PREHISTORY/ ANCIENTS
Suggested Spines and Unit Study Resources
- The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia Of World History by Jane Bingham
- The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
- The Story of the World: Activity Book 1: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
- Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD by Susan Wise Bauer and Jim Weiss
- A Child’s History of the World by VM Hillyer
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (and/ or audiobook)
- Learning Through History Magazine
- Appleseeds/ Calliope Magazines
- National Geographic Magazine
- When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner
- When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner (both books by Ms Bonner are well and humorously illustrated and were educational to me too)
- The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole (features a good dinosaur age timeline)
- Bone Poems by Jeffrey Moss (very funny collection of dino poems)
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer by Barbara Kerley (beautiful pictures and an eye-opening story of Mr Hawkins, the first man to show the world what dinosaurs may have looked like)
- Walking with Prehistoric Beasts DVD
Evolution
- The Sandwalk Adventures: An Adventure in Evolution Told in Five Chapters by Jay Hosler
- The Voyage of the Beetle by Anne H. Weaver and George Lawrence
- Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins
- Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters
- The Tree Of Life: The Wonders Of Evolution by Ellen Jackson
- Other books on Charles Darwin from the Scientist Biographies booklist.
- The Best Book of Early People (The Best Book of) by Margaret Hynes (good intro text to hominids and prehistoric man)
- You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter: Dangerous Beasts You'd Rather Not Encounter (You Wouldn't Want to...) by John Malam (hilarious but slightly gory account of prehistoric hunters and their ginormous game)
- Maria De Sautuola: The Bulls in the Cave (Remarkable Children Series, 2) by Dennis B. Fradin
- History News: The Stone Age News (History News) by Fiona Macdonald (collection of "articles" related to the Stone Age)
- Frozen Man (Redfeather Books.) by David Getz (discovery of the 5,000-year-old body of the Ice Man in the Italian Alps - read aloud or independent reading for >9 years old). View 3D images of the Ice Man here.
Ancient Mesopotamia
- Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians (People of the Ancient World) by Virginia Schomp
- Mesopotamia (DK Eyewitness Books) by John Farndon
- Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (Peoples of the Ancient World) by Shilpa Mehta-Jones
- Secrets of Ancient Empires: The First Civilizations - First Civilizations (DVD)
- Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by James Rumford
- Who Built the Pyramid? by Meredith Hooper and Robin Heighway-Bury
- The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt by Claudia Logan
- History News 3000 B.C. - 1100 B.C.: The Egyptian News (History News) by Scott Steedman
- Boy of the Pyramids by Ruth Fosdick Jones (chapter book; a young Egyptian boy helps catch a tomb robber)
- Number Stories Of Long Ago by David Eugene Smith
- The Ancient Egyptians (Myths of the World) by Virginia Schomp
- Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians (People of the Ancient World) by Virginia Schomp
- You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder: A Hazardous Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want To) by Jacqueline Morley
- You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy! (You Wouldn't Want To) by David Stewart, David Salariya, and David Antram
- You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen!: A Mummy Who Really Got Meddled With (You Wouldn't Want To) by David Stewart
- Pyramid by David Macaulay
- Egyptian Tombs (New First Books) by Jeanne Bendick
- The Egyptology Handbook by Emily Sands
- Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
- Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile by Jackie French (historical fiction relating to King Narmer)
- The Puffin History of India for Children 3000 BC to AD 1947 (Vol 1) by Roshen Dalal
- Chinese Mythology: Stories of Creation and Invention by Claude Helft
Myths of the World series
You Wouldn't Want To series
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Hi Suji,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for including THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS on your World History - Ancients Booklist. I'm so glad you like the book!
Homeschooling families might be interested to know that I have some extension activities for the book posted on my web site:
www(dot)barbarakerley(dot)com
Enjoy!
Barb Kerley
Thanks for dropping by Barbara :) We enjoyed your book very much!
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