Christopher Columbus Discovers America
January 28, 2025 7:59 am Leave your thoughtsYoungsters can celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's fateful voyage with this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history
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Darwin and natural selection
February 18, 2025 7:59 am Leave your thoughtsThis is a fanciful tale of follicle mites that just happen to be living in the left eyebrow of Charles Darwin himself. To the mites, their host Darwin is a god, known as Flycatcher, and stories of his mighty ocean-spewing, world-creating powers have been handed down from generation to generation...of eyebrow mites. Upon hearing of their colorfully explained misunderstanding of who he actually is, Darwin sets the mites straight...after he convinces himself that the curious voices in his head are just ordinary voices...in his eyebrow. A humorous series of illustrated lessons in natural selection and evolution ensues and a warm-hearted story, and history lesson, about one of the greatest naturalists of all time unfolds with it.
Donald Trump for small kids
January 28, 2025 8:23 am Leave your thoughtsThe Trump is a curious creature, very often spotted in the wild, but confounding to our youngest citizens. A business... View Article
Edmund and Tenzing – The first men to ever climb The Everest
January 30, 2025 7:49 am Leave your thoughtsThis unique story tells the story of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their mark on the world from birth right up to their final days and the impact they've had on Nepal today. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain.
Egyptologist Dr. George Reisner archaeological dig
February 1, 2025 8:41 pm Leave your thoughtsIt is 1924, two years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Readers are invited to join a young boy, Will Hunt, as he and his family become part of an archaeological team led by world-famous Egyptologist Dr. George Reisner. Based on actual records of Reisner's history-making dig, Giza 7000X, this strikingly original picture book uses journal entries, funny postcards, and quirky cartoons to pull readers into an ancient unsolved mystery.
Elizabeth I (Part of the story of England)
February 5, 2025 7:37 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen it was first published, Good Queen Bess was named a Notable Book in the Field of Social Studies, an American Library Association Notable Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and an IRA Teachers' Choice.
Experience The Oregon Trail, The California Gold Rush, The Age of The Pirates, The Battle of the Alamo, The Child Labor Reform Movement (5 Books)
March 2, 2025 7:29 pm Leave your thoughtsYou're living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a wagon train? Serve as a trail guide for a group of settlers? Try to cope with the changes in your way of life as a western American Indian? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
Experience The Titanic
February 5, 2025 8:47 pm Leave your thoughtsYOU are aboard the Titanic, the world’s largest ocean liner. The ship is sinking, and the ocean water is freezing. Will you survive? In this interactive nonfiction adventure, only YOU can CHOOSE which path to take through history, the choices you make could lead to survival or death! With full-color illustrations, action-packed text, and more than 15 endings, this YOU CHOOSE book is a truly dynamic reading experience!
Experience World War II, World War I, World War II on the Home Front
March 1, 2025 8:25 pm Leave your thoughtsDescribes the events of World War II and explains the significance of the war today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a member of the Dutch resistance, a Canadian soldier, and an American soldier
Gandhi’s Salt March
February 3, 2025 7:06 pm Leave your thoughtsThis picture book is written from the perspective of a great-grandfather who is looking back at an earlier time when he was a young boy living in a small, quiet town in India called Aslali. He recalled a time when his father and uncles discussed things in whispers, and even the goats and chickens were agitated, sensing a mountain of dust gathering in the far-off distance. From: https://gatheringbooks.org/2014/05/28/nonfiction-wednesday-gandhis-taste-of-freedom-%E2%80%AA%E2%80%8Enfpb2014%E2%80%AC/
Henry Box Brown & how he freed himself
February 7, 2025 1:35 pm Leave your thoughtsHenry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Henry Ford and his first commercial car
January 31, 2025 1:11 pm Leave your thoughtsIt’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it. How will he get it? He enters a car race, of course! Readers will love this fast-paced, fact-based story!
Herodotus, the Greek historian’s stories for kids
February 17, 2025 8:43 am Leave your thoughtsThe ancient Greek historian Herodotus traveled the world, collecting stories wherever he went. These tales will amuse and edify readers of all ages, while summoning up a lost world of kings and tyrants, oracles and prophecies, wily heroes, tragic fates, and the rise and fall of empires.
Hiroshima bombing and the peace tree
February 8, 2025 8:53 pm Leave your thoughts"In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945, our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., where I still live today—the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the bonsai museum."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
March 7, 2025 6:25 am Leave your thoughtsFor the first time ever, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses children directly, sharing lessons of peace and compassion, told through stories of his own childhood. One of today's most inspiring world leaders was once an ordinary child named Lhamo Thondup. In a small village in Tibet, his mother was his first great teacher of compassion. In everyday moments from his childhood, young readers begin to see that important lessons are all around us, and they, too, can grow to truly understand them.
History from another perspective!
March 4, 2025 9:47 am Leave your thoughtsWhat might the dinosaurs or the ancient Egyptians, the Aztec warriors or the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century tell us that could be interesting and useful to hear now? This book is a big history of the world, from the beginnings of the universe to now, which places the reader at its center. It encourages children to think about how they experience the world and offers a helpful perspective by placing their thoughts and feelings in the context of our history and evolution.