In my review of The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane, I linked two books the author lists as further resources. One of them I hadn’t read was Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown. I have read it now. This is the story of Columcille (koll-m-kill), an Irish monk who lived in the…
Search Results for: Across a Dark and Wild Sea
The Sailor Who Captured the Sea
by Deborah Nourse Lattimore In a couple of other reviews of books I’ve used for introducing children to the topic of ancient manuscripts, I listed The Sailor Who Captured the Sea as a beautiful illustration resource. It is truly lovely. In her prologue, Deborah Nourse Lattimore briefly describes the Book of Kells. As is fitting…
Show Notes: Ancient Manuscripts
Listen Now: Books and Links: Join the conversation: Plumfield and Paideia Facebook PagePlumfield Moms Podcast Page
Books About Books
For Younger Readers Library LionMiss Moore Thought Otherwise About Illuminated Manuscripts Magic in the MarginsThe Ink Garden of Brother TheophaneMarguerite Makes a BookAcross a Dark and Wild SeaBrother Hugo and the BearThe Sailor Who Captured the Sea For Grown Up Readers 84 Charing Cross RoadA Jane Austen EducationGuernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyThe Pleasures…
Medieval Manuscripts
This list was compiled by Diane while she was teaching the origins of book-making to her students and grandchildren. In July of 2022, we tell that story at Plumfield Moms in the Ancient Manuscripts: How Books Were Once Made episode. You can listen in on your favorite podcast app or at our podcast webpage, here.
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
When I was teaching at a classical Christian school, in a multi-level classroom, we studied the history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance every three years. I always looked forward to the projects related to the preservation of ancient manuscripts and the art of illumination. Some of the now-adult students from my very first class…
Torben Kuhlmann Mouse Adventures
The Mouse Adventures series includes four stories of daring and creative mice who are as fascinated by science and technology as we are. In each book, the main mouse considers an engineering and invention question at more or less the same time as the famous human counterpart. In each book, it is the mouse who solves the problem first, and who then leaves clues behind for the famous scientist. Whether it is the mouse who leaves scraps of paper behind for the “floppy hats” at NASA to find as he blasts off to the moon, or the mouse who leaves a riddle each night for Einstein to solve, helping him work out his theories on relativity, the mouse is always just one step ahead of the human in the most charming ways.
Mysterious Benedict Society Series
In 2016, I reviewed the first Mysterious Benedict Society book by Trenton Lee Stewart. In 2021, DisneyPlus released the “Mysterious Benedict” t.v. series, which led to a renewal of interest in the entire Mysterious Benedict Society series. As I have now read all of the series and am working my way through the prequel and…