P.O.P. Nature Study: Bibliomania

Bibliomania ~ page 185

This chapter of Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola finds us in the month of July, the family getting comfortably, busily situated into life at Blackberry Inn.

The family picks and cans the ripe strawberries.


While exploring her new home, Carol finds the study to be filled with books from floor to ceiling. She is delighted. Some of the books mentioned are:

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Novels by Charles Dickens

Sir Walter Scott


The Bronte sisters


Jane Austen


Thomas Hardy


Henry James


Oliver Goldsmith


Shakespeare's plays and Lamb's Tales


Andrew Lang's fairy tales


Nathaniel Hawthorne's stores in Tanglewood Tales & Wonder Book


Novels by Gene Stratton Porter


Louisa May Alcott


Lorna Doone


Gulliver's Travels

Robinson Crusoe (to this day---my oldest son's favorite book!)

 Jungle Book


Kidnapped


Treasure Island


Black Beauty


Commentary on the whole Bible by Matthew Henry


Pilgrims Progress


Famous Paints


My Book House


Several books on Nature some which are listed in the back of P.O.P. for those who have Karen's book.

Karen writes: "Books are the backbone of the homeschool. Many a mother enjoys a free hour to scan the shelves of a used bookstore for inexpensive treasures that will be put to good use---books for herself as well as for her children."

Here is a verse to write in your nature notebooks:

"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,

Old Time is still a flying;

And this same flower that smiles today

Tomorrow will be dying."---Robert Herrick