Meindert De Jong - The Wheel on the School

Pros: Well crafted story line-colorful characters-Educational-Engaging.

Cons: Too short.

The Bottom Line: If you have children old enough to sit through a story with no pictures, this is a great one.

Review: As home-educators, we first read this story the year we discovered Unit Studies. We began reading this book as simply another read-aloud story but a couple of pages into it, we all knew we needed to stop our normal pattern of schooling and center all our...

Pros: full of humanity, child bravery, culture ,history, wonderful information on storks

Cons: slow beginning; due to time period, some sexist ideas (women at home while men go to sea, girls can't do things boys can)

Review: What a wonderful, little known discovery! A Newberry Award winner, this story captivated my seven year old so much that we read it through three times back-to-back, and she wanted to begin it all over again!

Rich in details of life long ago...