The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History
10 best books like The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (Jane Bingham): Archaeologists Dig for Clues, Maps and Globes, Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found, The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!, Usborne Time Traveler, Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh, The Usborne Book of World History, The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago (Explainers)
| Author | Kate Duke |
| ISBN | 0064451755 |
This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.
I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...
| Author | Jack Knowlton |
| ISBN | 0064460495 |
This comprehensive look at geography and the environment, Maps and Globes, can take you anywhere—to the top of the tallest mountain on earth or the bottom of the deepest ocean. Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your...
| Author | Judy Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0394891899 |
• This book is a great choice for beginners, and tells the story of the death of Tutankhamen. This is a great step into getting children excited to read books that are nonfiction,
• Teachers may use this for History, English
• Grades K-3
• Individual students may read this during...
| Author | Kingfisher Publications |
| ISBN | 0753457849 |
This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and South that unified America, the...
| Author | Robert Levine |
| ISBN | 1579121489 |
Eye-catching illustrations, engaging text and delightful musical selections on the accompanying 70-minute CD lead children ages 8 to 12 (and parents, too!) on an exciting and educational tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. Illustrated in exquisite and colorful detail with...
| Author | Judy Hindley |
| ISBN | 0746033656 |
A great value! This book includes Usborne's:
Knights & Castles
Viking Raiders
Rome & Romans
Pharaohs & Pyramids
The schtick is that you have a special helmut that allows you to time travel to different periods. This is why they are in reverse chronological order....
| Author | Joy Hakim |
| ISBN | 0195188950 |
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians,...
| Author | Ludmila Zeman |
| ISBN | 0887763286 |
In his final quest, Gilgamesh, still mourning the death of his dear friend Enkidu, sets out to find the key to immortality. His journey is perilous. He must fight ferocious serpents and wild lions. He travels through bitterly cold caves, across scorching deserts, and over the fatal waters of the Sea...
| Author | Anne Millard |
| ISBN | 0860209598 |
Great introductory text to build on for elementary age; good review for high school students or adults who want to reconnect with some dates or expand their horizons into cultures they haven't studied. Lots of cultures I was never introduced to in school, anyhow (although most of them were somewhat...
| Author | Helen Edom |
| ISBN | 0746011091 |
This is one of my favorite Usborne books from my childhood. Well, we actually had it as individual books, and only of the first three sections, so I was even more excited to see a version where they're all together. I don't know whether this was ever used in my schooling or not -- it probably was, but what I...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698116216 |
In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government,...
| Author | Anton Powell |
| ISBN | 0763603406 |
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly
Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688154808 |
Cleopatra is a partial biography picture book written and illustrated by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. The book begins with Cleopatra at age 18, when she was crowned Queen of Egypt in 51 BC. The book covers her struggle for power against the advisors of her young brother, the King. Cleopatra allied...
| Author | Leonard Everett Fisher |
| ISBN | 0689801785 |
1. This book gives an historic account of why the Great wall of China was built. It gives fun fact and many pictures that show the hard work it took to build and just how big it is. We learn that China built the wall to keep the invading Mongols out of China.
2. For grades 2-4
3. I would use this with world...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 1933339004 |
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...
| Author | Jessie Wise |
| ISBN | 0971412928 |
First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind uses picture study and other classical techniques to develop the child's language study in those first two all-important years of school. Each lesson leads the parent, step-by-step, through the simple oral and written projects that build reading,...
