A Child's Eye View Of History

By Fiona MacDonald

Twenty-one spreads focus on individual children who lived during important periods of history. Beginning with Tuthmosis III, a ten-year-old who took the throne of Egypt in 1489 B.C., and continuing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689813783
• ISBN13: 9780689813788
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to world history for young children

This book is well rounded account of world history, but simple enough for a first history introduction. Each section is a two page spread (works well with The Well Trained Mind approach to homeschooling). For example, the spread on Ancient Egypt has a map of the Nile, a globe showing where Egypt is, pictures of hieroglyphs, info about one of the kings of Egypt, one of the women rulers, lives of children, what the kingdom was like, info about an architect, etc etc. Nice pictures as well....mix of drawings and DK like photographs of historical objects.The table of contents has: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Toys and Games, The Maya, Medieval Baghdad, The Vikings, The Mongols, China and the Silk Road, The Children's Crusade, Clothes, Renaissance Germany, Benin (Africa), The Incas, Shakespeare's England, Mayflower Pilgrims, The French Revolution, Children at Work, Native Americans, Australia, Industrial England, WWII, From Cradle to Grave, Independence for India, The End of Apartheid, Time Line.I highly recommend this book to someone looking for a way to introduce world history to their young child.