History – Books

Readers Have a Front Row Seat to History’s Scariest Events Through the I Survived Series

November 27, 2021

Working in a children's library, the main objection of the job is to literally help kids find books they'll be interested in. The I Survived… series by Lauren Tarshis is a consistent request from our patrons a...

Time Traveling Siblings Make History in The Magic Treehouse Series

Bambi

November 30, 2020

Children's, Fiction

Today’s selection seems like an obvious choice and it might seem odd that it didn’t make the list sooner. The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne often shows up on top ten lists for young readers and i...

Nature Is Our History Teacher in As An Oak Tree Grows

Bambi

September 18, 2020

Children's, Fiction

I’ve easily read today’s book 100 times but to my son, it just never seems to get old! It’s a picture book that he received when he was 3 or 4, through an excellent program I’ve cheered before, Dolly Parton’s ...

Give Kids the Keys to the World with the Who Was? Series

Bambi

August 28, 2020

Non-Fiction

A few years ago, when my son was in kindergarten, I volunteered once a week in his school’s library. After spending several months helping kids of all ages to find books, I started to notice a trend among the ...

Budding Anthropologists Will Dig These Reference Books

Bambi

February 29, 2020

Children's, Fiction

If your child is anything like mine, they might be going through or have already gone through a phase where they are obsessed with all things historical. Today I’d like to explore the importance of research bo...