a Crabtree Book  $16.00

Ancients Greece is known for its Olympic games but children will learn far more about the everyday lives of the ancient Greeks through full color photographs of Greek architecture and art. The Greeks gave the world democracy, a mythology still studied today, and many great thinkers.
Topics include:
• The Trojan War and its ten year history
• Greek gods and goddesses
• The fighting culture of Sparta and the origins of the word spartan
• The legend of the Minotaur
• Ancient Greek family life

Table of Contents:

Glory of Greece
Greek Way of Life
Rise of the Polis
Farming and Trade
Daily Life in Greece
Gods of Olympus
Words and Wisdom
Cultural Life
Eureka!
Alpha to Omega

Index and Glossary included. Glossy paperback, 32p.  Ages 8-14.

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The Egyptian civilization is one of the oldest in human history. Travel back in time to see how the Ancient Egyptians built magnificent pyramids, developed a system of writing, harnessed the Nile River for agriculture and made their own medicine. Your children will love the full-color illustrations of ancient Egyptian life that explain how people really livediduring that time.
Topics include:
• How mummies were made and buried
• The afterlife and ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses
• How ancient Egyptians farmed and what they ate
• Ancient Egyptian art and architecture
• Hieroglyphs and how to interpret them
Index and Glossary included. Glossy paperback, 32p.  Ages 8-14.

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From the first hunting and gathering societies to the great Nubian kingdoms of Kush, Africa has for centuries been the center of great cultural activity across its mountains, deserts, and rainforests. Life in Ancient Africa portrays the major civilizations of the ancient African era using maps and beautiful full-color photographs and illustrations.
Topics include
• Zimbabwe, Aksum, Meroe, Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
• the rise of hundreds of regional dialects
• pyramids, temples, royal tombs, and palaces
• irrigation and other farming techniques
• Trans-Sahara caravan routes and trade with the rest of the world
• the discovery of mineral resources
• an oral storytelling culture
• music and dance

Glossary and Index included. Glossy paperback, 32p.  Ages 8-14.

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With a history that stretches back over 6,000 years, ancient Mesopotamia was home to many great cultures and empires. Illustrative maps and timelines will teach children the complex history of the area that is now modern-day Iraq. Also a good accompaniment to studies of Ancient Israel.
Topics include:
• The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the cradle of civilization
• The great cities of Ur and Babylon
• The Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and many other ancient peoples
• The eye for an eye system of ancient justice
• Ancient cuneiform writing

Index and Glossary included. Glossy paperback, 32p.  Ages8-14.

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a Crabtree Book

This fascinating book describes how Japan grew from rule by local chieftains to an emperor-led nation with many noble families competing for prominence. Beautiful spreads and full-color photographs unveil Japan’s rich history and the people who struggled to make it their own.
Topics include
• wet rice cultivation
• trade with other cultures, their influence,and isolation in the 17th century
• from early pit dwellings to the development of castle towns
• nature worship, the rise of Shinto, and Buddhism and Confucianism
• life as a samurai warrior
• sword making and pottery
• herbal medicine
 Index and Glossary included.

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a Crabtree book by Paul Challen

Ancient China gave the world paper, a counting machine called an abacus, Kung Fu, and many other interesting inventions. Chinese society is one of the oldest on earth. Children will delight in learning about the Emperor’s Forbidden City, the feuding dynasties, and Ancient Chinese thinker Confucius.
Topics include:
• The Yellow River, Taklamankan Desert, and Mount Everest
• The construction of the Great Wall
• How the ancient Chinese farmed and made food
• What a Chinese “dynasty” was
• Ancient Chinese games and pastimes

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 Flesh out your studies with these beautiful and well priced books. Well done with a good balance of text, photos and great illustrations. A4 glossy, softcover, 32 pages. Suit ages 8-14.
 

by Grace Llewellyn $20.00

If you’ve ever felt that your child wasn’t flourishing in school or simply needs something the professionals aren’t supplying, you’re ready to become a “guerrilla educator.” Revolutionary and inspiring, Guerrilla Learning explains what’s wrong (and what’s useful) about our traditional schools and shows you how to take charge of your family’s education to raise thinking, creative young people despite the constraints of traditional schooling.

Llewellyn, a lecturer on the subject of home schooling and author of the classic “Teenage Liberation Handbook,” wrote this how-to book for parents who want to become more involved in their children’s education–whether through home schooling or by supplementing traditional instruction. She offers five fundamental principles–opportunity, timing, freedom, interest, and support–that, she claims, will transform the way we relate to our children and greatly assist them in growing up to be joyful, passionate creators. Useful for parents and teachers alike, this valuable book closely examines how young people learn and illuminates its practical advice with many stories that make for both insightful and enjoyable learning. Whatever schooling venue parents choose, this book will help them instill a lifelong love of learning in their children. A great book fo those you know who are thinking about homeschooling their children, especially teenagers.  206p.

by Jennie Chancey & Stacy McDonald $20.00

Have you struggled to reconcile God’s vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker’s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman—the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Delightfully fresh and honest, “Passionate Housewives Desperate for God” debunks the modern “desperate housewife” myth and provides fresh vision for the homemaker. Hear a former “Christian” feminist share how she went from a die-hard homemaker-in-training to a dedicated career woman, and then back again—after God gripped her heart. See the hollow counterfeit of whitewashed feminism and “me-ology” destroyed. And consider the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her.

This book will encourage you a great deal, and will convict you even more. A great and needful book.

by Robyn Sampson $40.00

Learn the teaching method God uses to teach His children. Teach your children the way God instructed the Hebrews to teach their children with annual events telling the story of His people and the coming of Jesus.

This giant, 585 page book gives an extensive look at the nine annual holidays: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles, Hanukkah, Purim and the weekly holiday ”the Sabbath!

Having this book at your fingertips is like having a library on the Bible holidays!

This book includes information that will fill ten books: one on each of the seven holidays in Leviticus, the Sabbath, plus Hanukkah and Purim, and tons of information about the importance of our Hebrew Roots. You’ll use this book over and over for years to come!
You will learn the historical, agricultural, spiritual, and prophetic purposes of each holiday, showing how each points to Christ and creative ways to teach them to your children!

In this book you get all the infomation listed above PLUS projects, crafts, recipes, games, and songs for celebrating each holiday.

Also instructions for a weekly Bible study and instructions using the Special Home School Section to incorporate the teaching of the biblical holidays with the academic school subjects!

The symbolism in the Bible is an absorbing subject! This book reveals Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, all foretold in the Spring holidays, and find out how to recognize His second coming by learning about the Fall holidays!

Excellent, fascinating information about the true New Testament Church and our Hebrew roots also included.

by Carol Kendall $12.00

A few citizens of an imaginary village dare to question some long-held but false beliefs in the community…and are ostracized as a result.  A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain where they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack. Thought-provoking but easy to read; great for homeschoolers! 288p, 300g.  Ages 10+