Read This

External & Internal Sensory, Emotional Formation:

• Brown, Tom Jr. Tracker and other books for how to notice.
• Comstock, Anna Botsford. Handbook of Nature Study.
• Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
• Elkind, David. The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children. A book which articulates what Graham captures in Dreamdays and The Golden Age.
• George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.
• Golden Book Field-guides & Audubon Nature Identification Books—for insects, mushrooms, weeds, birds, plants, etc.
• Graham, Kenneth. The Golden Age, Dreamdays. Note the section on what is most fun to play with—the elements of air, fire, earth, and water.
• Hollander, John, ed. Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize.
• Lynch, William. Christ and Apollo. For how to approach art and literature.
• O’Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners. For how to approach literature.
• Ransome, Arthur. Swallows and Amazon books.
• Vendler, Helen. Poems, Poets, Poetry, for getting an overview of poetry and how to explore it. The kind of questions she poses can be easily translated to every area of literature.