If you are looking at beginning homeschooling, need some ideas or encouragement, here are a few of my favourite books on the topic:

• A Biblical Home Education by Ruth Beechick
• For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
• I Saw the Angel in the Marble by Chris and Ellyn Davis
• Educating the Wholehearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson
• Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach by Robin Sampson
• Education in the Heart of the Home by Elizabeth Foss
• Upgrade by Kevin Swanson (although mainly for the later years)
• You Can Teach Your Child Grades 4-8 by Ruth Beechick (later years) and
• The 3 R’s by Ruth Beechick (practical) and
• Before Five In A Row by Jane Lambert (practical)
• Leota’s Garden by Francine Rivers. This book is excellent to teach parents how to use metaphorical language and object lessons in their parenting and teaching.

A few other suggestions AFTER reading the books listed above:

• A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison
• More Charlotte Mason Education  by Catherine Levison
• When You Rise Up by R.C.Sproul Jr.
• Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola
• The Preschool Years  by Valerie Bendt
• Reaping the Harvest – by Diana Waring
• Easy Homeschooling Companion by Lorraine Curry
• Things we wish we’d known by Diana Waring
• Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days, edited by Nancy Lande
• 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy
• Guerrilla Learning and The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

Have I missed your favourite? Let me know by leaving the title in the comments.