Whether you are a seasoned homeschooler or post pandemic we know that a good book can really make all the difference to a home education journey. There is so much literature both off and online available for the home educator and you never know it all. We turned to the Amaliah Parents to recommend their books on Home education.

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There are two personal favourites for me that gave me an insight into home education very early on in my journey to choosing this route for my children. Firstly, Educating Your Child In Modern Times: Raising An Intelligent, Sovereign, & Ethical Human Being by John Taylor Gatto, Hamza Yusuf, Dorothy L. Sayers and Nabila Hanson followed by Fitra Journal magazines by Brooke Benoit which feature a range of essays from Muslim Homeschoolers.

From teaching them to read to instilling in them the love for seeking knowledge, these books are written by experts who’ve gone through it all. 

Most importantly, for many home schooling parents we often need parents who have been through it all or have expert understanding on education to re-assure us that they are doing enough and that children learn through living and loving, these books were written to motivate you, offer insight and provides how to’s. 

1. School Is Not Compulsory by Education Otherwise
2. Dumbing us Down by John Taylor Gatto
3. A Gracious Space (Fall, Spring, Winter editions) by Julie Bogart
4. Brave Learner by Julie Bogart
5. Teach Your Own by John Holt
6. How Children Learn by John Holt
7. How Children Fail by John Holt
8. Instead of Education by John Holt 
9. The Bright Stuff by C. J. Simister
10. Learning Without School by Ross Mountney 
11. A Home Education Notebook by Ross Mountney
12. A Funny Kind of Education by Ross Mountney
13. Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
14. Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
15. For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
16. Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax
17. Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola
18. Give Your child the World by Jamie C. Martin 
19. The Read Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie
20. Teaching From Rest By Sarah Mackenzie
21. Better Together by Pam Barnhill
22. The Confident Homeschooler by Pam Barnhill
23. How to Survive Homeschooling by Brooke Benoit
24. The Unhurried Homeschooler by Durenda Wilson
25. The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
26. Homeschooling the Early Years by Linda Dobson
27. Home Grown by Ben Hewitt
28. Curious Unschoolers: Stories of an Unschooling Family by Sue Elvis
29. The Ultimate Book Of Homeschooling Ideas by Linda Dobson
30. Home Learning Year By Year by Rebecca Rupp
31. Unschooled by Kerry Mcdonald
32. The Call Of The Wild+Free by Ainsley Arment
33. Let Them Be Kids by Jessica Smartt
34. So You’re Thinking About Homeschooling by Lisa Whelchel
35. How To Get Your Child Off The Refrigerator And Onto Learning by Carol Barnier
36. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
37. The Call to Brilliance by Resa Steindel Brown

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