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Title: Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Yesterday's Classics)
ISBN: 1599150069
Author:
James Baldwin
Publicate Date: 2005-11
Publish: 2005-11
List Price: $9.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Great book to learn from
We use this book as part of our home school curriculum (Ambleside Online) and love it... the stories are short, some illustrated and have historical significance (pulled from many sources, greek and roman history, bible, great figures in American and European history etc). James Baldwin's book are a SURE Thing when it comes to value for dollar. He write so simply, but yet, there is no "dumbing down" as it is called. He doesn't substitute easier words for the harder ones and my children's already large vocabulary expands every day we use any Baldwin book. Other books by him are highly recommended to help round out more "liberal" educational systems.
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2: Excellent for Cultural Literacy but Weird Hyphenation
"50 Famous Stories Retold" provides an excellent and age-appropriate introduction to many of the well-known tales from Western Civilization especially Greek and Roman history.
The one thing I found odd about this particular version is that there are extraneous hyphens all over the place. It happens several times per page.
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3: An important book
This wonderful little book was first published in 1896 (at least that's the one I have). It contains fifty short stories that were originally considered indispensable for the education of truly literate and well-rounded children. The fifty stories are classics of American culture, and as such are almost completely forgotten in today's America.
The stories teach such lessons as perseverance, self-sacrifice, compassion, diligence, and much more. And they star such once-well-known people as King Alfred of Britain, Pocahontas, Sir Walter Raleigh, Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, and Socrates.
So, if you have a young person who you would like to read truly educational stories to, then you really should consider getting this book. It was an important book then, and it is an important book now. I give it my highest recommendations!
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4: All about male heroes
Looking at the table of contents, this book is almost exclusively about male heroes and adventurers. Not good inspriation for young girls?
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5: Great resource for history
We use this as part of our homeschooling cirriculum and the kids always love the stories. So do I! I'm often telling my husband about what we read in the evenings.
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