Collection · 32 books · 100 to 1918 AD
Homeschool
Classic works for Christian families teaching at home: education, parenting, catechisms, and read-alouds, in modern English.
100s
800s
1500s
1600s
Mourt’s Relation
William Bradford and Edward Winslow · 1622 AD — the Plymouth settlers' own account of the Mayflower voyage and first winter.
The School of Infancy
Jan Amos Comenius · 1633 AD — a handbook for raising children through their first six years.
The Great Didactic
Jan Amos Comenius · 1638 AD — the founding argument that schools should be places of delight, not dread.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
Westminster Assembly · 1647 AD — the 107 questions and answers that teach the essentials of Christian doctrine.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism for Kids
Westminster Assembly · 1647 AD — the Shorter Catechism's 107 questions rewritten for children to understand.
Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford · 1651 AD — Bradford's own governor's chronicle of the Pilgrims from persecution to New England.
A Family Built by God
Richard Steele · 1670 AD — directions for family worship, child-rearing, and ordering a godly household.
A Christian Directory, Volume 3: Governing the Household
Richard Baxter · 1673 AD — directions for choosing a spouse and ordering the duties of husbands, wives, and servants.
The Shorter Catechism Explained from Scripture
Thomas Vincent · 1674 AD — a clause-by-clause exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism from Scripture.
Bunyan's Catechism
John Bunyan · 1675 AD — a question-and-answer guide to the foundations of Christian doctrine and human nature.
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1678 AD — Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
The Catechizing of Families
Richard Baxter · 1683 AD — a household catechism in forty-seven chapters for teaching the faith under one's roof.
Christiana's Journey
John Bunyan · 1684 AD — Christiana and her sons follow Christian's road, guided by Mr. Great-heart.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke · 1693 AD — letters on raising a child, arguing character forms in the earliest years.
1700s
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 AD — a shipwrecked mariner's twenty-eight years of solitude read as the work of providence.
The Improvement of the Mind
Isaac Watts · 1741 AD — practical rules for reading, conversation, meditation, and disciplined study.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 1789 AD — a printer's rise to Founding Father, including the pursuit of thirteen virtues.
1800s
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss · 1812 AD — a shipwrecked family builds a new home on an unknown island, in all 58 chapters.
Letters to a Daughter
William Sprague · 1850 AD — Sprague's letters of fatherly counsel to his motherless daughter.
The Little Duke
Charlotte M. Yonge · 1854 AD — the boy duke Richard the Fearless bound to forgive his father's killer.
Parables from Nature
Margaret Gatty · 1855 AD — Victorian allegories in which a caterpillar, a bee, and a dragonfly grub learn faith.
Spurgeon's Catechism
Charles Spurgeon · 1855 AD — eighty-two questions summarizing the faith for his Metropolitan Tabernacle congregation.
Thoughts for Young Men
J.C. Ryle · 1859 AD — Ryle's direct counsel to young men on the dangers and duties of their age.
Formation of Character
Benjamin Palmer · 1876 AD — lectures to young men on building the virtues that sustain a lifetime.
Home Education
Charlotte Mason · 1886 AD — the 1886 lectures that launched her case that children are born persons.
Parents and Children
Charlotte Mason · 1897 AD — the second volume of Mason's Home Education Series, on the parents' calling.
1900s
Viking Tales
Jennie Hall · 1902 AD — fifteen retold Norse sagas following Harald's rise and the voyages west.
Stories of Thrift for Young Americans
Myron T. Pritchard and Grace A. Turkington · 1915 AD — twenty-one school stories teaching the care of health, time, money, and home.
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Frank P. Bachman · 1918 AD — twelve stories of great inventions told through the lives of Watt, Fulton, Whitney, Morse, and Bell.
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