I have been using AliceAyel.com for about a year with one of my children, and thought I would write a review to help other potential users. This review specifically focussed on using Alice Ayel with children, but I think lots of the information is also relevant to adult learners. The Comprehensible Input approach Alice Ayel…
This post is part of a series of recommendations for children’s books on different eras of British history. You can read the overview post here. These book suggestions are for Britain from the death of Queen Victoria until the end of the First World War in 1918. The WW1 suggestions do cover global aspects of…
This is an overview post providing links to the various articles I have written about children’s history books for different periods. You may also be interested in a series of articles about Scottish history books for children, which you can find here.
This post is part of a series of recommendations for children’s books on different eras of British history. You can read the overview post here. These book suggestions are for Britain from the succession of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901. General Victorian non-fiction resources Daily Life in a Victorian House Laura…
In these recommendations I have included books about engineering concepts (such as Peter’s railway), and also biographies of famous engineers. I would love to see more children’s books in this category, so if you have any ideas, please do let me know in the comments section. Bonus points for a child-friendly biography of Thomas Telford!…
I hope to add to this list over time. You may also be interested in children’s biographies of famous scientists. Great Men and Women in the History of Medicine (Naxos Junior Classics) David Angus This fantastic audiobook covers a number of key individuals in the development of medicine. Hippocrates, Galen, Hildegard of Bingen, Ibn Sina,…
By far the most useful resource that I have found is the short audiobook biographies produced by Naxos Junior Classics. Each biography is roughly 10-15 minutes long, and they are very well done. Generally the audiobooks run in chronological order, so one gets a real sense of scientific discoveries building on each other. The science…
Central Asia is very under-represented in children’s literature. Someone needs to go and write some more children’s books about the beautiful and historically very interesting part of the world! Here are a few books I have found about Central Asia or Central Asian people groups. We’re Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on the Silk…
We recently completed a biomes study for geography, and my children really enjoyed it! Each week we explored a different biome, and we recorded them on our colour-in maps of the world. A week didn’t really feel long enough for each biome, and I think we could actually have extended this project over a full…
In this post I share our favourite books and resources for exploring maps, for a variety of different ages. Maps are inherently practical, and children will need lots of hands-on activities to help them to develop their skills in using and creating maps. Some of these books contain suggestions for these sorts of activities, but…
