Useful reading about Home Education

Reading for Parents

How Children Learn at Home by Harriet Patterson & Alan Thomas 

One to One  by Gareth Thomas  available here

Unqualified Education by  Gareth Thomas  available here

How children Learn and more books by John Holt

School is not Compulsory - probably still free with EO membership

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

Free Range Education Edited by Terri Dowty

Moving a Puddle  Sandra Dodd

Sir Ken Robinson Changing Education Paradigms and Schools kill Creativity

There are many blogs telling the stories of everyday home educators across the world and a web search will find at least one to read then you'll find others linked to from there.


Children's books featuring Home Educated children

Danny Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

The Dragon in the Cliff by Sheila Cole