YMB #68 Choosing Books for Your Morning Time: A Conversation with Jessica Lawton

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of the podcast I am chatting with a good friend and author of the Morning Time plans at pambarnhill.com. Jessica Lawton is a bibliophile and owner of a library of over 3000 books. She is also great a choosing just the right books to use in Morning Time.

On today's podcast Jessica and I chat about how to choose the best books about a topic, which books she thinks are worth owning versus merely borrowing, and how to use different kinds of books for different purposes.

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0:00.0	This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your
0:12.7	homeschool day.
0:17.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 68 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill,
0:23.7	your host, and I am so happy that you are joining me here today. Well, if there is something
0:29.9	that is the backbone of every good morning time, it has got to be book. We love books in our
0:36.7	morning time, and we know that so many of you do as well.
0:41.1	Books help us to engage with each other as a family
0:44.2	and also discuss some of those big, meaty ideas that are so much fun to discuss in morning time.
0:51.5	Well, today's guest on the podcast is Jessica Lawton. Jessica is the author of many of the
0:59.5	morning time plans that we have in the Your Morning Basket Plus subscription. And she is just
1:06.7	wonderful at choosing really great and engaging books. I have used her as my go-to resource for good
1:15.2	books on a topic for about seven years now. So she really does get to the heart of picking good
1:22.9	books. I know that so many of you guys kind of feel a little less confident about choosing books.
1:29.5	Sometimes you're always wanting to make sure that you can get the best book or the right book for any given situation.
1:35.5	So I invited Jessica on the podcast today to talk a little bit about how she chooses books for the morning time plans and also for her own morning time. It was a fun conversation.
1:47.2	I learned some new things that I didn't know and some new tips that I would have never
1:51.5	thought of using myself. So I think you're going to enjoy it and we'll get on with it right
1:56.0	after this word from our sponsor.
2:07.1	This episode of the Your Morning Basket podcast is brought to you by Your Morning Basket Plus.
2:08.6	Get the tools you need to put the joy back into your homeschool.
2:13.8	If you have been wanting to do morning time in your homeschool, but you're a little overwhelmed
2:18.5	at the idea of which resources to use or which books should you choose, we have done all the
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