A reference guide to world history, featuring a timeline, key date boxes, and biographies of historical figures.

A reference guide to world history, featuring a timeline, key date boxes, and biographies of historical figures.

Packed with intriguing facts and valuable information, this updated edition of The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia is a must for any young historian. Sweep through world history, from the first humans and ancient civilisations through 40,000 years to the end of apartheid and the war on terror.

A revised and updated edition of a world history from prehistoric man to the present, illustrated throughout in full colour. Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stages 2/3.

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What was the Black Death? Who fought in the Hundred Years' War? Based on the award-winning Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, this portable reference puts the whole of history and the legacy of human civilization at the fingertips of today's children. Special Features: Easy-to-use chronological and thematic arrangement. Illustrated biographies and key date boxes. Timeline throughout puts history and world events in context.

A reference guide to world history, featuring a timeline, key date boxes, and biographies of historical figures.

This A-Z encyclopaedia offers information on a wide range of subjects and contains cross-references in the text and a comprehensive index to help the reader trace further information about any topic. Many areas of knowledge are covered, from plants, science, travel, the human body and politics to food, language, religion, sports, history, machines, and myths and space.

Provides sample questions and answers, recommended readings, maps, and activities.

This comprehensive, 8.5" x 11" curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, games, projects, review questions, cross-references to illustrated encyclopedias, and extensive book lists. Children and parents love the activities, ranging from cooking projects to crafts, board games to science experiments, and puzzles to projects. Each Activity Book provides a full year of history study when combined with the Textbook, Audiobook, and Tests—each available separately to accompany each volume of Activity Book.

This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come alive for your child! Don't just read about historyexperience it! Colro a picture of a Viking warrior, make an edible oasis, create a Moorish ruler's turban and Aztec jewelry and more. Designed to turn the accompanying book The Story of the World: Volume 2: The Middle Ages into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities all designed for grades 1-4.

Kingfisher’s encyclopedias are award-winning, information-packed reference books for all the family. The new, updated Classic editions are beautiful versions of these trusted favourites – perfect for gifts and reference alike. THE KINGFISHER CLASSIC NATURE ENCYCLOPEDIA explores the amazing diversity of life on Earth, from microscopic organisms to giant redwoods and blue whales, and on every part of the Earth’s surface from tropical rainforests to dark ocean depths. If you want one nature encyclopedia, this is it!

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.