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  • China for Kids Through the Lives of its Thinkers, Heroes, and Emperors
    Catherine Fet
    The history of China is the longest continuous history of any nation in the world. If you want to understand how historical China has become the China of today - the answer is in plain sight, except... it spans 5000 years! The history of China is also as enthralling as an adventure novel. Villains and heroes of legendary stature... epic clashes of civilizations... invasions, ru...
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    21,74 €

  • India for Kids through the Lives of its Royalty, Saints, and Poets
    Catherine Fet
    The history of India is - wow! Kids, teens, and grownups - everyone will enjoy the adventures of Indian warriors and rebels, the intrigues and scandals of the royal courts, and the uncompromising stance of India’s spiritual leaders - an inspiration to today’s fighters for freedom of speech. The incredible variety and cultural wealth of India’s many ethnic and religious communit...
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    20,12 €

  • Africa for Kids - through the Lives of its Kings and Queens
    Catherine Fet
    The history of Africa - the way it is taught in our US schools - focuses on the timeline of the material culture of great African civilizations and empires of the past, on population migrations, and colonization by the Europeans. The historical figures of the African past appear mostly in the context of their interactions with the Europeans - trading with them, or resisting col...
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    21,38 €

  • The Victorian Era in Europe - Age of Empires - through the lives of its royals, rebels, and empire-builders
    Catherine Fet
    Like other books in this ’heritage history’ series, 'The Victorian Era in Europe - Age of Empires - for Kids' presents the events of mid-to-late 19th century European history through biographies of its 'royals, rebels, and empire-builders' in a story-telling format.Dusty volumes, published in the days when history-teaching wasn’t reduced to ’social studies,’ overflow with histo...
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    19,02 €

  • Unicorn - A History for Kids Who Believe in Magic
    Catherine Fet
    Your kid has fallen in love with unicorns - great! Capitalize on this lucky turn of events to introduce your young unicorn lover to the major eras of European history all through the lens of what people knew about unicorns in ancient times, in the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the Age of Reason. Yes, it’s all real history, with dates, origins of every unicorn legend,...
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    10,57 €

  • Latin for Kids - Companion
    Catherine Fet
    Sona si Latine logueris! (Honk if you speak Latin!)This is a book of English-to-Latin translation and sentence building exercises, an optional companion to the Latin for Kids textbook. It is the essential first step toward active use of Latin.Like Latin for Kids, this companion is divided into 10 sections. In each section the translation exercises use the grammar introduced in ...
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    18,80 €

  • My Dragon Speaks Latin - Draco Meus Latine Loquitur - LATIN FOR KIDS Companion Reader
    Catherine Fet
    'My Dragon Speaks Latin - Draco Meus Latine Loquitur' is a 15-chapter companion reader to the 'Latin for Kids' textbook. This light-hearted story is set in imperial Rome and on the banks of the Rhine where Roman legions wage war against Germanic tribes. The characters are funny and silly, and include two kids - a Roman and a barbarian - two sets of parents, a dragon captured in...
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    16,85 €

  • Native People of North America for Kids - through the lives of their chiefs and heroes
    Catherine Fet
    A book about the native inhabitants of North America as represented by the most prominent figures of their history. This is traditional biography, accurately portraying the character and historical contribution of each figure, while keeping the narrative free of labels or interpretations that ’take sides.’The facts - words and actions of this book’s heroes - are entirely enough...
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    19,66 €

  • Ancient Egypt for Kids through the Lives and Legends of its Pharaohs and Queens
    Catherine Fet
    Kids are endlessly fascinated with Ancient Egypt. The pyramids, the tombs, the mummies, the jackal- and ibis- and cow-headed gods, the Book of the Dead - what a thrill! The modern approach to Egyptian history for kids focuses almost entirely on the archaeology, the material culture, and the mythology of Ancient Egypt. Today’s kids study mummification and pyramid-building theori...
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    21,13 €

  • 3-Minute Science
    Catherine Fet
    Like many kids his age, my 8-year-old son is fascinated by science. I took him to science ’shows’ and lectures for kids on both sides of the Atlantic, and bought him a massive stack of kids’ science books. What I noticed is that he was getting lost in the excitement of experiments with test tubes, lightnings, and explosions, and missed the actual science facts behind the flashy...
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    14,80 €

  • Star of the Seven Seas
    Catherine Fet / Leonid Trostanetsky
    In elementary school, math word problems were the bane of my existence. I could crunch numbers with ease, but word problems were tricky because of the logical sorting you have to do to arrive at an equation: Establishing what’s known and what’s unknown and the relationship between them was not easy for me. Some word problems tell a story where events are out of order. You have ...
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    11,61 €

  • Treasure Hunting and Real-Life Treasure Hunters - Level 2 Reader
    Catherine Fet
    This is a Level 2 Reader book: 4-6 simple sentences per page,1st-2nd grade vocabulary, large type, lots of colorful pictures on every page. Great for kids who have started reading on their own.Everyone enjoys adventure stories about secret vaults, sunken ships, and pirate treasures, but what about real-life treasures and treasure hunters? What are the biggest treasures ever fou...
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    11,09 €

  • Alchemical Potions and Dragon Spells for Kids in Magic Training
    Catherine Fet
    Alchemy and Dragons is an independent reading and fantasy fiction activity book for kids ages 7-11. The reading level is 2nd grade and up.My 7-year-old son loves magic wands, magic spells, and stories about hidden treasures and fantastical beasts. But he is not much of a reader. I wrote this book for him, and any kid who likes playing a hero more than reading about heroes.Are t...
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    11,58 €

  • Palm Reading for Kids
    Catherine Fet
    This is activity material for ages 8 and up, and a book for independent reading with the core vocabulary at 2nd-3rd grade level (US), or around reading level 4.When I was in the 3rd grade, I found in our attic an old British tabloid with a spread laying out the basics of palmistry, or palm reading. I promptly learned the 2 pages by heart, and the next day in school my meteoric ...
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    13,55 €

  • Life of Jesus in European Art - for Kids
    Catherine Fet
    This book closely follows the gospel stories of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection from the Annunciation through Pentecost. It has the dual goal of introducing young readers to the gospel narratives and teaching them to appreciate and interpret works of art portraying gospel-based stories and allegories. The heritage of Christian art is a vital part of the history of Europe a...
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    21,64 €

  • The Renaissance for Kids through the Lives of its Artists, Tyrants, Scientists, and Saints
    Catherine Fet
    This book teaches history to children following the traditional, story-based method based on tales of heroes and kings. You will find here no modern, ideology-fuelled interpretations. Just historical figures, and anecdotes about them.To create a memorable narrative for kids, I focus on stories and situations that contain exciting elements of adventure and drama, details that sc...
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    22,11 €

  • Monsters in Legends and in Real Life - Level 1 reading for kids - 1st grade
    Catherine Fet
    This is a Level 1 Reader book: 2-4 simple sentences per page, kindergarten - 1st grade vocabulary, large type, lots of colorful pictures on every page.Old legends tell us about the griffin, sphynx, basilisk, kraken and other monsters. Are these half-lions and half-eagles, half-roosters and half-dragons scary... or funny? How did people of old times imagine a seahorse, or a sea ...
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    10,61 €

  • The Middle Ages for Kids through the lives of kings, heroes, and saints
    Catherine Fet
    This book follows the tradition of teaching history in a story-based format. The often-politicized 'social studies' approach to history focuses on economic and class underpinnings of historical events and on interpreting history rather than teaching its facts. Why are we not surprised that this leaves kids - from elementary through high school - totally disinterested and annoye...
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    22,11 €

  • Latin for Kids
    Catherine Fet
    This book teaches Latin the traditional way - in a highly non-traditional presentation. Every page is bursting with color and overflowing with funny illustrations, silly humor, surprise captions, and recurring Latin-speaking animal characters and Roman statues. The book is for kids, but... - if you are a college student terrified of Latin, grab this book, and relax. You won’t b...
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    21,52 €

  • Church Latin for the Third Millennium
    Catherine Fet
    Church Latin for the Third Millennium is a 10-lesson step-by-step introduction to Church Latin. The focus is on developing fluency in reading, and on easily recognizing Latin grammatical forms in Vulgata, Latin prayers, hymns, the Latin Mass, and other Church Latin texts. It is a self-study textbook for an absolute beginner. No dictionary or supplemental materials are needed. T...
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    24,70 €

  • European Explorers for Kids
    Catherine Fet
    Since the times of ancient European civilizations, overseas exploration and trade have been an important part of European life and culture. This book tells of the greatest voyages and discoveries - from the Viking Age to the 20th century - in a traditional story-based format. Kids love stories. They may forget the dates and the names of wars and treaties, but they remember the ...
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    21,89 €

  • The Magic of Big Words
    Catherine Fet
    All those ’how to be polite’ books for kids, meh...’Teach your teddy bear good manners’...yawn.My kid - and maybe your kid, too - doesn’t mind if his teddy bear is rude, but he doesn’t like losing in a negotiation, and he wants to be taken seriously by grownups, and that’s where the real opportunity is hiding.Let’s explain to our kids that being strategic and diplomatic in thei...
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    8,44 €

  • The Truth about Lies, Liars and Lying
    Catherine Fet
    The Truth About Lies, Liars, and Lying is a 33-page independent reading book for kids ages 7-10. It is reading level 4.The book is colorful, heavily-illustrated, humorous, and informative. I wrote it to help my son and any kid 7-years old and up to grasp the concept of a lie, and explore its nature and consequences in an entertaining format without lecturing, finger pointing, o...
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    9,01 €

  • Magic Potions and Elixirs - Recipes and Spells for Kids in Magic Training
    Catherine Fet
    If your kid is mixing magic potions in the kitchen sink and they make all the dish soap mysteriously disappear, maybe he/she is ready for a real textbook on the art of potions and elixirs from a longtime professor at one of the best magic schools in Middle Earth. I wrote this book for my course at the North Landing Academy of Magic Arts, and it’s been recommended for kids ages ...
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    12,32 €

  • Ancient Greece for Kids Through the Lives of its Philosophers, Lawmakers, and Heroes
    Catherine Fet
    As a kid, I loved history. But whenever a history book started a boring dive into the economy, class structure, and archaeological finds of this or that era, I turned off my flashlight and went to sleep.Kids like stories. Whether these are stories of heroism in scary wars, or of the wisdom and intrigue of ancient kings and rebels, or of the sudden turns of fate that befall fort...
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    22,36 €

  • Ancient Rome for Kids through the Lives of its Heroes, Emperors, and Philosophers
    Catherine Fet
    When I first discovered that my 8-year-old kid believed that the adventures of Odysseus were the actual history of ancient Greece, I panicked and bought him a stack of children’s history books. I sat by his side as he started reading about the class structure of Athens and the economic underpinnings of the Greek polis. He yawned. He asked for candy... and then for the Disney Ch...
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    22,84 €

  • Invincible Magic Book of Spells
    Catherine Fet
    Practical everyday magic spells for the young fans of Harry Potter, Descendants, Sofia the First, and other books and films of the magic fantasy genre. These spells use only safe everyday objects and substances you have at home or outside (like milk, sugar, salt, mirror, a ring, a ribbon, tree leaves, rocks, etc.); absolutely no use of fire, or anything gross, or any ingredient...
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    15,43 €