This book comes from a great series called "You Wouldn't Want To..." showing students the rough side of living in different historical periods. This book tells of what it would have been like to like in a medieval castle. This book, as well as the other books in the series does not leave out the gro...
One of the things on my nephew's list of cool stuff is ninjas. This book was marvelous to him. My sister and I are pretty sure that he is some sort of reincarnated warrior, because if it has to do with pre-modern battle, he's totally on board with that. At numerous points in this story I heard hi...
Another fun one in this series. I'm finding that the more I read these books, the more I feel that they work best as supplements after having already read some on the topic. I don't recommend them as stand-alones because the information isn't presented in the most concise way. I think of these mor...
I really, really love the tale of Ernest Shackleton and his unbelievable antarctic expidition aboard the Endurance. What an incredible tale of survival! This children's book about this event was remarkably well done--it captured the drama and the courage, the struggle and the triumph, but it was a...
Gosh, this was disjointed. I found this so difficult to read and to follow! For instance, on one page a nice discussion of the Easter Island heads was presented, but on the facing page there was a discussion of the Tunguska Incident, the Nazca lines, and I don't recall--something else. Nothing on...
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