Courage set: Merlin and the Making of the King - Margaret Hodges Sasha and the Dragon - Laura Wolf The Sword and the Tree - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson Interests set: The Cabinetmakers A Real Book about Stars Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel Small Pig - Arnold Lobel Spirit set: Brave, Faithful, and True - Ancient Faith Lucia: Saint of Light - Picture Books set: Peter and the North Wind Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning Thistle Chanticleer and the Fox School Books set: Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Andrew Jackson - Genevieve Foster Plutarch for Boys and Girls Shakespeare - Charles and Mary Lamb Pilgrim’s Progress in One Syllable Pagoo, Seabird, Paddle to the Sea, Tree Trail - Holling C. Holling St. Nicholas Magazine Arts set: Songs from Shakespeare How to Teach your Children Shakespeare Mozart Tonight 12 Dancing Princesses Nutcracker Great Classics set: Anne of Green Gables set Grimm’s Fairy Tales The Wind in the Willows The Silver Trumpet by Owen Barfield Adventure set: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Houseboat Summer Petticoat Rebel Farewell Miss Julie Logan - J. M. Barrie That’s all the ones she mentioned with authors if she mentioned them, just to save y’all a little time. Apologies if anything is misspelled, I wasn’t familiar with every book.
When you mentioned Nickel Creek and Trampled by Turtles I knew I’d found my now favorite TH-cam channel. We’re newly orthodox and I’ve been trying to figure out how to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas so this was brilliant. Because I also want to start building up our library but the thought of only books being under the Christmas tree made me feel like a boring mom (definitely not true) but spreading them out for the 12 days is def gonna be what I do for my 3 year old!
It feels like you're the boring book person (I know my nephews love me but they have no idea I am actually the fun aunt.) BUT REALLY, you are the back-end present giver. You look beyond the initial excitement of a front-end gift (which ends very quickly) and aim for that lasting joy of a treasured story (lasts much longer).
When I finished reading the Wind in the Willows with my daughter, she immediately wanted to start the story over again because she loved it so much! I listened to the Literary Life Podcast episodes on that story and it really enhanced the story for me. I hope you guys enjoy finishing that one!
I am listening to this as I stitch the hem of a Queen Susan of Narnia dress for my daughter. I love this idea of 12 days of Christmas books. I will be doing this next year! Thank you as always for such lovely ideas and Merry Christmas!
I love that you read aloud to them when they were sick. We never had that tradition growing up and it has been so special to me to find friends as an adult that actually enjoy reading aloud to each other.
Ah, I so love the approach you've shared surrounding gift giving - especially the thought on 'front end' and 'back end' reactions. It reflects, I think, the same humble, way that Jesus (cliche, but truly 'the best Gift given') came into this world :)
You are my people. I was introduced to liturgy before classical education, and I've been exploring both slowly and trying to bring them into my life more deeply. Habits and traditions are hard to change. Especially with extended family.
Ah, yes. Liturgy and classical education are so harmonious. It's mind-blowing how cohesive life is within them. But you're completely right: changing habits and traditions * is * hard and we want to do it humbly and in a way that loves our people. Further up and further in!
Twelfth night is a play that was authored for the sole purpose of entertainment when celebrating Christmastide. Last year I watched it on the last day of Christmas but I think I want to read it this year.
We are reading the play this December. In all my years (10) of teaching Shakespeare we have never read this or watched it. Disordered hilarity abounds. Enjoy your reading :)
My unicorn list just got longer. Thank you ;) Seriously, congratulations on your finds! That is so satisfying. We have enjoyed celebrating the 12 days of Christmastide in various ways but this is a new idea to me. Books are always part of the celebration but to be wholly devoted is genius. I also enjoyed hearing the delight in using the school budget vs. the gift budget. Small things.
I love this, Autumn! We've never done twelve days of gift giving (though we definitely recognize and celebrate the full twelve days of Christmastide), but if we were to establish that tradition, I would one-hundred percent do so with books. However, I completely agree with you that books are, as cliché as it sounds, the gift that keeps on giving. To this day, my adolescent kids want to read some of the timeless books they received ten years ago. But I'm pretty sure most of their toys are either waiting in the attic for future grandchildren (if they were good toys) or were otherwise thrifted. Moral: give books.
There's something about Christmastide books that doesn't feel consumeristic/pull away from what we're doing in other ways. (Could we be book gluttons about it? Sure. But the loves of stories runs deep in this house! Thank God!) Now the amount of time we'll spend trying to figure out which books on which days and paired with which books for the other kids and books and times and books?! Well, that will be a doozy.
What a beautiful list! I always wonder if I’m starting certain books too early with my oldest daughter who is 5. Your recommendations are always encouraging when I’m reminded that your younger two are still in their earlier years as well. Thank you for sharing, as always! 🎄📚
They kind of get tapped into a rich literary life in "higher form" earlier being on the young end of a pod, you know? But I still try to make sure they get their full dose of picture books!
I absolutely would love to watch a video on the stages of becoming a classical woman, haha! xD I feel that I am in the beginning still but I have definitely reached the "wondering about liturgical living" stage. Funny, I think that what got me thinking about that, and the "inspiring idea" that led me down the rabbit trail to wind up a year and a half later in this community was the book A Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson, where Sarah mentions the church calendar in one chapter. Because of that, I organically was led to the Circle of Seasons book by K.C. Ireton, and then when I eventually wound up here it made me smile inside to see that those books seem loved and known in this circle! :)
If you are in the protestant tradition, I just so appreciate your love for the Church and the liturgical life. I have been reformed my whole life but so many experiences that were hostile to church tradition that we are searching elsewhere, praying and discerning where to Lord will have us. You are becoming a favorite listen. I appreciate you!
I'm no longer in the Protestant tradition but was for a long time! (I fell in love with liturgy during my time in an low-Anglican parish during college and a high-Anglican parish in Italy, but I spent happy years in the PCA too.) I think there is a great "recovery" of historic Church practices right now and I love seeing it. I think Gavin Ortlund (Truth Unites) and many at The Rabbit Room are doing good work for it!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Wow, that’s wonderful to hear. We were PCA too, now discerning the Orthodox Church. It’s comforting to see we aren’t alone in this journey. I think jumping into Classical Education also lead us here.
@@SummerLove-yv1kf I understand this very well. I think of Orthodoxy as classical Christianity. We inquired for about a year and a half, and have now been catechumen since the summer.
@@thecommonplacehomeschool That's so exciting!! I will be praying for you and your family as you come into the church. Have you listened to the Benedictine Sisters of Mary? They have an album called Advent at Ephesus. It gives such a joyful atmosphere to our home during advent-tide.
Can't watch, have to work. But, YAY, a new video! I've been tormenting myself watching reviews and clips of the hideous Doctor Who degeneration. I honestly want to cry. Will watch after work stuff to cheer me up!
About Grimm's Fairy Tales . . . I get so tripped up over what I should and maybe should wait to read to my young daughter. What are your guidelines for reading Fairy Tales to your children?
I trust my gut and generally just read them to them without over-thinking it. I did recently stop reading them right before bed because I noticed they were commenting on shadows and noises more. Reading them during the day seemed to do the trick. Also, let me recommend Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian to you. Excellent guide through classic fairytales!
Love this! I so enjoyed Christmas reading when my kids were littles. :) Side note, I can't get into Common House. I keep getting a "Bad Gateway" error. Any insight on that?
Good ol' wrapped under the tree each morning. But now that I'm thinking, maybe when they're older, I'll put them on the shelves and they'll have to hunt until they find the new book each day. Might be a hilarious endeavour.
I love the idea of a book to inspire them that isn't directly about the problemhappening. My 5 yr old was just diagnosed with a brain tumor. She is in lots of pain and scared of the doctor at this point. Do you have a book to recommend?
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. My most immediate thought was a story of beauty and courage amidst the painful realities of a broken world-and that would be Anne of Green Gables. Read it in smaller chunks and I pray she finds Anne a dear friend in a weary world.
Wait go back...I've been debating doing violin for my middle daughter. What age do you think is too young? She's 7? I always thought violin was so hard.
Oy, that's a hard one to say without knowing her! We started at 3.5 because she had been asking to play since about 1.5. (Asking almost daily.) We found the most wonderful teacher (She still teaches my kids now! Almost 3.5 years later!) who was willing to take such a young kid as a student. Since my other children have grown up with music lessons/practice, it has really shaped our family culture. My next child started at the cello at 3.5 and my youngest is about to start at 3.5. They are so used to seeing someone practice and play that it's almost an expectation on their part to be allowed "in" to the fun. So, I think 7 is a good time to start. The violin is difficult (as all strings are) but children's muscle memory is amazing and it's easier to learn some of the posture (head, neck, arm, wrist, fingers, feet, etc.) when they're younger!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool thank you for your reply! Yes, my kids started piano young, and my youngest was also begging for lessons to start and began at age 3. She's very interested in music. Maybe I'll start looking in the new year!!
This is such a good list. Kinda random aside: In previous videos, you’ve recommended Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods etc…. Do you find her works concerning with regard to socialist Fabian society messaging/subversion? I’m understanding that she’s an amazing storyteller and I just want be sure that it’s not got underhanded messaging that requires discussion and context - as my kids are a little young yet for all that.
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Courage set:
Merlin and the Making of the King - Margaret Hodges
Sasha and the Dragon - Laura Wolf
The Sword and the Tree -
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson
Interests set:
The Cabinetmakers
A Real Book about Stars
Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel
Small Pig - Arnold Lobel
Spirit set:
Brave, Faithful, and True - Ancient Faith
Lucia: Saint of Light -
Picture Books set:
Peter and the North Wind
Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning
Thistle
Chanticleer and the Fox
School Books set:
Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Andrew Jackson - Genevieve Foster
Plutarch for Boys and Girls
Shakespeare - Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim’s Progress in One Syllable
Pagoo, Seabird, Paddle to the Sea, Tree Trail - Holling C. Holling
St. Nicholas Magazine
Arts set:
Songs from Shakespeare
How to Teach your Children Shakespeare
Mozart Tonight
12 Dancing Princesses
Nutcracker
Great Classics set:
Anne of Green Gables set
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Wind in the Willows
The Silver Trumpet by Owen Barfield
Adventure set:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Houseboat Summer
Petticoat Rebel
Farewell Miss Julie Logan - J. M. Barrie
That’s all the ones she mentioned with authors if she mentioned them, just to save y’all a little time. Apologies if anything is misspelled, I wasn’t familiar with every book.
Bless you!!!
I have that same Grimms Fairy Tales book!!! It was my Dad's
You're hired.
I am looking for The Real Book- who is the author?
I was just about to do this for others and then saw you already did! Thank you! 🤎
When you mentioned Nickel Creek and Trampled by Turtles I knew I’d found my now favorite TH-cam channel. We’re newly orthodox and I’ve been trying to figure out how to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas so this was brilliant. Because I also want to start building up our library but the thought of only books being under the Christmas tree made me feel like a boring mom (definitely not true) but spreading them out for the 12 days is def gonna be what I do for my 3 year old!
It feels like you're the boring book person (I know my nephews love me but they have no idea I am actually the fun aunt.) BUT REALLY, you are the back-end present giver. You look beyond the initial excitement of a front-end gift (which ends very quickly) and aim for that lasting joy of a treasured story (lasts much longer).
@@thecommonplacehomeschool And as long as we start when they're young they'll know no different!
I'd love to know what books you end up getting your 3 year old!
Eeeeeee this just popped up and how have I never seen this video?! Buying all the books!
Enjoy!!
When I finished reading the Wind in the Willows with my daughter, she immediately wanted to start the story over again because she loved it so much! I listened to the Literary Life Podcast episodes on that story and it really enhanced the story for me. I hope you guys enjoy finishing that one!
Oooh, I should listen to that! I love listening to them discuss books as guides while I read!
I am listening to this as I stitch the hem of a Queen Susan of Narnia dress for my daughter. I love this idea of 12 days of Christmas books. I will be doing this next year! Thank you as always for such lovely ideas and Merry Christmas!
You are spending your time in worthwhile work. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
I love that you read aloud to them when they were sick. We never had that tradition growing up and it has been so special to me to find friends as an adult that actually enjoy reading aloud to each other.
I hope to find my kids reading aloud to each other and to me for the rest of their lives!
The Silver Trumpet was reprinted this year. It's available on Amazon 🙃
That JUST happened. Like three weeks ago. Which makes me very happy for everyone else!
Ah, I so love the approach you've shared surrounding gift giving - especially the thought on 'front end' and 'back end' reactions. It reflects, I think, the same humble, way that Jesus (cliche, but truly 'the best Gift given') came into this world :)
Oh, love that.
You are my people.
I was introduced to liturgy before classical education, and I've been exploring both slowly and trying to bring them into my life more deeply. Habits and traditions are hard to change. Especially with extended family.
Ah, yes. Liturgy and classical education are so harmonious. It's mind-blowing how cohesive life is within them. But you're completely right: changing habits and traditions * is * hard and we want to do it humbly and in a way that loves our people. Further up and further in!
Twelfth night is a play that was authored for the sole purpose of entertainment when celebrating Christmastide. Last year I watched it on the last day of Christmas but I think I want to read it this year.
We are reading the play this December. In all my years (10) of teaching Shakespeare we have never read this or watched it. Disordered hilarity abounds. Enjoy your reading :)
Oh, so good to know! Thank you!
Highly recommend Gayle Boss - All Creation Waits. A perfect book for the Advent season.
Ah, someone else mentioned this in Common House! When I start to see a title multiple times, I know...you must all be right.
My unicorn list just got longer. Thank you ;) Seriously, congratulations on your finds! That is so satisfying. We have enjoyed celebrating the 12 days of Christmastide in various ways but this is a new idea to me. Books are always part of the celebration but to be wholly devoted is genius. I also enjoyed hearing the delight in using the school budget vs. the gift budget. Small things.
The danger of of the book list, no? Ha! It happens to me too.
I love this, Autumn! We've never done twelve days of gift giving (though we definitely recognize and celebrate the full twelve days of Christmastide), but if we were to establish that tradition, I would one-hundred percent do so with books. However, I completely agree with you that books are, as cliché as it sounds, the gift that keeps on giving. To this day, my adolescent kids want to read some of the timeless books they received ten years ago. But I'm pretty sure most of their toys are either waiting in the attic for future grandchildren (if they were good toys) or were otherwise thrifted. Moral: give books.
There's something about Christmastide books that doesn't feel consumeristic/pull away from what we're doing in other ways. (Could we be book gluttons about it? Sure. But the loves of stories runs deep in this house! Thank God!)
Now the amount of time we'll spend trying to figure out which books on which days and paired with which books for the other kids and books and times and books?! Well, that will be a doozy.
What a beautiful list! I always wonder if I’m starting certain books too early with my oldest daughter who is 5. Your recommendations are always encouraging when I’m reminded that your younger two are still in their earlier years as well. Thank you for sharing, as always! 🎄📚
They kind of get tapped into a rich literary life in "higher form" earlier being on the young end of a pod, you know? But I still try to make sure they get their full dose of picture books!
I absolutely would love to watch a video on the stages of becoming a classical woman, haha! xD I feel that I am in the beginning still but I have definitely reached the "wondering about liturgical living" stage. Funny, I think that what got me thinking about that, and the "inspiring idea" that led me down the rabbit trail to wind up a year and a half later in this community was the book A Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson, where Sarah mentions the church calendar in one chapter. Because of that, I organically was led to the Circle of Seasons book by K.C. Ireton, and then when I eventually wound up here it made me smile inside to see that those books seem loved and known in this circle! :)
I've read (and loved) both of those! Ideas will do that to you! It's the whole atmosphere-discipline-life thing.
If you are in the protestant tradition, I just so appreciate your love for the Church and the liturgical life. I have been reformed my whole life but so many experiences that were hostile to church tradition that we are searching elsewhere, praying and discerning where to Lord will have us. You are becoming a favorite listen. I appreciate you!
I'm no longer in the Protestant tradition but was for a long time! (I fell in love with liturgy during my time in an low-Anglican parish during college and a high-Anglican parish in Italy, but I spent happy years in the PCA too.) I think there is a great "recovery" of historic Church practices right now and I love seeing it. I think Gavin Ortlund (Truth Unites) and many at The Rabbit Room are doing good work for it!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Wow, that’s wonderful to hear. We were PCA too, now discerning the Orthodox Church. It’s comforting to see we aren’t alone in this journey. I think jumping into Classical Education also lead us here.
@@SummerLove-yv1kf I understand this very well. I think of Orthodoxy as classical Christianity. We inquired for about a year and a half, and have now been catechumen since the summer.
@@thecommonplacehomeschool That's so exciting!! I will be praying for you and your family as you come into the church. Have you listened to the Benedictine Sisters of Mary? They have an album called Advent at Ephesus. It gives such a joyful atmosphere to our home during advent-tide.
Can't watch, have to work. But, YAY, a new video! I've been tormenting myself watching reviews and clips of the hideous Doctor Who degeneration. I honestly want to cry. Will watch after work stuff to cheer me up!
Oh man. I can't speak to the Doctor Who bit but I can say Christmastide book chats are very cheering.
How can I purchase St. Nicholas magazine?:)
Here you go: www.stnicholasmagazine.com/
About Grimm's Fairy Tales . . . I get so tripped up over what I should and maybe should wait to read to my young daughter. What are your guidelines for reading Fairy Tales to your children?
I trust my gut and generally just read them to them without over-thinking it. I did recently stop reading them right before bed because I noticed they were commenting on shadows and noises more. Reading them during the day seemed to do the trick.
Also, let me recommend Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian to you. Excellent guide through classic fairytales!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Thank you so much for that recommendation! ❤
My three-year-old asked me to make her a Princess Una costume. If you know, you know. :)
IYKYK. Love that your three-year-old is IN the club.
Love this! I so enjoyed Christmas reading when my kids were littles. :) Side note, I can't get into Common House. I keep getting a "Bad Gateway" error. Any insight on that?
Oh no! Shoot me an email hello [at] thecommonplacepodcast.com and we'll get you sorted out!
Oye, it's all of us! I also can't access it at the moment. I'm assuming it's a Mighty Networks issue. (So sorry!) Try again in a few hours!
How do you gift these books during the 12 days? Wrapped each morning waiting under the tree? Or do you do it in another creative way?
Good ol' wrapped under the tree each morning.
But now that I'm thinking, maybe when they're older, I'll put them on the shelves and they'll have to hunt until they find the new book each day. Might be a hilarious endeavour.
I love the idea of a book to inspire them that isn't directly about the problemhappening. My 5 yr old was just diagnosed with a brain tumor. She is in lots of pain and scared of the doctor at this point. Do you have a book to recommend?
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. My most immediate thought was a story of beauty and courage amidst the painful realities of a broken world-and that would be Anne of Green Gables. Read it in smaller chunks and I pray she finds Anne a dear friend in a weary world.
Oh, this breaks my heart. Just prayed for her and your family.
Wait go back...I've been debating doing violin for my middle daughter. What age do you think is too young? She's 7? I always thought violin was so hard.
Oy, that's a hard one to say without knowing her! We started at 3.5 because she had been asking to play since about 1.5. (Asking almost daily.) We found the most wonderful teacher (She still teaches my kids now! Almost 3.5 years later!) who was willing to take such a young kid as a student. Since my other children have grown up with music lessons/practice, it has really shaped our family culture. My next child started at the cello at 3.5 and my youngest is about to start at 3.5. They are so used to seeing someone practice and play that it's almost an expectation on their part to be allowed "in" to the fun.
So, I think 7 is a good time to start.
The violin is difficult (as all strings are) but children's muscle memory is amazing and it's easier to learn some of the posture (head, neck, arm, wrist, fingers, feet, etc.) when they're younger!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool thank you for your reply! Yes, my kids started piano young, and my youngest was also begging for lessons to start and began at age 3. She's very interested in music. Maybe I'll start looking in the new year!!
My violin teacher started her kids as young as 4. ❤
First!! It's here! The Twelve Days!! Yes!!!! I had to stop the video so many times to write down titles 😅
Christmastide! Christmastide! Christmastide!
This is such a good list. Kinda random aside: In previous videos, you’ve recommended Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods etc…. Do you find her works concerning with regard to socialist Fabian society messaging/subversion? I’m understanding that she’s an amazing storyteller and I just want be sure that it’s not got underhanded messaging that requires discussion and context - as my kids are a little young yet for all that.
I wouldn't say that's an issue in the Nesbit works we've read thus far!
Thank you! ❤
i need the author for the cabinet makers
Leonard Fisher!