What was/is? 系列包含20本书，用20个美国历史上重要的事件告诉孩子美国这个国家是怎样一步步走到今天的；可以说，这是一套难得的“美国故事”。和孩子客观了解美国，最有趣也最轻松的打开方式，就是翻开这20本“美国故事”，从17世纪走到21世纪，用读故事的方式了解美国发展史上的重要事件。What was/is? 系列包含20本书，用20个美国历史上重要的事件告诉孩子美国这个国家是怎样一步步走到今天的；可以说，这是一套难得的“美国故事”。和孩子客观了解美国，最有趣也最轻松的打开方式，就是翻开这20本“美国故事”，从17世纪走到21世纪，用读故事的方式了解美国发展史上的重要事件。
给小朋友的关于史前地球的书，这是所读过的最好的一本。最初也是被史前动物吸引，有趣又生动地吸引着读下去，随后用这些动物带着来到人类的进化，然后转入地质地理学，真正深入浅出。最为推荐的是整本书带动起来的思路，打破了我们学校里惯用的一维思维，书中有很多当时科学家提出的假设及后来得到的验证，同时从多个角度诠释Ice Age ，力求帮助小朋友们建立更完整的多学科的认识，文章用词非常客观严谨，随时有贴心的词语解释，通篇读下来没有太大难度，收获却是巨大。 书中大部分素材都是欧洲和非洲，后期...
Lewis and Clark Expedition缘起1803年美国从法国购买的最大一块美洲土地（Louisiana Purchase）, 杰斐逊总统任命年轻的Lewis和Clark沿密苏里河向西去往太平洋。历时两年他们记录了沿途所见：印第安人的生活，地理地貌，气候与动植物，绘制详细的地图，之后美国西进才得以实现。 此次探险除了有这两位优秀的队长，另一个重要人物就是Sacagawea，她在意外发生时的冷静、与沿途印第安部落的沟通、食物用尽后帮大家采食野生植物等等。 The ...
What was和Who was来自同一出版社，聚焦世界历史文化故事。D-Day是二战的重要转折点，本书对1944年6月6日这一天发起的这场旷世之战做了非常翔实生动的描述，既有盟军此役的主要意图、为什么选择这一天发起进攻、各国盟军如何配合、为何选择诺曼底而不是离法国更近的Calais登陆、空降兵的使命是什么、作战开始前如何蒙蔽希特勒转移他的注意力、作战开始后、空降兵和海上登陆部队各自遇到的艰难困境等细节的描述，又有幸存者对当时心理感受的描述，孩子印象最深的是书中提到空降兵平时...
Ellis Island，an island of hope，an island of tears！看完整本书就完全理解这句话的含义了。What was系列和Who was系列一样，短小精悍，深入浅出，是初步了解某一主题的最佳选择。因为遇到一位美国老人说他的父辈是从Ellis Island进入美国的，孩子特别想了解这个神奇的岛，就选择了这本书，从移民历史到移民人物故事，孩子从书中获得了很多信息！
Maybe you have heard of the witch trials. What do you think of them? Cruel? Unfair? Mad?
The story begins with two girls having fits and claiming to have seen specters,which are part of witchcraft. Somehow those two girls made a huge wave...
D-day is the day when English Navy and air force successfully landed on the Normandy Beach on the French side of the English Channel. During this fight, many people died from the Germany guns and bombing, some of these people died before th...
The Panama canal was one of the most busy canal currently still working. This canal first was found by a Spanish explore in 1500s, and he made a trail to the pacific in this place, and he later build a trail that is muddy and hard to go thr...
The Alamo is the war where Texas became independent from Mexico after the cruel rule of Santa Anna who was eventually being caught. What happened first is that Spain colonist landed on the east coast of central America and their territory s...
Pompeii was one of the many rich but destroyed ancient city, and Pompeii was not like others that was destroyed by army, they are destroyed by volcanos. Pompeii was lying just south of Roman, and there lives many wealthy people. This city w...
The underground railroad saved the life of thousands of black slaves. It all started when there are some black people kidnapped from West Africa and sent to America in 1690. Later when more and more slaves were sent to American, there start...
The declaration of independence was the start of United State, it took the risk of many colonies leaders’ life to sign this. First, the thirteen colonies was all owned by Great Britain, when King George the third came to throne, he wanted t...
Salem Witch Trials was many trials that included some mysterious sickness and a few innocent people claimed to be witch. At first everything started by two little girls who’s the daughter of the village minister started to shout like crazy ...
Ellis island Is once again that way to a new life in America for millions of people who are immigrants to the US. As the book says in its last chapters:most monuments are for great people, famous people but Ellis island was a monument f...
I'm always fascinating about American civil war。this book let me know it completely different li.it talked about the people thatthoughtin the worldandit talked about ythe war started。the reasons are different from we think about slavery.it'...
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