Reddit mentions: The best children american history books

Oh, I <3 looking for books for my kids!! They are 14, 13, 12, 11, and 5. Our son is the youngest, and he loves all the books that his older sisters loved when they were younger. :D

Oh my gosh...Get those kids some books!

• This is my favorite children's book.
  
  
• The Story of Ferdinand.
  
  
• This is one of my son's favorites...IronMan!.
  
  
• The Day My Mommy Quit.
  
  
• Dragons Love Tacos.
  
  
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
  
  
• I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love.
  
  
• The Day The Crayons Quit.
  
  
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
  
  
• Boom Chicka Rock.
  
  
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Mama Hook Knows Best: A Pirate Parent's Favorite Fables with CD.
  
  
• Are You My Mother?.
  
  
• Love You Forever.
  
  
• I Love You, Stinky Face.
  
  
• The Runaway Bunny.
  
  
• Oh, The Places You'll Go. Cool idea I saw on Pinterest with this book: Buy a copy and have each of your kids' teachers write a little note somewhere in it at the end of every year. Give the book to your kid as a graduation gift. I am doing this with our son now, I saw the idea too late to start it for our girls.
  
  
• Ten Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed.
  
  
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
  
  
• The Velveteen Rabbit. -- A HUGE FAVORITE!!
  
  
• Locomotive.
  
  
• Sleep Like A Tiger.
  
  
• The Lion And The Mouse.
  
  
• Blueberries for Sal.
  
  
• David Gets In Trouble.
  
  
• Press Here. This is a very fun book!
  
  
• The One and Only Ivan.
  
  
• The Polar Express.
  
  
• Flotsam.
  
  
• Only One You.
  
  
• Beautiful Oops!.
  
  I would love this book for our oldest daughter if I win, please.
  
  /u/DrUsual...can you think of any?
  
  Thank you for the contest!

I also remembered that there is r/asklibrarians but you should definitely ask your local librarians. This is the kind of thing they live for!

I had some time this morning so I went through our history books and found as many as I could that are good for general reference so they should hit all those subjects for her in a broad but informative way. Since that's my son's favorite subject, and he is homeschooled, we keep a lot of historical encyclopedias around:

Everything You Need To Know To Ace World History

Everything You Need To Know To Ace American History

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History

Free: U. S. History Sourcebook - Basic Kindle Edition

Also Free: U. S. History Sourcebook - Advanced Kindle Edition

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia there is probably a newer version now of this. This is my son's FAVORITE throughout the years.

History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day

This is a good one too: Himeji Castle: Japan's Samurai Past

Since your daughter is interested in Japanese history as well, I asked my son's Japanese teacher what she would recommend (she has the kids read books periodically), and she recommended some books. I know they're not all nonfiction, but historical fiction can give a lot of context and understanding.

The Cat Who Went to Heaven – Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Samurai’s Tale – Erik C. Heaugaard

Born in the Year of Courage – Emily Crofford

The Big Wave – Pearl S. Buck

The Master Puppeteer – Katherine Patterson

The Sign of the Chrysanthemum – Katherine Patterson

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Eleanor Coerr

Heart of a Samurai – Margi Preus

If you're after cheap books and can't find them at the library, search on abebooks.com or the used books on amazon.com. We always check Abebooks first because they're almost always cheaper there once you factor in shipping.

Anything on my "church stuff" list would be helpful to me and greatly appreciated. We are trying to form a more structured bible study at church to help the kids not only learn about church things, but to help teach them good manners, morals, and make sure they are kept up to speed in their actual schooling as well.

Brain Quest Black History might be a good one, because I go to a predominantly black church (though I myself am white), and I think we were planning a trip to the civil rights museum soon so it would help me prepare them for that.

What can I say, my life is better when my kids lives are better, and having actual structured activities for them takes a TON of stress off of me, because they will actually get engaged and do the activity if you give them the chance, they are well behaved enough if you give them something to do, but they have so much energy and if you can't give them anything to do, it just turns into them getting into all sorts of trouble.

So tl;dr it would help me by keep the kids entertained which means I have to waste less energy chasing them all over.

Pistachio butter Would make a great unique gift.

Cosmos and Neil DeGrasse Tyson related

One of Louis C. K.'s DVDs. All his DVDs are pretty cheap on Amazon.

Mets wallet

So much Licorice!

Fun book all about New York.

You're sweet to want to treat him to gifts. Happy early Birthday to your dad! I love shopping for others.

Edit to add coffee Community Coffee is made in New Orleans and living in South Louisiana it's the coffee king down here. Where I live there is a CC's coffee house on every corner like Starbucks in Seattle. I had to recommend this coffee to you for your dad. The Cafe El Special is the smoothest greatest coffee.

Twice now, professional friends of my wife (who, as always, is a humanities professor) have given my oldest daughter this kind of book as a gift. Each time it was a from a late 30s childless feminist female professor (who are people I like fine, btw). They apparently thought the books were "fun" and "playful" with a "good message".

The first of these, A is for Activist, I mostly rolled my eyes about and then gave away after a while.

The second one, Rad American Women A-Z, was given as a gift when I wasn't around, so I only came across it when looking at my 5 year old daughter's book shelf. The very first content page of this book when I opened it was this hagiography of Angela Davis - it is instructive to compare the article in the kids book with the information in the wikipedia page. And I'll admit, I seethed for a while after finding this book on my daughter's book shelf.

I recognize that there are people out there who want to give their kids these kinds of books, just as there are people who want to give their kids Baby's First Bible Stories or Baby's First Bill O'Reilly or Baby's First Glenn Beck or Baby's First Hamas.

And aside from that Hamas cartoon, this doesn't bother me. This is basically one major way people pass on their values and culture and worldview to their kids.

Nor does it bother me that my daughter will learn, over time, that there are well-meaning people out there who support Angela Davis, or Glenn Beck, or Moses, or radical feminism, or traditionalism, or Orthodox Judaism, or whatever, and that they disagree with each other, and they have their reasons, and that's okay. And she'll have to make up her own mind about those things.

But what does bother me is the idea that it's reasonable, and fun, and not even worthy of comment, to give what amounts to pretty nakedly partisan / radical propaganda to other people's kids.

It was actually after finding this second book that it finally sunk in for me that my previous practice of just politely and silently keeping my politics and worldview to myself around my wife's peers wasn't going to work. It doesn't bother me that I don't agree with them on plenty of stuff, and it's not important to me that they be convinced of, or engage with, my viewpoints or values. I actually get nothing out of them getting a window in to what I think and believe, really. But I've started seeing their assumptions about what all decent people think and value leak into how they treat my kids. And that's getting my back up. It's the assumptions part of it more than anything.

EDIT: To clarify, both books were given to my wife by the friends. No one was trying to go around our backs or anything like that... nor would they, because it wouldn't have occurred to them that there was anything objectionable about the books in the first place. It just happened to be the case that I found the second book on the book case without knowing it had been given, as described above.

I'd recently made a similar post elsewhere, so I'll go ahead and copy that below. In addition to that, another thing my four year old and I have done is to make a scale-distance solar system on the sidewalk using chalk. Look up the distances of planets in AU, draw the Sun, and then get walking--one large step = one AU. Don't worry about properly scaling the planet sizes themselves because then everything would be tiny. Feel free to include fun details like the asteroid belt / Ceres, large moons, dwarf planets, etc. And at the very end, Voyager. Its amazing to see how far out that one has gone!

So many good books to choose from! Examples:

• Moon's First Friends
  
  
• The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal
  
  
• Hello World - Moon Landing
  
  
• First Big Book of Space
  
  
• There's No Place Like Space
  
  
• A Place for Pluto
  
  Other book recommendations here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/space-books-kids.html
  
  Looking through a telescope is another fun activity you can do. But please don't bother with a "kids telescope" - those are basically toys, are difficult to use, and barely help in seeing even the Moon. The smallest real telescope is around a 4.5" - 5" reflector. This will obviously be too large for a 4 year old to operate, but with your help he will be able to see things first-hand. If you are unfamiliar with the sky, free apps like Stellarium or Sky Safari (iOS) can guide you where to look. Jupiter and Saturn are currently out in the night sky.
  
  View the International Space Station! See here for when the ISS will be making a pass over your area, and explain what he is seeing!
  
  Follow current space events! This can include watching rocket launches (SpaceX does a great job with webcasting these) or NASA/ESA science missions (Mars 2020 launches next year, and those landings are always very exciting).

Hey, infants and toddlers need books too!

Yummy Yucky was a favourite in our house. So were Dinosaur vs Bedtime and Goodnight Gorilla.

Getting a little bit older, my kids loved all the Arnold Lobel books and so did I. They were/are among the very few of my kids' books that I never ever got tired of reading over and over again, night after night.

Personally I loved the Madeline books and the Babar books, my daughter liked them but I could never get my son into them.

This was a huge favourite for both my kids in the toddler/preschool years. I can still recite some of those stories from memory (and do).

The original Thomas the Tank Engine stories are really charming. If your nephew ends up taking an interest in trains and that sort of thing, this is a gorgeous book.

eta: almost forgot: Maurice Sendak is essential. My kids can both recite Chicken Soup with Rice from beginning to end.

That makes me sad that this has been sitting here for 2 hours and no one else has squeed!! I am a teacher's aid at a high school and while I have an office and a resource room, I mostly meander during the day with little to decorate. My sister, however, teaches third grade and would probably super squee.

Okay. So. I love history, especially concerning Eastern Central Europe. I help out at an American high school in American history classes, so a book I spied a while ago about presidents is my helpfulness of choice because it comes with a timeline, which is so helpful for getting a sense of not only the order of presidents but the era a president lived in. [This] (http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Book-U-S-Presidents/dp/0762448806/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2SXK6EXO51EGC&coliid=IOAYBR24JR5BT) book is great for a variety of age levels, and by that I mean probably everyone 4th grade and up. Very approachable. I suppose this would be the most helpful for personal learning or tutoring and not teaching, though.


So a TEACHING item... h'mm... I seemed to learn the most when my history teachers would use simulations and role play. It helped to feel a part of what happened and go through the events with a directed perspective. I don't know much about this book in particular but I would hope that it would be a cool tool to use in creating those experiences ( [link] ( http://www.amazon.com/Role-playing-Simulations-History-Classrooms-ebook/dp/B008HTMXNI/ref=sr_1_50?ie=UTF8&qid=1371320690&sr=8-50&keywords=history+simulation) )

I really hoped the thumbnail would appear for this post! Come on, NYT gallery ....

Anyhow, though I didn't know who they were until recently, as a child I was instantly drawn to books illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. I had to have every book I found featuring their art, including novels by Isabel Allende. I loved to read, but I'm sure I read more because of the artists' work. Other favorites I wished were illustrated by the couple — they made characters complex, dignified and multiethnic, overall more like the world I knew than the one reflected by most book covers.

Image Google "Leo and Diane Dillon art" for more excellence.

For a 20 month old, I would also recommend Whose Toes Are Those and Whose Knees Are These (one is about a little girl, one is about a little boy). They are being re-released in March, so looks like right now you have to either buy them used or pre-order the new version, but your library might have them as well. I also love I Know A Lot (and others in that series), as well as the Lola at the Library series. And there are a couple new board books that came out last year that look great as well, such as Dream Big Little One, a celebration of African American women who changed the world, and ABC What Can She Be?, which introduces girls doing lots of different jobs.

What a beautiful room! My daughter's name is Amelia, so I got her this book: http://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Eleanor-Ride-Munoz-Ryan/dp/059096075X The illustrations are beautiful and the story is pretty sweet. It'd make a good addition to your nursery :)

FOR CULTURE AND HISTORY:


I know this may seem a little odd at first, but I'd recommend checking out children's books such as this for a gist of the different cultural groups and you get a decent image of what they're like.

Then, if you find a particular area/culture/tribe/etc. that catches your eye after checking through some of these type of books I'd recommend trying to find some more detailed resources on them. This can be history books put out by your tribe of choice, anthropological studies, and collections of their legends.


FOR MODERN SOCIAL ISSUES:

This sub is rather helpful in encountering issues encountered in the modern era. Websites like indiancountrymedianetwork.com tend to be rather helpful informing people of issues affecting Indigenous communities across the Americas.

In 4th grade our teacher would give us a king sized candy bar if we could name all 50 states and capitols in their correct location, as well as all the presidents (up to Clinton at the time,) in their correct order. It wasn't required but I used this book to help me memorize them all. They used the mnemonic devices and it was super fun and easy.

Earned 2 butterfingers because of these books.

Edit: spelling

Encouraging a love of reading about the stories of black girls and women is a great start. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison is excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Leaders-Women-Black-History/dp/0316475114

Happy Birthday Chica. Those are always fun and exciting :) Book for the classroom. Thanks for the chance!!

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

As far as non-fiction goes here are a few I like for kids:

Women in Science

Rad American Women

Girls Think of Everything

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

And if you search for any of these books there are always suggestions of tons of other great books. I have a Girl Scout troop so I'm always browsing for great pro-women books for them.

Also the Wreck this Journal books aren't "books" but still super fun for girls that age!

Sonya, Your momma wouldn't tell you this but...

True beauty shines from within. Beautiful people do what is right, not what is popular. They are true to the people they are close with and those who love them. They realize that different isn't scary, but a beautiful experience. They realize that there are so many wonderful things in life including being an amazing person. Sonya, be the beautiful young girl that we all aspire to be.

I think every 9 year old should have this book, [Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!] (https://www.amazon.com/Rad-American-Women-Trailblazers-Visionaries-ebook/dp/B0140EEQSS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523332796&sr=8-1&keywords=powerful+women)

I don't use textbooks in history. I'll be honest - it's tough. You will need a lot of sources and do things like guided notetaking/lecturing and PowerPoints to get the information across. Brief, 2-3 paragraph readings with 3-5 questions from the readings are good for homework too. Try to find condensed versions of history books to help you as well. For example, something like this which I use - https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-American-History-Notebook/dp/0761160833/ref=asc_df_0761160833/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312178232056&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5033432836201444507&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003217&hvtargid=pla-481046914717&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258870937&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312178232056&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5033432836201444507&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003217&hvtargid=pla-481046914717

How about:

• This Crash Course US History Timeline Poster ($12)
  
• This Crash Course US Government Poster ($10)
  
• This beautiful book of illustrated maps ($25)
  
• Rad American Women A-Z ($17)
  
• Literally anything related to Hamilton
  
• A "On This Day In History" Calendar ($9)
  
• The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation ($15)
  
• A History of America in 100 Maps ($23)
  
• Something under "history classroom" on Etsy
  
  Also: Have you tried having a look at what she's pinned on Pinterest? You might find some helpful ideas there. Good luck!

Make me smile, Rasta! (and my stepkids) with Yo Millard Fillmore!

Hope you have a great Monday!

Not a dumb question at all. In my opinion, it's best to think of Graphic Novels as a completely separate medium from books. So you can have fiction and non-fiction books, the same way you can have fiction and non-fiction movies (documentaries), the same way you can have fiction and non-fiction Graphic Novels.

Most non-fiction graphic novels are either memoirs like Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant and Persepolis, or biographies like My Friend Dahmer. There is old historical stuff like Gettysburg, and even graphic novels about The History of Hip Hop.

It's definitely a niche genre within a niche medium, but it has its audience!

Hillary Clinton: Some Girls are Born to Lead

It Takes a Village: Picture Book by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Girl Named Hillary: The True Story of Hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight

Hillary Clinton: The Life of a Leader

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted

And there are a lot more where those came from. There were a lot of politician worshiping children's books I chose not to include because my list was already pretty long.

I would love this book and I am not even from the US. I think Ooryl2 would find it interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-History-Presidential-Assassination/dp/0615999034 This is an awesome book. Illustrated by the author's daughter I believe. Kid level but really interesting.

My six-year-old daughter is a Hillary supporter. She's watched all the debates with me but this picture book won her over. Bernie's gonna lose the youth vote if he doesn't up his book game, Hillary's got like a whole shelf of them.

http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-History-Presidential-Assassination/dp/0615999034 Maybe try reading this with him. I've heard it's a great kids book.

There's a lovely children's book about this incident; it's called Mailing May, by Michael O. Tunnell, and it was published in 1997.

http://www.amazon.com/Mailing-May-Michael-O-Tunnell/dp/0064437248

To this end, we got our little boy a bunch of similar books. Notables:

Baby Feminists
Dream Big Little One

Not feminist but honorable mention as it is too much fun with some of the double entendre:

Woke Baby

There's actually a cute kids book based on this called "Mailing May" http://www.amazon.com/Mailing-May-Michael-O-Tunnell/dp/0064437248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334270657&sr=8-1

Also, as a general reader this may be good

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-American-History-Notebook/dp/0761160833

http://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Graphic-C-M-Butzer/dp/0061561762/ref=cm_syf_dtl_pop_10_rlrsrs0

This seems like it's exactly what you want.

Read Yo, Millard Fillmore to learn them. https://www.amazon.com/Yo-Millard-Fillmore-those-Presidents/dp/1935212419

There are multiple Hillary Clinton children's books out there.

What about this actual children's book?

https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-History-Presidential-Assassination/dp/0615999034

https://www.amazon.com/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Some-Girls/dp/0062381229

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1481451138/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GW9509TDAM5SK320D9SC

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553533886/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KX8VQCXPV626F6P6Z658

These actually are worse than the cover suggests (which is already pretty bad). I remember them even comparing Hillary to huge rulers and civil rights leaders like Queen Elizabeth, Martin Luther King, and even Ghandi.

It was total propaganda and the fact they are directed at little kids horrified me

Hey are you done taking them or not? I did the English one but still need the other two! If you have any other helpful resources please let me know.

I suck at math so I've been avoiding and delaying the whole process! I should've gotten certified a long time ago.

Anyways here's what I've got to study for the exams: English, Math, US History and Science

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761160965/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-English-Language-Notebook/dp/0761160914/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/147-1382291-0810832?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0761160914&pd_rd_r=d87a0cf0-585a-4c94-b51e-79af5951f6aa&pd_rd_w=qvlyM&pd_rd_wg=wmUDb&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=EX9MYTBFYW5J1ESNC8SN&psc=1&refRID=EX9MYTBFYW5J1ESNC8SN

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-You-Need-Science-Notebook/dp/0761160957/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/147-1382291-0810832?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0761160957&pd_rd_r=069d0766-bcca-4a0b-aca2-6290f87ec77d&pd_rd_w=b19TF&pd_rd_wg=798k5&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=6G0J7SJWDZZVFSH3JVS6&psc=1&refRID=6G0J7SJWDZZVFSH3JVS6

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-American-History-Notebook/dp/0761160833/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/147-1382291-0810832?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0761160833&pd_rd_r=86a465ab-25e3-49b8-881a-83362b0ad053&pd_rd_w=9qGxa&pd_rd_wg=ANeMi&pf_rd_p=d66372fe-68a6-48a3-90ec-41d7f64212be&pf_rd_r=GD2VSSX7BH21JHHCKP72&psc=1&refRID=GD2VSSX7BH21JHHCKP72