If you need to start buying some homeschooling supplies, you might want to include these two types of books on your shopping list.
A children's book for positive character development
When you send a child to school and they spend six or more hours a day with their teachers and school friends, it is these people who will then have the greatest influence on your child's character and how it develops. You, as their parent, have to simply hope and pray that these people will positively impact their character. The great thing about homeschooling is that, because your child will spend most of the day with you, you are the one who can influence them and help them to build character. That will ensure that they maintain their integrity, compassion, and patience when faced with any hard situations life throws at them when they're older.
However, if you're not quite sure how to broach this subject, you might want to buy a children's book that focuses on positive character development. This book could be a non-fiction book that deals with this topic in a direct manner or you can choose a work of fiction that uses its plot to convey messages about the importance of, for example, having certain values. The former would be good if you're child gets frustrated easily and you, therefore, want to take a straightforward approach to discussing character, that won't confuse or annoy them, whilst the latter might be good if you want your child to use their critical thinking skills to work out the moral of the story before you discuss its subject matter with them.
A book on a subject that has piqued your child's interest and is not on their curriculum
One of the joys of homeschooling is that you don't have to stick solely to your chosen curriculum but can also observe and then help your child to learn more about a topic that they spontaneously take an interest in. If this has happened to your child (for example, if after reading a little bit about Ancient Egypt online, they are now fascinated by the pyramids, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the pharaohs) you might want to buy a book that centers solely on this subject and let them spend a portion of their homeschooling hours reading this book.
This should make them enjoy their homeschooling sessions a lot more and will educate them on a subject that they would not have learned much about, had they been enrolled in a standard school. If, as discussed above, you want to encourage them to build character as well as to take an interest in their chosen subject, you might want to buy a child-friendly, allegorical Egyptian mythology book, that has morals woven into its stories.
When it comes to books that will help your child at home, you're never at a loss if you buy a children's book for positive character development.
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