Lengthy Book List

Here are my notes from Natalie's school library - I've included links where I can. One book that I must buy (for Farming & Gardening/Nature Study) is a vintage Golden Book called The Adventure Book of Nature Craft by Richard F. Dempewolff. Used copies online are about six dollars. It is marvelous. Full of good information and projects, including how to set up a camera trap to see wildlife that prowl your yard at night, and a simple bird call (made from a length of wood, some resin powder, and a screw). I'm going to use it for so many activities that I'm going to go ahead and buy it. The rest I will borrow, though.


Farming and Gardening
there is a series called Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists - I am interested in the following for Farming & Gardening (different ways of painting plants) - Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Cassatt and O'Keeffe

Soil by Adele Richardson

Let's Read and Find Out Science 2 books
Spinning Spiders
Ant Cities
Chirping Crickets
Snakes are Hunters

Wonders of the Seasons by Keith Brandt

Wonders of the Pond by Francene Sabin

What Makes the Wind? by Laurence Santrey

Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth




Housebuilding
Bridgestone's American Indian Nations series - entire series

The Big Book of Indian Activities

I think housebuilding is where I put the exploration of the four elements; if not, these get moved to wherever that is
Water, Earth, Fire, Air

The Pueblo by Charlotte and David Yue

Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends ed. by Karl Kroeber



Ancient Civilizations
there is a picture book series on famous architecture around the world called The Grand Tour - I am interested in Shrines of Power, Centers of Belief, Breaking the Confines, The Focus on Democracy, Waters of Life, and The Closed Faith - photographs of ancient civ. architecture


The Bridgestone Library series - Understanding Simple Machines series
Levers, Screws, Wedges, Pulleys, Wheels and Axles, Inclined Planes - how did they build these ancient structures?

Mummies by Edith Kunhardt Davis

Life in Ancient Egypt by Doxey

Ancient Egypt by Karen Sullivan

Tut's Mummy Lost... and Found by Judy Donnelly

Appleseeds (published by Cobblestone magazine) issue February 1999: Children of Ancient Egypt - ISBN 0382444183

Mummies and Their Mysteries by Charlotte Wilcox

The Ancient Egypt Pack: A Three-Dimensional Celebration of Egyptian Mythology, Culture, Art, Life and Afterlife by Kondeatis and Maitland

Eyewitness Books Ancient Egypt

Eyewitness Anthologies Ancient Egyptians

Ancient Egypt: Kingdom of the Pharoahs

Pyramid by David Macaulay

Egyptian Life (Early Civilizations series)

Imperial Visions Series: The Rise and Fall of Empires, volumes 1, 2, and 3


Time/Life Lost Civilizations series - entire series

Factory through the Ages by Philip Steele

Hands of Heritage: Ancient Rome

Let's See Ancient Mesopotamia, plus Ancient Egpyt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome

I Know What Gravity Does by Aline D. Wolf - I don't know where I want this one, maybe with irrigation in Farming and Gardening

The Big Book of Ancient Greece

The Big Book of Ancient Rome

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon

Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Everyone: An Introduction to the Writing of Ancient Egypt

Fun with Egyptian Stencils

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

Ancient Greece by Louise Schofield

The Greek News (mock newspaper)