What do you think of this book list?

[maamajullah]

Hi everyone!I intend to homeschool but my dd's just 16months old and ds is 18days old. However i want to buy and start reading books that'll help me. Pls kindly review my list and tell me if there's any book i wont find useful or if there's any i ought to add to the list.
*Home Learning year by year:Rebecca Rupp
*Home-schooling the early years:Linda Dobson
*The Ultimate book of Homeschooling ideas:Linda Dobson
*One to one:Gareth Lewis
*The unschooling handbook:Mary Griffith
*How children learn at home:Alan Thomas
*Free Range Education:Terri Dowty
*Educating your child at home:Alan Thomas
*School is not compulsory
*The teenage liberation handbook:Grace llewellyn
*Dumbing us down:John Taylor Gatto

[julienoshoes]

How children learn at home by Alan Thomas, is his latest research, following on from some themes that developed in his original research.

Well written IMHO and well worth a read.

Alan is not a home educator and sent his own children to school, so this work could be said to be unbiased.

Jan FW on the other hand, is a home educating parent and writes mostly about autonomous home based education and 'Taking Children Seriously' (and she is a published novelist)
She is most definitely not part of EO.

I have not heard of a book written Jan by that title-can you post a link for the one you mean?
Jan's books can be found on the Education Heretics site and HE-UK, MIke FWs website some of her articles for the Home Ed Journal can be found on the UK-HE website too

[maamajullah]

www.amazon.co.uk/SCHOOL-COMPULSORY-Introduction-Home-Education/dp/0952170361/ref=pd_rhf_p_img?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 _4

[julienoshoes]

Yikes!

I think Amazon have made a mistake.
This looks like the latest SINC that EO have published-but Jan is definately NOT the author!

I'll go check with Jan and with EO and get back to you.

But anyone joing EO gets a copy of this book for free.

[julienoshoes]

maamajullah
I have just had a message back from Jan's husband Mike Fortune Wood. Jan definately didn't write that book.
Lots of others well worth reading, but not that one.

[maamajullah]

Thank you Julienoshoes.
One last thing please, since i have two children(hoping to have more), does that mean i'll find "Educating your children at home-Alan thomas" more useful than "Educating your child at home-Alan Thomas"?

[julienoshoes]

I like his book How Children Learn at Home'-the latest one, written with Harriet Patterson, which builds on what he found before.

Quite a few families talk about home educating their children for his research.

But it's horses for courses- different people want different things, I think.