Building/Construction:

• Caney, Steven: Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book, 2006. How to build things out of anything.

• Hancock, James Gulliver: How Cities Work, 2016. Pop up picture book, ages 4-12.

 

 

History:

• Maddem, Thomas F.: The Concise History of the Crusades, 2014.Objective, interesting to read, gives sources, no agenda, adult level.

• Chang, Jung: Mao: The Untold Story, 2005.832 pages of well researched, readable history by a lady who escaped, adult level.

• Winters, Kay, illustrated by Barry Moser: Voices of Ancient Egypt, 2009. Beautiful portraits of  13 people  from Ancient Egypt, their occupation described in verse. Ages 8-12.

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Math:

• Neuschwander, Cindy, illustrated by Wayne Geehan: The Sir Cumference Math Adventure series puts math concepts into medieval mysteries, ingenious and great fun! Ages 8-12.

• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, 1999. About Pi , of course.

• Sir Cumference and the Sword In the Cone, 2003. Euler's Law.

• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, 1997.  Geometry of the circle.

• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, 2001. Angles.

• Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter, 2006. Geometry of the circle.

• Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map, 2012. Coordinates.

• Sir Cumference and the Off Charts Dessert, 2013. Bar Graphs.

• Sir Cumference and the Fracton Faire, 2017. Fractions.

• Sir Cumference and the Roundabout Battle, 2015. Rounding.

• Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens, 2009. Place value.

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Poetry:

• Merchant , Natalie, illustrated by Barbara McClintock: Leave Your Sleep: A Collection of Classic Children's Poetry, 2012. CD with author singing the poems adapted to music.

• Foster , John: My First Oxford  Book of Animal Poems, 2002.

• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, illustrated by Glencora Pipkin: Pied Beauty: A Children's Book, 2015, picture book with text of the poem and word explanations. 

• Godsell, Simon: Everything: A Book About Life, 2020. Preschool to 12. Text is a simple rhyming poem modeled on All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander.

• Kennedy, Caroline, illustrated by Jon J. Muth: A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry For Children, 2005. Our favorite selection.

• Prelutsky, Jack, illustrated by Ted Rand:  If Not For The Cat, 2004. Animal haiku, wonderful. Grade 1-4.

• Palgrave, Francis Turner: The Golden Treasury of English Verse, 1861, famous collection for adults, republished 2018.

• Stevenson, Robert Louis, illustrated by Tasha Tudor: A Child's Garden of Verses, 1999. Written in 1884.

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