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We have this series on CD now and the whole family enjoys listening to it on a car journey. It is a good run through history, with things even the adults did not know before.

PLEASE view ALL 1-starred reviews before making your purchase

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I would not have bothered to write a review of this book for there are many 1-starred reviews here already and many have made very good arguments against this book (if only I had read those before purchasing). However, I feel compelled to add one more negative review because I feel the need to balance out the 5-star reviews. This book makes me question Ms. Bauer's Well-Trained Mind and whether I should use her materials in my homeschool curriculum.

Homeschool material

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Excellent material. I really like how this material is designed to to cycle through over three times during a child's homeschool experience in grades K-12.

This book will make your child LOVE History

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My 1st grader and even my 5th grader absolutely LOVE this book. While some of the material is advanced for my 1st grader, it is written in a way that he can still comprehend the general idea. I also purchased the workbook that accompanies this book and it is filled with lots of very informative teaching guides and tear-out pages for my child to color. My 5th grader has another book on History of Western Civilization and he comes in and listens while I teach from this book as it explains events in a much more indepth way. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but also highly recommend that you purchase the accompanying workbook. Many thanks to the author!

The best program I've seen for teaching history

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We are finishing the last of the four books in this series, and I've looked at many, many other alternatives for teaching history now that it's time to start again.

After 5 years of homeschooling my 8 kids and researching nearly everything out there, I can honestly say these are the BEST books for teaching history.

No, it's not perfect (what is?), but it is still WONDERFUL! Naturally, not everything can be covered. Of course there are a few mistakes (as in every singly history program I've looked at for our family, including a few college texts), and yes the last book "Modern Times" focuses a lot on wars and skips over other important events like the San Francisco fire, and book 3 didn't address large settling movements, like the Mormons trekking to Utah, etc. But for gaps I simply get library books, take a day off of reading these books, and supplement as I see fit. And that's what Susan Wise Bauer has RECOMMENDED: supplement as you see your children need.

This still is the BEST program out there, and I'm thrilled to begin the cycle again. Our family has had lively discussions about events in history; how many families can enjoy that? My 14 year-old is looking forward to making sand and glue pyramids again, this time with his 8 year-old brother.

Even though I have a graduate degree in humanities, I learned more about history through this series than I ever did in 6 years of college.