China

We have "spent" two weeks in China and these are the books we read (again in no particular order):

Lo Po Po (Young)
C is for China (So)
China ABCs (Schroeder)
The Emperor's Silent Army (O'Connor)
Tikki Tikki Tembo*
The Great Wall (Everet)
The Story of Ping (Flack)*
DK China
China: The Land (Kalman)
China:The People (Kalman)
China:The Culture (Kalman)
A True Book: China (Friedman)
You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Great Wall of China (Morley)
The Empty Pot (Demi)*
Ruby's Wish (Bridges)
The Five Chinese Brothers (Bishop)*
Roses Sing on New Snow (Yee)
The Song of Mulan (Lee)
Daisy Comes Home (Brett)*

*Our favorites

Central and South America Reading List

This is what we read to complement our Classical Conversations studies on South America. In no particular order:


Atlas of South America (Foster)
Explore South America (Kalman)
Monkeys of Central and South America (Martin)

Rain Forest Animals (World Book Encyclopedia)
Lands of Grass (Fowler)
Red Eyed Tree Frog (Bishop)
So Say the Little Monkeys (Van Laan)
The Umbrella (Brett)
Central America (People and Places)
Cities of Blood (Ackroyd)- we just looked at some pictures
Love and Roast Chicken (Knuston)
The Inca (Takacs)
The Maya (Takacs)
Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs (Kimmel)
The Boy Who Wouidn't Obey (Rockwell)
Aztec, Inca and Maya (DK)-mostly looked at the pictures
Machu Pichu (Somervill)
Score One for the Sloths (Lester)
Amazon Basin ( Reynolds)
Exploration into Latin America (Alda)
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth (Carle)
The Great Kapok Tree (Cherry)
A True Book (Brazil)
A True Book(Venezuela)

We also learned the Geography Songs pertaining to Central and South America, played
with South American puzzles, looked at videos of Sloths on youtube.

Africa Reading List

A is for Africa (Onyefulu)
Journey Into Africa (Knight)
Look What Came from Africa (Harvey)
Elizabeti's Doll (Bodeen)*-Tanzania
Beatrice's Goat (McBrier)- Uganda
Wangari's Trees of Peace (Winter)- Kenya
I Lost my Tooth in Africa (Diakite)- Mali
We All Went on Safari(Krebs)* Tanzania
Bringing The Rain to Kapiti Plain* (Aardema)-African Plains
For You are a Kenyan Child (Cunnane)-Kenya
Pretty Salma (Daly)-South Africa
Galimoto (Williams)
Jambo Means Hello(Feelings)
Africa is not a Country (Knight)
My Painted House,My friendly Chicken and Me (Angelou)
Kente Colors (Chocolate)
Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz)
African Rhinos (
Masai and I (Kroll)
Honey Honey Lion (Brett)
African Animals (Squire)
African Elephants (Eckart)
Giraffes (Lepthien)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Steptoe)
The Day Gogo Went to Vote (Sisulu)