SS in MD Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Realised my previous post did not include "Middle ages" in the title! We are starting SOTW2 in the fall and I'd like to know any favorite books for the Middle Ages. My dc will be in 8th, 6th, 3rd, K - All LOVE to read. Any titles would be much appreciated- Thanks for your help!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Here are some I like for this time period. There are tons of good books for this period and this list is certainly not exhaustive! Tales of King Arthur, retold by Felicity Brooks (Usborne) The King Who Was and Will Be: The World of King Arthur and His Knights, Kevin Crossley-Holland Lancelot, Hudson Talbott (simpler) Young Arthur, Robert D. San Souci (simpler) Magic in the Mist, Margaret Kimmel (Wales - simpler) A History of Britain through Art, Jillian Powell King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Sidney Lanier, ed. Ancient World Leaders: Attila the Hun, Bonnie Carman Harvey The Celts, Hazel Martell Scottish Myths and Legends, K. E. Sullivan Beowulf the Warrior, Ian Serraillier Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste, P. de Zeeuw Brother Wolf of Gubbio, A Legend of Saint Francis, Colony Santangelo (simpler) The Holy Twins, Benedict and Scholastica, Kathleen Norris (simpler) Saint Francis, Brian Wildsmith (simpler) Anna of Byzantium, Tracy Barrett The World in the Time of Charlemagne, Fiona Macdonald Explore-a-Maze, Robert Snedden - Leif Eriksson Viking Life, John Guy (w/ questions) BBC Fact Finders: Vikings, Peter Chrisp Leif the Lucky, Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire (simpler) Inside Story: A Viking Town, Fiona Macdonald If You Were There: Viking Times (w/ fold out game board), Antony Mason Usborne Starting Point: Who Were the Vikings? (Simple)Jane Chisholm and Struan Reid Usborne Illustrated World History: The Viking World, Philippa Wingate Black Fox of Lorne, Marguerite de Angeli The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Allen French Augustine Came to Kent, Barbara Willard Battles of the Medieval World, Kelly Devries, et al Eyewitness Castle Ultimate Explorer: Castles, Susan Churchill (w/ kit) The Castle, A Pop-Up Fantasy, Tom Partridge The Big Book of Knights and Castles, Barbara Weisberg Castle, Struan Reid Marguerite Makes a Book, Bruce Robertson (simple) Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World, Polly Brooks Eyewitness Knight Days of the Knights, A Tale of Castles and Battles, Christopher Maynard (simple) The World of the Medieval Knight, Christopher Gravett If You Lived in the Days of the Knights, Ann McGovern (simple) The Samurai’s Tale, Erik Haugaard In the Time of the Knights, Shelley Tanaka (simple) Exploring History: Ancient Weapons, Will Fowler Saladin, Noble Prince of Islam, Diane Stanley (simple) The Beduins’ Gazelle, Frances Temple Living History: Fourteenth-century Towns, Ed. John D. Clare The Legend of Robin Hood, Ed. Dami Editore (Barnes & Noble illus. edition) The Canterbury Tales, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean Understanding the Canterbury Tales, Clarice Swisher The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer (Penguin Classics) If You were There: Medieval Times, Antony Mason (w/ fold-out game board) Magna Carta, Clyde Bulla The Adventures of Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn Green The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle (RD’s Young Readers) Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Gray Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page, Richard Platt Milk and Honey, A Year of Jewish Holidays, Jane Yolen Great Illus. Classics Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott (simple) Explore-a-Maze - Marco Polo The World in the Time of Marco Polo, Fiona Macdonald The Adventures of Marco Polo, As Dictated in Prison to a Scribe in the Year 1298, What He Experienced and Heard During His Twenty-four Years Spent in Travel through Asia and at the Court of the Kublai-Khan, ed. for the modern reader by Richard J. Walsh - primary source Forests of the Vampire, Slavic Myth, Charles Phillips and Michael Kerrigan The White Stag, Kate Seredy Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson Columbus and the Renaissance Explorers, Colin Hynson Exploring Africa, Hazel Martell and Gerald Wood Don Quixote and the Windmills, Eric A. Kimmel (simple) Don Quixote, retold by Michael Harrison (simple) Around the World in a Hundred Years, From Henry the Navigator to Magellan, Jean Fritz City States of the Swahili Coast, Thomas Wilson History of the World: Africa (8th to 18th Century) Westward with Columbus, John Dyson Christopher Columbus: Explorer of the New World, Peter Chrisp Magellan and the Exploration of South America, Colin Hynson (w/ questions) Christopher Columbus: First Voyage to America, From the Log of the ‘Santa Maria’ - primary source The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus, a Pop-Up Book, Jean Fritz Columbus, Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire Looking at Aztec Myths and Legends: Land of the Five Suns, Kay McManus Eyewitness Medieval Life Living History: Italian Renaissance, ed. John D. Clare Journey through History: The Renaissance, Garme Peris (simple) Eyewitness Renaissance Luther the Leader, Virgil Robinson Mary, Bloody Mary, Carolyn Meyer The Young Person’s Guide to Shakespeare, Anita Ganeri (w/ CD) Shakespeare’s Theatre, Andrew Langley Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb Shakespeare’s Globe, An Interactive Pop-Up Theatre, Toby Forward Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children, E. Nesbit Shakespeare’s Stories: Comedies, retold by Beverly Birch Oxford School Shakespeare: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Much Ado About Nothing, all edited by Roma Gill Macbeth, ed. Nicholas Brooke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Wow! What a list--I'll be looking and looking and looking at this one. Thanks for throwing it out there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS in MD Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 WOW!! Regena! Thanks for the great list to get me going! Our homeschool convention is tomorrow and I will take this along... thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 This is for me ... no? ... oh yeah ... I wasn't the one who asked the question. I love lists of books though. I want to read them all myself. There just isn't enough time in a day. You know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen in SEVA Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Thanks! I love reading them over again, too. I'm getting to do that now with my younger son. There's so much space between my sons that I really don't remember details of many of them and so it's turning out to be a very fun experience for me! So many books, so little time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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