A home library should have both breadth (books on a wide variety of topics) and depth (lots of books on a single topic).<\/p>\n
Whatever topic piques\u00a0my children’s\u00a0curiosity, there is likely to be at least one book they can pull right off the shelf.\u00a0 As they develop passions for certain subjects, we try to acquire a variety of books on those topics.\u00a0 We have pretty substantial collections of books about whales and dolphins, trains, J. R. R. Tolkien, the solar system, World Wars I and II, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, inventions,\u00a0architecture, drawing, math, and animals.<\/p>\n
My personal collections include ABC books, multiple editions of A Child’s Garden of Verses,<\/em> <\/em>books written or illustrated by Tasha Tudor, books about homeschooling, classic literature, books about writing, books about editing, and books about bibliophilia!\u00a0 I also collect the works of Eudora Welty, C. S. Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jan Karon,\u00a0Jane Austen, Elisabeth Elliot, and Edith Shaeffer.\u00a0 (At one point I figured if I ever had a girl, I’d need to name her Elisabeth Edith Eudora…but I ended up with four boys.)<\/p>\n What are your favorite collections?<\/p>\n Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A home library should have both breadth (books on a wide variety of topics) and depth (lots of books on a single topic). Whatever topic piques\u00a0my children’s\u00a0curiosity, there is likely to be at least one book they can pull right off the shelf.\u00a0 As they develop passions for certain subjects, we try to acquire a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}