on the other hand he was still a patriot.
Grrrrr!!!!!!! This peeves me off! I’m unable to homeschool (I’m a single mom) so I have been looking for the most conservative private school I can find. It’s not easy in Pittsburgh! I have a 3 year old & I carefully screen her books. Unfortunately, I did pick up a Dr Seuss collection & was stunned by the overt propoganda in “The Lorax”. We won’t be reading that one.
I have bought some “conservative” books. Many, I found on a Catholic homeschooling website. I also have Mike Huckabee’s Christmas book, Glenn Beck’s Christmas Sweater picture book, as well as a few others. I am compiling a library for when she gets older, as well. So far, I have Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, “Animal Farm”, “The Fountainhead”, ‘Atlas Shrugged”, “The Federalist Papers” (in modern english), several history books by David Barton & Larry Sweikart (can’t remeber how to speel his name - I know he’s a FReepers so sorry, Larry). Any other suggestions?
I also ordered the New England Primer on Amazon this morning.
Don’t forget the republished 1830’s edition of the McGuffey Readers:
http://www.amazon.com/McGuffey-McGuffeys-Eclectic-Readers-William/dp/0880620145
Hmm, books for a her.
Political theory:
‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ - Edmund Burke.
‘Wealth of Nations’ - Adam Smith
‘Democracy in America’ - De Toqueville
‘Mere Christianity’ - CS Lewis
‘The Everlasting Man’ - GK Chesterton
Anything by Leopold von Ranke, if you can find him.
As for fiction:
Anything by CS Lewis
Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
Anything by GK Chesterton
Some really nice Catholic girls’ novels are the Beany Malone and Stacy Belford series (serii?) by Lenora Mattingly Weber. They came back in print about fifteen years ago, through Image Cascade publishing. I’d say the reading level is 8 and up. Here’s the website:
http://www.imagecascade.com/lenora-mattingly-weber-books.html