What was/is? 系列包含20本書，用20個美國歷史上重要的事件告訴孩子美國這個國家是怎樣一步步走到今天的；可以說，這是一套難得的“美國故事”。和孩子客觀了解美國，最有趣也最輕松的打開方式，就是翻開這20本“美國故事”，從17世紀(jì)走到21世紀(jì)，用讀故事的方式了解美國發(fā)展史上的重要事件。What was/is? 系列包含20本書，用20個美國歷史上重要的事件告訴孩子美國這個國家是怎樣一步步走到今天的；可以說，這是一套難得的“美國故事”。和孩子客觀了解美國，最有趣也最輕松的打開方式，就是翻開這20本“美國故事”，從17世紀(jì)走到21世紀(jì)，用讀故事的方式了解美國發(fā)展史上的重要事件。
給小朋友的關(guān)于史前地球的書，這是所讀過的最好的一本。最初也是被史前動物吸引，有趣又生動地吸引著讀下去，隨后用這些動物帶著來到人類的進(jìn)化，然后轉(zhuǎn)入地質(zhì)地理學(xué)，真正深入淺出。最為推薦的是整本書帶動起來的思路，打破了我們學(xué)校里慣用的一維思維，書中有很多當(dāng)時科學(xué)家提出的假設(shè)及后來得到的驗證，同時從多個角度詮釋Ice Age ，力求幫助小朋友們建立更完整的多學(xué)科的認(rèn)識，文章用詞非常客觀嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)，隨時有貼心的詞語解釋，通篇讀下來沒有太大難度，收獲卻是巨大。 書中大部分素材都是歐洲和非洲，后期...
Lewis and Clark Expedition緣起1803年美國從法國購買的最大一塊美洲土地（Louisiana Purchase）, 杰斐遜總統(tǒng)任命年輕的Lewis和Clark沿密蘇里河向西去往太平洋。歷時兩年他們記錄了沿途所見：印第安人的生活，地理地貌，氣候與動植物，繪制詳細(xì)的地圖，之后美國西進(jìn)才得以實現(xiàn)。 此次探險除了有這兩位優(yōu)秀的隊長，另一個重要人物就是Sacagawea，她在意外發(fā)生時的冷靜、與沿途印第安部落的溝通、食物用盡后幫大家采食野生植物等等。 The ...
What was和Who was來自同一出版社，聚焦世界歷史文化故事。D-Day是二戰(zhàn)的重要轉(zhuǎn)折點，本書對1944年6月6日這一天發(fā)起的這場曠世之戰(zhàn)做了非常翔實生動的描述，既有盟軍此役的主要意圖、為什么選擇這一天發(fā)起進(jìn)攻、各國盟軍如何配合、為何選擇諾曼底而不是離法國更近的Calais登陸、空降兵的使命是什么、作戰(zhàn)開始前如何蒙蔽希特勒轉(zhuǎn)移他的注意力、作戰(zhàn)開始后、空降兵和海上登陸部隊各自遇到的艱難困境等細(xì)節(jié)的描述，又有幸存者對當(dāng)時心理感受的描述，孩子印象最深的是書中提到空降兵平時...
Ellis Island，an island of hope，an island of tears！看完整本書就完全理解這句話的含義了。What was系列和Who was系列一樣，短小精悍，深入淺出，是初步了解某一主題的最佳選擇。因為遇到一位美國老人說他的父輩是從Ellis Island進(jìn)入美國的，孩子特別想了解這個神奇的島，就選擇了這本書，從移民歷史到移民人物故事，孩子從書中獲得了很多信息！
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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