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By Margret Rettich, Elizabeth D Crawford. 1986
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.By Johanne Ménard. 2010
Connais-tu Marco Polo, le plus intrépide voyageur du Moyen Âge? Ce fils de marchand de Venise parti au bout du…
monde à l'âge de 17 ans? Celui dont les aventures extraordinaires ont inspiré de grands explorateurs comme Christophe Colomb? Années 1-3. 2010.By Richard B Lyttle. 1986
This history of Europe from the 2nd through the 9th centuries brings to life migrating Vandals, Goths, Huns, Vikings, Moslems,…
Mongols, Angles and Saxons, along with figures such as Genghis Khan, Alfred the Great, Mohammed and Attila the Hun. For junior and senior high readers. c1986.By Nathalie Bailleux. 1999
"Au temps des mousquetaires" est un titre faisant partie d'une collection destinée aux jeunes lecteurs. L'enfant est initié à des…
pans de l'histoire. Ici, il se retrouve en compagnie d'un mousquetaire du roi. Il a l'occasion d'en apprendre davantage sur la cour et ses intrigues, les campagnes militaires, la vie d'une compagnie et d'assister à un duel mémorable. Années 3-6. 1999.By Françoise Lebrun. 1999
"Au temps de Charlemagne" est un titre faisant partie d'une collection destinée aux jeunes lecteurs. L'enfant est initié à des…
pans de l'histoire. Ici, il se retrouve avec Charlemagne, empereur d'Occident, alors qu'il combattait les musulmans d'Espagne. Années 3-6. 1999.In medieval Europe (from the years 1000 to 1500), whatever work you got, you were stuck with. You might be…
a barber, chopping off people's hair (and sickly limbs), a rich lord, or work in a castle, the Church, or in law and order. It might have been fun or exciting to be a knight or an actor, but wait till you find out what a Gong Farmer did! Grades 3-6. Bestseller 2004. 2003.By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2001
Chronicles the disaster that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed for five years straight. Describes the heartbreaking plight…
of the peasants, who depended on potatoes for all their meals. A million died of starvation, and many more were forced to emigrate to America. Grades 5-8. Winner of Robert F. Sibert Award. 2001.By Danielle Arnaud, Noël Augendre. 1998
"À l'époque des chevaliers" est un titre faisant partie d'une collection destinée aux jeunes lecteurs. L'enfant est initié à des…
pans de l'histoire. Ici, il se retrouve en France à la fin du XIIIe siècle. Années 3-6. 1998.By Marthe Jocelyn. 2005
Inspired by a desire to learn about her grandfather's childhood in an English orphanage, the author researched the London Foundling…
Hospital. Founded in 1739, the institution took in babies whose desperate mothers might otherwise have abandoned them, and trained them to be useful citizens. With benefactors like the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, the facility cared for approximately 27,000 children for over 200 years. Grades 5-8. 2005.By Neil Grant. 1970
By John Farman. 1997
By John Farman. 1997
By John Farman. 1997
By Emily Arnold McCully. 1995
Portrays the life of the legendary sixteenth-century Irish swashbuckler Grania O'Malley, who was known as the cunning and intrepid "sea…
queen." Her adventures included saving her father's life in battle, bearing a child at sea, and boldly opposing Ireland's English invaders. Grades 2-4. c1995.By Alfred Leo Duggan. 1962
An account of how young people in England lived and were trained for adulthood in the 1270's. Describes the everyday…
lives of children from different social classes. For junior and senior high readers. 1962.By John Farman. 1998
By Kenneth Baker. 1999
Tracing the history of England from Boadicea to the present through verse, this anthology contains work by many of the…
greatest English poets and is divided into historical periods. Each section includes background information on the period and a running narrative to set the poetry in context. For junior and senior high students.By Gail Gibbons. 1995
By John Hendrix. 2018
Recounts the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who started a church in Germany that opposed Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.…
Describes Bonhoeffer's alliance with conspirators who sought to kill Hitler, his imprisonment, and his execution just weeks before Germany's surrender. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018By Patricia McCormick. 2016
Recounts the life and Nazi resistance efforts of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), a young minister who provided information to the Allies…
about Germany's death camps and was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. For grades 5-8. 2016