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I have sometimes been disappointed with their stuff in the past........can you help me please to discern? ........plus, their return policy can be hard to deal with....
Praise Him With Your Very Life: A Collection of Plays
Anyone use this? Is it "dumbed down"???
It's a Mystery!" Catholic Children's Retreats?
A Right to be Merry?
Let There be Llamas!?
Declaration Statesmanship?
Little Latin Readers? How about the workbooks? necessary if using Latina Christiana?
Learning to Appreciate Art?
Art Masterpieces: A Liturgical Collection?
Christian Heritage Art Program by Sister Marie Vianney Hamilton?
God's Little Angels?
That's it........thanks!
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Can only really help you with, "A Right to be Merry."
I loved this book. I first saw it in the CHC catalog, but don't know if I ordered it there or actually through Amazon or Overstock. I really, really loved it. It was written by a Poor Clare and really gives you a wonderful look inside the monastery. Beautiful, touching, often humorous, stories.
It was why my youngest dd, AerynClare, has the "Clare" part in there, actually.
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Hi Chari,
I can't say enough good about Declaration Statesmanship. It is NOT dumbed down ... you can read my review of it here.
If you are doing Latina Christiana, you don't need the workbooks for the Latin Readers. The readers are a fun break from the memorizing of a traditional latin program. It's fun to realize you can read Latin!!! The readers offer little reading drill exercises that could be done orally. Any new vocab, they list at the beginning of the story.
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Chari,
We have the one of the Latin readers and it is a nice change from LC. Don't need the workbooks. I also have a Right to be Merry (wonderful) and God's Little angels, which is great too.
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God's Little Angels -- good. It's a story/workbook. You read a chapter, have 12 vocabulary words to define, 5 questions to answer, and your choice of 2-4 projects to do.
Art Masterpieces: A Liturgical Collection - You get a small 17 page stapled booklet and 12 8x10 pictures. The first 4-5 pages have information on how to appreciate art, some ideas to think of or questions to ask yourself. Each page after that is devoted to the picture for that month (Sept - June. For June, it lists what the month is dedicated to, the monthly theme, and three (3) scripture quotations, and then a black/white copy of the picture, with the title of the print, the artist and his birth and death years.
Let There Be Llama's - I just saw this at their booth on Friday. It's a story/picture book. I glanced at a few pages. It looked like kids from different countries answering questions. I didn't buy it.
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I looked through "It's a Mystery -- The Holy Trinity." For elementary age down, I thought that it was a very nice resource (but our group ended up not meeting). I don't think that it would be meaty enough for older (unless you're just doing it for "fun" and not expecting to learn much new). Now, it's been a while since I've seen it, so it could have more meaty bits than I'm remembering.
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I have Let There be Llamas. It's well-produced picture book that takes you around the world meeting different children in different countries and animals native to those countries. It's heavy on alliteration and pretty cute. It's a little forced but the pictures are bright and beautiful and it could be a great springboard for primary geography studies.Pauline is the publisher and it's described here. I think they've got the age range a little high. My baby sat through it and it completely appealed to the 3 and 5 year olds in my house. The nine year old thought it "twaddly"--his word, not mine;-)
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Elizabeth wrote:
| I think they've got the age range a little high. My baby sat through it and it completely appealed to the 3 and 5 year olds in my house. The nine year old thought it "twaddly"--his word, not mine;-) |
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Those were my thoughts, too. I know that neither my ds6 or my dd9 would have liked it, which is why I didn't buy it. The pictures were impressive!
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Elizabeth wrote:
| I have Let There be Llamas. It's well-produced picture book that takes you around the world meeting different children in different countries and animals native to those countries. It's heavy on alliteration and pretty cute. It's a little forced but the pictures are bright and beautiful and it could be a great springboard for primary geography studies.Pauline is the publisher and it's described here. I think they've got the age range a little high. My baby sat through it and it completely appealed to the 3 and 5 year olds in my house. The nine year old thought it "twaddly"--his word, not mine;-) |
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Interesting. I do find that personally with Pauline books. Their newer items are a bit twaddly in language. It makes me sad. 
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Just buy A Right to be Merry elsewhere, as Ignatius prints it. I'd recommend ALL of Mother Mary Francis' books for reading, and Ignatius has a few of her titles (which I see I'm behind on a few titles). "Strange Gods Before Me" and "Walled in Light" (St. Collette) are two great ones that aren't in print. "Forth and Abroad" is the sequel to Right to Be Merry.
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I have Praise him with you very Life. I think you would like it. You can look at it if you come over  .
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JennGM wrote:
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Can you expound on this Jenn? Why would I not buy it from CHC? Is there a big difference?
I remember Kelly raving about this book and recently noticed it in the CHC catalog. I had intended to buy it from CHC for my rising 9th grader to read next year. But now I want to be sure I buy the best version, if there is a difference. Thanks!
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Can you expound on this Jenn? Why would I not buy it from CHC? Is there a big difference?
I remember Kelly raving about this book and recently noticed it in the CHC catalog. I had intended to buy it from CHC for my rising 9th grader to read next year. But now I want to be sure I buy the best version, if there is a difference. Thanks!
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There I go again only typing partially what I'm thinking. I just meant it's not a CHC exlusive, it's printed by Ignatius, so you can competively price it for one, and also not be weighed down by CHC's return policy. CHC might have the best deal, and if you're buying from them already, even better.
I don't think there are different editions. The book is priceless. And if your daughter likes that book, I have more of that genre to recommend. 
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Jenn, I'd love to hear your additional recommendations within that genre!
My eleven-year-old daughter is just finishing "A Right to Be Merry," and she loves it! But I don't have any ideas for similar books from here...
If this is hijacking, I'd be happy to start a new thread. Or you can pm me. (But I'm guessing others are also intrigued by your recommendations offer... )
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ElizLeone wrote:
Jenn, I'd love to hear your additional recommendations within that genre!
My eleven-year-old daughter is just finishing "A Right to Be Merry," and she loves it! But I don't have any ideas for similar books from here...
If this is hijacking, I'd be happy to start a new thread. Or you can pm me. (But I'm guessing others are also intrigued by your recommendations offer... ) |
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No problem! I started a new thread and answered your question in Convent Life Reading.
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Chari:
We have most of what you listed.
Praise Him With Your Very Life has some neat plays in it that can be produced by the small numbers we get of homeschoolers. My oldest, who is the most into drama didn't like it as much but it was a family doable thing if your family does little mini-plays as part of learning. We, personally, didn't use it much. It is probably most relevent to the elementary crowd and not as interesting to the highschoolers unless they were helping their younger siblings produce it.
A Right to Be Merry - totally delightful insight into convent life and the uproariously funny misconceptions about it.
Let There Be Llamas - my 5 year old loves it and the pictures are stunning and ditto Elizabeth on a great springboard to further geography study. However, it isn't going to hold the interest of older children. Your youngest is 9, probably not going to wow him. My 8 yo looked at it once, hasn't touched it since.
Art Masterpieces had some really beautiful pieces of artwork in it, and when I ordered it many years ago, it really was a nice start for this art deprived person who was getting all my samples of religious artwork from the covers of Father Hardon's magazine. They are: child praying, Our Lady teaching her child (cannot remember the official name now), Sacred Heart, Creation, etc. They are all quality art. There weren't tons of them - just a handful so it really depends on whether you want a handful of religious art at the 8 1/2 by 11 size.
God's Little Angels: We loved the story and I do tend to use it with my children. Those who have great facility with recognizing nuances in a story - ie picking out hints, reading between the lines, etc., we simply just read and enjoy and skip the questions and answers. For those who struggle with this, we did the questions (orally or in writing depending on the child) it proved to be a very gentle and easy way for them to enjoy and begin to get a sense of doing this. My version is very old so it has the very visually unappealing paper blue cover. I do think they have upgraded most of these to more visually appealing covers.
Don't have enough experience with the rest.
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I LOVE A Right to Be Merry. I found it at the library.
I live 1.5 miles from the convent where she lived in Roswell. Unfortunately she passed away just a couple months before I moved here. She is buried on the grounds of the convent.
I don't know about any of the other books, sorry.
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