- Author: Susan Wise Bauer
- Read Aloud Grade Range: 1-A
- Read Alone Grade Range: 3-A
- Trimester(s): 1
- Illustrated Content
- Binding: p
- Pages: 400
- Included in these packages:
Volume 3 in this series covers the major historical events in the years 1600 to 1850, as well as includes maps, illustrations, and biographies.
This captivating guide to the history of other lands is written in an engaging, straightforward manner and weaves world history into a story book format that is entertaining and easy to read.
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by Kirsten L on 2011-10-24
My children and I thoroughly enjoyed Story of the World. They are great gateway books to history. They inspired my children to read more books about different events in history!
by Sean H on 2011-05-16
I had heard so much about these I was very excited to have them included in Sonlight history. Then we started reading them. We are now on the fourth one and I will never read them again because I do not believe what she writes. The first flags that came up were in book 1 when she recounted bible history. I was reading along and just COULD NOT finish the "story". It was not an accurate account of God's Word. I put the book down and read the history from the Bible. Okay, I thought, I'll only read the other history from the book and read all bible accounts from the bible BUT there is always this suspicion in the back of my mind...is this really true, her bible accounts aren't. Hmmm. Then we got to the Civil War account in Book 4, it contradicts what we learned in Sonlight American History when reading "The Landmark History of the American People." I want to have confidence in what I'm reading to my family and this author just doesn't give me any.
by Mary H. on 2008-04-01
Very readable, but some glaring inaccuracies. Wise-Bauer does not cite her sources (any of them, that I could find). Some of what she writes is counter to the majority of primary source info., especially pertaining to the history of NZ, Sepoy Mutiny and the British in Afghanistan.