Columbus
10 best books like Columbus (Ingri d'Aulaire): The Thanksgiving Story, The Door in the Wall, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Matchlock Gun, The Curious Garden, Paddle-to-the-Sea, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Tree in the Trail, Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin, The Borrowed House
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages.
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0440227798 |
The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great house is empty, his father is fighting the Scots in the north, his mother is traveling with the Queen, and the servants have fled. He calls for help but only the stones hear his cries. Suddenly someone else is...
The Courage of Sarah Noble
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689715404 |
In this Newbery Honor book classic, young Sarah learns how to be brave even when the world is strange and new.
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. “Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble,” her mother had said, but Sarah...
| Author | Walter D. Edmonds |
| ISBN | 0698116801 |
A Newbery Medal Winner
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316015474 |
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.
While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.
This...
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
| ISBN | 0808551515 |
I don't think this would make a great bedtime story as it would take about 30-45 minutes to read it aloud at least. It is a full page of text with a full picture. It would make a great first reader book for someone who wants to read a story if they enjoy more history things.
I really enjoyed this book....
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689716044 |
Now while I certainly have very much enjoyed Alice Dalgliesh' 1953 Newbery Honour winning The Bears on Hemlock Mountain theme and content wise and do greatly appreciate the slice of pioneer American life presented and depicted, I am nevertheless and sadly left rather majorly cold and unsatisfied...
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
This was one of our geography books for my second grader this past year (see Ambleside Online 2nd grade curriculum). We loved reading one chapter a week but near the end we didn't want to stop and finished reading it all at once.
The illustrations are beautifully detailed with colors true to the...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0970561806 |
Apparently, Quakers don't believe in art...I never knew this. Its considered evil I guess. So ironically, "Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin" is about a Quaker boy who loves art.
Ben does his utmost to study art, even behind his family's back. He cuts pieces of Grimalkin's fur to make paint...
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1930900899 |
During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war.
"So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously.
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| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0064437485 |
Against the fascinating tapestry of France's history during the Hundred Years War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590440551 |
I still remember when I picked this up as a beginning reader. It was the thrill of reading an "older kid's book about a real person" that made it exciting, and the more mature narrative flow that made me feel accomplished. Some books you don't forget.
I've recently read a few other titles by Clyde...
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486437450 |
When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who share the Green Meadows and Green Forest with him, she encourages him to speak with Old Mother Nature who is only too happy to help. During their "classroom" chats, she not only teaches Peter about Arctic...
