Quickly start your kids as readers! Just read this article…
Need to get your kids started on their love-affair with reading? If so, which books are famous (or should be!) for inspiring children & teens to WANT to read? Michelle was asked to share them in a magazine article, and you can have that headstart right now!
History Recommendations for Middle to Upper Ages:
Hittite Warrior, by Joanne Williamson
Victory on the Walls: A Story of Nehemiah, by Frieda Hyman
Archimedes and the Door of Science, by Jeanne Bendick
Herodotus and the Road to History, by Jeanne Bendick
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, by Jeanne Bendick
Ides of April, by Mary Ray
Son of Charlemagne, by Barbara Willard
Rolf and the Viking Bow, by Allen French
If All the Swords in England, by Barbara Willard
Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan, by Rita Ritchie
Door to the North, by Elizabeth Coatsworth
DeSoto: Child of the Sun, by William O. Steele
Reb and the Redcoats, by Constance Savery
Enemy Brothers: A Story of World War II, by Constance Savery
Here’s another idea! Discover that yummy “living books” will revolutionize your “history” learning! I’ll list a few here which can be most easily purchased or borrowed from libraries (or through ILL, inter-library loan). Once you see their vitality, you’ll have experienced the power of well-written books to thrill and teach your children & teens in many academic subjects! You’re in for a treat!
History Recommendations for Elementary Ages:
Leif the Lucky, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Columbus, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Pocahontas, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Wagon Wheels, by Barbara Brenner
George Washington, by Janet & Geoff Benge
George Washington Carver, by Janet & Geoff Benge (and many others in series)
With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School, by Suzanne Slade
That Book Woman, by Heather Henson
Rocks in His Head, by Carol Hurst
Dust for Dinner, by Ann Turner
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas, by Tonya Bolden
Boy of the Pyramids, by Ruth Jones
Sword in the Tree, by Clyde Robert Bulla
Want to use “living books” like these for your entire history curriculum, like Michelle did (even graduating two sons with collegiate history degrees)?
Use Michelle’s TruthQuest History award-winning curriculum, with 11 different guides providing rich, literary coverage of—and deeply biblical commentary on—both American and world history, at various age levels, covering Grades 1-12 altogether.
