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01/02/2025

Introducing a special new picture book from author and illustrator Evangeline Mattice. 🌟 Leo and the Star Children 🌟 is a tender story written especially for families touched by adoption.

Leo is a little boy with a big imagination. In his dreams, he creates a world where sadness doesn’t exist. How he wishes he could live in that place! But despite his dreams, Leo’s heart is sad, and there’s no escaping it. Leo and the Star Children is a story about adoption and all the emotions that come with it. Adoption brings immeasurable love, but every adoption is born from loss. This is a story that tells how grief and love entwine, and how the heart can learn to hold both.

Order from Amazon today!
🇺🇸 http://Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3W1cdXW
🇨🇦 Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/194443545X
Find out more and see some sample pages on our website: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/leo-and-the-star-children/

12/22/2024

It's the 4th Sunday of Advent!!

"...The Christ-child lay on Mary's heart,
His hair was like a fire.
(O weary, weary is the world,
But here the world's desire.)

The Christ-child stood on Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him,
And all the stars looked down."
-G.K. Chesterton, "A Christmas Carol" (Hallelujah Advent Poetry: Week 4)

Thank you sharing your Advent with me!! I hope you've been encouraged!

Hallelujah is available in paperback, hardcover (**will take longer to ship) and for Kindle. A couple links here or see links in my profile:
🎄 Paperback from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sTwovD
🎄 Hardcover from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sMZ8pZ (**currently taking longer to ship)
🎄 Kindle: https://amzn.to/3SNSs5D

12/15/2024

It's the 3rd Sunday of Advent!

“...The light was shining in the cave
set at the foot of some low hill,
and there we turned with hope to find
warm rest against the nighttime chill.

As soon as we had stepped inside,
we knew the voices that we heard
had led us. what we saw that night
needs better than the stumbling word ...”
-Thomas Banks, "The Shepherd's Tale" (Hallelujah Advent Poetry: Week 3)

Where has this Advent season been leading you this year?

Hallelujah is available in paperback, hardcover (**will take longer to ship) and for Kindle. A couple links here or see links in my profile:
🎄 Paperback from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sTwovD
🎄 Hardcover from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sMZ8pZ (**currently taking longer to ship)
🎄 Kindle: https://amzn.to/3SNSs5D

12/11/2024

"She wanted to inspire teacher and child alike with great and varied ideas. This is why students today who learn according to Charlotte Mason’s methods may have a great number of subjects to cover over the course of their school life. Miss Mason wanted to open a wide room—she called it offering a generous feast—so that persons would come to know God and many people, places, and things. After learning something for the first time, encountering it again would be like recognizing a familiar face. The generous feast would be food for the mind and the soul far into the future."
Enjoy this image and excerpt from pages 28-29 of Charlotte Mason: The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder by Lanaya Gore and illustrated by Twila Farmer

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4eIGGk5
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/charlotte-mason-teacher-revealed-worlds-wonder/9781944435264/pd/435265

Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/charlotte-mason-the-teacher-who-revealed-worlds-of-wonder/
Twila Farmer Christianbook Lanaya Gore

12/10/2024

The great Harvard literary professor George Lyman Kittredge's definitive grammar text The Mother Tongue (originally published over 100 years ago) is available from Blue Sky Daisies in an updated format that makes it easy to read and easy to adapt to your educational needs. It also gives you an excellent reference book to answer all your grammar and syntax questions. Get it in paperback or as a PDF printable download. We also offer the exercises as student workbooks, with separate answer keys available.

Kittredge and his co-writer Sarah Arnold provide grammar practice exercises that utilize actual literary sentences from Shakespeare, Washington Irving, William Makepeace Thackeray, and many others (although the writers don't indicate the sources). The Blue Sky Daisies Answer Keys give you the source information for each exercise sentence or passage, helping you and your students connect grammar concepts to real literary works.

The Mother Tongue: Adapted for Modern Students text, student workbooks, and answer keys are available from,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/3P29ie1
Or, get the PDF printable downloads of the text and workbooks from our website:
https://blueskydaisies.net/product/the-mother-tongue-adapted-for-modern-students/
Learn more and see inside: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-mother-tongue-books/

12/08/2024

It's the 2nd Sunday of Advent!

“When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot ...”
-Shakespeare, "Winter" (Hallelujah Advent Poetry: Week 2)

Week 2's Advent Poetry selection was in keeping with our aim to have fun this week! What are you doing this Advent season to have some fun?

Hallelujah is available in paperback, hardcover (**will take longer to ship) and for Kindle. A coupe links here or see links in my profile:
🎄 Paperback from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sTwovD
🎄 Hardcover from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sMZ8pZ (**currently taking longer to ship)
🎄 Kindle: https://amzn.to/3SNSs5D

12/07/2024

The Literary Life Commonplace Book Series features the collection of official Literary Life Podcast commonplace books with a variety of designs. Here you can see 🍃 The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book: Rainforest Sloth.🍃 In the books, podcast hosts and authors Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks guide readers in creating a commonplace habit of their own.

Whether or not you plan to participate in the Literary Life Reading Challenge, these commonplace books will inspire you in your reading life. Available in multiple cover designs, for kids and adults.

The Literary Life Commonplace Books from Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4fUEBD8
Christianbook:
Rainforest Sloth:
https://www.christianbook.com/literary-kids-commonplace-book-rainforest-sloth/9781944435356/pd/435353
The Literary Life Commonplace Book series at Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/apps/easyfind?action=Search&Ntk=multiple.series&Nso=1&Ns=product.published_date&Ntt=Literary%20Life%20Commonplace%20Book

Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/commonplace-books/

12/06/2024

The CopyWorkBook: Comedies of William Shakespeare includes quotes and selections from each of Shakespeare’s comedy plays. Use it as a copybook, or as a collection of wonderful epigrams and passages worth memorizing. Lines are provided for students to copy the quotation using the penmanship style of their choice. Copying the words of Shakespeare trains the ear for the melody of beautiful English, the mind for the contemplation of reasoned rhetoric, and the heart for the language of love–to say nothing of the soul for wit.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/49vK5BV
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/the-copyworkbook-comedies-of-william-shakespeare/christina-mugglin/9781944435066/pd/4435066
PDF Download: https://blueskydaisies.net/product/the-copyworkbook-comedies-of-william-shakespeare/
Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/copywork-books/

12/05/2024

The Charlotte Mason Book of Quotes: Copywork to Inspire is full of encouragement and challenge. Some of Charlotte Mason’s most iconic wisdom and observations, including her Twenty Principles, are here for you to copy. Space is also given for your own personal reflections, helping you not only consider the wisdom of Charlotte Mason, but record your responses and thoughts.

In addition to the quotes thoughtfully chosen by Lanaya Gore, author of Charlotte Mason: The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder, this copybook includes pages and pages of beautiful, full-color fine art works.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/41kbkgQ
The Charlotte Mason Book of Quotes: Copywork to Inspire is also available as a PDF printable download from BlueSkyDaisies.net:
https://blueskydaisies.net/product/the-charlotte-mason-book-of-quotes-copywork-to-inspire/

Find out more (and see what it's like inside): https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-charlotte-mason-book-of-quotes/

12/04/2024

St. Nicholas Day is December 6--that's this Friday! We've enjoyed marking this day with bags of chocolate coins for the kids (you can find them in the seasonal candy aisle at most grocery stores) and stories about St. Nicholas. Molded cookies are another favorite tradition. You still have time to purchase the chocolate coins, get your cookie ingredients, and prepare the kids to put their shoes out for Friday!

In Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel's Messiah, Cindy includes her favorite recipe for Scotch Shortbread cookies, a good recipe for a St. Nicholas cookie mold.

Get a Kindle copy here: https://amzn.to/4hY8rYO
Find listening links here: https://blueskydaisies.net/resources/

📖 Hallelujah is available from major bookstores (or ask your favorite shop to order it!):
🎅 Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4g0OtuT
🎅 Christianbook.com:
https://www.christianbook.com/hallelujah-cultivating-advent-traditions-handels-messiah/9781944435370/pd/435371
🎅 Rainbow Resource:
https://www.rainbowresource.com/081724.html

Visit our website for more info: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/introducing-hallelujah/
Rollins-Writer Christianbook

12/02/2024

Advent is officially underway!! Did you find a good way to listen to Handel’s Messiah with "Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel's Messiah”?!
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The publisher of Hallelujah, , has links to Spotify and YouTube playlists for listening on https://BlueSkyDaisies.net/resources/
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Would you let me know what you’re looking forward to this year listening to the Messiah with me?

12/02/2024

Kids of all ages love putting on plays! Another stocking-stuffer gift idea is this script by Jenny Bradley. There are so many possibilities for you with this first installment in our new Play On! Kids on Stage series of plays! ✨ 🧚‍♀️ A Midsummer Night’s Dream✨ 🧚‍♀️ is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. With mixed-up lovers, fairies, and magic spells, and a play-within-a-play, its plot is woven between three groups of people: the Athenian court and its courtiers, the Athenian tradesmen working on a drama to perform before the court, and the fairies who rule over the woods outside of Athens.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/3Z9sxXo
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/kids-stage-shakespeares-midsummer-nights-dream/9781944435431/pd/435435
Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/shakespeares-midsummer-nights-dream-kids-on-stage/

Pair it with paper puppets from artist Sadie Noone. These printable finger puppets are designed to accompany *Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Kids on Stage* by Jenny Bradley. The complete set of figures is provided in two sizes so you can choose what works best for you. Included are 22 figures of A Midsummer NIght’s Dream characters in black and white line drawings, in two sizes (44 figures in total).

Purchase your printable PDF puppets to color and cut here: https://blueskydaisies.net/product/shakespeares-a-midsummer-nights-dream-puppets/

Jenny Bradley - Writer Christianbook

12/01/2024

Advent begins today! Cindy Rollins's book Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel's Messiah is your guide to experiencing Advent with Handel's Messiah, a glorious oratorio that will prepare your hearts for Christmas--the great celebration of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

Get a Kindle copy here: https://amzn.to/4hY8rYO
Find listening links here: https://blueskydaisies.net/resources/

📖 Hallelujah is available from major bookstores (or ask your favorite shop to order it!):
🔵 Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4g0OtuT
🔵 Christianbook.com:
https://www.christianbook.com/hallelujah-cultivating-advent-traditions-handels-messiah/9781944435370/pd/435371
🔵 Rainbow Resource:
https://www.rainbowresource.com/081724.html

Visit our website for more info: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/introducing-hallelujah/
Rollins-Writer Christianbook

11/30/2024

Beyond Mere Motherhood is a great gift idea for your sisters, sisters-in-law, best friends--really any mothers in your life that you would like to bless with encouragement and inspiration from Cindy Rollins.

This is a book about self-education. It is a book about how a mother can capture her moments and days in such a way that they add up to a life worth living. Her life. What a gift.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/3ATtlYu
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/beyond-mere-motherhood-moms-people-too/9781944435417/pd/435413
Rainbow Resource:
https://www.rainbowresource.com/026229.html
Nature + Nurture:
https://tinyurl.com/hv3yeypf

Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/beyond-mere-motherhood/
Cindy Rollins-Writer@christianbook Rainbow Resource Center, Inc.

11/29/2024

Books make the best, most enduring Christmas gifts! Charlotte Mason: The Teacher Who Revealed Worlds of Wonder by Lanaya Gore and illustrated by Twila Farmer will be treasured for years to come. Lanaya Gore engaging narrative and Twila Farmer's beautiful illustrations introduce readers young and old to Charlotte Mason's inspiring life and work.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4eIGGk5
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/charlotte-mason-teacher-revealed-worlds-wonder/9781944435264/pd/435265

Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/charlotte-mason-the-teacher-who-revealed-worlds-of-wonder/
Twila Farmer Illustrator Christianbook .gore

11/27/2024

We've got more stocking-stuffer ideas for you!
Umbrellas tells the story of a young girl as she watches her mother, who makes homemade umbrellas in her homeland of Northern Thailand. These beautifully handcrafted umbrellas are a protection from the sun and rain, but they are more than mere umbrellas, they are works of art.

This delightful book, written and illustrated by Twila Farmer, will take you along as a girl and her mother create colorful, hand-painted umbrellas in a process filled with skill, creativity, and joy.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/3B1icF5
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/umbrellas/9781944435325/pd/435326

Find out more:
https://blueskydaisies.net/books/umbrellas/
Twila Farmer Illustrator Christianbook

11/26/2024

Christmas has always been a great time for our kids to build their home libraries. It's so fun to choose books to give them as gifts!

The Life of Chesterton: The Man Who Carried a Swordstick and a Pen by Holly Geiger Lee and illustrated by Nellie Buchanan makes a wonderful stocking stuffer or gift for your young adventurer who, like Chesterton, wants to heroically fight for what's right and stand for Truth.

Blue Sky Daisies books are available from most major booksellers including,
Amazon:
https://amzn.to/3ZomWOk
Christianbook:
https://www.christianbook.com/life-chesterton-carried-swordstick-and-pen/9781944435448/pd/435448

Find out more: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-life-of-chesterton/
My Little Brick Schoolhouse Christianbook

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Author Hannah Paris shares how she and her young family gather together each weekday during Lent to listen to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. I love the candle idea! :::::: The Sacred Sacrifice: Cultivating Lenten Traditions with Bach's Great Passion :::::: will provide you with a daily, short listening schedule designed to fit into the weeks of Lent between Ash Wednesday and Easter. The libretto in German and English, along with background info to help you appreciate the day's listening, is also provided. ⭐️ The Sacred Sacrifice is available in paperback and Kindle editions: https://amzn.to/49GfzUC 🎶 St. Matthew Passion listening options: ➡️ YouTube playlist found on our Blue Sky Daisies channel: (https://www.youtube.com/@BlueSkyDaisies) ➡️ Spotify search "The Sacred Sacrifice" playlist or use this link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Sf0wVjHxr4U87cyV35r3D?si=0fe1704555de4edd ➡️ Audio CD Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244, John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir: https://amzn.to/3uvvvuj #lent #Easter #LentDevotions #hallelujahadvent #charlottemason #FamilyDevotions #FamilyWorship #MorningTime #homeschooling #charlottemasonirl #AshWednesday #GoodFriday #smallbusiness #bach #classicalmusic #music #art #stmatthewpassion #passionplay #oratorio #aff

Shrove Tuesday (also called Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras) followed by Ash Wednesday mark the beginning of Lent--the period of 40 days or about six and a half weeks until Easter Sunday. The Sacred Sacrifice will guide you in experiencing Bach's St. Matthew Passion as you prepare your hearts for Easter. #lent #easter #lentdevotions #hallelujahadvent #charlottemason #familydevotions #familyworship #morningtime #homeschooling #charlottemasonirl #smallbusiness #ashwednesday #goodfriday #fattuesday #aff

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