History books k-2

[Elizabeth86]

I've enjoyed just reading let's read and find out science and MSB  books for science for k-2.  What would the history equivalent be? 

[Lori D.]

Possibly stepped readers?

Here's a big list I pulled together years ago; some books may be OOP, and new books aren't here, but this would get you started. 😉 
ETA: updated with some more recent titles
 

STEPPED READER SERIES
I Can Read
All Aboard Reading
Step Into Reading
Hello Reader
DK Readers and Eyewitness Readers
Carolrhoda
On My Own History series
Bank Street Ready to Read

WORLD CULTURE
Holiday! Celebration Days Around the World (DK Publishers)
Festivals and Celebrations (Jenner)
Mendel's Accordion (Hyde)
School Days Around the World (Chambers)
Welcome to China (Jenner)

WORLD MYTHS
The Lion and the Mouse
The Blind Men and the Elephant (Backstein)
The Lion and the Hair: An East African Folktale (Krensky)
Anansi and the Box of Stories: A West African Folktale (Krensky)
Sim-Chung and the River Dragon (Schecter) -- Korea
The Warrior Maiden (Schecter) -- Native American, Hopi
The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale (Lowery)
Peach Boy (Hooks) -- Japan
Bokuden and the Bully: A Japanese Folktale (Krensky)
Little Sima and the Giant Bowl: A Chinese Folktale (Qu)
The Dragon Emperor: A Chinese Folktale (Ping)
The Magic Pomegranate: A Jewish Folktale (Schram)
Robin Hood: Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero (Bull) -- England

WORLD HISTORY

Ancient Egypt
Egyptians Gods and Goddesses (Barker)
Mummies (Milton)
Mummies Unwrapped (Weinberger)
Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly)
Secrets of the Mummies (Griffey)

Ancient Greece
Flying Horse: The Story of Pegasus (Mason)
Snake Hair: The Story of Medusa (Spinner)
Monster in the Maze (Spinner)
The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Little)
The Trojan Horse: The World's Greatest Adventure (Davies)

Ancient Rome
Pompeii... Buried Alive! (Davis)

Stone Age Europe
Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski)
Discovery in the Cave (Dubowski) -- Lascaux Cave paintings
Life in the Stone Age (Lock)

Medival Europe
1000 - Leif Eriksson (Wadsworth)
Robin Hood: Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero (Bull)
Sword in the Stone (MacCarone)
Knights (Daly-Weir)
Gargoyles (Dussling)
Joan of Arc (Corey)
Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles (Maynard)
Battle at the Castle (Matthews)

1400s-1500s (European Explorers)
Christopher Columbus (Krensky)
Terror on the Amazon: The Search for El Dorado (Martin)

1600s (Europe)
The Great Tulip Trade (Brust)

1700s (Europe)
Pirates: Raiders of the High Seas (Maynard)
Fly on the Ceiling (Glass)

1800s (Europe)
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter (Walker)
Florence Nightengale (Zemlicka) -- nurse in the Crimean War and founder of modern nursing
The Big Balloon Race" (Coerr)

Modern Times
1912 - The Titanic: Lost and Found (Donnelly)
1912 - Titanic: A Survivor's Story (Martin)
1912 - Titanic (Dubowski)
1914-16 - Escape from the Ice: Shackleton and the Endurance (Roop)
1922 - Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly)
1931 - To The Top! Climbing World's Highest Mountain (Kramer)
1940 - Discovery in the Cave (Dubowski) -- discovery of Lascaux Cave paintings
1943 - Hill of Fire (Lewis)
1940s - The Story of Anne Frank (Martin)
1960s-1990s - Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President (Capozzi)
2000s - Malala: A Hero for All (Corey)

Albert Einstein: A Curious Mind (Albee)
Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent (Martin)
Spies! (Pratt)
Disasters at Sea (Martin)


U.S. TALL TALES
Paul Bunyan: My Story (Harrison)
Paul Bunyan (Krensky)
Casey Jones (Krensky)
John Henry (Krensky)
Mike Fink (Krensky)
Pecos Bill (Krensky)

U.S. NATIVE AMERICAN
The Very First Americans (Ashrose)
Pocahontas: An American Princess (Milton)
The True Story of Pocahontas (Penner)
Pocahontas (Zemlicka)
Sacajawea (Milton)
Sacajawea: Wilderness Guide (Jassem)
Sitting Bull (Penner)
Sitting Bull: Warrior of the Sioux (Fleischer)
Tecumseh: Shawnee War Chief (Fleischer)
Pontiac: Chief of the Ottawas (Fleischer)
Sequoyah: Cherokee Hero (Oppenheim)
Osceola: Seminole Warrior (Oppenheim)
How Coyote Stole the Summer: A Native American Folktale (Krensky)
Small Wolf (Benchley)
Red Fox and His Canoe (Benchley)
Good Hunting Blue Sky (Brenner)
Little Hawk’s New Name (Bolognese)

U.S. HISTORY

General / Patriotic
The Star-Spangled Banner (Welch) -- Frances Scott Key, national anthem
Red, White and Blue: Story of the American Flag (Herman)
Saving the Liberty Bell  (Figley)
The Statue of Liberty (Penner)
I Pledge Allegiance (Swanson)
First Kids (Davis) -- children of Presidents, lived in White House

1600-1700
1607 - Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown (Ransom)
1635 - Finding Providence (Avi) - founding of Rhode Island capital

Pocahontas: An American Princess (Milton)
The True Story of Pocahontas (Penner)
Pocahontas (Zemlicka)
The First Thanksgiving (Hayward)
The First Thanksgiving (Jackson)
Small Wolf (Benchley)

1700-1775
Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist (Wadsworth) -- America's first African American man of science
Daniel Boone (Streissguth)
Johnny Appleseed (Demuth)
Johnny Appleseed: My Story (Harrison)
Eliza Hamilton, Founding Mother (Kulling)
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father (Kulling)
Alexander Hamilton: A Plan for America (Albee)
George Washington's Mother (Fritz)
George Washington and the General's Dog (Murphy)
Martha Washington (Wadsworth)
Thomas Jefferson's Feast (Murphy) -- light/silly
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Murphy) -- light/silly

Revolutionary War
1776 - Prisoner for Liberty (Figley) -- African-American colonist
1777 - Paul Revere's Ride (SIR3) -- Shana Corey
1777 - Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride (CR) -- (Amstel)
1777 - Buttons for General Washington (CR) -- (Roop) young spy

Nathan Hale: Patriot Spy (Zemlicka)
The 18 Penny Goose (Walker)
Sam the Minuteman (Benchley)
George the Drummer Boy (Benchley)
The Boston Coffee Party (Rappaport) -- light/silly
Saving the Liberty Bell (Figley) -- Colonial US
Many Ways to Be a Soldier (Pfeffer) -- Revolutionary War

1780-1800
1781 - Prisoner for Liberty (Figley)

George Washington: Soldier, Hero, President (DK readers)
George Washington: The First President (Albee)

1800-1820
1804 -  Sacajawea (Milton)
1804 - Lewis & Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President (Redmond)
1818 - Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom (Murphy) -- 1818-1895, year of his birth

War of 1812
Washington Is Burning (Figley)
The Battle for St. Michaels (McCully)
An American Army of Two (Greeson)
The Star-Spangled Banner (Welch)
Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner (Kulling)

1820s
1820 - Susan B. Anthony: Her Fight for Equal Rights (Kulling) -- 1820-1906, year of her birth
1827 - Snowshoe Thompson (Levinson) -- 1827-1876 mountain mailman born

1830s
1831 - Prudence Crandall: Teacher for Equal Rights -- Quaker woman who set up the first school for African American girls
1831 - Sitting Bull (Penner) -- 1831-1890 Native American chief born
1838 - Trail of Tears (Bruchac)
1838 - Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship (McKissack)

1840s
1842 - Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad (Brill)
1844 - 1844 - Survival in the Snow (Wadsworth) -- wagon train
1847 - Flight of the Union (White) -- Niagra Falls bridge built with help of a kite
1848 - The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore) -- 1848 escaping slave
1849 - Chang's Paper Pony (Coerr) -- Gold Rush/Chinese immigrant

Journey of a Pioneer (Murphy) -- Oregon Trail

Underground Railroad
The Drinking Gourd (Monjo)
Harriet Tubman (Nichols)
Escape North! Story of Harriet Tubman (Kulling)
Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter (Hohn)
Almost to Freedom (Nelson)
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad (Brill)

1850s
1856 - Booker T. Washington (Amper) -- 1856-1915, year he was born
1856 - Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop) -- Maine lighthouse
1859 - Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer (Lowery) -- African American woman who bought her freedom and went west

Abe Lincoln (Jones)
Abe Lincoln (Brenner)
Abe Lincoln's Hat (Brenner)
Long, Tall Lincoln (Dussling)
Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend (Fontes)
Snowshoe Thompson (Levinson) 
Little Sure Shot: Annie Oakley (Spinner) -- 1860-1926, year of her birth
Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom (Murphy) -- 1818-1895

1860s
1860s - George Washington Carver Carter -- 1860s-1943, year of his birth
1861 - Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (ICR3) -- Eleanor Coerr
1861 - Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express (CR) -- (Brill)
Sojourner Truth (Swain)

Civil War
1865 - Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender (Ransom)
1865 - Juneteenth (Nelson)

Brave Clara Barton (Murphy) -- Civil War nurse; founder of the American Red Cross
Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom (Brown) -- Civil War, escaping slave
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: Story of Gettysburg (Fritz)
Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome) -- Civil War
USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson)

1870s
1877 - Listen Up: Alexander Graham Bell's Talking Machine (Kulling)
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell (Sherrow)

The Long Way to a New Land (Sandin) -- immigrants to US
The Long Way Westward (Sandin) -- immigrants go west
Wagon Train (Kramer)
Wagon Wheels (Brenner) -- true story; black pioneer family
The Josefina Story Quilt (Coerr) -- true story; wagon train
Daniel's Duck (Bulla)
Clouds of Terror (Welch) -- 1870s US prairie grasshopper plagues
The Golly Sisters Go West (Byars) -- light/silly story
The Golly Sisters Ride Again (Byars) -- light/silly story

1880s
1880 - Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark (Hurwitz) -- 1880-1968, born in 1880
1885 - The Copper Lady  (Ross) -- building of the Statue of Liberty
1888 - I Pledge Allegiance (Swanson) -- creation of the Pledge of Allegiance
1888 - Schoolchildren's Blizzard (Figley) -- blizzard / pioneer children
1888 - Snow Walker (Wetterer) -- record blizzard that shut down the Bronx

Thomas Edison: Lighting the Way (Houran)
Thomas Edison: The Great Inventor (Jenner)
Statue of Liberty (Penner)
Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin)
Prairie School (Avi)
Susan B. Anthony: Her Fight for Equal Rights (Kulling) --1820-1906

1890s
1890 - Sitting Bull (Penner) -- 1831-1890, death of Sitting Bull
1893 - Sky High: George Ferris’s Big Will (Kulling) -- first Ferris wheel

1895 - Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom (Murphy) -- 1818-1895, year of his death
1896 - Rescue on the Outer Banks (Ransom -- African-American rescue crew

Booker T. Washington (Amper) -- 1856-1915, esp. active 1890-1915
Jumbo (Worth) -- famous PT Barnum circus elephant
The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician (Kulling)
Danger at the Breaker (Welch) -- 19th century coal mining
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark (Hurwitz) -- 1880-1968
Little Sure Shot: Annie Oakley (Spinner) -- 1860-1926

1900s
1900 - Night of the Hurricane’s Fury (Ransom) -- Galveston TX, hurricane/flood
1903 - Will and Orv (Schulz) -- first airplane flight
1903 - First Flight: The Wright Brothers (Jenner)
1903 - First Flight: Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (Shea)
1903 - The Flyer Flew!: Invention of the Airplane (Hill)
1905 - Clara and the Bookwagon  Levinson)
1906 - Susan B. Anthony: Her Fight for Equal Rights (Kulling) -- 1820-1906, year of her death

Take a Hike, Teddy Roosevelt (Murphy)
Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Kulling)

1910s
1911 - Fire at the Triangle Factory (Littlefield) -- NY factory workers fire disaster
1914 - Sea of Ice: The Wreck of the Endurance (Kulling)
1915 - Booker T. Washington (Amper) -- 1856-1915, year he died
1919 - Babe Ruth Saves Baseball (Murphy)

Thomas Edison; The Great Inventor (Jenner)
Zepplin: Age of the Airship (Donkin)
George Washington Carver Carter -- 1860s-1943

1920s
1920 - Man O'War (Mckerly)
1925 - Danger at Sand Cave (Ransom) -- deadly dangers of caves
1925 - The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford)
1927 - Night Flight: Charles Lindbergh (Kramer)
1929 - Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore)

Bessie Coleman: Daring to Fly (Walker) -- African American female pilot
Flying Ace: Story of Amelia Earhart (Bull) -- 1897-1937
Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore)

1930s
1931 - The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth (Patrick)
1935 - Day of the Black Blizzard (Ransom) -- dust bowl
1937 - Flying Ace: Story of Amelia Earhart (Bull) -- 1897-1937, year of her disappearance
1937 - Vanished! Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (Kulling)

Dust for Dinner (Turner) -- Dust Bowl/Depresssion
Horse Named Seabiscuit (Duvowski) -- grandson of the famous race horse Man O'War
Cesar Chavez (Wadsworth)

1940s
1943 - George Washington Carver Carter -- 1860s-1943, year of his death
1945 - D-Day Landings: Story of the Allied Invasion (Platt)

Keeping the Promise: A Torah's Journey (Lehman-Wilzig)
Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree (Kohuth)
The Story of Anne Frank (Lewis)

1950s
1957 - Cracking the Wall: Struggles of Little Rock Nine (Lucas) -- Civil Rights

The Story of Civil Rights (Mara)
Jackie Robinson (Walker)
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball (O'Connor)
The Story of Muhammad Ali (Garrett)

1960s
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Jackson)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (Ruffin)
Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther (Nelson)
Martin Luther King Jr: A Peaceful Leader (Albee)
Free At Last: Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Bull)
The Story of Muhammad Ali (Garrett)
Race Into Space (Arnold)
Moonwalk (Donnelly)
Moon Landings (Weider)

1970s-1990s
1996 - The Bravest Cat: The True Story of Scarlett (Driscoll)

Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski)
Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome) -- Civil War/modern times
USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson) -- Civil War/modern times
Dinosaur Detectives (Martin)
Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling)
Finding the Titanic (Ballard)

2000-2020
2015 - Scott Kelly: My Journey to the Stars (Kelly) -- astronaut who lived for a year in space

Space Heroes: Amazing Astronauts (Buckley)
Michelle Obama: First Lady, Going Higher (Corey)
Barack Obama: Out of Many, One (Corey)

20th CENTURY - General
Great Black Heroes: Five Brilliant Scientists (Jones)
Great Black Heroes: Five Brave Explorers (Jones)
Great Black Heroes: Five Famous Writers (Jones)
Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters (Jones)
Great Black Heroes: Five Notable Inventors (Jones)
Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent (Martin)
Great Women Athletes (Bailer)
Spies! (Pratt)
Disasters at Sea (Martin)
Dinosaur Hunters
Mountain Climbing: Scaling the World's Highest Peaks (Martin)
Movie Magic: A Star is Born (Cottringer)

Edited June 16, 2020 by Lori D.

[Pintosrock]

If you like Magic School Bus.... Try Miss Frizzle's Adventures. We have Ancient Egypt and Medieval Castles. I think there is a China book, too. 

[Sarah0000]

The history PB series we've come across just don't hold the kids' attention like Let's Read and Find Out. We use stand alone books instead. Non fiction, especially biographies, are really popular right now in children's publishing. These are much more engaging but they aren't topical in a standard history sequence.