Children's Living History Timeline Book Lists

Bethlehem Books, a conservative publisher has a nice historical time line for their books along with graded readability levels.

Valerie's Living Books has the 1960's Gerrard series listed by subcategory and general readability levels, a super resource for locating more living history books that your public library is likely to have available.

The Baldwin Project, free ebooks and reprints for sale. Here are some listed by grade and historical period.

Christine Miller's All Through the Ages, Nothing New Press, Classical homeschooling education sample reading list page(freebie) for Renaissance, 15th - 16th Centuries.

Catholic, Reading Your Way Through History, Love2learn.net.

Happy Hearts at Home Living History Timeline Book List(mostly middle to late elementary) .

Yesterday's Classics by grade.

Heritage History, a real gem of a site with free public domain books organized by civilization and readability levels.

In James Baldwin's Fifty Famous People(2nd - 3rd grade), the back papers have a timeline list of all famous people covered in this book. This list can be useful for expanding upon the readings for older children. Search the names at your pubic library or Google Books for more mature readings on these people.

Books by G.A. Henty, readable online, downloadable, and organized along a historical timeline.



I'll add to this resource page as I find more links.

Timeline: Children's Living History Books

Bethlehem Books, a conservative publisher has a nice historical time line for their books along with graded readability levels. New and used Bethlehem books can also be found at Amazon.com. These books are not for younger children; most are appropriate for reading levels of late elementary school and up.









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Childen's Living History Book Review: Sir Walter Raleigh by Adele DeLeeuw

Another living history public library book that has turned out to be a gem. The reading level is below my son's level, but it's still interesting, and great for filling in bits of basic history in an exciting way. The book has short chapter's and large print. I'd hazard to guess it's at a third grade reading level. It's not always easy to find living history books for early elementary.

Here's some excerpts:

"The Queen enjoyed poetry. Walter Raleigh wrote verses for her. His musical voice made pictures of the words. They both had quick minds. The two of them would toss sentences back and forth, each trying to better the other. This was refreshing to the Queen. Walter Raleigh made her feel young again."

Sir Walter Raleigh, published in 1964 is a part of the World Explorer Series, a subset of the Gerrard History Series "written especially for children who love adventure and exploration into the unknown". There is a nice big easy to read map of Raleigh's discoveries and adventures across the first two pages . There are large one page illustrations throughout which help expand interest into geography and social studies.

When I did a Google search, I found this book listed at Mary's Books, so I'm assuming that it is Catholic friendly. I believe Adele DeLeeuw was a Catholic apologist?

Valerie's Living Books has the 1960's Gerrard series listed by subcategory and general readability levels, a super resource for locating more living history books that your public library is likely to have available.

Nothing New Press, Christine Miller's All Through the Ages, Classical homeschooling education has this book listed under the grade 3-4 category.