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    Book Review of ‘The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason’ by Laurie Bestvater

    When I say that we use a Classical Charlotte Mason style in our home, people think worksheets and workbooks.  Actually a true Charlotte Mason style involves lots of reading of living books and creating notebooks. But the first blank page of a blank notebook can sometimes be daunting. Discussions of implementing a Charlotte Mason style talk about many different notebooks – a Book of Centuries (a timeline book), a Nature Journal, a Common Place, a Reading Journal, a Book of Firsts, Word Books and others.  Many questions spring to mind: How do I create each?  How do they differ?  What do they look like for different ages?  Might I combine…