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Summary: The Homeschooler's Best Friend (besides his mother)
Review: This is *the* best history book to have for all your child's years from first grade through high school. He's not going to grow out of this book. A specific event or narrow time period is presented on each two-page spread in the book along with many, many helpful colorful drawings. Along each left and right side edge all through the book, however, is an extremely helpful world-wide timeline about everything else going on during the time of these two pages. This is a very informative and riveting "children's" history book. We try and keep it by our reading chair so that with every book we read, the kids and I can find the same time period in this history book. I say "try" to keep it by our reading chair because my kids are always flopping down on the family room floor with it or taking it to the kitchen table to read through it on their own time. It's really that good of a book. It's out of print for now, but make sure to find a used copy so you can have this gem for your kids.
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Summary: A Great Book! Shame on Kingfisher for ending print run.
Review: This is a wonderful book, and I am so disgusted with Kingfisher for letting it go out-of-print, and for replacing it with the much lesser "red book." We homeschool and find this book invaluable! We learned of this book by reading a book I highly recommend: "The Well-Trained Mind, A Guide to a Classical Education at Home" by Wise. We feel badly for all of the parents still searching for this book. Kingfisher told me that they had about 200 in their warehouse, sold me two of them, and told me that other homeschooling parents could contact them to buy copies. Now that source suddenly dried up, and I wonder why. I have stopped buying all Kingfisher books until they reprint this one, and close out the 'red book.'
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Summary: A Great Book! Shame on Kingfisher for ending print run.
Review: This is a wonderful book, and I am so disgusted with Kingfisher for letting it go out-of-print, and for replacing it with the much lesser "red book." We homeschool and find this book invaluable! We learned of this book by reading a book I highly recommend: "The Well-Trained Mind, A Guide to a Classical Education at Home" by Wise. We feel badly for all of the parents still searching for this book. Kingfisher told me that they had about 200 in their warehouse, sold me two of them, and told me that other homeschooling parents could contact them to buy copies. Now that source suddenly dried up, and I wonder why. I have stopped buying all Kingfisher books until they reprint this one, and close out the 'red book.'
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Summary: OK
Review: We homeschool, also, and ordered this 'red book' when we couldnot find the other. We were most disappointed with it...[I was ableto locate] leftover copies of the original... I bought two of those. We are glad and have never missed the red book. I have a copy of the 'red book' in my classroom where I teach and the kids are not drawn to it as I had hoped they would be. I also have the red science encyclopedia, and the kids like that one. I find the red history book is too cluttered, too vague in the sequence of happenings, and we dislike the manner in which the timeline is presented...
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Summary: I disagree--this is not as good as the original.
Review: We homeschool, also, and ordered this 'red book' when we couldnot find the other. We were most disappointed with it...[I was ableto locate] leftover copies of the original... I bought two of those. We are glad and have never missed the red book. I have a copy of the 'red book' in my classroom where I teach and the kids are not drawn to it as I had hoped they would be. I also have the red science encyclopedia, and the kids like that one. I find the red history book is too cluttered, too vague in the sequence of happenings, and we dislike the manner in which the timeline is presented...
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