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by water2wine » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:34 pm
Ok I gotcha now. So I will just first say that I have found her picks are always the best, she just has that knack and everything we have done of hers has been great. But also I know sometimes people want to fit things that they might have on their shelf or may have done some of them and need different picks so I will try to think of ones that are not hers that we have done and are great. I'll add to this as I think of more but some that come to mind are...
If Animals Could Talk by Gitt. This is one that would be Fantasy but it is in the terms of an autobiography of each animal represented. So you might be able to stretch it into biography just like Ben and Me is really but it would be of the animals. It could work for either I think. It has a wonderful creation world view and all the animals talk to the point of why God created them the way he did. It is great for older kids and maybe kids from LHFHG on would be good. But it actually gets really in depth and they learn a lot of science along the way. This is a great book for teaching to the theory of evolution from the truth of creation as long as you are OK with talking animals but these do not humanize themselves as much as their voice it to talk to the glory of God who created them.
Another that comes to mind is Adam and His Kin by Beechick. This one has a few spots in the end that are graphic so you want to be aware of that. I would put it in Historical Fiction. We really enjoyed reading this as well.
I am thinking about the others we have done and trying to categorize them because they are mostly character type things I am not sure where things like The Millers would go for sure but they are good and other things are Bible related so let me think on it and I will add later. It is hard to categorize things sometimes isn't it.
Ok adding now the Holling C. Holling books are great and the CLP Nature Readers are also good for Non-Fiction and we have also enjoyed the Edgar and Ingri D’aulaire books not sure if those would all be Folk Tales or not but we loved those.
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water2wine on Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13
~Six lovies from God~4 by blessing of adoption
-MTMM (HS), Rev to Rev, CTC, DITHR
We LOVED LHFHG/Beyond/Bigger/Preparing/CTC/RTR/Rev to Rev (HS)
(and if all else fails Carrie and Julie will help us, LOL 
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help me girlie.