The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

by Susan Wise Bauer

Overview

This second book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933339092
Publisher:	The Well-Trained Mind Press
Publication date:	04/16/2007
Series:	Story of the World
Edition description:	Second Revised Edition
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	66,930
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William & Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Trained Mind, The Well-Educated Mind, The Story of Western Science, and the History of the World series.

Jim Weiss's story recordings and books offer a welcoming doorway into the world’s greatest stories from literature and history. His vivid retellings of the classics have received more than one hundred major awards from organizations such as the American Library Association, Parents' Choice Foundation, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and Film Advisory Board. More importantly, the stories form the heart of daily learning and meaningful entertainment in households and schools around the world.To hear Jim tell a story is to become swept up in the tale. He includes information about people and events behind the stories, and encourages children to read the original classics, on their own or with the help of more experienced readers. So listeners leave the storyteller's circle inspired to learn even more and to develop their own creative gifts. Jim Weiss believes the joy of reading, writing and creative activity begins in the presence of the storyteller.For performance availability, distribution information, or additional titles, please visit www.welltrainedmind.com or www.jimweiss.com.

Editorial Reviews

This works wonderfully as a family read-aloud... There's plenty of dialogue and enough detail to keep adults interested.

Cafi Cohen

This may well be the best multi-age read aloud narrative of world history yet to have been written.

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