A Child's History of the World

What can I say? One of my oldest homeschooling friends! Finished it today for the umpteenth time.......more

A beautiful history book for young children, and just the thing for parents to use. They still have it on the curriculum at Calvert School in Baltimore I believe.........more

We only read the chapters assigned on our Ambleside schedule, so we didn’t read this one cover to cover, but we enjoyed the chapters we did read!......more

This was a pretty easy and pleasant read, but dang was it long! After a month of coming back to it bit by bit I finally finished it. I ADORE this book. This would make an awesome bed time read aloud to elementary school kids who like history (or just a good and witty story!). As an adult, I enjoyed......more

I suppose in it’s day it was “a good read”, but for me, there far too many references of casual racism. Thankfully society has evolved since when this was written.......more