With Sonlight as a guide, the countries and people of the world seem like neighbors. God brought our book-loving family together from all over the world. No matter what the reading level, Sonlight has books to entertain, excite and challenge our children to the next level. We're quickly becoming book snobs! Only the best literature, like the books we receive in our Sonlight box each year, make it into our school time and bedtime reading. The H family, including Grace (8), Jack (7), Ana (5) and Will (4), have been exploring their world with Sonlight for four years. Here, they're reading Maps and Globes from Core C.

The material that Sonlight brings together is rich and diverse enough to appeal to many personalities and preferences. My husband and I joke that either of our kids would make the perfect 'only' child, as they have strong personalities and the sibling bickering can be maddening! But oddly enough, there are never issues at school. When we read together, ask questions together and experiment together, the atmosphere is enthusiastic and harmonious. When one child is bored or struggling, the other instantly becomes an enthusiastic cheerleader or patient helper. Our bonds strengthen with each lesson. In the family's fifth Sonlight year, Caleb (7) and Charlotte (5) are using Cores C and A. Chayim (9 mos.) is eating a Nerf dart.

Sonlight helps my kids be passionate about learning, loving and living. I love when somebody says, while reading a Sonlight book, 'Can we do that?' or 'I wonder what that's like.' From one book or chapter, we explore so much more … Every school year we start and end with a picture. They had a theory about how Sonlight would alter their physical appearance and wanted to see how knowledge would change their heads! Looking back at this picture, Lucy said, 'It didn't change how we look, but it changed my heart.' Lucas (6), Lucy (5) and Laurelin (2) are studying Core C and P4/5 Multi-Subject in their fourth year of Sonlight study.