Building a Liberty Reading Progression
One of the questions I get most often is: “Where do I start?” And the honest answer is: it depends entirely on your child’s age and where they are developmentally. A book that’s perfect for a nine-year-old will bore a seven-year-old and seem condescending to a thirteen-year-old.
These lists are designed to give you a coherent reading progression — books that build on each other conceptually so that by the time your child reaches high school, they’ve been absorbing ideas about freedom, economics, and entrepreneurship for years. The Tuttle Twins series is the anchor of the early years: it’s genuinely excellent, broadly accessible, and covers an enormous range of ideas in an age-appropriate way.
As children move into their teens, I’ve included some of the original source material that the Tuttle Twins series is based on — Bastiat, Hazlitt, Sowell — so the progression flows naturally from picture books to classic texts over the course of childhood.
