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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2021 Reading Challenges are Here!
2021 Reading Challenge • 2021 Kids Reading Challenge
2021 Bonus Reading Challenge (1-page version) • 2021 Bonus Reading Challenge (2-page version)
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Featured Author: David Macaulay
As a researcher of science and history, his commitment to accuracy in text and picture is unlike any other in the world of design and illustration. Being technically precise, however, does not constrain Macaulay's sense of whimsy and wonder. From the original The Way Things Work on through to his artful depictions of human anatomy in its form and function as a marvel of design, Macaulay's curiosity cannot help but inspire the same in his readers. We hope Macaulay continues to write and draw for many more years, so that we can all continue to delight in his imaginative stories and captivating illustrations, and as he said, 'pick up information along the way'. Full descriptions of Macaulay's books are publicly available for the month of January.
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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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