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This first book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls―over 150,000 copies of the series in print!

What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor of Rome?

Told in a straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, The Story of the World series covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas―find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. This first revised volume begins with the earliest nomads and ends with the last Roman emperor. Newly revised and updated, The Story of the World, Volume 1 includes maps, a new timeline, more illustrations, and additional parental aids. This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children. Enjoy it together and introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world's civilizations.

Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests―each available separately to accompany each volume of TheStory of the World Text Book. Volume 1 Grade Recommendation: Grades 1-5. Black-and-white illustrations

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Well-Trained Mind Press; Revised Second edition (September 17, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933339012
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933339016
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches

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Susan was born in 1968, grew up in Virginia, and was educated at home by pioneering parents, back when home education was still unheard of. She worked as a professional musician, wore a costume at Colonial Williamsburg, toured with a travelling drama group, galloped racehorses at a Virginia racetrack, taught horseback riding, worked in radio and newspaper ad sales, learned enough Korean to teach a Korean four-year-old Sunday school, and served as librarian and reading tutor for the Rita Welsh Adult Literacy Center in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In her less haphazard adult life, she earned an M.A., M.Div., and Ph.D. She has taught at the College of William & Mary in Virginia for the last sixteen years. Susan is married and the mother of four.

Susan's most recent book for Norton, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory (2015), guides us back to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.!

Her previous book, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (2003), is a guide to reading the classic works of fiction, poetry, history, autobiography, and drama. Norton also published The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (with co-author Jessie Wise); originally published in 1999, this bestselling guide to education in the classical tradition was revised and updated in 2004 and again in 2009.

For Peace Hill Press, Susan has written a four-volume world history series for children, The Story of the World, for Peace Hill Press. Volume 1, Ancient Times, was published in 2002 (revised edition 2006); Volume 2, The Middle Ages, in 2003 (revised edition 2007); and Volume 3, Early Modern Times, in 2004. The final volume, The Modern Age, was published in 2006. She has also written a best-selling elementary writing program, Writing With Ease.

Susan is also the author of The Art of the Public Grovel (Princeton University Press) and many articles and reviews. Visit her blog at http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog.

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ptgus

My kids finally love history.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023

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My kids finally as excited to read and learn about history. It has been so interactive and easy to read for all ages. My kids are 7, 11 and 13 and we can all learn together. It has inspired some great conversation too.

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J. Robinson

Perfect for a foundation in history

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I read a lot of the reviews on this book - especially the negative reviews - and had to write my own because I think there are many ways to approach this book series.

This is our first year homeschooling our 4th grade daughter and we met and grilled many of the homeschool mothers in our area on their system of teaching. One of them recommended the Wise/Bauer book "The Well-Trained Mind" which seemed to be a very good fit for both my teaching style and our daughter's learning style. "The Well-Trained Mind" recommends, of course, this series of books for teaching history. But what a lot of people are missing, I think, is that Volume 1 is meant for 1st grade, Volume 2 for 2nd grade, etc. These 4 volumes are also meant to be the first of 3 levels of teaching history as the child goes through his/her 12 years of education. In other words, these four volumes are laying the groundwork for what's to come. It's not a be-all end-all history course.

The reason my approach is different is because I'm using this series of books to catch my daughter up to where a well-educated child should be by the 4th grade. Up through to the end of 3rd grade in the public school system, the only exposure she'd had to history is to the timespan just before and just after the American revolutionary war. So we had a lot of ground to cover. But I didn't want it to turn into a grind for her, so I took the authors' intentions to heart and I'm using this series to form a groundwork for a basic understanding of history.

So what I'm doing is covering all four volumes in 1 year. That works out to a little over 2 months per volume or 4 chapters (for Volume 1) per week. I skipped the activity book but did buy the workbook with the quizzes. We've read to our daughter since she was a baby and she still loves to be read to, so for the 1-hour class (which I hold twice a week) I read 2 chapters to her, discussing what we're reading as I go along. She loves it and the book is easy to read from. Before class starts, I give her 2 quizzes from the 2 chapters read in the previous class. She gets about as many questions right as I would and it's just to help reinforce what I've read to her.

So all the complaints about inaccuracies in the book and the author's religious slant (which I didn't find and I was looking for), they don't matter. What really matters is that my daughter enjoys learning about history (it's her favorite class) and she's building a foundation that can be built on in later years.

In addition to this series and its workbooks, I also picked up "The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia." Once a week I give her homework to read assigned pages from this book to reinforce or, perhaps, to give a different point of view on what she's just learned.

All history books will turn up people who will disagree with the content, will find inaccuracies in the material, or won't agree with the author's point of view. But, guess what? It doesn't matter. Your child is still young and you are filling in a background in history that his/her public school peers will never have.

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I am a homeschooling mom with a preschooler, a kindergarten student, and a fourth-grader. This book is great for all of them. I will alternately read aloud or play the audio version (in the car, during lunch, etc.). They love it! The chapters are short and easy to understand. The book itself is not intense and it wasn't made to be. The earliest age is six! If the language is too sophisticated or dry, the children will lose interest. I would too! There are lots of stories and myths from some of the different cultures of those times. It gives my children insights to different cultures and their traditions. The book is also helpful to enrich their understanding of what was happening in the world around the same time as some biblical events. It puts into perspective events like Abram moving, Joseph in Egypt, David, all the fighting and wars, etc. But in a way a child can grasp. As a Christian parent, it is hard to fill in the historical gaps or make sense of certain events. This book certainly helps. As far as I can tell, this book in no way, modifies or takes away the gospel message found throughout the Bible and history. So, for the reviewer who complained about the author's adding that Abram's father was scared, so they moved the family......duh! Who wouldn't be scared about constant fighting, being killed, and the threat of losing everything? Many ancient peoples moved for those very same reasons. It isn't unreasonable to make that jump, especially when you are trying to explain these complicated topics to a young child.

The negative reviews are garbage. What are people expecting? The Economist? Newsweek? An SAT study guide? This book is an introduction (condensed version) of the ancient world. The accompanying activity book has additional resources and activities for people who want more information. As for the claims of how a person felt at a particular time, of course that is speculation! Much of history is speculation! We use what we can find evidence of and fill in the gaps based on the collective information we have for that time period. I delve more into the information with my older child by using the activity guide and test booklet. If you're not keen on using this as a textbook, then read it to your children before bed. I guarantee your kids will get excited about history. Isn't that the goal of education? Not to get them to memorize a bunch of nameless faceless facts, but to get them excited, spark their curiosity, and encourage them to learn independently. This book is certainly a tool that can be used for that purpose.

I have purchased the next book and my family cannot wait to begin that book as well.

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Elizabeth Sutherland

I'm a literal 6-day creationist: There is inaccurate retelling of Biblical portions

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 9, 2021

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I'm reading this book with my kids and enjoying it. However...

I am a Bible believing Christian. I believe in literal 6-day creation and that Genesis is literal history. I love the idea of combining Biblical history with the rest of world history to show how they fit in together. That is one reason I purchased this book. However, when the author retells the Bible history, she changes it so that it's not fully accurate and she adds things - for example she has Moses' mother panicking and saying "hide me from the Egyptian soldiers!" when she's about to give birth! It's kind of silly when the Biblical history is already very interesting and has enough detail to be interesting without her adding this other stuff...and we know that the Bible is the most accurate history book ever written that has continually been shown to line up with ongoing scientific and archaeological discoveries. It was also annoying that she said that the Israelites' exodus from Egypt shows that Egypt was weak because a band of slaves could just walk out...that's not the point of the story; it shows that God was very powerful because He brought His people out of Egypt which was the most powerful nation in the world at that time!

Also, her timeline is longer than the Creationist perspective, where the world was created about 4000 BC. She totally leaves out the world-wide flood and the tower of Babel, both of which are pretty significant and important in ancient history. Some of the early chapters are inaccurate, for example in that she talks about nomads learning to farm, when actually we know that the very first man (Adam) was a farmer and the very first man after the Flood (Noah) was also a farmer!

She doesn't really talk about origins and creation vs. evolution - it could be interpreted either way, although I feel this book wouldn't be fully satisfying to either perspective - except maybe to those who believe in theistic evolution - maybe that's what she believes?

Her treatment of Biblical history also calls into question whether she's using her imagination for the other history she tells; I don't know whether to trust everything she says. I'm fine with some of the imaginative storytelling, for example about children who lived in certain places to help readers get a "feel" for what it would be like to live back then - but I do feel that she imposes a modern mindset into some of the characters, for example what she says about Hatchepsut's reasons for wanting to be Pharaoh (making her sound like a modern feminist which I'm pretty sure is not accurate). History is interesting enough as it is without adding in quite so much interpretation...and when adding the interpretation I would really appreciate it if she phrased it more like, "Maybe this is what so-and-so was thinking," instead of just saying that's what they were thinking when she can't know.

However, reading this book has overall been a positive experience and I would buy it again unless I could find something better. I have used this as a learning opportunity to talk to my children (ages 4 & 6) about what is and is not true in the book. However, I wouldn't give it to a young child to read by themselves without some guidance. It's good for children to learn that not everything in books is accurate. My 6-year-old is now questioning things we read and evaluating whether they are true or not, which is great preparation for him to be reading other books in the future on his own...we talk about how books can have mistakes and only the Bible is 100% reliable.

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Jam

Great history book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 7, 2020

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Charlotte Mason style history book! We love how it incorporates history with the Bible. And we like the stories in it! We use this as a read aloud book for our 6 yr old, and she loves it. It’s never boring to listen to.

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Anna

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 29, 2018

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Excellent book I cannot recommend enough. I do not homeschool my children but use this book almost every day to teach history chronologically after school, to try to make some sense for them. Great book !

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paolavj

A great history book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 22, 2015

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My son ( 7 years old) loves this book! We are reading it every night and we are reading about 20-30 minutes as he keeps wanting to know more and more. I myself found it really interesting too ! I don't really like the legends stories they tell sometimes but I got it for my son who is homeschool and can't put it down.

Becki Murray

Great history book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 22, 2019

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Really fantastic book! We’re still working our way through it but it’s great, I’m enjoying it as much as the children!

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