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All the treasure- none of the dust. |
September 26, 2017 |
Reviewer:
Maria J.
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All the treasure- none of the dust. I have a collection of 1900-1920 bible story books that I treasure because of the storytelling skills of the authors. I ferret out old, dusty books with classic read-aloud tales: Hercules, Odysseus, Thermopyle. It's hard to remember which old books have which old stories, though, and I don't usually remember them in time for the unit they would amplify. In the CWH Companion Reader, a huge assortment of those well-told, long-hidden tales are collected. There are Aesop's fables in limerick form, Cornelia's Jewels, and ""The Babe in the Bulrushes."" There's even a long section on the Phoenicians. Finding supplementary information on Greece, Rome and Egypt is easy, but Phoenicia? Good luck! I've seen the kids pick out the bookâ€â€for research, you knowâ€â€and stay to keep flipping pages for the next hour. I can't blame them; If I didn't have to make dinner, I would, too. The only thing it lacks is pictures. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, Sonya collected those thousand words here in this volume: juicy, golden words that fill the heart and head. I'll take that trade. Even if someone wasn't using the Connecting with History program, this book has a place on the history shelves (or living room floor, or couch, or stacked by the bed...) Wherever it lands, it won't stay there long enough to collect dust on its own.
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