9 must-read nonfiction books like Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It by Denise Gaskins

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Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It

By: Denise Gaskins

4.53

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Learn Math Without TearsAll parents and teachers have one thing in common: we want our child…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It by Denise Gaskins , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

By: Angela J. Hanscom

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outd… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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2. I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived, #2)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great W… read more

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3. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

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"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

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4. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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5. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By: Grace Lin

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the f… read more

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6. The Golden Key

By: George MacDonald , Maurice Sendak

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden ke… read more

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7. Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more

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8. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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9. The Little House

By: Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House… read more

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10. Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

By: Karen Glass

4.36

Format: 224 pages,

The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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11. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

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12. For the Children's Sake

By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

4.44

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
"Pupils whose foundations have been deeply laid on books and things, using narration to lock their knowledge in place, and who learn not for marks and prizes but because learning is its own reward... …"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

"No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country,…"

-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake

13. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1)

By: Hugh Lofting , Michael Hague

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with an… read more

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14. Fifty Famous Stories Retold

By: James Baldwin

3.85

Format: 132 pages,

There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and t… read more

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15. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace 2.0 Edition

By: Sarah Mackenzie

4.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
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16. The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

By: Jason M. Baxter

4.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an auth… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

By: Sarah Mackenzie

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading alou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
"What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"It is tempting to idolize certain aspects of education. We value good grades, high test scores, elite college degrees, and lucrative careers. But out obsession keeps us from remembering what educatio…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"Truth rises above literal facts... stories, especially fictional ones have the power to speak to the hearts of readers in a profound and lasting way. "Story has been the vehicle for truth for as long…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

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18. The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education

By: Ainsley Arment

4.32

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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19. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration

By: Karen Glass

4.52

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Narration, the art of telling, has been used as a pedagogical tool since ancient times. Over one hu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
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20. Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It

By: Denise Gaskins

4.53

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Learn Math Without TearsAll parents and teachers have one thing in common: we want our child… read more

Similar categories in Denise Gaskins's Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It book and Denise Gaskins's Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It

  • parenting
  • mathematics
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education

8 must-read education books like Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It by Denise Gaskins

Transform Your Habits

Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

Angela J. Hanscom

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

Karen Glass

4.36

Transform Your Habits

For the Children's Sake

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace 2.0 Edition

Sarah Mackenzie

4.70

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7 must-read fantasy books like Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1) by C.S. Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Phantastes

George MacDonald

3.48

Transform Your Habits

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (The Wingfeather Saga, #1)

Andrew Peterson

4.33

The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4)

None , Andrew Peterson

3.90

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