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Archive for July, 2009
Horrible Histories
Audio Books for Kids
There is never an easy way to learn history and it is even harder to convince a young person that history can be interesting and fun to learn. So with that in mind BBC audio books have put together a collection of audio book titles that makes learning history fun and entertaining but at the same time informative. This range of audio books for kids seems to tick all the boxes. Terry Deary, author of the horrible histories, series of audio books is a quite simply, innovative and has a brilliant way of making a dreary subject matter, more interesting, especially for kids. They have created a unique range of history audio books
How have they done this, well simply by taking a period in our history and putting a modern spin on the nastiest moments in history and making those same moments in history, interesting?
Terry Deary and Martin Brown’s brilliantly recorded audio books about the nastiest periods in history have now – with the help of some astounding and outstanding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs – been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas.
You can include in this range of audio book titles the Groovy Greeks, and the terribleTudors andthe Vile Victorians, it is not only Charles Dickens, who has been able to take a more sanquine look at the Victorians and the way they lived and worked.
Did you know that The Groovy Greeks claim to have inspired the doctors of today? But if your teacher wants you to become a doctor, thank your lucky stars you weren’t born in Ancient Greece, because they had to examine their patients’ earwax, vomit, tears, and rotting flesh – by tasting them!
You can rest assured, the audio recordings by Terry Deary and Martin Brown, are based on the bestselling books written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
They will give hours of pleasure to kids and help them to learn and understand the key moments in history in a relaxed and informative manner.
So, if you want to hear the dreadful truth about Dad’s Army, or how sweet rationing drove a teacher to steal from his pupils, or what happened when an elephant got loose in the blackout, the full foul facts about life on the home front are laid out before your ears. You can hear the full story of the Second World War as told by Terry Deary.
Out of Many: A History of the American People : Combined Edition
B> This book offers a distinctive, timely and truly continental approach to American history, highlighting the experiences of diverse communities of Americans and the way that the persistent tensions between everyday life and the most momentous issues in our national lifeindependence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological changewere largely worked out in the context of local communities. The authors weave together the complex interaction of social, political and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region. Traditional turning points and watershed events are integrated with the stories of the nation’s many diverse communities. Also highlighted are communities growing to include ever larger groups of Americans from solders of every colony forging the continental army to American linked in virtual communities of cyberspace. Historians and anyone interested in American history from a narrative approach.
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