Sonlight has developed a love of learning in all three of my children. As a speech-language pathologist, I was excited by the rich language and vocabulary each Core contains.  Each of our kids absolutely relishes the Sonlight books. I'm personally excited to re-use our first Core this year for Faith and am blessed to watch her love of learning grow as richly as her brothers. Here, Jameson (11, Core F) teaches Faith (5, Core A) how to use The Timeline Book (#RR120) to track world history. 

"Learning through literature enables my kids to feel like they know the characters and to gain a deeper understanding of the past and the world around them. We considered going back to a textbook approach for high school, but after one tedious chapter in a history book, we were reminded what a difference Sonlight makes. My younger kids could answer the test questions better than my high schooler who read the textbook because they'd been reading about the same period in The Story of the World. Making history come alive is a much better way to learn!" In their family's ninth year of Sonlight, Anna (11, Level 100) and Ellie (8, Level D) are eager to open their Box Day treasure.– Bethany N of Yorktown, TX

Sonlight inspires creativity and freedom and leaves plenty of time in our schedule to branch out. After reading 'The Snowy Day' [from The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury] for P3/4 during our lackluster winter, the girls decided to make chalk angels, since we couldn't make snow angels. Mommy outlined them, and the girls colored them in! In their third year with Sonlight, Jenna (5), Sarah (3) and Autumn (1) are using Cores A and P3/4.