Tim says: Not must reads, just good reads and some stuff which helps make the world make sense….

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh) – A A Milne

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler

Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) – Charlotte Bronte

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Foundation (The Foundation Series) (The Foundation Series) – Isaac Asimov

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

My Early Life – Winston Churchill

(short stories)

The Sentinel – Arthur C Clarke

Light of Other Days – Bob Shaw

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Unordnung und frühes Leid – Thomas Mann

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Poems

The Listeners– Walter De La Mare

Ode To Autumn + Ode To A Nightingale – John Keats


Home Ed Inspiration, Ideas, and Activities

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Resources to Support Your Home Ed Journey

I’ve put together a collection of resources that I’ve genuinely found useful over the years—things that have actually made a difference in our home education. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to freshen things up, there’s something here to help. These are the tools, guides, and materials I’d recommend to a friend, because they work.