The Home Education Series

Charlotte Mason · Restored by Smidgen Press

The Home Education Series

A generous, living education — carefully restored from the original texts, freshly typeset for modern readers, and bound to be read for a generation. Not a facsimile. Not a scan. A restoration.

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Archival sewn hardcover of Home Education by Charlotte Mason, filigree design, published by Smidgen Press

One series. Three ways to keep it.

Every edition carries the same restored text, the same fresh typesetting, and the same bonus editorial content. The difference is what it’s wearing.

Paperback

$25

The working copy — the one that lives in the school basket, gets underlined, and doesn’t mind. Prints close to home for readers in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Hardcover

$38–$40

Sturdy library binding, with or without a dust jacket. The no-jacket edition prints domestically for US and Canadian readers; jacketed copies ship from the UK.

Archival Sewn Hardcover

$55

Smyth-sewn binding, jacket over decorated boards in Filigree or Typography designs. Made in small batches to outlast us all. The heirloom shelf copy.

The Volumes

Read them in order, or start where your children are — Mason wrote each volume to stand on its own feet.

Home Education paperback, Volume 1 of the Charlotte Mason Home Education Series
Volume 1

Home Education

Where it all begins: the education of children under nine, and the famous foundation — education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.

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Parents and Children paperback, Volume 2 of the Charlotte Mason Home Education Series
Volume 2

Parents & Children

Essays on the parent’s role — not as drill sergeant or servant, but as the child’s first and most important teacher.

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School Education paperback, Volume 3 of the Charlotte Mason Home Education Series
Volume 3

School Education

The curriculum years, ages nine to twelve — authority, habit, and the case for setting a wide and generous feast.

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A Philosophy of Education paperback, Volume 6 of the Charlotte Mason Home Education Series
Volume 6

Philosophy of Education

Her final word: forty years of practice distilled into the capstone of the series, written for a changed world.

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Printed on demand near you where available · Restored & typeset by hand in Virginia · Breathing new life into old stories