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There are so many ways to learn history through reading–and it doesn’t have to be boring! In Episode 9 of Kidliterate we share our favorite biographies and memoirs, historical fiction, and classic fiction, and why we both prefer to get our history lessons through compelling stories. Join us!
- Who Is? and Who Was? series, by various authors
- I Am book series, by Brad Meltzer
- Little Leaders series, by Vashti Harrison
- Goodnight Stories For Rebel Girls, by by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli, and Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World without Killing Dragons, by Ben Brooks
- I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition), by Malala Yousafzai
- The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Historical fiction Sarah remembers from growing up:
- American Girl book series
- The Little House book series
- Sarah read Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder)
- Ramona Quimby series
- Reid, age 9, is on a classics kick and has been reading Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Gulliver’s Travels
- We mentioned the Young Reader’s editions of Little Women and Anne of Green Gables
- Picture books like the ones by Robert McCloskey (Sarah’s favorites are Blueberries For Sal and One Morning In Maine) give visual scenes of everyday life in generations past
- Sarah finished Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
- Allegra is reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
What you’re reading:
- Cora, age 7, is reading Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Volume 2
- Lucy, age 5, is reading a Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth book
- Alice, age 4, loves Amanda Pig stories right now
- They are all into chapter book series like Rainbow Magic Fairies, Never Girls, Magic Tree House, and Whatever After
- Mom Erin just started The Searcher by Tana French
- Faiza and her 4-year-old son are reading Sadiq And The Desert Star (and subsequent books in the series) by Siman Nuurali
Email us at hello@kidliteratepodcast.com – we’d love to hear from you!
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