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Not events, but picture books with history! June 30, 2017 Consider subscribing to the Homeschool Booklist and learn about books that you might be able to use in YOUR homeschool!
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Here are more, wonderfully easy to read, instructive of historical events, and beautifully illustrated - picture books! Remember, these are easily shared in a homeschool setting; read, discuss, record in your homeschool journal. A ten minute read just might spark curiosity to learn more, or better yet - begin a family story that is just as important as the stories told in these slight books. - Melody
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Whale Trails, Before and Now by Lesa Cline-RansomeA young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information about the history of whaling, whale-watching and the conservation movement that works to ensure the safety of whales. This might lead older students to read or listen to ... Moby Dick! It is, at least, an easy book to introduce the importance of whaling in the past, and the author includes notes that are helpful. - Melody History, whaling, whale watching - all ages
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This book is a great example of something-I-didn't-learn-in-school. The author has included a page of notes, and the end papers feature posters promoting this program in the front, and photographs of women farmeretts at the back of the book. The photographs are wonderful!- Melody History, WWI - all ages
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Diana's White House Garden by Elisa Lynn Carbone"It's 1943, and the White House is busy with the war effort. Diana Hopkins only wants to help, but doesn't know what a ten-year-old can do - until the Roosevelts come up with the idea of Victory Gardens, and Diana suddenly has the important job of Victory Gardener for the White House" This is a true story - and there is a picture of little Diana Hopkins in the end notes that the author included at the back of the book. - Melody History, WWII, Victory gardens - all ages
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A Year of Borrowed Men by Michelle BarkerWhen her father is needed for the war effort, Gerda and her rural German family "borrow" three French prisoners of war to help around their farm, a strange relationship that leads to friendship, in a book based on a true story. Beautifully told, here is yet another family story that we can all read and learn from what others lived through during WWII. - Melody History, WWII, Germany - all ages
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There are other wonderful books that can help us begin to understand what many families experienced here in America, from the early 1900's through 1970. This is the perfect book to start that study of the times. - Melody American History, Great Migration - all ages
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