One great story.
Five learning trails.
Read it together. Listen in the car. Then follow the trails that interest your family into geography, ecology, engineering, language, and research.
Free illustrated ebook · Complete audiobook · 54-page Educator’s Guide · 15 differentiated learning experiences across 5 trails
Follow the trails that interest your family.
Each trail starts inside the story and leads into a real academic subject. Every trail has three levels so siblings of different ages can explore the same world at different depths. Check the ones you want.
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When you need curriculum that goes deeper
The 54-page Educator’s Guide covers vocabulary development, readability analysis, Scriptural references, themes, discussion questions, read-aloud coaching, and classroom activities — all in one download.
Download the Full Educator’s GuideWhen your family wants to go there
Biblical language, images, and ideas appear throughout the Wilderland. These optional resources connect scenes from the novel with Scripture. Your family decides where the conversation goes.
Reading aloud tonight? Let Melanie take a chapter.
Read along together, keep the story moving in the car, or hand the headphones to an independent reader. The complete audiobook is free to Mingle families.
Listen to the Complete Audiobook FreeProtect delight.
Some books get assigned. Others get talked about over breakfast, carried into the car, argued about on the couch, read aloud at bedtime, and remembered years later.
The Mingles in Wilderland was written to be the second kind.
If your child wants to keep reading instead of stopping for a worksheet, keep reading. If a ten-minute discussion turns into forty-five minutes around the kitchen table, forget the lesson plan. If one strange word sends somebody down a research trail for the afternoon, follow it.
Use everything. Use one thing. Or just read the book.
Bring one story to the whole family.
Start with the free illustrated ebook and complete audiobook. Add the learning trails whenever they make the story richer.