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	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to ... Susan Wise Bauer Peace Hill Press, 2006 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor of Rome?

Told in a straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, The Story of the World series covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas?find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. This first revised volume begins with the earliest nomads and ends with the last Roman emperor. Newly revised and updated, The Story of the World, Volume 1 includes maps, a new timeline, more illustrations, and additional parental aids.

This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world's civilizations.

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This book will make your child LOVE History

My 1st grader and even my 5th grader absolutely LOVE this book. While some of the material is advanced for my 1st grader, it is written in a way that he can still comprehend the general idea. I also purchased the workbook that accompanies this book and it is filled with lots of very informative teaching guides and tear-out pages for my child to color. My 5th grader has another book on History of Western Civilization and he comes in and listens while I teach from this book as it explains events in a much more indepth way. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but also highly recommend that you purchase the accompanying workbook. Many thanks to the author!

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Homeschool material

Excellent material. I really like how this material is designed to to cycle through over three times during a child's homeschool experience in grades K-12.

Easy Learning

We have this series on CD now and the whole family enjoys listening to it on a car journey. It is a good run through history, with things even the adults did not know before.

The best program I've seen for teaching history

We are finishing the last of the four books in this series, and I've looked at many, many other alternatives for teaching history now that it's time to start again.

After 5 years of homeschooling my 8 kids and researching nearly everything out there, I can honestly say these are the BEST books for teaching history.

No, it's not perfect (what is?), but it is still WONDERFUL! Naturally, not everything can be covered. Of course there are a few mistakes (as in every singly history program I've looked at for our family, including a few college texts), and yes the last book "Modern Times" focuses a lot on wars and skips over other important events like the San Francisco fire, and book 3 didn't address large settling movements, like the Mormons trekking to Utah, etc. But for gaps I simply get library books, take a day off of reading these books, and supplement as I see fit. And that's what Susan Wise Bauer has RECOMMENDED: supplement as you see your children need.

This still is the BEST program out there, and I'm thrilled to begin the cycle again. Our family has had lively discussions about events in history; how many families can enjoy that? My 14 year-old is looking forward to making sand and glue pyramids again, this time with his 8 year-old brother.

Even though I have a graduate degree in humanities, I learned more about history through this series than I ever did in 6 years of college.

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