Start Plutarch a decade early. Finish with the real thing.
And Marcus Aurelius, and Machiavelli, and Beowulf. We take the subjects other publishers skip and build each one into a ladder of books, from first picture book to a prep book for the real Parallel Lives.
Ages 0–4
Read to them
Ages 3–7
Read together
Ages 6–10
They read alone
Ages 10–14
Ready for the real thing
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Marcus Aurelius
Big Ideas · Ages 0–4
Marcus Aurelius, taught three ways. The youngest readers get the habit itself: a little book, one honest question at bedtime, and trying again tomorrow. Ages 3–7 get the emperor's real tools, getting ready for a hard day, holding still when anger pulls, shrinking a giant problem, in words a young child can use tonight. And ages 6–10 get the man behind the Meditations: the plague, the frozen frontier, the son he couldn't reach, and the nightly practice that kept his book alive for two thousand years.
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Alfred the Great
Ages 0–12 · 4 books
A king who hides in a swamp, burns a stranger’s bread, then rallies a comeback that saves an entire country, and his real secret weapon turns out to be books.
Machiavelli
Ages 0–10 · 3 books
We made Machiavelli books for kids.
Stoicism
Ages 0–10 · 3 books
We taught toddlers Stoic philosophy.
Don Quixote
Ages 0–10 · 3 books
The most famous novel in the world, and most people don’t read it until college, if they read it at all.
Beowulf
Ages 0–10 · 3 books
The oldest story in English literature nearly burned in a library fire in 1731.
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Plutarch’s Lives for Kids
The two-thousand-year-old paired lives, written fresh at four reading levels, from first board book to Plutarch-ready.
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