Reshelving Alexandria is an online literary catalog of good, true, and beautiful books that supports families in building and utilizing a home library. Our membership subscription service includes extensive content to help identify and source the best books for your home library.
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Featured Author: Alice E. Goudey
Alice Goudey reflected later in her life, as an author with nearly two dozen books to her credit, "I hope my books have, even in a small degree, supplied some of the supplementary reading which I felt was so badly needed when I was teaching in that little one-room country school house." With their scientific fidelity, promotion of conservation, and accessible text, Alice's nature and animal stories continue to fill that void for new generations of curious students. Full descriptions of Alice Goudey's books are publicly available for the month of August.
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Reshelving Alexandria has been a tremendous blessing to our family, saving us both time and money. Before Reshelving Alexandria, finding living literature for our children was a painstaking and time-consuming process; scouring book lists, hunting through blog posts and podcast notes, researching titles and subjects and authors and illustrators, speculating as to reading level and suitability for our family.
Because Reshelving Alexandria has already done this for me, bringing together the best of the best of living literature in a searchable and easily navigable database, it allows me to both focus and stretch our book budget by narrowing down my search to precisely those books that are the best fit for our family and then helping me to easily take advantage of free online books and used book searches to grow our family library. And all the time I am saving? What a joy to re-invest that in reading these books with my children!"
Johanna Bittle
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