Secular Charlotte Mason

We just started reading aloud Robinson Crusoe, so far our boys really like it and used the first chapters to look up about levers and also Agouti's .  What fun, and the boys are anxious to see what happens ~

My pirate class, but not my children, really enjoyed reading that book.  But I thought the Agoutis were in Swiss Family Robinson?? My kids loved the Agoutis too. Swiss Family Robinson is popular here.  We have restarted it 3 times because the kids do really want to read it--other books just keep getting in the way lol.

Oh my goodness scratch.. that..lol I mean Swiss Family Robinson...oh sorry... how can I change the title? can I? oh I am so sorry....Robinson Crusoe is next....oops!

I wasn't able to edit the title.  My moderator feature will only let me edit the text or delete everything.  Why don't you just start another thread entitled Swiss Family Robinson and we will leave this thread for Robinson Crusoe.

Gina

I am wondering if anyone has a favorite version of Robinson Crusoe as we are not overly fond of the one I have. It's thick and somewhat overwhelming to the kids.

secularcm at 10:09PM on Apr 28, 2009

I wasn't able to edit the title.  My moderator feature will only let me edit the text or delete everything.  Why don't you just start another thread entitled Swiss Family Robinson and we will leave this thread for Robinson Crusoe.

Gina

I will go ahead and start a new thread for The Swiss Family Robinson...

secularcm at 10:10PM on Apr 28, 2009

I am wondering if anyone has a favorite version of Robinson Crusoe as we are not overly fond of the one I have. It's thick and somewhat overwhelming to the kids.

Actually, the book I was planning to read from is not the original version we started this one last year and it really was so difficult to understand and for me to read aloud to the boys we gave up and I pulled out  the version I had read when I was younger and loved it. It has very large print which is helpful to my boys so they can, if they choose pick it up and read it.. this may be considered a more "twaddle " book but I found I like the adapted version by Malvina G. Vogel  very much. ( http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Adventures_of_Robinson_Crusoe/1577656776/ )

It is by the Great Illustrated Classics.

We are reading a very old (1970s or 80s) Puffin (or Pengin?) Abridged version. (We finished Swiss family Robinson a couple of weeks ago.) I usually try to read unabridged versions, but I was hoping that the publisher had "abdridged" some of the religion from it.  No such luck.  However, the language is reasonably challenging, so Rod and I are taking turns.  He reads a chapter one night and I read a chapter the next.  I am pretty sure I wouldn't get bthrough it if we weren't reading aloud, but the focus of reading aloud is helping  alot.  We're all enjoying it, though we have to stop every few pages to discuss ethics, slavery, religion, and all kids of heavy going.  (And having read Swiss Family Robinson, Blue Fin, and Robinson Crusoe all in a row, jack wanetd to know last night whay anyone would *ever* go to sea!