte-masons-education-manifesto/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-teach-your-child-charlotte-masons-education-manifesto/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:54:01 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=647 Charlotte Mason's Educational Manifesto declared that not only did children have a right to knowledge, but they also had an appetite for such knowledge, and that appetite, if not squelched, would motivate them to learn.

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