Well-Trained Mind Press

12/12/2025

Now through the end of December, save up to 40% on fan-favorite gifts for the holidays! Coloring the Story of the World, all of the Famous Figures (including Dinos!), audiobooks in CD or mp3 format, even our brand new Yoto card—they’re all on sale!

Get an mp3 of “The Night Before Christmas” for just 99 cents! Or a CD of A Christmas Carol for under $10!

You can even get a free mp3 of the Chanukah story or the Nativity story, with no purchase necessary!

If you’re looking for fun and educational gifts this season, check out welltrainedmind.com now!
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12/10/2025

WTMP x Yoto

Kids today have endless audio options—but most of them require a phone, a screen, WiFi, or trust in an algorithm that doesn’t always have kids’ best interests at heart.

Yoto is different. It’s intentionally offline. Kids control it with physical cards, and parents choose exactly what goes on it. No ads, no autoplay into strange corners of the internet, no algorithmic surprises. Just safe storytelling.

Yoto and Well-Trained Mind Press are the perfect partners: we make some of the very best wholesome children's audio content available today, and Yoto makes the best (and safest) children's audio device. That’s why we’re so excited to share that one of our best-loved Well-Trained Mind audiobooks is now available as a Yoto card!

This card is our first step into the Yoto world — a small pilot available only on our site for now. If families show there’s strong demand, we’ll be able to offer more of our audiobooks on Yoto moving forward.
Our hope? That this is the first of many cards, including the new edition of Story of the World in February!

Screen-free, story-rich, truly kid-friendly listening.
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12/09/2025

All this month, download FREE audio of Jim Weiss retelling "The Chanukah Story" and "the Nativity Story." Plus enjoy discounts on "A Christmas Carol," "the Night Before Christmas," and all kinds of gifts for the history- or literature-lovers in your house: coloring books, paper dolls, dinosaur figures, audiobooks, and more.

12/05/2025

HISTORY-MAKERS: every week until the release of the 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition of "The Story of the World," we will be spotlighting two of the brand-new biographies of "History-Makers," fascinating men and women whose stories have been added to this new edition. Today we have Zhang Qian and Queen Shammuramat.

In 138 BC, Zhang Qian led a Han Empire expedition to pioneer international trade along what became the Silk Road through central Asia. Captured by local tribes, he lived with them for thirteen years before escaping and returning to tell the Chinese Emperor about the lands, peoples, and trading opportunities that lay to the west.

Queen Shammuramat, of Ancient Assyria, was one of the first women to rule in her own right, separate from a husband. She led a military expedition, received credit for victories, and (according to legend but unfortunately not truth) invented pants.

Our new artwork depicts both of these people in accurate period costume. Shammuramat is flanked by Assyrian sphinxes, while Zhang Qian navigates the Kunlun mountains.

You'll meet both of them, and many other fascinating people, in the pages of the 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition of "The Story of the World, Volume 1" by Susan Wise Bauer

(Artwork by Jeff West)

12/02/2025

12/01/2025

Our "Cyber Monday (and Tuesday) Sale" continues through Tuesday night! Save 35% on physical and a whopping 40% on PDF formats of the best homeschooling resources in the universe!*

*We were in second place until the G'chak Homeschool Publishing Company of Planet Kepler-62F (motto: "Raise the Most Educated 5,000 Offspring in Your Entire Cave-City!") was destroyed by a mysterious warp-nova-bomb that we definitely had nothing to do with.

12/01/2025

We think our curricula are amazing, but you don't have to take our word for it--these reviews speak for themselves!

If you're still thinking about giving Well-Trained Mind Press a try, check out what these real homeschool parents have to say about our products.

Today is Cyber Monday, so don't miss your last chance of the year to save sitewide on these titles and more, at up to 40% off! You can find your new favorite curriculum AND support a small, woman-owned business at the same time! That's what we call a win-win 😊

Now through December 2 only! What are you excited to try out?
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11/30/2025

Time is running out to save big in 2025! We have something for everyone, so go to welltrainedmind.com now and find your new favorite part of your homeschool day 😉

Our Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday Sale ends December 2, so don't miss your last chance to save before 2026!
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11/29/2025

Today is Small Business Saturday, and it's the start of our final sitewide sale of 2025! You can save up to 40% on all your homeschool essentials and supplemental materials, including all the audiobooks you could ever want (perfect for those holiday road trips!).

We all know the reasons why it's important to Shop Small, so show us some love this holiday weekend, and know that your support means the world to us 🥰

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11/26/2025

There are SO many amazing resources out there for teaching (or learning) about Thanksgiving. Here are just a few of our favorites for a range of ages.

See our Thanksgiving story highlight for individual links. As always, preview all materials to determine what’s appropriate for your children—some of these resources are perfect for your youngest learners, and others are better saved for middle school and up. Use your discretion!

What are you excited to check out??
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11/25/2025

Our office is closed this week so our employees can celebrate Thanksgiving with their families or friends or neighbors or the lady at Wawa who makes the Turkey Gobbler. We are thankful for too many things to list in a Facebook post, but somewhere near the top of the list has to be that we get to make wonderful books for amazing, inquisitive, quirky, creative, hardworking parents and teachers and kids. We could never have dreamed, twenty years ago when we were sharing a tiny office with a beagle and a cat, that we'd be where we are today, selling books around the world from a tiny office that now also includes a chihuahua.

We hope you have a wonderful week, and that your uncle's turkey-fryer doesn't burn the house down. See you on Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday for some great deals on homeschool materials!

11/24/2025

Hello everyone! We want to give you a heads-up that this coming Saturday through Monday, we're having our last store-wide sale of the year. For Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, save 40% on all our homeschool materials in PDF format, and save 35% on all physical books & workbooks. We are a very small business, operating out of an old farmhouse in a county so rural it doesn't have a stop-light, and your support helps us continue to publish amazing curricula like "Math With Confidence," "the Story of the World," "the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading," and more.

*Exceptions apply: a few products that were printed within the last 6 months will only be discounted 20 percent. Gotta pay those printing bills! :)