📚 HOMESCHOOL BOOKS: Dover Thrift Editions for Your Students

Many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Borrowing books from the library is great, and sharing books within the family is great, but once children are old enough, it’s important for them to have books of their own that don’t belong to anyone else. For classic literature of all kinds, we are very partial to the Dover Thrift Editions, which combine editorial quality with very low cost.

There are hundreds of Dover Thrift Edition titles available. For example, here are three different poetry anthologies that together contain many of our weekly homeschool poems: Great Short Poems, 100 Best-Loved Poems, and 101 Great American Poems. They overlap a little bit, but you can get all three for just $12 total.

Classic novels, plays, poetry, ancient literature, history, politics, religion, philosophy, science, and much more have all been included within this series, and more continue to be added each year. They are a great way to build up an affordable paperback library of classic literature for your students.

Somewhere out in homeschool-land there is a student right now who is primed to discover Thoreau, or The Iliad (which Thoreau loved), or Little Women, or Leaves of Grass, or Sherlock Holmes, or Beowulf, or maybe even The Federalist Papers. (Really!) Yes, they can check them out from the library. But there’s nothing like having a copy of your very own. 📚

What literary discoveries will you and your students be making in your favorite bookstore or library in the homeschool year ahead? 😊

❡ Books in the running brooks: The sidebar on the River Houses website has links to several wonderful online library collections that we like to explore. Why not sit yourself down at a large screen for a while (rather than a phone) and give them a browse. 🖥️

❡ When in doubt, go to the library: This is one of our regular Homeschool Books & Libraries posts. Add your name to our weekly mailing list and get great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. 📫

❡ Homeschool calendars: We have a whole collection of free, printable, educational homeschool calendars and planners available on our main River Houses calendar page. They will help you create a light and easy structure for your homeschool year. Give them a try today! 🗓️

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