The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago by F. Brooks, H Edom, Helen Edom (1994)

When I began homeschooling my kindergartener last fall, one of the things I was most excited about was introducing her to history. I love reading biography and history! In some ways, it's easy to pass on a passion to young people. When you feel enthusiastic about a subject yourself, they tend to catch that enthusiasm. But I realized I still had a lot to learn about teaching history to someone at the beginning level. I had not thought before about where you need to start: with the concept of history itself, the idea of historic time. Young children live in such immediacy. The present is the...