Plumfield Moms
We are sisters in Christ who became friends over a shared love of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, found especially in good and great books. Our primary vocation is that of marriage and motherhood, but we feel a secondary call, as educators and homeschool moms, to walk with families who are seeking to help form souls who are capable of responding to the vocation God has called them to. Our objective is to form our children and grandchildren to the best of our ability, and in so doing share what has been meaningful to us with others that it may encourage them and lighten their burden. As homeschoolers, classical educators and Christians, we have a passion for the ancient Greek paideia and the loving education of Louisa May Alcott‘s Plumfield (from her novel Little Men).
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Episodes
Monday May 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
"The girls in the story only spend two nights alone. The author’s intention isn’t to cause children to worry about whether the girls will survive, but to make them think about what it would be like to live through such an experience. It is an interesting and enjoyable story for early-grade readers."
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Books and Links:
Plumfield Reads Landmark Page
Alice Goudey
Glenn Blough
Jeanne Bendick
Herbert Zim
Robert McClung
Ostriches
Leaper
Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom
Apple Dumpling Gang
Walt Disney True Life Nature Books
The Burgess Bird Book
The Life of the Spider, Fabre
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Who Lives In This Meadow
After The Sun Goes Down
Here Come The Bears
Let’s Learn About Mushrooms
Bird Watchers and Bird Feeders
Third Book of Junior Authors
Learn More About Our Guests:
Jill Morgan of Purple House Press
Tanya Arnold of Biblioguides
Where You Can Find Us:
Plumfield and Paideia Facebook Page
Plumfield Reads Book Club Discussion Space at the FREE Biblioguides Online Community
Plumfield Moms Instagram
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
"Meigs is honest about Louisa’s prickles, as Jo March is about hers. But Meigs continually points to how the family was able, through humor and their love for each other, to overcome hardship. This is an excellent starting point for a competent middle-grade reader who is interested in the life of one of our beloved authors."
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
In this month's Library Ladies episode, we chat with Library Ladies Sherry Early and Kathleen Seeger and Tanya Arnold from Biblioguides about this important Landmark book, The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler.
Books and Links:
Plumfield Reads Landmark Page
Plumfield Library Ladies Page
Biblioguides Landmark Books Series Page & Free Printable List
Sherry's review of The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
Genghis Khan Landmark Book By Harold Lamb
The Rise and Fall of the Third Rank By William Shirer
The Berlin Diary By William Shirer
The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics By Teddy Rosevelt
The Walking Drum By Louis L’Amour
The Little Riders Margaretha Shemin
Twenty and Ten Claire Huchet Bishop
Corrie Ten Boom
Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe Movie
The Faithful Spy John Hendrix
The Last Lion Series
Winston Churchill Landmark By Quentin Reynolds
The Borrowed House By Hilda Van Stockum
In the Garden of Beasts By Erik Larson
Night by Ellie Wiesel
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Audiobook
The Scarlet and the Black
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
The Scarlet and the Black Movie
Learn More About Our Guests:
Library Ladies Sherry Early & Kathleen Seeger
Tanya Arnold of Biblioguides
Where You Can Find Us:
Plumfield and Paideia Facebook PagePlumfield Moms InstagramPlumfield Moms Podcast Page Plumfield Reads Book Club Discussion Space at the FREE Biblioguides Online Community
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
In this second episode in the Forgotten Books series, Library Ladies Mary Schubert Kathleen Seeger, as well as Tanya Arnold of Biblioguides, join us to talk about a favorite book of theirs by a beloved author that is often overlooked by others.
Books and Links:
Plumfield Library Ladies Page
Tanya's Choice: Philomena by Kate Seredy (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Mary's Choice: The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Kathleen's Choice: Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Mary's Choice also mentions the adaptation of The Magic Fishbone (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Betsy Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Audiobook options for The Magic Fishbone - "the funny one" and "the Edith Nesbit one"
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
The Pink Motel by Carol Ryrie Brink (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
The Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Magical Melons/Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Sequel to Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
The Secret Soldier by Ann McGovern (Find at Biblioguides and Amazon)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Jan Bloom
Learn More About Our Guests:
Library Ladies: Kathleen Seeger and Mary Schubert
Tanya Arnold of Biblioguides
Where You Can Find Us:
Plumfield and Paideia Facebook PagePlumfield Reads Book Club Discussion Space at the FREE Biblioguides Online CommunityPlumfield Moms Podcast
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Upcoming Plumfield Reads Books We Are Reading:
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Tanya’s Reads & Books Mentioned:
Beorn the Proud by Madeleine Polland
Books for Bedrest by Plumfield Moms
Comfort Books by Biblioguides
Pride and Prejudice
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
84 Charing Cross Road
Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Interview with Margi McAllister
Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
Sarah Kim’s Reads & Books Mentioned:
Jessie Benton Fremont: California Pioneer by Marguerite Higgins Beautiful Feet Books
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
Astrix
Calvin and Hobbs
Rocket Genius by Charles Spain Verral
Carry a Big Stick by George Grant
Diane’s Reads & Books Mentioned:
Who Walks the Attic by Luara Bannon
Red Mittens by Laura Bannon
The Tune is in the Tree Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy Tacy High School Books by Maud Hart Lovelace
Sea Wolf Press
Silas Marner by George Elliot
The Watchmaker's Daughter
Great Influenza by John Berry
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine by John Healings
Sara Masarik’s Reads & Books Mentioned:
The Red Keep by Allen Frenc
Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery
The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dosteveky
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigurd Undset
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Hardy Boys
Springer Publishing
Monday Apr 03, 2023