I've used FIAR with my oldest. I"m now using it w/ my middle. I wasn't thrilled w/ the Before FIAR but I like the FIAR. It's a quick and easy way to get in exposure to multiple subjects and the books are nice, quality books. We didn't read them everyday for 5 days. Sometimes we had discussions w/out having read the book. Some libraries carry the FIAR book so you might look there. You can often find it used at WTM For sale board as well as vegesource homeschool for sale boards.

hth,
Dazey