Year 4-Upper Grammar
The Tapestry of Grace items are in bold.
My suggestions for alternatives or enrichment are in regular font.
I did not include the literature in the Upper Grammar Year 4 because I felt the selections were so well chosen that I have no other recommendations. Also, most of these titles will be items that are easy to find. I did include some literature selections in the history category.
UNIT 1-History
World War I-Simon Adams-Eyewitness Books
Archie’s War: My Scrapbook of the First World War-Marcia Williams, Williams uses a fictional scrapbook to tell a young boy’s story of life on the home front.
Going to War in World War I-Adrian Gilbert-emphasis is on weapons and warfare.
Albert Einstein: A Photographic Story of a Life-Frieda Wishinsky-DK Biography
Albert Einstein-Kathleen Krull (Giants of Science) This is an extremely interesting and informative series. Krull is very skillful at portraying not only her subject but the times and the scientific community in which he lives.
Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein (National Geographic Society)-This is a very nicely done series, great photos.
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein-Don Brown-Brown is known for his excellent picture book biographies.
Titanic-Simon Adams (Eyewitness Books)
Ghost Ships: Exploring the World’s Greatest Lost Ships-Robert Ballard. Ballard was the
Leader of the expedition to find the remains of Titanic. He also writes very well for children.
Survivors: The Night the Titanic Sank-Caryn Jenner-DK Reader, Level 4
You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic: One Voyage You’d Rather Not Make-David Stewart
Titanic: A Nonfiction Guide to Tonight on the Titanic-Will and Mary Pope Osborne
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady-Ellen Emerson White
(Dear America) historical fiction
White Star: A Dog on the Titanic-Marty Crisp, also historical fiction
Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion: Linda Granfield
In Flander’s Field-The Story of the Poem by John McCrae-Linda Granfield
UNIT 1-Worldview
Eric Liddell: Something Greater than Gold-Janet and Geoff Benge
Chariots of Fire DVD-Warner Home Video (ages 10 and up)
The Eric Liddell Story-DVD-Christian History Institute (for a younger audience)
Fanny Crosby: Queen of Gospel Songs-Rebecca Davis
The Fanny Crosby Story DVD-Panmedia Entertainment Corporation
UNIT 2-History
The Discovery of Penicillin-Guy Bedoyere
Alexander Fleming-Richard Tames
The Great Depression-Elaine Landau
Welcome to Kit’s World, 1934: Growing up during America’s Great Depression-Harriet Brown-This book uses Kit of the American Girl Series to give an overview of life in the Depression, lots of pictures and photographs from the decade.
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl DVD-New Line Cinema-This movie will be enjoyed by boys as well as girls.
Children of the Great Depression-Russell Freedman
A Year Down Yonder-Richard Peck-Fifteen year old Mary Alice spends a year with her feisty grandmother.
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt-C. Coco DeYoung-Margo writes a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family’s home.
Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself-Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
World War II Days: Discovering the Past with Exciting Projects, Games, Activities and Recipes-David C. King
Going to War in World War II-Moira Butterfield-emphasis is on war and weapons.
World War II-Simon Adams (Eyewitness Books)
The Holocaust-Susanna Davidson
The four books below portray real and fictional heroes of the Holocaust.
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story-Kenn Mochizucki-A young boy remembers his father, a Japanese diplomat who paved the way for thousands of Jewish refugees to escape Lithuania in the 1940s. (nonfiction)
Number the Stars-Lois Lowry-Newbery Award-Annemarie shows courage when she and her family help her Jewish friend and family escape Denmark. (fiction)
Twenty and Ten-Clare Bishop-Twenty French school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis. (fiction)
Snow Treasure-Marie McSwigan-Children in Norway smuggle the nation’s gold past Nazi soldiers. (fiction)
Israel: The People-Debbie Smith
Israel-Martin Hintz (Enchantment of the World)
Families of Israel-DVD-Master Communications
Winston Churchill-Katie Daynes
Winston Churchill-Fiona MacDonald
UNIT 2-Worldview
Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angel’s Den-Janet & Geoff Benge
Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime-Janet & Geoff Benge
The Gladys Aylward Story DVD-Christian History Institute
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness DVD-20th Century Fox
UNIT 3-History
China-Hugh Montefiore-Sebag-Eyewitness Books
People’s Republic of China-Kim Dramer (Enchantment of the World)
Families of China-DVD-Master Communications
Fearon’s Our Century: 1950-1960-Tony Napoli
The 1950s Decade in Photos: The American Decade-Jim Corrigan
Rock and Roll Generation: Life in the Fifties-Time-Life
India: The People-Bobbie Kalman
India-Kamala Dalal (Countries of the World)
Going to School in India DVD-Master Communications
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Photographic Story of a Life-Amy Pastan-Eyewitness Readers
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.-Doreen Rappaport
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.-David Adler
UNIT 3-Worldview
Billy Graham: Just Get Up and Out of Your Seat-Catherine MacKenzie
Billy Graham: World Famous Evangelist-Sarah McIntosh Wooten
Ida Scudder-Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts-Janet and Geoff Benge
Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer-Janet and Geoff Benge
The Jim Eliot Story-DVD-Christian History Institute
UNIT 4-History
1990s From the Persian Gulf War to Y2K-Stephen Feinstein
The Nineteen Nineties Decade in Photos: The Rise of Technology-Jim Corrigan
The Middle East-Cory Gideon Gunderson
Middle East-Philip Steele
Fearon’s Our Century: 1970 to 1980-Tony Napoli, editor
The 1970s Decade in Photos: Protest and Change-Jim Corrigan
Fearon’s Our Century: 1980 to 1990-Tony Napoli, editor
The 1980’s Decade in Photos: Triumph of Democracy-Jim Corrigan
Some good books for helping understand more modern times:
America at the Time of Martin Luther King, Jr: The Story of Our Nation from Coast to Coast, from 1948 to 1976-Sally Isaacs
The Century for Young People-Jennifer Armstrong
Visual Timeline of the Twentieth Century-Simon Adams
September 11, 2001-Andrew Santella (Cornerstones of Freedom)
September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed America-Jill Wheeler
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers-Mordecai Gerstein-a biography of Phillipe Petit who walked a tightrope between the twin towers in 1974, amazing pictures of the towers and New York City.
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey-A fire boat launched in 1931 is brought back into service on September 11, 2001.
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation: I recommend using the introductory pages of this graphic book. The pictures show the routes of the four airplanes. This is a great book that you will want to preview before sharing with your children.
The Bread Winner-Deborah Ellis
Extra Credit-Andrew Clements-Abby Carson and Sadeed Bayat become pen pals and learn about each other’s culture.
The Librarian from Basra: A True Story from Iraq-Jeanette Winter
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tapestry of Grace-Year 2-Upper Grammar
TOG-Year 2-Upper Grammar
Tapestry of Grace titles are in bold
Librarian Lou's suggestions are in italics
UNIT 1
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-on Activities to Experience the Middle Ages-Avery Hart
Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself-Kris Bordessa. This title includes lots of information to back up all the projects.
Castle-David Macaulay
Castle-Christopher Gravett-Eyewitness Books
Steven Biesty’s Castles-Meredith Hopper
Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenberg-Joanne Johansen Burch
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press-Bruce Koscielniak
Breaking Into Print: Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press-Steven Krensky
Marco Polo: Overland to China-Alexander Zelenyj
Marco Polo-Demi (picture book biography)-4 copies
The World in the Time of Marco Polo-Fiona MacDonald
Explorers of the World-Marco Polo DVD-Schlessinger Media
Mecca-Mandy Ross
Muhammad-Demi
Islam-Phillip Wilkinson-Eyewitness Books
The Middle Ages-Mary Quigley
The Middle Ages-Jane Shuter
Medieval Life-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
The Story of the Crusades Coloring Book-John Green
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Crusader-Fiona MacDonald
Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem-Lee Hancock
Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade-David Hilliam
The Story of the Middle Ages-Samuel Harding
Viking-Carrie Love (Eye Wonder)
Viking-Susan Margeson-Eyewitness Books
The Real Vikings: Craftsmen, Traders and Fearless Raiders-Melvin and Gilda Berger
Going to War in Viking Times-Christopher Gravett
Adventures with the Vikings-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency) This graphic novel has lots of information about the Vikings
Adventures of Robin Hood retold by John Burrows
Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood-edited by Jane Yolen
Robin Hood: The Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero-Angela Bull (Eyewitness Readers) This is a fun easy to read title.
Robin Hood and Little John-Barbara Cohen
The Adventures of Robin Hood-Marcia Williams (the cartoon version)
The Door in the Wall-Marguerite DeAngeli
Crispin: The Cross of Lead-Avi (historical fiction-1300s)
Leif the Lucky-Edgar and Ingri Parin D’Aulaire
Tales of King Arthur retold by Felicity Brooks
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great-Gerald Morris
Merlin and the Making of the King-Margaret Hodges-The retelling of four Arthurian Legends
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table-Marica Williams-graphic novel version
Francis-The Poor Man of Assisi-Tomie De Paola
Saint Francis-Brian Wildsmith
UNIT 2
Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You’ll Ever Need-Kathryn Temple
Aztecs & Incas-Sue Nicholson (Sightseers)
The Aztec Empire-Jane Bingham
Ballplayers and Bonesetters: One Hundred Ancient Aztec and Maya Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred-Laurie Coulter
Brilliant Brits: Henry VIII-Richard Brassey
First Voyage to America: From the Log of the Santa Maria-Christopher Columbus
I Columbus, My Journal 1492-93-Christopher Columbus
The Log of Columbus: The First Voyage, Spring, Summer and Fall 1492-Christopher Columbus, Selections by Steve Lowe
Michelangelo-Diane Stanley
Michelangelo Buonarrotti-Ernest Lloyd Raboff (an art book rather than a biography)
The Sistine Chapel-Renee Rebman (supplemental)
Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation-Douglas Bond
The Renaissance-Mary Quigley
An Italian Renaissance-Nomi J. Waldman
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
London-Neil Morris (Great Cities Through the Ages)-This is a wonderful pictorial view of London throughout history.
Venice-Renzo Rossi (Great Cities Through the Age)
Bard of Avon: The Story of Shakespeare-Diane Stanley
William Shakespeare and the Globe-Aliki
Shakespeare-Peter Chrisp-Eyewitness Books
Huguenot Garden-Douglas Jones
Escape Across the Wide Sea-Katherine Kirkpatrick-The fictional story of a Huguenot family that leaves France due to religious persecution. They end up in the New York Colony.
I Juan de Pareja-Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Morning Girl-Michael Dorris
Thunderstorm in Church-Louise Vernon
Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World-Paul Maier
UNIT 3
Colonial Crafts-Bobbie Kalman
Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games and Activities, David C. King
Freedom Seeker: A Story About William Penn-Gwenyth Swain
The Story of William Penn-Aliki
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania-Steven Kroll
The World of William Penn-Genevieve Foster
Colonial Life for Children: William Penn and Pennsylvania DVD-Schlessinger Media
Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy-Mary Englar
The Iroquois-Raymond Bial
Making Thirteen Colonies-Joy Hakim
The Thirteen Colonies-Gail Sakurai
Peter the Great-Diane Stanley
Peter the Great and Tsarist Russia-Miriam Greenblatt
The Plymouth Colony-Pamela Dell
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?-Jean Fritz
Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636-Paul Erickson
Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676-James Lincoln Collier
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday-Mary Pope Osborne
Colonial Life for Children: Plimouth Plantation DVD-Schlessinger Media
Roger Williams-Elizabeth Raum
Finding Providence-Avi
Colonial Life for Children: Rodger Williams and Rhode Island DVD-Schlessinger Media
Samuel de Champlain: From New France to Cape Cod-Adriana Morganelli
Champlain-Christopher Moore
Three Ships Come Sailing-Gilchrist Waring
You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Colonist: A Settlement You’d Rather Not Start-Jacqueline Morley
John Smith Escapes Again-Rosalyn Schanzer
Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 (My America)
Colonial Life for Children: Jamestown-DVD-Schlessinger Media
Blackthorn Winter-Douglas Wilson
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remembrance Patience Whipple-Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)-a colonial girl's diary.
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy-Ann Rinaldi (My Name is America) The journal of a pilgrim boy.
Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Adventure-Colleen Reece (Sisters in Time Series)
Scottish Seas-Douglas Jones
William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy-Bradford Smith
William Bradford: Governor of Plymouth Colony-Marianne Hering
William Bradford: The First Thanksgiving DVD-Nest Animated Films
UNIT 4
Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments-Cheryl Kirk Noll
Amazing Ben Franklin Inventions You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents-Time Magazine
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin-Cheryl Harness
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin-Gene Barretta
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky-John Paul Zronik
Daniel Boone’s Great Escape-Michael P. Spraldin
The Declaration of Independence-Michael Burgan
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence-Judith St. George.
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence-Russell Freedman
Francis Marion and the Legend of the Swamp Fox-Kate Salley Palmer
Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox of the American Revolution-Louis P. Towles
From Colonies to Country-Joy Hakim (A History of US)
From Thirteen Colonies to One Nation-John Micklos
Growing Up in Revolution and the New Nation-Brandon Marie Miller
Amos Fortune, Free Man-Elizabeth Yates
The Arrow over the Door-Joseph Bruchac
Boys and Girls of Colonial Days-Carolyn Bailey
Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution-Jean Fritz
We the People: The Story of Our Constitution-Lynne Cheaney-The former second lady has written some excellent history books for children
The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution-Dennis Fradin
Sign of the Beaver-Elizabeth George Speare
Tapestry of Grace titles are in bold
Librarian Lou's suggestions are in italics
UNIT 1
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-on Activities to Experience the Middle Ages-Avery Hart
Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself-Kris Bordessa. This title includes lots of information to back up all the projects.
Castle-David Macaulay
Castle-Christopher Gravett-Eyewitness Books
Steven Biesty’s Castles-Meredith Hopper
Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenberg-Joanne Johansen Burch
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press-Bruce Koscielniak
Breaking Into Print: Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press-Steven Krensky
Marco Polo: Overland to China-Alexander Zelenyj
Marco Polo-Demi (picture book biography)-4 copies
The World in the Time of Marco Polo-Fiona MacDonald
Explorers of the World-Marco Polo DVD-Schlessinger Media
Mecca-Mandy Ross
Muhammad-Demi
Islam-Phillip Wilkinson-Eyewitness Books
The Middle Ages-Mary Quigley
The Middle Ages-Jane Shuter
Medieval Life-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
The Story of the Crusades Coloring Book-John Green
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Crusader-Fiona MacDonald
Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem-Lee Hancock
Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade-David Hilliam
The Story of the Middle Ages-Samuel Harding
Viking-Carrie Love (Eye Wonder)
Viking-Susan Margeson-Eyewitness Books
The Real Vikings: Craftsmen, Traders and Fearless Raiders-Melvin and Gilda Berger
Going to War in Viking Times-Christopher Gravett
Adventures with the Vikings-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency) This graphic novel has lots of information about the Vikings
Adventures of Robin Hood retold by John Burrows
Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood-edited by Jane Yolen
Robin Hood: The Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero-Angela Bull (Eyewitness Readers) This is a fun easy to read title.
Robin Hood and Little John-Barbara Cohen
The Adventures of Robin Hood-Marcia Williams (the cartoon version)
The Door in the Wall-Marguerite DeAngeli
Crispin: The Cross of Lead-Avi (historical fiction-1300s)
Leif the Lucky-Edgar and Ingri Parin D’Aulaire
Tales of King Arthur retold by Felicity Brooks
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great-Gerald Morris
Merlin and the Making of the King-Margaret Hodges-The retelling of four Arthurian Legends
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table-Marica Williams-graphic novel version
Francis-The Poor Man of Assisi-Tomie De Paola
Saint Francis-Brian Wildsmith
UNIT 2
Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You’ll Ever Need-Kathryn Temple
Aztecs & Incas-Sue Nicholson (Sightseers)
The Aztec Empire-Jane Bingham
Ballplayers and Bonesetters: One Hundred Ancient Aztec and Maya Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred-Laurie Coulter
Brilliant Brits: Henry VIII-Richard Brassey
First Voyage to America: From the Log of the Santa Maria-Christopher Columbus
I Columbus, My Journal 1492-93-Christopher Columbus
The Log of Columbus: The First Voyage, Spring, Summer and Fall 1492-Christopher Columbus, Selections by Steve Lowe
Michelangelo-Diane Stanley
Michelangelo Buonarrotti-Ernest Lloyd Raboff (an art book rather than a biography)
The Sistine Chapel-Renee Rebman (supplemental)
Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation-Douglas Bond
The Renaissance-Mary Quigley
An Italian Renaissance-Nomi J. Waldman
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
London-Neil Morris (Great Cities Through the Ages)-This is a wonderful pictorial view of London throughout history.
Venice-Renzo Rossi (Great Cities Through the Age)
Bard of Avon: The Story of Shakespeare-Diane Stanley
William Shakespeare and the Globe-Aliki
Shakespeare-Peter Chrisp-Eyewitness Books
Huguenot Garden-Douglas Jones
Escape Across the Wide Sea-Katherine Kirkpatrick-The fictional story of a Huguenot family that leaves France due to religious persecution. They end up in the New York Colony.
I Juan de Pareja-Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Morning Girl-Michael Dorris
Thunderstorm in Church-Louise Vernon
Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World-Paul Maier
UNIT 3
Colonial Crafts-Bobbie Kalman
Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games and Activities, David C. King
Freedom Seeker: A Story About William Penn-Gwenyth Swain
The Story of William Penn-Aliki
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania-Steven Kroll
The World of William Penn-Genevieve Foster
Colonial Life for Children: William Penn and Pennsylvania DVD-Schlessinger Media
Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy-Mary Englar
The Iroquois-Raymond Bial
Making Thirteen Colonies-Joy Hakim
The Thirteen Colonies-Gail Sakurai
Peter the Great-Diane Stanley
Peter the Great and Tsarist Russia-Miriam Greenblatt
The Plymouth Colony-Pamela Dell
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?-Jean Fritz
Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636-Paul Erickson
Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676-James Lincoln Collier
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday-Mary Pope Osborne
Colonial Life for Children: Plimouth Plantation DVD-Schlessinger Media
Roger Williams-Elizabeth Raum
Finding Providence-Avi
Colonial Life for Children: Rodger Williams and Rhode Island DVD-Schlessinger Media
Samuel de Champlain: From New France to Cape Cod-Adriana Morganelli
Champlain-Christopher Moore
Three Ships Come Sailing-Gilchrist Waring
You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Colonist: A Settlement You’d Rather Not Start-Jacqueline Morley
John Smith Escapes Again-Rosalyn Schanzer
Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 (My America)
Colonial Life for Children: Jamestown-DVD-Schlessinger Media
Blackthorn Winter-Douglas Wilson
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remembrance Patience Whipple-Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)-a colonial girl's diary.
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy-Ann Rinaldi (My Name is America) The journal of a pilgrim boy.
Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Adventure-Colleen Reece (Sisters in Time Series)
Scottish Seas-Douglas Jones
William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy-Bradford Smith
William Bradford: Governor of Plymouth Colony-Marianne Hering
William Bradford: The First Thanksgiving DVD-Nest Animated Films
UNIT 4
Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments-Cheryl Kirk Noll
Amazing Ben Franklin Inventions You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents-Time Magazine
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin-Cheryl Harness
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin-Gene Barretta
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky-John Paul Zronik
Daniel Boone’s Great Escape-Michael P. Spraldin
The Declaration of Independence-Michael Burgan
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence-Judith St. George.
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence-Russell Freedman
Francis Marion and the Legend of the Swamp Fox-Kate Salley Palmer
Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox of the American Revolution-Louis P. Towles
From Colonies to Country-Joy Hakim (A History of US)
From Thirteen Colonies to One Nation-John Micklos
Growing Up in Revolution and the New Nation-Brandon Marie Miller
Amos Fortune, Free Man-Elizabeth Yates
The Arrow over the Door-Joseph Bruchac
Boys and Girls of Colonial Days-Carolyn Bailey
Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution-Jean Fritz
We the People: The Story of Our Constitution-Lynne Cheaney-The former second lady has written some excellent history books for children
The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution-Dennis Fradin
Sign of the Beaver-Elizabeth George Speare
Monday, August 23, 2010
Year 1-Upper Grammar
Ancient Civilization-Tapestry of Grace-More Resources
This combines the Ancient World with the Upper Grammar
Key
Bold Titles-Tapestry of Grace items
Italics-Librarian Lou's Suggestions
Alexander the Great-Jane Bingham
World History Biographies: Alexander: The Boy Soldier Who Conquered the World (National Geographic World History Biographies)
The world in the time of alexander the great
The World in the Time of Alexander the Great-Fiona MacDonald
Ancient Egypt (Make It Work)-Andrew Haslam
Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide- Marilyn Broada
Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series)
-Carmella Van Vleet
Ancient Egypt (Eyewitness Books)-George Hart
Ancient Greece! 40 Hands –On Activities to Experience This Wonder-Avery Hart
Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome (A Kid's Guide series)
Ancient Greece and the Olympics a nonfiction guide to the Hour of the Olympics
Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Books)-Anne Pearson
You are in Ancient Greece-Ivan Minnis
Ancient Civilizations of the World: Ancient Greece (DVD))-Schlessinger Media
Ancient Greek Art-Susie Hodge
Art and Religion in Ancient Greece-Melanie Apel
Hands-On Ancient People, Volume 2-Yvonne Merrill-This art book shows how to create art based on ancient cultures.
Ancient Greek War and Weapons-Haydn Middleton
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of this Powerful Empire-Avery Hart, Sandra Gallagher, Kaleidoscope Kids Book
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to "Vacation under the Volcano"-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) can be used with or without the chapter book
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A visual history of the city of Pompeii from 750 B.C. to the ruins of today.
Ancient Rome-Peter Chrisp (E-guides-DK)
Roman Diary-Richard Platt, the fictional story of a young girl captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Rome.
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient Rome (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
Buddha Stories-Demi
The Monkey Bridge-Rafe Martin
The Children’s Illustrated Bible- Selina Hastings editor
Bible Lands-Jonathan Tubb-DK Eyewitness Books
The Jesus Storybook Bible-Sally Lloyd-Jones, Zonderkids
Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned-Laurie Coulter- This tiles is mostly for fun. Disclaimer-job descriptions may not match Biblical definitions so use with discernment. For example, the definition of prophet would not satisfy most evangelicals.
The Corn Grows Ripe-Dorothy Rhoads
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan (Royal Diaries) This is a fictional diary of a Mayan princess in the 8th century. Consider reading segments of this book aloud.
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
The Corn Grows Ripe-Dorothy Rhoads
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan (Royal Diaries) This is a fictional diary of a Mayan princess in the 8th century. Consider reading segments of this book aloud.
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet-Helen Wilbur
Famous Men of Rome-John H. Haaren
The Age of Augustus-Don Nardo
Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome-Marissa Moss
Roman Diary-Richard Platt
Gilgamesh the King-Ludmila Zeman
Revenge of Ishtar-Ludmila Zeman
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh-Ludmila Zeman
Lugalbanda The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War-Kathy Henderson (folktale of Ancient Iraq)
God King-Joanne Williamson
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth-Kathryn Lasky
Life in Ancient China-Paul Challen
The Chinese Empire-Phillip Steele (Passport to the Past Series)-a good general introduction to Ancient China
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient China (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
Adventures in Ancient China-Linda Bailey-Ms. Frizzle and the children from the Magic School Bus Series visit Ancient Egypt.
Song of Mu Lan-Jeanne Lee
China’s Bravest Girl: The Legend of Hua Mu Lan-Charlie Chin
Life in Ancient Mesopotamia-Shilpa Merta-Jones
Mesopotamia-Philip Steele-Eyewitness Books
Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians-Virginia Schomp
Mesopotamia: Iraq in Ancient Times-Peter Chrisp
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Mesopotamia (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave: A Life of Hard Work You’d Rather Avoid-Jacqueline Morley
You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier! An Ancient Army You’d Rather Not Join-Rupert Matthews
Life in the Indus River Valley-Hazel Richardson
The Indus River Valley-Jane Shuter
Made in China-Suzanne Williams
Science in Ancient China-George Bedore
The Mystery of the Maya-Peter Lourie
The Ancient Maya-Lila Perl
Ancient Civilizations for Children: The Maya-Schlessinger Media
Aztec, Inca and Maya-Elizabeth Baquedano-Eyewitness Books
Ballplayers and Bonesetters: 100 Ancient Maya and Aztec Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred-Laurie Coulter
The Mystery of the Roman Ransom-Henry Winterfield
Roman Diary-Richard Platt
The True Story of Noah’s Ark-Tom Dooley
On Noah’s Ark-Jan Brett
Pegasus-Marianna Mayer
Let’s Go Pegasus-Jean Marzollo
Pepi and the Secret Names-Jill Paton Walsh
Peril and Peace-Mindy and Brandon Withrow
The First Christians-Paul Maier
Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes-Dave and Neta Jackson
A Place in the Sun-Jill Rubalcaba
Pompeii: City of Ashes-Sarah Kaplan-one copy
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary
Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) This is my personal favorite. It’s easy to read and it’s also a great tie-in with the Magic Tree House books but can stand on its own. It includes a bibliography and websites.
Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Series)
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A great visual look at Pompeii over the ages.
Pyramid-David Macaulay
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder: A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have-Jacqueline Morley
Mummies, Pyramids and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egyptians-Gail Gibbons. Gibbons can make any topic appealing. She does an excellent job with this one as well.
Pyramids and Mummies-Seymour Simon (See More Readers Series)
Tales from the Odyssey: The One-Eyed Giant-Mary Pope Osborne
Odysseus and the Cyclops-Warwick Hutton
A Triumph for Flavius-Caroline Snededker
Twice Freed-Patricia St. John
Usborne Internet-Linked Ancient World-Jane Bingham, editor, This is a great resource. It has information on most of the things you’ll need. It also has links to websites that can extend a lesson. This is a good title to purchase.
Walk with Y’shua Through the Jewish Year-Janie Wertheim, Kathy Shapiro
Jewish Holidays All Year Round-Ilene Cooper. There is lots of information here about the background of all Jewish Holidays as well as activities for extending the lessons.
Dance, Sing, Remember: A Celebration of Jewish Holidays-Leslie Kimmelman
What the Bible is All About for Young Explorers-Henrietta Mears
This combines the Ancient World with the Upper Grammar
Key
Bold Titles-Tapestry of Grace items
Italics-Librarian Lou's Suggestions
Alexander the Great-Jane Bingham
World History Biographies: Alexander: The Boy Soldier Who Conquered the World (National Geographic World History Biographies)
The world in the time of alexander the great
The World in the Time of Alexander the Great-Fiona MacDonald
Ancient Egypt (Make It Work)-Andrew Haslam
Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide- Marilyn Broada
Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series)
-Carmella Van VleetAncient Egypt (Eyewitness Books)-George Hart
Ancient Greece! 40 Hands –On Activities to Experience This Wonder-Avery Hart
Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome (A Kid's Guide series)
Ancient Greece and the Olympics a nonfiction guide to the Hour of the Olympics
Ancient Greece (Eyewitness Books)-Anne Pearson
You are in Ancient Greece-Ivan Minnis
Ancient Civilizations of the World: Ancient Greece (DVD))-Schlessinger Media
Ancient Greek Art-Susie Hodge
Art and Religion in Ancient Greece-Melanie Apel
Hands-On Ancient People, Volume 2-Yvonne Merrill-This art book shows how to create art based on ancient cultures.
Ancient Greek War and Weapons-Haydn Middleton
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of this Powerful Empire-Avery Hart, Sandra Gallagher, Kaleidoscope Kids Book
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to "Vacation under the Volcano"-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) can be used with or without the chapter book
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A visual history of the city of Pompeii from 750 B.C. to the ruins of today.
Ancient Rome-Peter Chrisp (E-guides-DK)
Roman Diary-Richard Platt, the fictional story of a young girl captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Rome.
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient Rome (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
Buddha Stories-Demi
The Monkey Bridge-Rafe Martin
The Children’s Illustrated Bible- Selina Hastings editor
Bible Lands-Jonathan Tubb-DK Eyewitness Books
The Jesus Storybook Bible-Sally Lloyd-Jones, Zonderkids
Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned-Laurie Coulter- This tiles is mostly for fun. Disclaimer-job descriptions may not match Biblical definitions so use with discernment. For example, the definition of prophet would not satisfy most evangelicals.
The Corn Grows Ripe-Dorothy Rhoads
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan (Royal Diaries) This is a fictional diary of a Mayan princess in the 8th century. Consider reading segments of this book aloud.
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
The Corn Grows Ripe-Dorothy Rhoads
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan (Royal Diaries) This is a fictional diary of a Mayan princess in the 8th century. Consider reading segments of this book aloud.
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet-Helen Wilbur
Famous Men of Rome-John H. Haaren
The Age of Augustus-Don Nardo
Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome-Marissa Moss
Roman Diary-Richard Platt
Gilgamesh the King-Ludmila Zeman
Revenge of Ishtar-Ludmila Zeman
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh-Ludmila Zeman
Lugalbanda The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War-Kathy Henderson (folktale of Ancient Iraq)
God King-Joanne Williamson
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth-Kathryn Lasky
Life in Ancient China-Paul Challen
The Chinese Empire-Phillip Steele (Passport to the Past Series)-a good general introduction to Ancient China
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Ancient China (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
Adventures in Ancient China-Linda Bailey-Ms. Frizzle and the children from the Magic School Bus Series visit Ancient Egypt.
Song of Mu Lan-Jeanne Lee
China’s Bravest Girl: The Legend of Hua Mu Lan-Charlie Chin
Life in Ancient Mesopotamia-Shilpa Merta-Jones
Mesopotamia-Philip Steele-Eyewitness Books
Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians-Virginia Schomp
Mesopotamia: Iraq in Ancient Times-Peter Chrisp
Ancient Civilizations for Children: Mesopotamia (DVD)-Schlessinger Media
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave: A Life of Hard Work You’d Rather Avoid-Jacqueline Morley
You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier! An Ancient Army You’d Rather Not Join-Rupert Matthews
Life in the Indus River Valley-Hazel Richardson
The Indus River Valley-Jane Shuter
Made in China-Suzanne Williams
Science in Ancient China-George Bedore
The Mystery of the Maya-Peter Lourie
The Ancient Maya-Lila Perl
Ancient Civilizations for Children: The Maya-Schlessinger Media
Aztec, Inca and Maya-Elizabeth Baquedano-Eyewitness Books
Ballplayers and Bonesetters: 100 Ancient Maya and Aztec Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred-Laurie Coulter
The Mystery of the Roman Ransom-Henry Winterfield
Roman Diary-Richard Platt
The True Story of Noah’s Ark-Tom Dooley
On Noah’s Ark-Jan Brett
Pegasus-Marianna Mayer
Let’s Go Pegasus-Jean Marzollo
Pepi and the Secret Names-Jill Paton Walsh
Peril and Peace-Mindy and Brandon Withrow
The First Christians-Paul Maier
Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes-Dave and Neta Jackson
A Place in the Sun-Jill Rubalcaba
Pompeii: City of Ashes-Sarah Kaplan-one copy
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary
Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) This is my personal favorite. It’s easy to read and it’s also a great tie-in with the Magic Tree House books but can stand on its own. It includes a bibliography and websites.
Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Series)
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A great visual look at Pompeii over the ages.
Pyramid-David Macaulay
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder: A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have-Jacqueline Morley
Mummies, Pyramids and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egyptians-Gail Gibbons. Gibbons can make any topic appealing. She does an excellent job with this one as well.
Pyramids and Mummies-Seymour Simon (See More Readers Series)
Tales from the Odyssey: The One-Eyed Giant-Mary Pope Osborne
Odysseus and the Cyclops-Warwick Hutton
A Triumph for Flavius-Caroline Snededker
Twice Freed-Patricia St. John
Usborne Internet-Linked Ancient World-Jane Bingham, editor, This is a great resource. It has information on most of the things you’ll need. It also has links to websites that can extend a lesson. This is a good title to purchase.
Walk with Y’shua Through the Jewish Year-Janie Wertheim, Kathy Shapiro
Jewish Holidays All Year Round-Ilene Cooper. There is lots of information here about the background of all Jewish Holidays as well as activities for extending the lessons.
Dance, Sing, Remember: A Celebration of Jewish Holidays-Leslie Kimmelman
What the Bible is All About for Young Explorers-Henrietta Mears
Monday, August 16, 2010
Tapestry of Grace-Year 4-Lower Grammar
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake-Ellen Levine
Earthquake: On a Peaceful Spring Morning Disaster Strikes San Francisco-Shelley Tanaka (A Day that Changed America)
Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906-Deborah Hopkinson
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse-David Kelly
Mighty Jackie the Strike-Out Queen-Marissa Moss-In 1931, 17 year old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
Home Run-Robert Burleigh-wordless picture book with amazing pictures
The Babe And I-David Adler-A young boy meets Babe Ruth in this fictional picture book.
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra-Andrea Davis Pinkney
First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers-Caryn Jenner
The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane: 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight-Mary Kay Carson
Airborne: A photobiography of Orville and Wilbur Wright-Mary Collins, National Geographic
Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore-Dan Gutman. This is a highly entertaining novel based on the true story of young Johnny Moore who has no interest in learning until he meets “those dingbats from Ohio.”
Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels-Dina El Nabli
Henry Ford-Jeffrey Zuhlke (History Maker Biographies)
Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford-Don Mitchell (National Geographic)
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane-Peter Busby
We’ll Race You Henry: A Story about Henry Ford-Barbara Mitchell
In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae-Linda Granfield
Old Time Children’s Fashions-Ming Ju Sun
Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620-1970-Brandon Marie Miller
The Panama Canal: The Story of How a Jungle was Conquered-Elizabeth Mann
Panama Canal-Barbara Winkleman
War Game: Village Green to No Man’s Land-Michael Foreman
Archie’s War: My Scrapbook of the First World War-Marcia Williams
Beatrix’s Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit-Beatrix Potter
The Legend of the Teddy Bear-Frank Murphy
Other books on Teddy Roosevelt include:
Young Teddy Roosevelt-Cheryl Harness
You’re On Your Way Teddy Roosevelt-Judith St. George
The Velveteen Rabbit-Margery Williams (usually listed by Bianco)
Anne of Green Gables-adapted by Jennifer Dussling
Anne of Green Gables DVD-Sullivan Entertainment
Marven of the Great North Woods-Kathryn Lasky
Blackwater Ben-William Durbin-In 1898, a young boy drops out of school to work with his father at a logging camp in Minnesota.
UNIT 2
Colors of Israel-Laurie Grossman
Families of Israel-DVD-Arden Films
Israel-Martin Hintz (Enchantment of the World)
The Great Depression-Michael Burgan
Welcome to Kit’s World, 1934: Growing Up in America’s Great Depression-Harriet Brown
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II-Louise Borden
Rosie the Riveter-Sean Price
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II-Penny Colman
Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart-Corrine Czabo
Amelia Earhart-Jane Sutcliffe (History Maker Biographies)
Amelia Earhart-Tonya Lee Stone (DK Biography)
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart-David Adler
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, based on a True Story-Pam Munoz Ryan
The Story of Anne Frank-Brenda Ralph Lewis (DK Reader)
A Picture Book of Anne Frank-David Adler
Who Was Walt Disney?-Whitney Stuart
Wallt Disney: Creator of Magical Worlds-Charnan Simon
The Butterfly-Patricia Polacco
Twenty and Ten-Clare Bishop-Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis in France during the second world war.
Hidden Child-Isaac Millman-In this picture book biography, Millman describes his childhood during the war.
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge-Hildegarde Swift
Birdie’s Lighthouse-Deborah Hopkinson
Lightship-Brian Floca-Lightships were used before the lighthouse.
A New Coat for Anna-Harriett Ziefert
UNIT 3
India-Sunita Apte
Count Your Way Through India-James Haskins
Going to School in India DVD-Master Communications
Counting Your Way Through Korea-James Haskins
Families of Korea (DVD)-Arden Films
K is for Korea-Hyechong Cheung
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine-Eileen Lucas
Remember Little Rock: The Time, the Stories, the People-Paul Robert Walker
Godspeed John Glenn-Richard Hilliard
Liftoff! A Photobiography of John Glenn-Don Mitchell
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, Jr.-Ellen Levine
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-Doreen Rappaport (also available on DVD)
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King-David Adler
Spotlight on China-Robin Johnson
Families of China (DVD) Arden Films
Welcome to China-Karyn Jenner (DK Readers)
Shanghai Messenger-Andrea Cheng-In this novel, an eleven year old girl visits her extended family in China
Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam-Sherry Garland
In the Land of Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale-Kha Dang Manh
The Empty Pot-Demi
The Donkey and the Rock-Demi, also a story from China
Horton Hears a Who-Dr. Seuss
A Grain of Rice-Demi
Gobble Gobble Slip Slop: The Tale of a Greedy Cat-Meilo So-another folk tale from India
Peacebound Trains-Haemi Balgassi
My Freedom Trip-Francis Park-A young girl escapes from North Korea
UNIT 4
You Wouldn’t Want to Be on Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Crisis in Space: Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Bill Gates-Jonetha Brown
Bill Gates: Computer Legend-Sara Barton Wood
The Middle East-Phillip Steele
Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela-Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nelson Mandela-Laaren Brown-DK Biography
Sally Ride-Elizabeth Raum
Sally Ride: A Space Biography-Barbara Kramer
September 11-Mary Englar (We the People)
September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed America-Jill Wheeler
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers-Mordicai Gerstein-This Caldecott Honor Book is the story of Phillipe Petit who walked a high wire between the two towers in 1974. It’s a great story with amazing perspectives of New York City.
Fireboat: The Heroic Story Adventures of the John J. Harvey-An old fireboat is pressed into service after the attack of the twin towers.
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the Personal Computer-Donald Lemke
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozinak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers-Mike Venzia
The World Wide Web-Larry Brimner
The Incredible Story of Computers and the Internet-Greg Rosa
Earthquake: On a Peaceful Spring Morning Disaster Strikes San Francisco-Shelley Tanaka (A Day that Changed America)
Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906-Deborah Hopkinson
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse-David Kelly
Mighty Jackie the Strike-Out Queen-Marissa Moss-In 1931, 17 year old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
Home Run-Robert Burleigh-wordless picture book with amazing pictures
The Babe And I-David Adler-A young boy meets Babe Ruth in this fictional picture book.
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra-Andrea Davis Pinkney
First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers-Caryn Jenner
The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane: 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight-Mary Kay Carson
Airborne: A photobiography of Orville and Wilbur Wright-Mary Collins, National Geographic
Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore-Dan Gutman. This is a highly entertaining novel based on the true story of young Johnny Moore who has no interest in learning until he meets “those dingbats from Ohio.”
Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels-Dina El Nabli
Henry Ford-Jeffrey Zuhlke (History Maker Biographies)
Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford-Don Mitchell (National Geographic)
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane-Peter Busby
We’ll Race You Henry: A Story about Henry Ford-Barbara Mitchell
In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae-Linda Granfield
Old Time Children’s Fashions-Ming Ju Sun
Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620-1970-Brandon Marie Miller
The Panama Canal: The Story of How a Jungle was Conquered-Elizabeth Mann
Panama Canal-Barbara Winkleman
War Game: Village Green to No Man’s Land-Michael Foreman
Archie’s War: My Scrapbook of the First World War-Marcia Williams
Beatrix’s Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit-Beatrix Potter
The Legend of the Teddy Bear-Frank Murphy
Other books on Teddy Roosevelt include:
Young Teddy Roosevelt-Cheryl Harness
You’re On Your Way Teddy Roosevelt-Judith St. George
The Velveteen Rabbit-Margery Williams (usually listed by Bianco)
Anne of Green Gables-adapted by Jennifer Dussling
Anne of Green Gables DVD-Sullivan Entertainment
Marven of the Great North Woods-Kathryn Lasky
Blackwater Ben-William Durbin-In 1898, a young boy drops out of school to work with his father at a logging camp in Minnesota.
UNIT 2
Colors of Israel-Laurie Grossman
Families of Israel-DVD-Arden Films
Israel-Martin Hintz (Enchantment of the World)
The Great Depression-Michael Burgan
Welcome to Kit’s World, 1934: Growing Up in America’s Great Depression-Harriet Brown
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II-Louise Borden
Rosie the Riveter-Sean Price
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II-Penny Colman
Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart-Corrine Czabo
Amelia Earhart-Jane Sutcliffe (History Maker Biographies)
Amelia Earhart-Tonya Lee Stone (DK Biography)
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart-David Adler
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, based on a True Story-Pam Munoz Ryan
The Story of Anne Frank-Brenda Ralph Lewis (DK Reader)
A Picture Book of Anne Frank-David Adler
Who Was Walt Disney?-Whitney Stuart
Wallt Disney: Creator of Magical Worlds-Charnan Simon
The Butterfly-Patricia Polacco
Twenty and Ten-Clare Bishop-Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis in France during the second world war.
Hidden Child-Isaac Millman-In this picture book biography, Millman describes his childhood during the war.
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge-Hildegarde Swift
Birdie’s Lighthouse-Deborah Hopkinson
Lightship-Brian Floca-Lightships were used before the lighthouse.
A New Coat for Anna-Harriett Ziefert
UNIT 3
India-Sunita Apte
Count Your Way Through India-James Haskins
Going to School in India DVD-Master Communications
Counting Your Way Through Korea-James Haskins
Families of Korea (DVD)-Arden Films
K is for Korea-Hyechong Cheung
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine-Eileen Lucas
Remember Little Rock: The Time, the Stories, the People-Paul Robert Walker
Godspeed John Glenn-Richard Hilliard
Liftoff! A Photobiography of John Glenn-Don Mitchell
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, Jr.-Ellen Levine
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-Doreen Rappaport (also available on DVD)
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King-David Adler
Spotlight on China-Robin Johnson
Families of China (DVD) Arden Films
Welcome to China-Karyn Jenner (DK Readers)
Shanghai Messenger-Andrea Cheng-In this novel, an eleven year old girl visits her extended family in China
Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam-Sherry Garland
In the Land of Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale-Kha Dang Manh
The Empty Pot-Demi
The Donkey and the Rock-Demi, also a story from China
Horton Hears a Who-Dr. Seuss
A Grain of Rice-Demi
Gobble Gobble Slip Slop: The Tale of a Greedy Cat-Meilo So-another folk tale from India
Peacebound Trains-Haemi Balgassi
My Freedom Trip-Francis Park-A young girl escapes from North Korea
UNIT 4
You Wouldn’t Want to Be on Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Crisis in Space: Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Bill Gates-Jonetha Brown
Bill Gates: Computer Legend-Sara Barton Wood
The Middle East-Phillip Steele
Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela-Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nelson Mandela-Laaren Brown-DK Biography
Sally Ride-Elizabeth Raum
Sally Ride: A Space Biography-Barbara Kramer
September 11-Mary Englar (We the People)
September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed America-Jill Wheeler
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers-Mordicai Gerstein-This Caldecott Honor Book is the story of Phillipe Petit who walked a high wire between the two towers in 1974. It’s a great story with amazing perspectives of New York City.
Fireboat: The Heroic Story Adventures of the John J. Harvey-An old fireboat is pressed into service after the attack of the twin towers.
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the Personal Computer-Donald Lemke
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozinak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers-Mike Venzia
The World Wide Web-Larry Brimner
The Incredible Story of Computers and the Internet-Greg Rosa
Tapestry of Grace-Year Two Lower Grammar
Tapestry of Grace-Year 2 Lower Grammar
Unit One
Brigid’s Cloak-Bryce Milligan
Caedmon’s Song-Ruth Ashby
Chanticleer and the Fox-Barbara Cooney
Here Bygynneth Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales-Marcia Williams
Chaucer’s Tales in graphic novel format
Days of Knights and Damsels-Laurie Carlson
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-on Activities to Experience the Middle Ages-Avery Hart
Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself-Kris Bordessa This title includes lots of information to back up all the projects.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages-John Haaren
Famous People of the Middle Ages-Donna Trembinski
Francis the Poor Man of Assisi-Tomie De Paola
Saint Francis-Brian Wildsmith
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press-Bruce Koscielniak
Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenberg-Joanne Johansen Burch
Knights-Stephanie Turnbull
Knights in Shining Armor-Gail Gibbons, Gibbons is known for outstanding nonfiction.
Knights and Castles: A Nonfiction Companion to The Knight at Dawn-Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne, This study guide is a great primer on knights and castles, It can be used with or without the fiction title.
Knight-Christopher Gravett-Eyewitness Books
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Medieval Knight: Armor You’d Rather Not Wear-Fiona MacDonald
Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles-Christopher Maynard-Eyewitness Readers
Life in a Medieval Monastery-Marc Cels
Life in a Medieval Monastery-Victoria Sherrow
Life in the Middle Ages: The Church-Kathryn Hinds Lots of information about the early church, catholic practices and the monastery life.
Life in the Middle Ages: The Monk DVD-Schlessinger Media
The Making of a Knight-Patrick O’Brien
Castle Diary: The Journey of Tobias Burgess,Page-Richard Platt,
This is the fictional story of a young page. The large size format includes many illustrations and factual information about a young boy’s life.
Igraine the Brave-Cornelia Funke
Adventures in the Middle Ages-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency)
Marco Polo-Robert Strathlock
Marco Polo-Demi (picture book biography)
The World in the Time of Marco Polo-Fiona MacDonald
Explorers of the World: Marco Polo (DVD)
Marguerite Makes a Book-Bruce Robertson
New-Magic in the Margins: A Medieval Tale of Bookmaking-W. Nicola-Lisa I just discovered this one. It’s about a young boy who is learning to create illumined manuscripts.
Minstrel in the Tower-Gloria Skurzynski
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland-Tomie DePaola
Saint Patrick-Ann Tombert
The Renaissance-Jane Shuter
An Italian Renaissance-Nomi J. Waldman
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
London-Neil Morris (Great Cities Through the Ages)-This is a wonderful pictorial view of London throughout history.
Venice-Renzo Rossi (Great Cities Through the Ages)
Saint Valentine-Robert Sabuda
Saint Valentine-Anne Tompert
The Squire and the Scroll-Jennie Bishop
The Tomten-Astrid Lindgren
Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World-Jane Bingham
Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History-Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Sam Taplin
Usborne Internet First Encyclopedia of History-Fiona Chandler
Times Medieval DVD-Summer Productions
The Vikings-Jane Shuter
Viking-Susan Margeson-Eyewitness Books
The Real Vikings: Craftsmen, Traders and Fearless Raiders-Melvin and Gilda Berger
Going to War in Viking Times-Christopher Gravett
Adventures with the Vikings-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency) This graphic novel has lots of information about the Vikings
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Crusader-Fiona MacDonald
There really aren’t any other simple books about the crusades. I will suggest two books that could be helpful if you want to spend some time on this issue:
Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem-Lee Hancock
Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade-David Hilliam
Unit 2
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea-Lenny Hort
The Children's Shakespeare-Edith Nesbit or The Best of Shakespeare-Edith Nesbit
Usborne Stories from Shakespeare-Anna Claybourne
Columbus-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Follow the Dream-Peter Sis
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus-David Adler
Elizabeth I-Stephanie Turnbull
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England-Diane Stanley, picture book biography
Elizabeth I: The Outcast Who Became England’s Queen-Simon Adams
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor-Kathryn Lasky (Royal Diaries)a fictional diary of the life of Queen Elizabeth.
The Royal Diaries DVD includes “Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor.”
The Queen’s Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet-Celeste Mannis-I recommend this for giving children a picture of Elizabethan Society (supplemental)
Magellan: A Voyage Around the World-Fiona MacDonald
The Story of Exploration by Anna Claybourne has a short chapter about Magellan called “Around the World in 1,080 Days.” It would be a good resource to own.
Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz also has a chapter on Magellan.
Explorers of the World: Magellan DVD-Schlessinger Media
Henry VIII and his Wives Paperdolls
Leonardo Da Vinci-Barbara Witteman
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer-Robert Byrd
Leonardo Da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities-Janis Herbert
Da Vinci and His Times-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
Mario-Mary Arrigan
Mario’s Angels: A Story about the artist Giotto-Mary Arrigan
Giotto-Mike Venzia
Martin Luther: The Man Who Changed the World-Paul Maier, this picture book biography is excellent in every way
Midsummer Night’s Dream-retold by Bruce Coville
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet-retold by Bruce Coville
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth-retold by Bruce Coville
Mother Goose-Michael Hague
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose-Scott Gustafson
The Neighborhood Mother Goose-Nina Crews
The Netherlands-Anne Heinrichs
The Netherlands-Rosaline NgCheong-Lum (Countries of the World)
Pieter Bruegel-Mike Venzia
Bruegel-John Malam
Bruegel: A Gift for Telling Stories-Pierre Sterckx
Rembrandt-Xavier Nix
A Weekend with Rembrandt-Pascal Bonafoux
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World-Gregory Blanch, Roberta Stathis
The Renaissance-Jane Shuter (History Opens Windows)
The Renaissance-Anna Claybourne (Time Travel Guides)
Lorenzo De’Medici and Renaissance Italy-The second section of this book is “Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy”
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
Renaissance-Alison Cole-Eyewitness Books Note: This is almost the same book as the book above just a slightly different edition.
The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss-Sally Matthews
Saint George and the Dragon-Margaret Hodges-Caldecott Winner
Saint George and the Dragon-Geraldine McCaughrean
William Shakespeare and the Globe-Aliki
A Shakespearean Theatre-Jacqueline Morley
Unit 3
Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World-Laurie Carlson.
Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Projects, Games, Activities and Recipes-David C. King
Colonial Living-Edwin Tunis
The Dreadful Smelly Colonies: The Disgusting Details about Life in Colonial America-Elizabeth Raum
Welcome to Felicity’s World, 1774: Growing Up in Colonial America-Catherine Gourley
Coming Home-Max Lucado
The Courage of Sarah Noble-Alice Dalgliesh
The Farewell Symphony-Anna Harwell Celenza
The Boy Who Loved Music-Joe Lasker, another story about Haydn.
Finding Providence-Avi
Roger Williams and Rhode Island DVD
Iroquois Indians-Caryn Yacowitz
The Iroquois-Raymond Bial
The Jamestown Colony-Gail Sakurai
You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Colonist: A Settlement You’d Rather Not Start-Jacqueline Morley
John Smith Escapes Again-Rosalyn Schanzer
Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 (My America)
Colonial Life for Children: Jamestown DVD-Schlessinger Media
Learn & Do: Color Adventure-Kym Wright
Life in New Amsterdam-Laura Fischer
Colonial Life for Children: The Dutch and New Amsterdam-DVD-Schlessinger Media
Dutch Colonies in America-Mary Englar
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town-Arnold Lobel-picture book
Life in New France-Jennifer Gillis
Champlain-Christopher Moore, has information about the New France Settlement
The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689-Betsy Maestro,
This book also has information about New France.
Life on a Southern Plantation-Sally Isaacs
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation, 1853-Paul Erickson
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters-Patricia McKissack (This book covers a later time period of slavery)
Pocahontas-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Story of Pocahontas-Caryn Jenner-DK Readers
Three Young Pilgrims-Cheryl Harness
Two Bad Pilgrims-Kathryn Lasky-Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington were known for making trouble on the Mayflower voyage. This graphic picture book tells their story.
Pilgrim Cat-Carol Peacock-another fictional tale from The Mayflower
The Voyage of the Mayflower-Alison Lassieur
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday
Mary Pope Osborne
Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple -Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, A Pilgrim Boy, Plymouth, 1620 0Ann Rinaldi (My Name is America)
William Penn: Founder of the Pennsylvania Colony-Bernadette Baczynski
The Story of William Penn-Aliki
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania-Steven Kroll
The World of William Penn-Genevieve Foster
Colonial Life for Children: William Penn and Pennsylvania-DVD
The Fourth of July Story-Alice Dalgliesh
The Life and Times of John Hancock-Mary Lou Kjelle
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence-Judith St. George
Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys-Patricia Gauch
Sam the Minuteman-Nathaniel Benchley
George the Drummer Boy-Nathaniel Benchley
Benjamin Franklin-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin-Cheryl Harness
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin-Gene Barretta
Amazing Ben Franklin Inventions You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet
A Picture Book of Ben Franklin-David Adler
The Boston Tea Party-Steven Kroll
You Wouldn’t Want to be at the Boston Tea Party: Wharf Water You’d Rather Not Drink-Peter Cook
Carry on Mr. Bowditch-Jean Lee Latham
Daniel Boone Coloring Book-Peter Copeland
Daniel Boone’s Great Escape-Michael P. Spraldin
Dear Benjamin Banneker-Brian Pinkney
Benjamin Banneker-Catherine Welch
George Washington-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
George Washington for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
America in the Time of George Washington: 1747 to 1803-Sally Isaacs
George Washington-Candace Ransom (History Maker Bios)-for lower grades
The George Washington You Never Knew-James Lincoln Collier, more content.
George Washington’s Teeth-Deborah Chandra, This is mostly an amusing picture book but the author did extensive research on George Washington and his dental history.
Gulliver’s Travelsadapted by Harvey Gill
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver retold by Martin Jenkins
Hasty Pudding, Johnny Cakes and Other Good Stuff-Loretta Ichord
Colonial Cooking-Susan Dosier
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Adventures of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride-Marjorie Priceman
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began-Lucille Penner
Let it Begin Here April 9, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began-Don Brown, this would make a good read aloud.
American Revolution: A Nonfiction Companion to the Revolutionary War on Wednesday-Mary Pope Osborne, This book can be used with or without the novel.
The Matchlock Gun-Walter Edmonds
Calico Captive-Elizabeth George Speare-another novel about the French and Indian War.
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl-Patricia McKissack (Dear America) fictional diary from 1763.
Meet Felicity-Valerie Tripp
Ann’s Story, 1747-Joan Lowery Nixon-about Colonial Williamsburg
Caesar’s Story, 1759-Joan Lowery Nixon-a young slave’s perspective on Colonial Williamsburg
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution-Betsy Maestro
Shhh! We’re Writing the Constitution-Jean Fritz
If You Were There When They Signed the Consitution-Elizabeth Levy
Napoleon: The Story of the Little Corporal-Robert Burleigh
The Age of Napoleon-Henry Henderson
Paul Revere’s Ride-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Presidents of the United States-Simon Adams
So You Want to Be President-Judith St. George, Caldecott Winner
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame and What the Neighbors Thought-Kathleen Krull-contains interesting facts about each President, their families and their times.
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude-Louise Borden
The Man Who Made Time Travel-Kathryn Lasky
With Pipe, Paddle and Song-Louise Yates
Unit One
Brigid’s Cloak-Bryce Milligan
Caedmon’s Song-Ruth Ashby
Chanticleer and the Fox-Barbara Cooney
Here Bygynneth Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales-Marcia Williams
Chaucer’s Tales in graphic novel format
Days of Knights and Damsels-Laurie Carlson
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-on Activities to Experience the Middle Ages-Avery Hart
Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself-Kris Bordessa This title includes lots of information to back up all the projects.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages-John Haaren
Famous People of the Middle Ages-Donna Trembinski
Francis the Poor Man of Assisi-Tomie De Paola
Saint Francis-Brian Wildsmith
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press-Bruce Koscielniak
Fine Print: A Story about Johann Gutenberg-Joanne Johansen Burch
Knights-Stephanie Turnbull
Knights in Shining Armor-Gail Gibbons, Gibbons is known for outstanding nonfiction.
Knights and Castles: A Nonfiction Companion to The Knight at Dawn-Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne, This study guide is a great primer on knights and castles, It can be used with or without the fiction title.
Knight-Christopher Gravett-Eyewitness Books
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Medieval Knight: Armor You’d Rather Not Wear-Fiona MacDonald
Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles-Christopher Maynard-Eyewitness Readers
Life in a Medieval Monastery-Marc Cels
Life in a Medieval Monastery-Victoria Sherrow
Life in the Middle Ages: The Church-Kathryn Hinds Lots of information about the early church, catholic practices and the monastery life.
Life in the Middle Ages: The Monk DVD-Schlessinger Media
The Making of a Knight-Patrick O’Brien
Castle Diary: The Journey of Tobias Burgess,Page-Richard Platt,
This is the fictional story of a young page. The large size format includes many illustrations and factual information about a young boy’s life.
Igraine the Brave-Cornelia Funke
Adventures in the Middle Ages-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency)
Marco Polo-Robert Strathlock
Marco Polo-Demi (picture book biography)
The World in the Time of Marco Polo-Fiona MacDonald
Explorers of the World: Marco Polo (DVD)
Marguerite Makes a Book-Bruce Robertson
New-Magic in the Margins: A Medieval Tale of Bookmaking-W. Nicola-Lisa I just discovered this one. It’s about a young boy who is learning to create illumined manuscripts.
Minstrel in the Tower-Gloria Skurzynski
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland-Tomie DePaola
Saint Patrick-Ann Tombert
The Renaissance-Jane Shuter
An Italian Renaissance-Nomi J. Waldman
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
London-Neil Morris (Great Cities Through the Ages)-This is a wonderful pictorial view of London throughout history.
Venice-Renzo Rossi (Great Cities Through the Ages)
Saint Valentine-Robert Sabuda
Saint Valentine-Anne Tompert
The Squire and the Scroll-Jennie Bishop
The Tomten-Astrid Lindgren
Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World-Jane Bingham
Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History-Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Sam Taplin
Usborne Internet First Encyclopedia of History-Fiona Chandler
Times Medieval DVD-Summer Productions
The Vikings-Jane Shuter
Viking-Susan Margeson-Eyewitness Books
The Real Vikings: Craftsmen, Traders and Fearless Raiders-Melvin and Gilda Berger
Going to War in Viking Times-Christopher Gravett
Adventures with the Vikings-Linda Bailey (Good Times Travel Agency) This graphic novel has lots of information about the Vikings
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Crusader-Fiona MacDonald
There really aren’t any other simple books about the crusades. I will suggest two books that could be helpful if you want to spend some time on this issue:
Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem-Lee Hancock
Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade-David Hilliam
Unit 2
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea-Lenny Hort
The Children's Shakespeare-Edith Nesbit or The Best of Shakespeare-Edith Nesbit
Usborne Stories from Shakespeare-Anna Claybourne
Columbus-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Follow the Dream-Peter Sis
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus-David Adler
Elizabeth I-Stephanie Turnbull
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England-Diane Stanley, picture book biography
Elizabeth I: The Outcast Who Became England’s Queen-Simon Adams
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor-Kathryn Lasky (Royal Diaries)a fictional diary of the life of Queen Elizabeth.
The Royal Diaries DVD includes “Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor.”
The Queen’s Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet-Celeste Mannis-I recommend this for giving children a picture of Elizabethan Society (supplemental)
Magellan: A Voyage Around the World-Fiona MacDonald
The Story of Exploration by Anna Claybourne has a short chapter about Magellan called “Around the World in 1,080 Days.” It would be a good resource to own.
Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz also has a chapter on Magellan.
Explorers of the World: Magellan DVD-Schlessinger Media
Henry VIII and his Wives Paperdolls
Leonardo Da Vinci-Barbara Witteman
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer-Robert Byrd
Leonardo Da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities-Janis Herbert
Da Vinci and His Times-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
Mario-Mary Arrigan
Mario’s Angels: A Story about the artist Giotto-Mary Arrigan
Giotto-Mike Venzia
Martin Luther: The Man Who Changed the World-Paul Maier, this picture book biography is excellent in every way
Midsummer Night’s Dream-retold by Bruce Coville
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet-retold by Bruce Coville
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth-retold by Bruce Coville
Mother Goose-Michael Hague
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose-Scott Gustafson
The Neighborhood Mother Goose-Nina Crews
The Netherlands-Anne Heinrichs
The Netherlands-Rosaline NgCheong-Lum (Countries of the World)
Pieter Bruegel-Mike Venzia
Bruegel-John Malam
Bruegel: A Gift for Telling Stories-Pierre Sterckx
Rembrandt-Xavier Nix
A Weekend with Rembrandt-Pascal Bonafoux
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World-Gregory Blanch, Roberta Stathis
The Renaissance-Jane Shuter (History Opens Windows)
The Renaissance-Anna Claybourne (Time Travel Guides)
Lorenzo De’Medici and Renaissance Italy-The second section of this book is “Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy”
Renaissance-Andrew Langley-Eyewitness Books
Renaissance-Alison Cole-Eyewitness Books Note: This is almost the same book as the book above just a slightly different edition.
The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss-Sally Matthews
Saint George and the Dragon-Margaret Hodges-Caldecott Winner
Saint George and the Dragon-Geraldine McCaughrean
William Shakespeare and the Globe-Aliki
A Shakespearean Theatre-Jacqueline Morley
Unit 3
Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World-Laurie Carlson.
Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Projects, Games, Activities and Recipes-David C. King
Colonial Living-Edwin Tunis
The Dreadful Smelly Colonies: The Disgusting Details about Life in Colonial America-Elizabeth Raum
Welcome to Felicity’s World, 1774: Growing Up in Colonial America-Catherine Gourley
Coming Home-Max Lucado
The Courage of Sarah Noble-Alice Dalgliesh
The Farewell Symphony-Anna Harwell Celenza
The Boy Who Loved Music-Joe Lasker, another story about Haydn.
Finding Providence-Avi
Roger Williams and Rhode Island DVD
Iroquois Indians-Caryn Yacowitz
The Iroquois-Raymond Bial
The Jamestown Colony-Gail Sakurai
You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Colonist: A Settlement You’d Rather Not Start-Jacqueline Morley
John Smith Escapes Again-Rosalyn Schanzer
Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 (My America)
Colonial Life for Children: Jamestown DVD-Schlessinger Media
Learn & Do: Color Adventure-Kym Wright
Life in New Amsterdam-Laura Fischer
Colonial Life for Children: The Dutch and New Amsterdam-DVD-Schlessinger Media
Dutch Colonies in America-Mary Englar
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town-Arnold Lobel-picture book
Life in New France-Jennifer Gillis
Champlain-Christopher Moore, has information about the New France Settlement
The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689-Betsy Maestro,
This book also has information about New France.
Life on a Southern Plantation-Sally Isaacs
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation, 1853-Paul Erickson
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters-Patricia McKissack (This book covers a later time period of slavery)
Pocahontas-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Story of Pocahontas-Caryn Jenner-DK Readers
Three Young Pilgrims-Cheryl Harness
Two Bad Pilgrims-Kathryn Lasky-Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington were known for making trouble on the Mayflower voyage. This graphic picture book tells their story.
Pilgrim Cat-Carol Peacock-another fictional tale from The Mayflower
The Voyage of the Mayflower-Alison Lassieur
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday
Mary Pope Osborne
Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple -Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, A Pilgrim Boy, Plymouth, 1620 0Ann Rinaldi (My Name is America)
William Penn: Founder of the Pennsylvania Colony-Bernadette Baczynski
The Story of William Penn-Aliki
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania-Steven Kroll
The World of William Penn-Genevieve Foster
Colonial Life for Children: William Penn and Pennsylvania-DVD
The Fourth of July Story-Alice Dalgliesh
The Life and Times of John Hancock-Mary Lou Kjelle
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence-Judith St. George
Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys-Patricia Gauch
Sam the Minuteman-Nathaniel Benchley
George the Drummer Boy-Nathaniel Benchley
Benjamin Franklin-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin-Cheryl Harness
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin-Gene Barretta
Amazing Ben Franklin Inventions You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet
A Picture Book of Ben Franklin-David Adler
The Boston Tea Party-Steven Kroll
You Wouldn’t Want to be at the Boston Tea Party: Wharf Water You’d Rather Not Drink-Peter Cook
Carry on Mr. Bowditch-Jean Lee Latham
Daniel Boone Coloring Book-Peter Copeland
Daniel Boone’s Great Escape-Michael P. Spraldin
Dear Benjamin Banneker-Brian Pinkney
Benjamin Banneker-Catherine Welch
George Washington-Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
George Washington for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities-Brandon Marie Miller
America in the Time of George Washington: 1747 to 1803-Sally Isaacs
George Washington-Candace Ransom (History Maker Bios)-for lower grades
The George Washington You Never Knew-James Lincoln Collier, more content.
George Washington’s Teeth-Deborah Chandra, This is mostly an amusing picture book but the author did extensive research on George Washington and his dental history.
Gulliver’s Travelsadapted by Harvey Gill
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver retold by Martin Jenkins
Hasty Pudding, Johnny Cakes and Other Good Stuff-Loretta Ichord
Colonial Cooking-Susan Dosier
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Adventures of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride-Marjorie Priceman
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began-Lucille Penner
Let it Begin Here April 9, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began-Don Brown, this would make a good read aloud.
American Revolution: A Nonfiction Companion to the Revolutionary War on Wednesday-Mary Pope Osborne, This book can be used with or without the novel.
The Matchlock Gun-Walter Edmonds
Calico Captive-Elizabeth George Speare-another novel about the French and Indian War.
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl-Patricia McKissack (Dear America) fictional diary from 1763.
Meet Felicity-Valerie Tripp
Ann’s Story, 1747-Joan Lowery Nixon-about Colonial Williamsburg
Caesar’s Story, 1759-Joan Lowery Nixon-a young slave’s perspective on Colonial Williamsburg
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution-Betsy Maestro
Shhh! We’re Writing the Constitution-Jean Fritz
If You Were There When They Signed the Consitution-Elizabeth Levy
Napoleon: The Story of the Little Corporal-Robert Burleigh
The Age of Napoleon-Henry Henderson
Paul Revere’s Ride-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Presidents of the United States-Simon Adams
So You Want to Be President-Judith St. George, Caldecott Winner
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame and What the Neighbors Thought-Kathleen Krull-contains interesting facts about each President, their families and their times.
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude-Louise Borden
The Man Who Made Time Travel-Kathryn Lasky
With Pipe, Paddle and Song-Louise Yates
Monday, August 2, 2010
Tapestry of Grace-Year One Low Grammar
Tapestry of Grace-Year One-Lower Grammar
I created this list to supplement the Tapestry of Grace Curriculum. Items in this list are in alphabetical order. The bold headings are the TOG books. Underneath are my suggestions for substitutions or supplements.
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction-David Macaulay
Roman City (J VHS)-This is David Macaulay’s City on video
Conquest: Can You Build a Roman City? -Julia Bruce (2 copies) This is a more modern book, includes diagrams of a Roman City.
Rome Antics-David Macaulay (strictly supplementary) In this picture book, a pigeon carries a message through ancient and modern Greece.
Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome-Laurie Carlson
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of This Powerful Empire-Avery Hart-Lots of information on Ancient Rome, including the story of Romulus and Remus, also many activities to extend the lesson.
Cleopatra-Diane Stanley
You wouldn’t want to be Cleopatra: An Egyptian Ruler you’d Rather Not Be-Jim Pipe-A comic look at the life of Cleopatra, includes gory details that children will love.
Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile-Kristiana Gregory (Royal Diaries)-This might be a little mature for primary grades. It’s a fictional diary based on the life of Cleopatra as a girl. Small sections could be helpful to help younger children get a glimpse of the life of royalty in Ancient Egypt.
Royal Diaries DVD includes "Cleopara: Daughter of the Nile."
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses-Henry Barker
Gods and Goddesses in the Life of the Ancient Egyptians-Henrietta McCall
The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt-Leonard Everett Fisher-(5 copies)
Egyptians-Stephanie Turnbull
Ancient Egypt-George Hart-DK (Eyewitness Books) This title is similar to other books in the Eyewitness Book Series. They use artifacts from the Smithsonian Museums. It’s the next best thing to being there.
Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide-Marion Broda
Ancient Egypt Revealed-Peter Chrisp-This book has excellent pictures. The content may be a little difficult for primary students.
Ancient Egypt DVD-Ancient Civilizations for Children Series
Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet. Lots of background information is given for each project.
Ralph Masiello’s Ancient Egypt Drawing Book-This title is for fun. It shows step by step instructions for drawing Ancient Egypt figures and landmarks
God Around Us-Mira Brichto
God King-Joanne Williamson Weeks
Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar Parin D’aulaire-This book is considered a classic. It has wonderful illustrations.
Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet-Helen Wilbur
Going to War in Roman Times-Moira Butterfield
The Roman Army: The Legendary Soldiers Who Created an Empire-Dyan Blacklock
The Roman Soldier’s Handbook: A Survival Guide for the Raw Recruit-Lesley Simms
How to Be a Roman Soldier-Fiona MacDonald
The Great Wall of China, Leonard Everett Fisher
Great Wall of China-Christine Webster-a more modern book about the Great Wall
You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Great Wall of China: Defenses You’d Rather Not Build-Jacqueline Morley-a hilarious look at the life construction workers, includes handy tips for survival in Ancient China. I recommend all books in this series.
The Hardest Word-Jacqueline Jules
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur-Deborah Heiligman-original selection by TOG, This was produced by National Geographic and shows both holidays being celebrated around the world.
Sound the Shofar: A Story for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipper-Leslie Kimmelman-A Jewish family celebrates both holidays (2 copies)
Hour of the Olympics-Mary Pope Osborne (11 copies, more in paperback)
Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Guide to the Hour of the Olympics, Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce-These guides are short and broken down into easily readable sections. It can be used with The Hour of the Olympics but it can also stand alone.
The Indus Valley-Jane Shuter
King Midas and the Golden Touch-Charlotte Craft
King Midas: The Golden Touch-Demi
King Midas-John Stewig
Life in A Greek Trading Port-Jane Shuter
Life in Ancient Athens-Jane Shuter
Mummies Made in Egypt-Aliki
Mummies Made in Egypt DVD This is basically the book on DVD.
Mummies, Pyramids and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egyptians-Gail Gibbons. Gibbons can make almost any topic appealing. She does an excellent job with this one as well.
The Best Book of Mummies-Phillip Steel, This title illustrates steps in preparing the body for mummification, easy to read.
Outside and Inside Mummies-Sandra Markle-This book is more advanced and goes into more detail about the mummification process.
The Nile River-Allan Fowler
The Story of the Nile-Steve Noon (DK) This large format book has wonderful pictures of the Nile and Egyptian culture, highly recommended.
We’re Sailing Down the Nile: A Journey through Egypt-Laurie Krebs This is a simple picture book that features lots of Ancient Egypt sites. (6 copies)
Old Testament Days-Nancy Sanders
Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide-Marilyn Broida
Peril and Peace-Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Rain Player-David Wisniewski
People of Corn: A Maya Story-Mary Joan Gerson-This is another legend from the Ancient Mayan culture.
Ancient Maya DVD (Ancient Civilizations for Children)
The Ancient Maya-Lila Perl (11 copies)
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan-Royal Diaries Series-This book was written for upper elementary students but younger students would probably enjoy selections about the fictional life of this Mayan Queen as a girl.
Song of Creation-Paul Goble
The Story of Little Babaji-Helen Bannerman
Sam and the Tigers-Julius Lester, This is another modern version of Little Black Sambo, created about the same time as The Story of Little Babaji.
The Tale of the Three Trees-Angela Ellwell Hunt
The Tower of Babel-Alison Greengard-This bilingual title is listed in its original language in the library catalog. It’s easier to locate doing an author search
Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War-Emily Little
Trojan Horse: The World’s Greatest Adventure-David Clement Davies-This title is very similar to the title above. Both were written for newly independent readers and have lots of visual appeal. This title is an Eyewitness Reader, Level 4.
Tutankahem’s Gift-Robert Sabuda
You Wouldn’t Want to be Tutankhamen: A Mummy Who Really Got Meddled With-David Stewart-A comical history of Tutankhamen's life, death and mummification.
The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy-Kathleen Zoehfield-This is the story of the search for King Tut’s Tomb
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb-Michael Burgan-This is a graphic novel
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop’s Fables-Helen Ward (3 copies)
McEldberry Book of Aesop’s Fables-Michael Morpugo
The Lion & the Mouse and Other Aesop Fables-Doris Orgel
The Lion and the Mouse-Jerry Pinkney-this year’s Caldecott winner, wordless
The Hare and the Tortoise-Helen Ward
Town Mouse, Country Mouse-Jan Brett
The Very First Christians-Paul Maier
Who were the Romans?-Phil Cox
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) This is my personal favorite. It’s easy to read and it’s also a great tie-in with the Magic Tree House books but can stand on its own. It includes a bibliography and websites. (8 copies)
Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne-Magic Tree House Series
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of this Powerful Empire-Avery Hart, Sandra Gallagher (Kaleidoscope Kids Book) This activity book also includes a lot of information including the story of Romulus and Remus
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A visual history of the city of Pompeii from 750 B.C. to the Ruins of Today
Ancient Rome-Peter Chrisp (E-guides-DK)
This encyclopedia has great pictures and Internet links to websites with more pictures and information. The content will be above primary level.
Roman Diary-Richard Platt, the fictional story of a young girl captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Rome, heavily illustrated
Ancient Rome DVD-(Ancient Civilizations for Children Series)
You are in Ancient China-Ivan Minnis
The Chinese Empire-Phillip Steele-4 (Passport to the Past Series)-a good general introduction to Ancient China
Ancient China DVD-Ancient Civilizations for Children Series
Adventures in Ancient China-Linda Bailey-Ms. Frizzle and the children from the Magic School Bus Series visit Ancient Egypt.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder: A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have-Jacqueline Morley
Pyramid-Caroline Bingham-DK Eye Wonder-The Eye Wonder Series is simpler and easier to read than most of the DK books it also includes excellent visuals.
Pyramids and Mummies-Simon Seymour (See More Readers Series) This series targets younger elementary students. Simon Seymour is known for authoring hundreds of nonfiction books.
Pyramid-Peter Chrisp-This is another DK book. It has strong visuals but the content may be a little advanced for primary grades.
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator: Gory Things You’d Rather Not Know-John Malam
Gladiators Battling in the Arena-Katherine Frew
Gladiator-Richard Watson
You Wouldn’t Want to be in Alexander the Great’s Army
The World in the Time of Alexander the Great-Fiona MacDonald
I created this list to supplement the Tapestry of Grace Curriculum. Items in this list are in alphabetical order. The bold headings are the TOG books. Underneath are my suggestions for substitutions or supplements.
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction-David Macaulay
Roman City (J VHS)-This is David Macaulay’s City on video
Conquest: Can You Build a Roman City? -Julia Bruce (2 copies) This is a more modern book, includes diagrams of a Roman City.
Rome Antics-David Macaulay (strictly supplementary) In this picture book, a pigeon carries a message through ancient and modern Greece.
Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome-Laurie Carlson
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of This Powerful Empire-Avery Hart-Lots of information on Ancient Rome, including the story of Romulus and Remus, also many activities to extend the lesson.
Cleopatra-Diane Stanley
You wouldn’t want to be Cleopatra: An Egyptian Ruler you’d Rather Not Be-Jim Pipe-A comic look at the life of Cleopatra, includes gory details that children will love.
Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile-Kristiana Gregory (Royal Diaries)-This might be a little mature for primary grades. It’s a fictional diary based on the life of Cleopatra as a girl. Small sections could be helpful to help younger children get a glimpse of the life of royalty in Ancient Egypt.
Royal Diaries DVD includes "Cleopara: Daughter of the Nile."
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses-Henry Barker
Gods and Goddesses in the Life of the Ancient Egyptians-Henrietta McCall
The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt-Leonard Everett Fisher-(5 copies)
Egyptians-Stephanie Turnbull
Ancient Egypt-George Hart-DK (Eyewitness Books) This title is similar to other books in the Eyewitness Book Series. They use artifacts from the Smithsonian Museums. It’s the next best thing to being there.
Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide-Marion Broda
Ancient Egypt Revealed-Peter Chrisp-This book has excellent pictures. The content may be a little difficult for primary students.
Ancient Egypt DVD-Ancient Civilizations for Children Series
Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself-Carmella Van Vleet. Lots of background information is given for each project.
Ralph Masiello’s Ancient Egypt Drawing Book-This title is for fun. It shows step by step instructions for drawing Ancient Egypt figures and landmarks
God Around Us-Mira Brichto
God King-Joanne Williamson Weeks
Gods and Goddesses of Olympus-Aliki
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-Ingri and Edgar Parin D’aulaire-This book is considered a classic. It has wonderful illustrations.
Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet-Helen Wilbur
Going to War in Roman Times-Moira Butterfield
The Roman Army: The Legendary Soldiers Who Created an Empire-Dyan Blacklock
The Roman Soldier’s Handbook: A Survival Guide for the Raw Recruit-Lesley Simms
How to Be a Roman Soldier-Fiona MacDonald
The Great Wall of China, Leonard Everett Fisher
Great Wall of China-Christine Webster-a more modern book about the Great Wall
You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Great Wall of China: Defenses You’d Rather Not Build-Jacqueline Morley-a hilarious look at the life construction workers, includes handy tips for survival in Ancient China. I recommend all books in this series.
The Hardest Word-Jacqueline Jules
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur-Deborah Heiligman-original selection by TOG, This was produced by National Geographic and shows both holidays being celebrated around the world.
Sound the Shofar: A Story for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipper-Leslie Kimmelman-A Jewish family celebrates both holidays (2 copies)
Hour of the Olympics-Mary Pope Osborne (11 copies, more in paperback)
Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Guide to the Hour of the Olympics, Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce-These guides are short and broken down into easily readable sections. It can be used with The Hour of the Olympics but it can also stand alone.
The Indus Valley-Jane Shuter
King Midas and the Golden Touch-Charlotte Craft
King Midas: The Golden Touch-Demi
King Midas-John Stewig
Life in A Greek Trading Port-Jane Shuter
Life in Ancient Athens-Jane Shuter
Mummies Made in Egypt-Aliki
Mummies Made in Egypt DVD This is basically the book on DVD.
Mummies, Pyramids and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egyptians-Gail Gibbons. Gibbons can make almost any topic appealing. She does an excellent job with this one as well.
The Best Book of Mummies-Phillip Steel, This title illustrates steps in preparing the body for mummification, easy to read.
Outside and Inside Mummies-Sandra Markle-This book is more advanced and goes into more detail about the mummification process.
The Nile River-Allan Fowler
The Story of the Nile-Steve Noon (DK) This large format book has wonderful pictures of the Nile and Egyptian culture, highly recommended.
We’re Sailing Down the Nile: A Journey through Egypt-Laurie Krebs This is a simple picture book that features lots of Ancient Egypt sites. (6 copies)
Old Testament Days-Nancy Sanders
Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide-Marilyn Broida
Peril and Peace-Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Rain Player-David Wisniewski
People of Corn: A Maya Story-Mary Joan Gerson-This is another legend from the Ancient Mayan culture.
Ancient Maya DVD (Ancient Civilizations for Children)
The Ancient Maya-Lila Perl (11 copies)
Lady of Palenque, Flower of Bacal-Anna Kirwan-Royal Diaries Series-This book was written for upper elementary students but younger students would probably enjoy selections about the fictional life of this Mayan Queen as a girl.
Song of Creation-Paul Goble
The Story of Little Babaji-Helen Bannerman
Sam and the Tigers-Julius Lester, This is another modern version of Little Black Sambo, created about the same time as The Story of Little Babaji.
The Tale of the Three Trees-Angela Ellwell Hunt
The Tower of Babel-Alison Greengard-This bilingual title is listed in its original language in the library catalog. It’s easier to locate doing an author search
Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War-Emily Little
Trojan Horse: The World’s Greatest Adventure-David Clement Davies-This title is very similar to the title above. Both were written for newly independent readers and have lots of visual appeal. This title is an Eyewitness Reader, Level 4.
Tutankahem’s Gift-Robert Sabuda
You Wouldn’t Want to be Tutankhamen: A Mummy Who Really Got Meddled With-David Stewart-A comical history of Tutankhamen's life, death and mummification.
The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy-Kathleen Zoehfield-This is the story of the search for King Tut’s Tomb
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb-Michael Burgan-This is a graphic novel
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop’s Fables-Helen Ward (3 copies)
McEldberry Book of Aesop’s Fables-Michael Morpugo
The Lion & the Mouse and Other Aesop Fables-Doris Orgel
The Lion and the Mouse-Jerry Pinkney-this year’s Caldecott winner, wordless
The Hare and the Tortoise-Helen Ward
Town Mouse, Country Mouse-Jan Brett
The Very First Christians-Paul Maier
Who were the Romans?-Phil Cox
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Guide to Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Research Guide) This is my personal favorite. It’s easy to read and it’s also a great tie-in with the Magic Tree House books but can stand on its own. It includes a bibliography and websites. (8 copies)
Vacation Under the Volcano-Mary Pope Osborne-Magic Tree House Series
Ancient Rome: Exploring the Culture, People and Ideas of this Powerful Empire-Avery Hart, Sandra Gallagher (Kaleidoscope Kids Book) This activity book also includes a lot of information including the story of Romulus and Remus
Pompeii-Richard Platt-A visual history of the city of Pompeii from 750 B.C. to the Ruins of Today
Ancient Rome-Peter Chrisp (E-guides-DK)
This encyclopedia has great pictures and Internet links to websites with more pictures and information. The content will be above primary level.
Roman Diary-Richard Platt, the fictional story of a young girl captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Rome, heavily illustrated
Ancient Rome DVD-(Ancient Civilizations for Children Series)
You are in Ancient China-Ivan Minnis
The Chinese Empire-Phillip Steele-4 (Passport to the Past Series)-a good general introduction to Ancient China
Ancient China DVD-Ancient Civilizations for Children Series
Adventures in Ancient China-Linda Bailey-Ms. Frizzle and the children from the Magic School Bus Series visit Ancient Egypt.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder: A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have-Jacqueline Morley
Pyramid-Caroline Bingham-DK Eye Wonder-The Eye Wonder Series is simpler and easier to read than most of the DK books it also includes excellent visuals.
Pyramids and Mummies-Simon Seymour (See More Readers Series) This series targets younger elementary students. Simon Seymour is known for authoring hundreds of nonfiction books.
Pyramid-Peter Chrisp-This is another DK book. It has strong visuals but the content may be a little advanced for primary grades.
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator: Gory Things You’d Rather Not Know-John Malam
Gladiators Battling in the Arena-Katherine Frew
Gladiator-Richard Watson
You Wouldn’t Want to be in Alexander the Great’s Army
The World in the Time of Alexander the Great-Fiona MacDonald
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