A companion volume to "Fifty Famous Stories Retold" by James Baldwin, "Fifty Famous People" introduces children to a variety of men who performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Included are anecdotes about great American statesmen, such as Lincoln and Franklin, as well as kings of long ago-Cyrus the Great, King Alfred, and Robert Bruce, boys who became famous as poets-Longfellow and Caedmon, and others who excelled in the art of painting-Giotto and Benjamin West. Other stories depict orators, scholars, inventors, slaves, and soldiers. Regardless of their fields of endeavour, all the characters portrayed show qualities that make them worthy of being remembered and looked up to as models of behavior. Young children will enjoy hearing these stories read to them, while older ones will take pleasure in reading them to themselves.
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Entertaining and Educational, But Hard to Use,
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This review is from: Fifty Famous People (Paperback)
The stories in this book are great. They remind me of the Paul Harvey "and now for the rest of the story". But my gripes. The stories are not chronilogical, which would be fine if there were an index, which there isn't. The Table of Contents lists the title of story, which in no way gives you a clue as to who the story is about. There is at the back of the book a list titled "Who they were, what they were, where they lived", but not a "where to find them in this book".
In order to use this book in our homeschooling I had to read the entire thing and make my own index. Which was a pleasure, but seems kindof odd that I had to.
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Stories for Young and Old,
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This review is from: Fifty Famous People (Illustrated book of short stories) (Paperback)
Educational and entertaining short stories about famous people of the world history:
"One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and their names will not cease to be remembered. In each of the stories there is a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to have a wholesome influence..." (James Baldwin)
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ONE day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Revere, James Hogg, Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Benjamin Franklin, Dean Swift, Henry Longfellow, John Randolph, King Astyages, King Henry, King Richard, Lucy Martin, United States, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin West, Israel Putnam, King Solomon, North Church, Tommy Jones New!
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ONE day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Revere, James Hogg, Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Benjamin Franklin, Dean Swift, Henry Longfellow, John Randolph, King Astyages, King Henry, King Richard, Lucy Martin, United States, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin West, Israel Putnam, King Solomon, North Church, Tommy Jones New!
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- Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on page 15
- Robinson Crusoe (Great Illustrated Classics (Abdo)) by Daniel Defoe on page 137
- Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal (Illustrated gay erotic classic) by Oscar Wilde in Back Matter
- Salammbo (aka Salambo) by Gustave Flaubert in Back Matter
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Back Matter
- History of a Crime (The Testimony of an Eye-Witness) by Victor Hugo in Back Matter
- Manual for Training in Worship by Hugh Hartstone on page 31
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