How Children Lived A FIRST BOOK OF HISTORY

by Rice, Chris; Rice, Melanie

• ISBN13: 9781564588760
• ISBN10: 1564588769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-27
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

How Children Lived enters the lives of 16 children living in times past Can you imagine what life was like for children living long ago? How Children Lived enters the lives of 16 children living in times past: from Hori, a trainee scribe in ancient Egypt, to Jack, the son of an American drugstore owner in the 1920s. Beautifully detailed illustrations conjure up the fascinating worlds in which these children lived, while photographs of historical artifacts show the real objects they would have used. See a Roman boy's model chariot, a Viking girl's ice skate, and a Moghul Indian boy's board game. Learn what an Aztec girl's clothes were made of, whether a boy in ancient Greece went to school, and how a Dakota girl decorated buffalo skins. Discover where a boy in ancient Egypt slept, how a maid in ancient China entertained her mistress, and what a trainee samurai wore. Produced in consultation with history experts, this book offers a new approach to history for young readers, enabling them to compare their daily lives with those of children from the past.

Author Biography

Chris and Melanie Rice have written over twenty publications for children, including Discoveries: Pompeii and How Children Lived, both for Dorling Kindersley, and Play Together, Learn Together (Kingfisher, 2000).

Table of Contents

Children Around the World	p. 8
Growing Up in Ancient Egypt	p. 10
Growing Up in Ancient Greece	p. 12
Growing Up in Ancient China	p. 14
Growing Up in the Roman Empire	p. 16
Growing Up in Viking Norway	p. 18
Growing Up in the Mali Empire	p. 20
Growing Up in a Spanish Castle	p. 22
Growing Up in Renaissance Italy	p. 24
Growing Up in Aztec Mexico	p. 26
Growing Up in Moghul India	p. 28
Growing Up in Tokugawa Japan	p. 30
Growing Up in an Australian Desert	p. 32
Growing Up in France Before the Revolution	p. 34
Growing Up in Industrial Britain	p. 36
Growing Up on the American Plains	p. 38
Growing Up in 1920s America	p. 40
Children From the Past	p. 42
Glossary	p. 44
Index	p. 45
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