If You Were Me and Lived in...the Middle Ages

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If You Were Me and Lived in...the Middle Ages

This book describes what it would be like to be born in 1072 in a small town in England. Throughout the story almost every paragraph is written in a way that it teaches you new words and their definition though natural story telling of facts.

We have a few other book from this series and my kids have really enjoyed them. This book seems to be a little different for them. I think that it is probably the length of the book that is a turn of to them. This book has 79 pages (words on the left side with part of the picture that bleeds over to the whole next page so really only 40 pages of reading) with a few pages about famous people from that era and 13 pages for the handy glossary. Other books we have contain 49 pages (words on the left side with part of the picture that bleeds over to the whole next page so really only 24 pages of reading) and 2 pages of glossary, another has 53 pages(27 of reading with full page pictures on the right) and 8 pages of glossary and another has 40 pages (20 of reading with full page pictures on the right) with a few pages about famous people and 8 pages for glossary all in a bigger sized font.
The pictures in this book are very basic looking yet very supportive of the text. Mateya Arkova is the the same illustrator who did "If You Were Me and Lived in...Ancient Greece.

The manner that this story is told is great. I could really see this a great framework in a school classroom for a huge unit on the Middle Ages. In my kids experience it is not so great as a sit down and read book like many of the others in the series are.

I give this book 4 stars. This is not due to quality of the book but due to the opinion of my kids which is who it was mostly written for.

Note: I received this product for free or at a significant discount in exchange for my honest, unbiased review. This review is entirely based on my honest assessment and opinion after using the product and not influenced in any way by receiving a discount. All opinions are my own.

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If You Were Me and Lived in...the Middle Ages (Volume 6)

Carole P. Roman Price: $19.99