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Finding Out about Deserts (Explainers Series)

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Last night, as I was digging through the books and resources my children and I studied during our Great Egypt Semester, my 12 year old looked at our copy of Angela Wilkes' Deserts and said, "Dad, can you find any more fun stuff like that for our history?"

What a great little book, easily read by our then-first grader, enough full of fun facts to hold the attention-and seize the memory-of my older two a couple of years later.

This book (recommended to us in The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt), is chock full of fascinating pictures and facts about deserts around the world. In fact, Deserts helped us introduce a much-needed science component to our history study, since the history of Egypt was so influenced by its desert terrain.
I recommend this book heartily for any child who can read. If your child can't read yet, read it to them and then talk about it.