She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians
10 best books like She Was Nice To Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians (Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy): Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse, Saturday, the Twelfth of October, England Under the Tudors, Time at the Top, Fog Magic, Death And The Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart, Henry Reed's Babysitting Service, The Mousewife, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic, Dangerous Games
| Author | Robert Lawson |
| ISBN | 0316517291 |
Paul Revere didn't make his famous midnight ride alone. Meet a patriot unlike any other: Scheherazade, the mare who doesn't mind mentioning she was once the fastest and most admired horse in the King's army. But on arrival in America, "Sherry" is quickly let down by her British rider and recruited by...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440995922 |
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent history of Tudor England.
Now in its third edition, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period...
| Author | Edward Ormondroyd |
| ISBN | 1930900198 |
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.
Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was...
Death And The Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
| Author | Chris Skidmore |
| ISBN | 0297846507 |
The death of Amy Robsart (wife of Robert Dudley) is one of my favorite historical mysteries; having always felt a connection to Amy. This, along with enjoying Chris Skidmore’s work, “Edward VI”, drew me to “Death and the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal that Rocked the Throne”.
A...
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341463 |
Henry Reed has another sure-fire money-making plan--but the kids of Grover's Corner have plans of their own
An intelligent person like Henry should have no problem riding herd on the town's toddlers. But Henry's never tangled with such monsters as daredevil Danny, whose stunts keep Henry...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0333344847 |
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0439325471 |
Have been reading this set to little kids all year (2013/2014). They have loved them. Quite long chapters, we read approx. one chp. per day, and even the smallest one makes sure he stays within earshot.
Stars reflect how much my kids love love love them, not necessarily how wonderful I think they...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0440415934 |
This eagerly awaited addition to Joan Aiken's award-winning Wolves series takes us on Dido's most imaginative adventure yet!
Dido Twite has been sailing the high seas, chasing after Lord Herodsfoot, who is scouring the globe for new and interesting games. Now he's needed back in London,...
Basic plot: Mallory frees a wizard from being trapped in a tree, antics ensue.
I like this book more for a funny thing that happened to me than for the content. The book was good- a cute, little fantasy story- but nothing that'll really be remembered over time the way The Chronicles of Narnia or...
| Author | Ruth Chew |
| ISBN | 0590440535 |
I figure I must have read this when I was about ten. Any book I can remember after three and a half decades must be at least halfway decent, right? Actually I recalled this book and The Witch's Buttons a couple years ago; I looked up some info about Ruth Chew online and was astonished to learn she'd passed away...
Wace (1115 – 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet. The introduction to this work by Eugene Mason gives an excellent account of Wace and the background behind this historical work. Wace begins his history of the Britons as follows. “Constantine came to Totnes, and many a stout knight with him—there...
| Author | James Gurney |
| ISBN | 0740764314 |
Critics have gushed over Gurney's phantasmagorical creation, likening him to such venerated literary fantasists as Jules Verne, Wells, and J. R. R. Tolkien." -People magazine
The fourth book in James Gurney's best-selling Dinotopia series transports readers to an enthralling world...
| Author | Neil Hanson |
| ISBN | 1400078172 |
The story of the Spanish Armada is one of the great epics, with a cast of characters as rich and varied as any in history and results that shaped Europe for centuries to come. Neil Hanson — acclaimed author of The Great Fire of London — traces the origins of the conflict from the Old World to the New, delineating...
Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty
| Author | Lacey Baldwin Smith |
| ISBN | 0897330560 |
This was not really a biography but more of a study of Henry VIII.A study that mostly succeeds in showing who Henry was behind all the glamour and majesty that was kingship in the Tudor era.Henry was a king,some say a monster but ultimately he was just a man caught up in the power and drama that became his life...
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
| Author | Anne Sayre |
| ISBN | 0393320448 |
OK, so it's probably a little biased because it's clear that the author was close friends with Ms Franklin, but nonetheless, it painted a very interesting picture of the woman who made many contributions to the scientific field, and who alas, received very little recognition for her work. Certainly...
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
| Author | Susan Ronald |
| ISBN | 0060820667 |
Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy...
