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Looking for a homeschooling book publisher?
Are you interested in publishing a homeschooling book? Mapletree Publishing Company is looking for homeschooling books to publish. We are seeking to become one of the nation's leading homeschooling book publishers. Please see our publishing guidelines if you are looking for a homeschooling book publisher. You may also want to read our ideas about publishing homeschooling books.

Check the web site that publishes books and articles about homeschooling.

Here is a collection of information by Mapletree authors about homeschooling.

bullet"You will remember this as your greatest achievement," by Terrie Lynn Bittner - The sacrifices you make to homeschool your children will be ones you will treasure.
bullet"Active versus passive learning," by David Byers, PhD, and Chandra Byers - Homeschooled children have an advantage in college because they have been trained to be active learners.
bulletCheck out Wiggle Like a Fish! This is an incredibly cute source of positive music for kids. Tory Christensen, husband of Mapletree publicist Wendy Christensen, is performing for Nickelodeon and doing concerts all over the place, and he has a CD out.

 

Homeschooling books from Mapletree:

Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath—You Can Do This!
by Terrie Lynn Bittner
ISBN-13: 978-09728071-5-9
ISBN-10: 0-9728071-5-2
320 pages,  5˝ x 8˝, softcover, index, $14.95

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If you want to homeschool your children but don't think you have the ability, Terrie's book will take you by the hand and show you how. Enthusiastically received throughout North America, this is the definitive guide to homeschooling. Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath covers all facets of how to begin homeschooling and will give you the confidence you need to get it done.

"What a wonderful resource! This book could have saved me buckets of frustration had it been around when I began homeschooling."
—Carol Barnier, author of How To Get Your Child Off the Refrigerator and on to Learning and If I'm Diapering A Watermelon Then Where'd I Put the Baby?

"Down-to-earth and practical ... friendly, reassuring and endlessly supportive."
Publishers Weekly, Nov. 22, 2004
 

"The most sensible book to be published in quite a while...Suitable to every family's learning style and a must to share with the parent looking into homeschooling, and a definitely recommended edition for the support group library."

Heather Reynolds from Homeschooling Horizons Magazine (Canada)

 

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Terrie Bittner maintains a homeschooling web site at www.terriebittner.com.

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The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
by Rachel Gathercole
with foreword by Patrick Farenga
ISBN-13: 978-1-60065-107-6
ISBN-10: 1-60065-107-0
288 pages, 5˝ x 8˝, softcover, index, $14.95

Rachel Gathercole, with painstaking research and interviews with literally hundreds of homeschooling parents and children, shows us how children who are homeschooled are better prepared socially than those who attend public schools. You will find here the most thorough and definitive treatment of the socialization question that you have seen.

Rachel Gathercole is active in her North Carolina Home Educators Association and has written many articles about homeschooling and parenting for numerous publications.

"Rachel Gathercole has provided the most complete answer to the socialization question that I have ever seen. Homeschoolers, you need this book!" —Mike Smith, President, Home School Legal Defense Association.

"The definitive book regarding the socialization question." —Foreword Magazine

   

Coming Soon:

   
College-Prep Homeschooling: The Complete Guide to Homeschooling Your Children through High School
by David P. Byers, Ph.D., and Chandra Byers
ISBN-13:978-1-60065-100-7
ISBN-10:1-60065-100-3
 

Chandra Byers is a homeschooling mother of six, and David Byers is a college instructor with a Ph.D. in education. With their combination of experience and expertise, they show us how parents can continue to homeschool their children through high school in subjects for which they are not experts. Not only that, but they demonstrate how these home-taught children are fully prepared for college and are often superior performers.

Homeschooling a Houseful: Juggling 101
by Tamra Norton and Wendy Roberts
ISBN-13:978-1-60065-000-0
ISBN-10:1-60065-000-7

Tamra is a well-known novelist and also a homeschooling mother of seven. Now, after considerable original research, Tamra is becoming the nation's leading expert on homeschooling large families. In this book, the first ever written on this subject, she teams up with Wendy Roberts to  teach us all about it: Making the decision to homeschool, developing a curriculum that works for your family, turning chaos into education, and more.

Tamra maintains a web site at www.tamranorton.com. She also moderates a discussion group on Yahoo! about homeschooling large families—click here to visit.
Scheduled for release 2007.

The Bullies and Their Facilitators: A Powerful Indictment of the Violence in Our Schools
by Reed Cowan

Reed Cowan is a TV reporter and anchor for Salt Lake City's ABC affiliate, KTVX. He is also the founder of NO BULL, Inc., which provides training, consultation, and research to combat bullying in schools.

"Schools say they are taking care of the problem of bullying. I'm here to tell you that they're not, and here's the evidence."  In this book he not only chronicles his own journey of healing from the scars of emotional and physical torment in school, but he also tells the heart-wrenching stories of more than two thousand kids who have been ruthlessly bullied, and of the people who have looked the other way.

Cooperative Homeschooling: You Don't Have to Do This Alone
by Meg Grooms

Homeschooling parents: You don't have to do this alone! Cooperative Homeschooling is a how-to guide to help you find and use homeschool-friendly group educational experiences! A must read for all parents who are concerned about providing socialization, laboratory classes, advanced subject matter and other group experiences. Co-ops are a wonderful educational outlet that brings children so much more than book knowledge.

Meg Grooms is the homeschooling editor at BellaOnline, and the founder of Mid-Florida Homeschoolers. A veteran homeschooler, she conducts approximately 25 cooperative education programs a year. Cooperative Homeschooling deals with the major issues of co-op homeschooling as well as the smaller ones.

Homeschooling link exchange with mapletreepublishing.com: If you have information we feel would be helpful to our visitors, and would like to post a link to Mapletree's homeschooling information pages, we'll gladly exchange links with you.

   
Mapletree is a homeschooling book publisher looking for homeschooling manuscripts. If you would like to publish a homeschooling book, please contact us:
bulletSee our publishing guidelines.
bulletSee our submission guidelines if you have a homeschooling book that you have written and want to publish.
bulletOr check our contact us page if you have questions about a homeschooling book idea you have.

 

 


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