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Title: Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning: A Story for Mother Culture by Karen Andreola, Robert E. Jones ISBN: 1-889209-03-1 Publisher: Charlotte Mason Research & Supply Company Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining and inspiring
Comment: I waited six months to get this book through interlibrary loan because I couldn't tell from the description whether it would be something I'd want to own. I read the book straight through and I am now going to buy it so that I can refer back to it.
As a child, I got much more excited about a new subject if I read fiction about a character who was excited about it than if I only read nonfiction on the topic. Reading this book got me engaged in the idea of doing nature study and adjusting my view of homeschooling in a way that the three or four "straight" books on Charlotte Mason education I've read haven't done.
I would recommend this for any homeschooler, whether he/she is interested in the Charlotte Mason approach or not, who is interested in incorporating more nature study into his/her children's education--or for any homeschooler who is feeling burned out and in need of a fresh perspective.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Pleasure to Read
Comment: With some books reading is a chore. I abhor the clutter of unnecessary words, repetitive phrases and even paragraphs that waste my time and only distract from an important message. Too many words in too many works, both old and new, seem to have been written just to fill the page, - and perhaps the pocketbook.
Pocketful of Pinecones was easy to read, and a pleasure to read. It is the fictional account of Carol, a mother living in the 1930s, and using Charlotte Mason's methods, particularly her nature study methods. Yet, the book is based on Karen Andreola's experiences with her own children. It is a book that you will continue to pick up until you have reached the last pages telling of the Andreola's life in Maine. I enjoyed the book, and felt i got to know Karen a little better. She is an extremely soft spoken person and this gentleness is evident in Pinecones. The temptations are there, but Carol thinks before speaking so as not to be harsh to her family.
In all our educating we should remember as Carol-Karen tells us,
"...that not all of what they will learn about God's creation will conveniently fit into my lessons. My students have a lifetime ahead of them in which to observe and discover - to become self educated in their leisure, so to speak. My job is to allow their feet to walk the paths of wonder, to see that they form relations to various things, so that when the habit is formed, they will carry an appreciation for nature with them throughout their lives."
As a lover of nature and nature's God, as well as inclined to sketching, Pocketful of Pinecones was a delightful read. I laughed and I cried. I sang hymns. It is inspiring and not just toward nature study. It encourages toward more gentle motherhood and even to humility before our husbands. It inspires God-ward with the many hymn lyrics and the lifestyle portrayed.
"My devotions gave the day its energy... It is proof that I remember Him, depend on His mercy, which is so thankfully new every morning. It is evidence that I trust Him. It is because my days are so busy that I have kept myself from the God-can-wait syndrome. I need my heavenly Father and so I seek Him early. Prayers are the wings of the soul. They bear the Christian far from earth, out of its cares, its woes and its perplexities, into glorious serenity. It is the first God-ward step that the soul takes."
...Pinecones would be an especially appropriate gift for a new mother, a young mother or someone contemplating homeschooling. It gives a gentle introduction to easy methods by way of the example set forth in the story line. It was written for the busy mother, yet I can envision a mother reading it to her children as well.
There are some atypical words for the 30s and even the fact that the family is homeschooling in the United States seems quite unusual for that time period.
Karen has included recommended resources and excerpts from Charlotte Mason's book, Home Education.
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Title: A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola ISBN: 1889209023 Publisher: Charlotte Mason Research & Supply Company Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, Verne N. Rockcastle ISBN: 0801493846 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1986 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison ISBN: 1891400169 Publisher: Champion Press, Ltd Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Simply Grammar: An Illustrated Primer by Karen Andreola ISBN: 1889209015 Publisher: Charlotte Mason Research Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: For the Children's Sake by Susan S. MacAulay ISBN: 089107290X Publisher: Good News Pub Pub. Date: October, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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