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I recently had some technical difficulties with my Beautiful Feet Books affiliate link. The problem? Because I am not a great affiliate participant — in general — I essentially sign up for a program with a company that I love, drop the link in a few places, then I go on living my life.
I rarely check performance, and I try not to promote the fact that I am an affiliate or that I have a link, like ever. Because I don’t actually want to be an influencer. I want to be a helper. A solutions person.
So, it should come as no surprise that in my essentially negligent engagement with the BFB affiliate program, they completely changed their system and I had no idea.
I just went on using their curriculum and promoting the heck out of Far Afield because that’s how I roll. When I love something, I tell everyone about it! (FAF was written by two Pepperdine science graduates, and you can really tell! Just saying.)
Last weekend I tried to log in to see what was happening, and that’s when I discovered that the BFB domain was no longer listed on the prior website. I did some digging and discovered the new system. So I applied, and BFB reached out to me and helped me get my things in order. The end.
Except, in going over the affiliate links for my youtube and this blog, I realized that we have actually used a considerable amount of BFB curriculum/booklists over the years, and so I thought I would create a list of those items and share them with you all!
Beautiful Feet Books Curriculum We Have Used over the Years
High school
Middle school
Elementary
We also really enjoyed a prior offering that focused on the history of classical music, but that program has since been replaced.
There are about 3-5 other curriculum packages I would like to eventually use as well!
My favorite things about BFB are the intentionality and beauty they bring to all of the materials that they design, the richness and intentionality of the booklists they create, and their dedication to serving the homeschooling community.
Many years ago I attended an informational session about the company and I learned that they got their start because their founder, a homeschool mom, found amazing books that were out of print. She shared her plans with friends, and they wanted to be able to do the things she was doing. So she figured out a way to make those older out of print books come back into print! How cool is that?
I have lately noticed that BFB is slowly expanding its catalog to offer more academic courses that originate from the same place of beauty and wonder, as they are doing with Far Afield. I also like that their courses have more diverse offerings than some other Charlotte Mason esque booklists. So while they have D’Aulaire, they also have Black Heroes of the American Revolution (see especially the booklists for: World Geography & Ecology (7-9); Modern American & World History (6-8); Modern US and World History (11-12); Around the World (K-4) Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica).
I think they do a commendable job of balancing the demand for antiquity with thoughtfulness of what contemporary homeschoolers are looking for. And I don’t get the impression that they do things to virtue signal. They come across as dedicated to serving their customers and earnestly interested in updating their materials and creating new courses of study based on genuinely exciting topics. Do I want to read through geography with captivating and engaging novels? Why yes I do.
So thank you BFB for “doing you,” and giving us new book sets to drool over.
I can not be held responsible if this blog post enticed you to purchase curriculum from BFB. The title was your warning.
