| Charlotte Mason advocated avoiding twaddle and feasting children’s hearts and minds on the best literary works available. Twaddle is what parents and educators today might call “dumbed down” literature. It is serving your children intellectual happy meals, rather than healthy, substantive mind- and soul-building foods. She also recommended whole books rather than anthologies. Whole books are the entirety of the books the author actually wrote. If the author wrote a book, read the whole book. The opposite of this would be anthologies that include only snippets from other works—maybe a chapter from Dickens, a couple of paragraphs from Tolstoy, etc. | ||
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| Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown $8.99 | Puff, the Magic Dragon (Music Sales America)
by Peter Yarrow $11.53 | Oh, the Places You'll Go!
by Dr. Seuss $10.52 |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and Th...
by J.R.R. Tolkien $17.52 | The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien $8.00 | The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: ...
by Janet Schulman $26.40 |
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| Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever! (Gian...
by Richard Scarry $10.87 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative...
by L. Frank Baum $20.15 | Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott $3.95 |
Literature
