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Welcome to the June 2011 issue of Home-School News,
brought to you by Practical Homeschooling magazine
and our Homeschool World website at
www.home-school.com! 

Mary Pride
 Mary Pride, Publisher
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. MAGAZINE: 10 days left to subscribe and get a free QuickStudy Guide!
2. VOTE: Our 2012 Nomination Ballot is online. You might win a great prize!
3. INFO: 19 new articles on our website
4. THE WAY HOME: 25th Anniversary Edition Blog launches
5. GET PUBLISHED: Write a Day at Our House diary!
6. How to advertise with us

1. MAGAZINE: 10 days left to subscribe to Practical Homeschooling and get a free QuickStudy Guide!
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Here's what our readers say:  

"I don't know what I'd do without you! As a former teacher, and now a homeschooling mother, I rely on your magazine to offer a wide range of educational topics. I've learned more from your columnists than I did in college for my education degree!"

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"I absolutely love PHS! It is the definitive magazine for homeschoolers. I eagerly await each issue and devour it, from cover to cover, the day it arrives in my mailbox."

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"Practical Homeschooling is "down to earth", informative, and interesting! When I see it in my mailbox I know it's going to be a good day! I love it!"

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To subscribe, and receive our current Special Offer, click here. Add your choice of a 1-year or 2-year subscription to your cart. 

 

Now, here's how to get your FREE QuickStudy Guide. 

 

When you get to the Checkout stage, after you press "Order," you'll see a screen where you enter your address and credit-card info. Enter the name of the desired Guide into the Comments/Message box near the bottom of that form. That will automatically add it to your order for FREE! 

2. VOTE: Our 2012 Practical Homeschooling� Reader Awards™ Nomination Ballot is online! And you could win a great prize!
Pilgrim's Progress Collector's Edition
It's time again to nominate the best educational products for homeschoolers!

To entice you to take the time to fill out and send in this Nomination Ballot, we are offering a fabulous prize.

You could win a copy of The Pilgrim's Progress (Collector's Edition)! An instant family heirloom, this hardcover edition was originally published in 1876. Over 125 years later, Master Books has reproduced it with the original look and feel. PLUS gold-gilded edges and foil embossing on the front, back, and spine!

This giant, gorgeous 960-page volume also includes John Bunyan's personal memoir, his last sermon, his personal account of his life before he accepted Christ, his time spent in prison for preaching, and much, much more!

Normally $59.99 plus shipping, you could win this giftable masterpiece FREE just by nominating your favorite homeschool products for our upcoming 2012 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards! Just nominate your favorites and provide your info in order to be included in the drawing.

Vote soon - all ballots must be completed and received before July 15, 2011!

3. INFO: New articles on our website
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We frequently add new articles to our site. These are actually "old" (but still extremely useful) articles from past issues of Practical Homeschooling magazine.

We only have time to prepare and post about 1/4 of what's in any given issue, plus it will be about 5 years before we get around to posting some of what's in our current issue. So it's a great way to tiptoe into homeschooling, but no substitute for an actual
Practical Homeschooling subscription!

Here are just a few of the articles we recently added:

To read these, and hundreds of other great articles, click here. 

4. THE WAY HOME: 25th Anniversary Edition Blog Launches

The Way Home 25th AnniversaryFor 25 years, The Way Home has been the "go to" book for Christian moms who want to prepare their daughters for the world of marriage and children.

To celebrate the release of the new 25th Anniversary Edition, Sarah and Mary Pride have launched The Way Home blog.


Here you'll find articles expanding and following up on the book.

The most popular articles so far:

If you visit and like our blog, please also Like the Mary Pride Author page on Facebook. There you'll find news on upcoming projects and how you can contribute your thoughts and experiences to help other women.

Autographed copies of the book are exclusively available from Home Life. Request autograph in the "Comments" field when you get to Checkout, when ordering online from us. Buy one for yourself, and more for your daughters!
5. Write a Day at Our House diary! 

Thanks so much to those of you who responded to this request in our last e-letter.

It's easier than you think to get published in a national homeschool magazine. We're always looking for more folks who will share their homeschool day with us.

This is for our "Day at Our House" feature in Practical Homeschooling magazine.

Just keep a diary for one day, type it into your computer, and email it to
[email protected].

Either send it as the body text of your email, or as an MSWord ".doc" attachment.

Please put "Day at Our House" in the subject line.

Please also attach a nice, clear, color photo of your family. If possible, show the kids in action, but if not, a regular posed photo is fine. Straight from the digital camera is best -- let us do the color correcting and resizing!

We can't run a diary without a photo, so scan it in or read it in from your camera, but make sure it is included!

Be sure to include your name, address, and telephone number in the body of your email, in case our editor needs to contact you.

Also please provide a "caption" for your photo, so we will know who is who from left to right.

We'd especially love to hear from families who homeschool in unusual or adventurous circumstances -- while sailing, or working with the circus, for example -- or whose kids are engaged in especially interesting or imaginative activities.

But we publish diaries from lots of "regular" homeschool families, too!

Your chances of getting published are very good.

So send your diary in!
6. How to advertise with us
Want to promote your product in our magazine, Practical Homeschooling, or on our website, Homeschool World� at www.home-school.com?

To request our media kits, click here .

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