| I had tried the other and could not get through it | com; null edition August 2, 2007• She puts the page s in there to the original so you know where you are in the book and for reference |
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| Leslie has done an incredible job of painstakingly rewording these meaty volumes so that the average mom with a baby in her lap and two at her side can actually sit down and read and grasp the concepts Miss Mason was trying to present in elegant form | I am so thankful that Leslie devoted so much time and effort into doing this for us! This is a good place for parents of very young children to begin, since Charlotte Mason details ways to prepare children up to age 9 for a CM education |
Volume 1 of Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschool Series paraphrased sentence by sentence into plain English by Leslie Laurio.
24| This book is a beautiful paraphrase of the original, and though it says "modern English" she was somehow able to keep the beauty and richness of the original language | Even with my Classical Christian background, I found here original work difficult to get through especially since I was trying to read it with 4 little kids under foot! I know we should be reading her actual volumes |
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| But they can be wordy and difficult, so it helps to have them "translated" into modern English |
Her easy to understand version will be like a ray of sunshine in a dark room.
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