Read Sam Campbell books to your children!
They are so great, he was a guy and wife from the 40s and 50s that lived out on an island in Minnesota and he wrote books and did talks. What a wonderful, intelligent guy. The kids and I still quote from those books years later.
It's amazing how the level of language has deteriorated over the last few decades. He wrote at a level that most 8th graders of today would be hard put to read. Heck, most 12th graders! Public school kids need extra help with his books, lots of times. Most home educated kids can read better though. (most, not all, I know)
Oh, also Holling Clancy Holling books. You can teach geography from them, they're so good and the illustrations are WONDERFUL.