2015: Suggestions for more up to date books are welcome. See also the home education curriculum page.
It is possible to spend a fortune on books that tell you how or reassure you about HE or education in general. After discussion with the MuddlePuddle list, i list below the books i would not be without on my bookshelf. i hope that i can save you buying the duds. Incidentally, if you buy via these links, you will indirectly donate a few pence to this site – so if you do, thank you i list the books in order of how useful i found them to be, with a total spend after the ones i consider to have been utterly invaluable to me. It is interesting to me that although the majority of the MuddlePuddlers do not directly use Montessori methods, many of them found Montessori-approach books to have been exceptionally helpful to them.