Children with artistic sensibilities will love TheMuseum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections.
Inside they will discover a multi-media extravaganza of art history,
unique and utterly bizarre museum collections as well as introductions to some
of the world's most famous museums such as the British Museum and the Louvre.
We especially appreciate that Mark brings noted attention to the
controversy
surrounding museum acquisitions and cultural looting, but in a fashion
suited for young minds.
The Museum Book will
be best appreciated by children who have already been thoroughly acquainted with
museums. Or, The Museum Bookcan be effectively used by parents as a witty, cultured
introduction to the vast history of the arts.
Helping
kids understand the deep divisions and cultural riffs in the Middle East
is no easy task, but journalist Wilborn Hampton does a masterful job of
weaving history and his own recollections of his time
as a journalist
during Black September and the Yom Kippur War to reach a new generation
of children who associate the Middle East with war and terrorists. Wilborn's first-hand accounts of these two 1970s wars will keep readers
riveted to the finer details and dangers behind the business of covering
war in
War in the Middle East: A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War.
Learning about Medieval Europe has never been so
interesting.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
is a hearty look into the world of knights, lords, apprentices, and fair
maidens. Using an Old English tone with detailed references to historic
happenings of the day like the Crusades and persecution of the Jews,
Schlitz draws upon a cast of English characters to describe a typical
day in the life of varied citizens from a blacksmith to a miller who
live in an English manor.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
also includes a map of the manor that young readers will enjoy
using to trace their way around the village.
Written
by Wilborn Hampton
as a journalist
during Black September and the Yom Kippur War to reach a new generation
of children who associate the Middle East with war and terrorists. Wilborn's first-hand accounts of these two 1970s wars will keep readers
riveted to the finer details and dangers behind the business of covering
war in 
and persecution of the Jews,
Schlitz draws upon a cast of English characters to describe a typical
day in the life of varied citizens from a blacksmith to a miller who
live in an English manor.
