New World Echoes

by Jennifer Courtney (Compiled by)

Are you ready to explore the challenges and beauty of some once-uncharted territories? Are you ready to cultivate a family culture of reading aloud?

The Echoes series is back, this time filled with poems, tall tales, and legends that pair perfectly with Classical Conversations Cycle 3. Your littles will love the rhymes and larger than life stories; your middles will love the adventures and humor, your bigs will love the new and deep questions under the surface of the stories. You will love it all and gladly give in to request to reread!

367 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

A homeschool mom for over 15 years who graduated with a degree in English and who loves reading aloud with her own children.

Reviews

[Tammy Schilling · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way too many repetitive Native American tales and boring poems. There are so many potential stories to put in a book like this, I don't know why the scale was tipped so heavily in that direction. We just didn't enjoy them.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is by far my least favorite collection of stories. Some of them are flat awful while others are nearly impossible to read because of the use of language in them. (I.e. Davy Crockett-wrote phonetically and thus many of the words are hard to understand, especially without warning!)

[L · Rating 2 out of 5]

CC Cycle 3 - We enjoyed the stories of Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, Paul Bunyan. Many of the other stories were more obscure. Davy Crockett’s stories were printed phonetically. While that was historically accurate, it was very difficult to read aloud to my kids.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

My least favorite of the Cooper Lodge "World Echoes" series. The poems plus the handful of stories by L.M. Alcott, Mark Twain, and L.M. Montgomery were the main redeeming qualities to this book. Bailed on it as a read aloud with my kids about 75% of the way through when the tall tales section read like boring, un-literary, and badly-edited summaries.

[Myersandburnsie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was the worst book in the series. There were a lot of really interesting fairytales, but too many of the same type. I really did not appreciate some of the stories written in vernacular they were difficult to read. If I were to redo this anthology, I would include more short stories, or chapters from American literature.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far my 10 year old and six year old are loving the native American legends. We've never really read these kinds of legends before, and they wish there was a story for everyday! I appreciate the inclusion of poetry. We're only on week 3 so far.

[Nato · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the tall tale.

[Robyn Cain · Rating 3 out of 5]

We really enjoyed some of the folk tales, tall tales, short stories, and poems, but others were very difficult to read, especially to a 6 year old. It was still worth while reading though.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is filled with fun myths, fables, fairy tales, and tall tales. The tall tales get a little hairy with written accents, but as a whole, we enjoy this as part of our homeschool day.