I still haven't got used to the children correcting us on the philosophy of Diogenes.
The Horrible Histories books are not as good as the TV series though they did come first. There are an awful lot of them if they get hooked on them. We only have a few, for the periods that have grabbed them particularly, especially Romans and Egyptians. With short chunks of text and lots of cartoons and speech bubbles, they were useful in getting Son reading when he wasn't very confident about vast chunks of text but the language wasn;t that easy for him at that stage. Personally I also found them awful to read aloud because it's so bitty, but that makes them good for children to dip in and out of themselves.
Son, who is 8 and likes history, says: "They are funny and entertaining basically. They're not too difficult and they are not too easy. Say that they are not a waste of money basically."
Daughter, who is 11, says the TV series is much better than the books (she is an avid reader and is more into fiction).
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The Horrible Histories books are not as good as the TV series though they did come first. There are an awful lot of them if they get hooked on them. We only have a few, for the periods that have grabbed them particularly, especially Romans and Egyptians. With short chunks of text and lots of cartoons and speech bubbles, they were useful in getting Son reading when he wasn't very confident about vast chunks of text but the language wasn;t that easy for him at that stage. Personally I also found them awful to read aloud because it's so bitty, but that makes them good for children to dip in and out of themselves.
Son, who is 8 and likes history, says: "They are funny and entertaining basically. They're not too difficult and they are not too easy. Say that they are not a waste of money basically."
Daughter, who is 11, says the TV series is much better than the books (she is an avid reader and is more into fiction).
I don't know if this helps at all :-)