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yes, that's what I meant...I haven't bought the AG. We are listening to the audio CD's right now.

 

I'm still deciding on whether I want to buy the AG...I probably need to, but in the mean time I was just looking for a book suggestion to get her started.

 

Thanks...

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Here are some. These do include picture books with beautiful illustrations. We never tire of those and regularly mix them in with chapter books (in fact, we often find chapter books that include beautiful illustrations).... And it's too long, so I have to break it in two.....

 

Books arranged by SOTW III Chapters/Topics:

 

SOTW Chapter 1, Holy Roman Empire and Riches of Spain

 

The Sad Night: the story of an Aztec victory and a Spanish loss, Sally Matthews

Spanish Food and Drink, Maria Pellicer

Lost Treasure of the Inca, Peter Lourie (good)

 

Reading:

 

Don Quixote, or an annotation of it.... Even reading parts of it can be fun!

 

 

SOTW Chapter 2, Protestant Rebellions

 

Herstory, Ruth Ashby, re: Mary, Queen of Scots

Enchantment of the World: Germany, Jean Blashfield - selections pertinent to time period

The Netherlands: Enchantment of the World, Martin Hintz - selections

Masters of Art: Rembrandt and Seventeenth-Century Holland, Claudio Pescio

 

Reading:

 

The Boy Who Held Back the Sea, Thomas Locker

 

 

SOTW Chapter 3, King James

 

The Colony of Virginia, Brooke Coleman

James Towne: Struggle for Survival, Marcia Sewall (good)

Stories from the New Testament, Kate Leitch (good)

From National Geo's Mysteries of History, we read about the First European Visitors to the New World, El Dorado and the Lost Colony of Roanoke

A History of Britain through Art, Jillian Powell - pertinent portions

 

Reading:

 

Pocahontas, D'Aulaires

 

 

SOTW Chapter 4, Northwest Passage

 

The Travels of Samuel de Champlain, Joanne Mattern

Life of the Powhatan, Bobbie Kalman

Portions of Canada the Culture, Bobbie Kalman

The MicMac, Ruth Whitehead (good)

 

Reading:

 

Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson, Joan Goodman

Life in a Longhouse Village, Bobbie Kalman

Our Strange New Land, Patricia Hermes

The Broken Blade, William Durbin (VERY good!)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 5, Japan’s Warlords

 

Japan the Land, Bobbie Kalman

Look What Came From Japan, Miles Harvey

A True Book: Japan, Ann Heinrichs

 

Reading:

 

Sword of the Samurai, Eric Kimmel (good)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 6, New World Colonies

 

Three Young Pilgrims, Cheryl Harness

Places in Time, pertinent portions, Elspeth Leacock

From Mysteries of History, read about King George III

1621, A New Look at Thanksgiving, Grace and Bruchac

 

Reading:

 

Pilgrims of Plymouth, Susan Goodman

On the Mayflower, Kate Waters

On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town, Arnold Lobel

Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams, Avi

The First Thanksgiving, J.C. George

If You Lived in Colonial Times, Ann McGovern

Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims, Clyde Bulla

In 1492, Jean Marzollo

 

 

SOTW Chapter 7, Rise of Slave Trade to Americas

 

The Strength of these Arms: Life in the Slave Quarters, Raymond Bial

Amistad Rising, Veronica Chambers

The Yoruba of West Africa, Calliope

 

Reading:

 

Africa Dream, Eloise Greenfield

The Benin Kingdom of West Africa, John Peffer-Engels

In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies, Alice McGill (with songs on CD)

(Good)

In the Time of the Drums, Kim Siegelson

The Village that Vanished, Ann Grifalconi (good)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 8, Persian and the Ottoman Turks

 

First Reports: Iran, Robin Doak

Mosque, Macaulay

 

Reading:

 

One Riddle, One Answer, Lauren Thompson

Read stories from A Treasury of Turkish Folktales for Children, Barbara Walker

 

 

SOTW Chapter 9, 30 Years’ War

 

Outrageous Women of the Renaissance, Vicki Leon, re: Christina of Denmark

Look What Came from Germany, Kevin Davis

Great Composers, Piero Ventura

Read from Denmark in Pictures, Lerner Publications

Germany the People, Bobbie Kalman (Kathryn Lane)

 

Reading:

 

The Glass Mountain, Diane Wolkstein

The Hero of Bremen, Margeret Hodges

Battle of the Beasts, Diz Wallis

Rapunzel, Paul Zelinsky

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning

Read from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Little Brother and Little Sister, Bernadette Watts

Little Red Cap, Lisbeth Zwerger

Seven at One Blow, Eric Kimmel

 

 

SOTW Chapter 10, Ming China and Japan in Isolation

 

Read from China the Land, Bobbie Kalman

Read from Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China, Suzanne Williams

Children of China, an artist’s journey, Song Nan Zhang (good!)

Read from Japan the Culture, Bobbie Kalman

Read from Moonbeams, Dumplings and Dragon Boats, Nina Simonds, et al

Read from Eyewitness Buddhism re: Buddhism in China and Japan

 

Reading:

 

Shipwrecked! Rhoda Blumberg

Made in China, Deborah Nash

The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth (longtime favorite!)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 11, Moghul India

 

Look What Came From India, Miles Harvey

Monsoon, Uma Krishnaswami

Read from Great Events that Changed the World, re: Moghul India

Read from Eyewitness India

The Taj Mahal, Christine Moorcroft

 

 

SOTW Chapter 12, England and Cromwell’s Rebellion

 

Read Daily Life in Ancient and Modern London, Ray Webb (up to 1800)

The Great Fire of London of 1666, Megdalena Alagna

 

 

SOTW Chapter 13, The Sun King

 

From Ten Kings, read about Louis XIV

Look What Came From France, Miles Harvey

Usborne First Book of France, Louisa Somerville

The Inside-Outside Book of Paris, Roxie Munro

The World in the Time of Marie Antoinette, Fiona Macdonald

 

Reading:

 

The Turnip, Walter de la Mare

The Three Musketeers, or an annotated version

 

 

SOTW Chapter 14, Prussia

 

George Handel, Mike Venezia (good)

Germany, Catherine and John Bradley, read the spread on Prussian beginnings

Introducing Bach, Roland Vernon

Listened to Hallelujah Handel on tape

Mr. Bach Comes to Call, listened to tape

 

Reading:

 

The Hole in the Dike, Norma Green

The Water of Life, Barbara Rogasky (Grimm)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 15, North American Conflicts between Settlers/Indians

 

Reading:

 

A Farmer Boy Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder, adapted w/ illus. By Jody Wheeler, or read the original Farmer Boy

The Year at Mapel Hill Farm, Alice and Martin Provensen

Listened to The Boy Who Lived with the Bears and Other Iroquois Stories, Joe Bruchac

 

 

SOTW Chapter 16, New World Conflict

 

A Colonial Quaker Girl, Megan O'Hara

Kids in Colonial Times, Lisa Wroble

The Iroquois, Petra Press

The Iroquois, Virginia Sneve

Struggle for a Continent, Betsy Maestro (good)

 

Reading:

 

(We listened to unabridged Farmer Boy, Wilder)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 17, Age of Reason and Agricultural Revolution

 

Galileo, Jacqueline Mitton

Growing Seasons, Elsie Splear

Why Doesn’t the Earth Fall Up? Vicki Cobb

How to Think Like a Scientist, Stephen Kramer

 

Reading:

 

Gulliver in Lilliput, Margaret Hodges

Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (Young Readers, Usborne)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 18, Russia

 

Ten Kings, read about Peter the Great

 

Reading:

 

A Weave of Words, Robert D. San Souci

Look What Came from Russia, Miles Harvey

Read from Folktales of the Amur, Dmitri Nagishkin (we both read from this)

The Sea King’s Daughter, Aaron Shepard (good)

Read from Forests of the Vampire

 

 

SOTW Chapter 19, Ottoman Turks

 

Read from Eyewitness Islam

Read from Cultures of the World: Turkey, Sean Sheehan

 

Reading:

 

Count Your Way Through the Arab World, Jim Haskins

 

 

SOTW Chapter 20, British Rule in India

 

India the Culture, Bobbie Kalman

Read from Enchantment of the World: India, Sylvia McNair

 

Reading:

 

Read from Just So Stories, Kipling (Moser, illus.)

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And the rest of the story:

 

SOTW Chapter 21, China and its many Domains

 

The Dalai Lama, Demi

Journey Through China, Philip Steele

Vietnam the Land, Bobbie Kalman

Read from Taiwan in Pictures, Ling Yu (Lerner Publications)

 

Reading:

 

Dragons, Lucille Penner

The Emperor and the Kite, Jane Yolen

The Nightingale, Jerry Pinkney

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain, Arnold Lobel

Look What Came from China, Miles Harvey

Children of the Dragon, Sherry Garland (re: Vietnam) (VERY good!)

Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like, Jay Williams (good)

Eyes of the Dragon, Margaret Leaf (good)

The Last Dragon, Susan Nunes (good)

Listened to The Emperor and the Nightingale, Hans Christian Anderson (illus. Robert Van Nutt)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 22, American Patriots; America on brink of War, etc.

 

Samuel Adams, Stuart Kallen

Sam and John Adams, Susan and John Lee

The Revolutionary John Adams, Cheryl Harness (good)

George Washington, D'Aulaires

Crossing the Delaware, Louise Peacock

George Washington, James Giblin

Paul Revere, Son of Liberty, Keith Brandt (good)

Davy Crockett, Young Pioneer, Laurence Santrey (good)

You Wouldn't Want to be a Pirate's Prisoner! John Malam (good)

 

Continuing into next week:

 

The Story of Davy Crockett, Frontier Hero, Walter Retan (good)

Great Events that Changed the World, Brian Delf (re: American Revolution)

Herstory: Women who Changed the World, Gloria Steinem (re: Deborah Samson)

Betsy Ross, Alexandra Wallner

The Liberty Tree: The Beginning of the American Revolution, Lucille Penner

The Eve of Revolution: The Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox, Barbara Burt (historical fiction)

The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Samson, Ann McGovern (good)

 

Continuing into the next week:

 

From Places in Time, read pertinent portions

African Americans and the Revolutionary War: Journey to Freedom, Judith Harper (good)

George Washington Elected: How America's First President was Chosen, Allison Draper

The Bill of Rights, Patricia Quiri

From Mr. President: A Book of U.S. Presidents, George Sullivan, read about Washington and Adams

Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship, David Weitzman

Benjamin Franklin, D'Aulaires

 

Reading:

 

Great Illustrated Classics version of Last of the Mohicans, or read the original

Jack Jouett's Ride, Gail Haley

Molly Pitcher, an Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Jean Fritz

Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? Jean Fritz

A More Perfect Union: The Story of our Constitution, Betsy and Giulio Maestro

Sam the Minuteman, Nathaniel Benchley

Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? Jean Fritz

Giving Thanks, Chief Jake Swamp

The Windigo’s Return, Douglas Wood

Lawson, book on tape (both Ben and Me and this one are good!)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 23, American Revolution and New Constitution/New President

 

Giants in the Land, Diana Appelbaum

The Boston Tea Party, Allison Draper

Read selections from The White House, An Illustrated History, Catherine Grace

 

Reading:

 

Can't you Make them Behave, King George? Jean Fritz (good, as are all her books!)

Skippack School, Marguerite de Angeli (good!)

Watched animated video of Ben and Me, based on book by Robert Lawson

Bound for Freedom, Ruth Chessman (good!)

Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (good!)

Mr. Revere and I, Robert

 

 

SOTW Chapter 24, Captain Cook, Australian Penal Colony and Aborigines

 

Read from The World’s Great Explorers: James Cook, Zachary Kent

Read about Cook from People in the Past

 

Reading:

 

Captain Cook, Rebecca Levene

 

 

SOTW Chapter 25, French Revolution

 

People of the Past, read about French Revolution

Read about French Revolution from Great Events that Changed the World, Delf

Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution, Nancy Plain

Sightseers: Paris 1789, Kingfisher

Redoute’, The Man Who Painted Flowers, Carolyn Croll

 

Reading:

 

Marie Antoinette, Katie Daynes

Usborne Famous Lives: Napoleon, Lucy Lethbridge

Usborne Famous Lives: Nelson, Minna Lacey

The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty, William Bligh, Great Illustrated Classics, or read the original

 

 

SOTW Chapter 26, Catherine the Great of Russia

 

From Herstory, read about Catherine the Great

A Look at Russia, Helen Frost

Read from Russia in Pictures, Heron Marquez

 

Reading:

 

Kashtanka, Anton Chekhov

The Tale of the Firebird, Gennady Spirin (very good)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 27, Industrial Revolution

 

Read about the industrial revolution in Britain from:

DK, Child’s Eye View of History

DK, People in the Past

DK, How Children Lived

 

Life on a Plantation, Bobbie Kalman

From Cotton to T-Shirt, Robin Nelson

From Plant to Blue Jeans, Arthur L'Hommedieu

Read from 1000 Inventions and Discoveries, Roger Bridgman

Read from New Way Things Work, David Macaulay re: steam engines, etc.

 

Reading:

 

Cotton Mill Town, Kathleen Hershey (I *think* this is US)

Working Cotton, Sherley Williams

 

 

SOTW Chapter 28, Qing Dynasty

 

Read from Ancient China, Nature Company, re: Qing Dynasty

A Time of Golden Dragons, Song Nan Zhang, et al

Read about Qing personalities from Hoobler’s Chinese Portraits

Read from People’s Republic of China, Kim Dramer

Confucius: The Golden Rule, Russell Freedman

 

Reading:

 

The Treasure Chest, A Chinese Tale, Rosalind Wang

The Junior Thunder Lord, Laurence Yep

 

 

SOTW Chapter 29, Napoleon

 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Brian Williams

The Louisiana Purchase, Magdalena Alagna

Louisiana Purchase, Peter and Connie Roop

Napoleon, Alan Blackwood

 

Reading:

 

Read from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Blake

Read from Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, Nancy Willard

 

 

SOTW Chapter 30, Haitian Revolt

 

Read from Cultures of the World: Haiti, Roseline Cheong-Lum

 

Reading:

 

Tap-Tap, Karen Williams

Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom, Walter Myers

Read Haitian tales from How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

Read from The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, Diane Wolkstein

Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter, Richard Platt (very good!)

 

 

SOTW Chapter 31, Expansion of Industrialization

 

Reading:

 

The Bobbin Girl, Emily McCully

The Story of an English Village, John Goodall

 

 

SOTW Chapter 32, Expansion of the West

 

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West, Steven Kroll

From Heroines...., Rebecca Hazell, read about Sacagawea

Audubon, Jennifer Armstrong

The National Anthem, Patricia Quiri

The Star-Spangled Banner, Peter Spier

Cowboys on the Western Trail, Eric Oatman

Incredible Wild West, Caroline Bingham

The Glorious Fourth at Prairietown, Joan Anderson

Don't Know Much About the Pioneers, Kenneth Davis

 

Reading:

 

Meet Thomas Jefferson, Francene Sabin

Lafitte the Pirate, Ariane Dewey

Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President, Shirley Redmond

The Story of Johnny Appleseed, Aliki

The Choctaw Nation, Allison Lassieur

Thomas Jefferson, Cheryl Harness

Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography, James Giblin

Dancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend, Terri Cohlene

The Star-Spangled Banner, Catherine Welch

An American Army of Two, Janet Greeson

Sacajawea: Her True Story, Joyce Milton

The Choctaw, Emilie Lepthien

The Battle for St. Michael's, Emily McCully

Swamp Angel, Anne Isaacs

Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia Maclachlan (good)

Jim Bridger's Alarm Clock, Sid Fleischman

Annie Oakley, James Kunstler (with tape)

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