Customer Review: I have just gone to a Titanic Exhibit at my local museum, I have always had a great interest in anything to do with the Titanic since I had seen the movie A Night To Remember (a long time ago). This book is put together so well from the beginning of building the ship to it's fateful end...the... more info
Customer Review: I ordered this book to use with 4th graders who were working on a unit about careers from the past. They loved reading about the different occupations and comparing and contrasting them with jobs of today. I also like the way the book is set up by various career clusters.
Customer Review: This is a great book for introducing children and others about hieroglyphics. I thought it was great for myself even. The book tells the history of diciphering the Mayan hieroglyphs. While the Egyptian hieroglyphs had the Rosetta Stone, there was no Rosetta stone for the Mayan. Archeologists needed... more info
Customer Review: This would be a great book for a young reader who loves history and princesses. Actually, I liked this book even as an adult reader [we were in a used bookstore looking for books on princesses, and I came across this title]. "To Be a Princess" features true accounts of real-life princesses and... more info