Here is a list of resources compiled from recommendations from other homeschoolers on the Well Trained Mind Boards. Books marked with an x indicate they were mentioned multiple times. I added in books that I was reminded of that we enjoyed last time we did the middle ages. I also have a few more books listed at the end that I found searching. I'll need to check these out to see if they are good.
The good news is that I am pretty sure we have over half of these books in storage. The bad news is that we're going to need a lot of bookshelf space for this era. And I think that our reading list will probably outpace the time alloted for the middle ages. But this is a good problem to have. Better than the alternative.
1066: The Year of the Conquest
Adam of the Road
Adventures in the Middle Ages: Good Times Detective Agency – Linda Bailey
Adventures with the Vikings: Good Times Detective Agency – Linda Bailey
The Ancient Celts (Scholastic; some detailed description of pagan practices)
The Apple and the Arrow
Augustine Came to Kent (Bethlehem Books)
Bard of Avon- Stanley
The Beduin’s Gazelle (stand alone sequel to The Ramsey Scallop)
Beorn the Proud – Madeline Pollard
Beowulf: A New Telling – Robert Nye
Beowulf – Ian Serraillier
The Bible Smuggler
The Black Arrow (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Blue Fairy Book (and other colors, by Andrew Lang)
Brother Caedfael mysteries – Ellis Peters
Canterbury Tales retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
Castle (by Macaulay)
Castle Diary - Richard Platt x
Cathedral – David Macaulay
Catherine Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
The Children of Odin (by Padraic Colum; Norse myths)
Crispin: Cross of Lead – Avi x
D’ Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths x
Dark is Rising sequence – Susan Cooper (as a treat after we’ve read Arthur)
Days of Knights and Damsels (activity book)
The Door in the Wall x
Famous men of the middle ages x
Famous Men of the Renaissance
Favorite Medieval Tales - Mary Pope Osborne
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies x
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston – Eleanore Jewett (Bethlehem Books)
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott (Great Illustrated Classics)
Joan of Arc – Stanley xx
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table – Roger Lanceyln Green
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – Rosemary Sutcliff (The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest, The Road to Camlann)
King Arthur and his Knights (CD) – Jim Weiss
The King of Ireland's Son (by Padraic Colum)
The Kings Shadow x
The Kitchen Knight – Margaret Hodges
Knight’s Fee – Rosemary Sutcliff
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
Leif the Lucky (by D'Aulaires)
The Little Duke – Charlotte Yonge
The Making of a Knight -
Marco Polo for Kids (activity book)
Matilda Bone - Karen Cushman
Medieval Fashions (Dover coloring book)
A Medieval Feast - Aliki
Medieval Tales (by Mary Pope Osborne)
Men of Iron – Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by Howard Pyle)
The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
The Minstrel in the Tower
The one and future king TE White x
Otto of the Silver Hand (by Howard Pyle)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (by Browning; included here based on its setting of the late 1200's, not on when it was written)The
Ramsey Scallop – Frances Temple
The Red Keep – Allen French
The Road to Damietta by Scott O'Dell - about the life of St. Francis
Robin Hood
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
Saint Patrick: Pioneer Missionary to Ireland (Christian Liberty Press)
Saladin Diane Stanley
The Samurai’s Tale – Eric Haagard
The Seventh Expert
Shakespeare Stealer series
The Shield Ring – Rosemary Sutcliff
The Shining Company – Rosemary Sutcliff
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Tolkein
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
Son of Charlemagne - Barbara Willard
St. George and the Dragon Margarete Hodges (My kids loved this so much the first time through the middle ages that we about wore out our copy.)
Starry Messenger (about Gallileo)
The Story of King Arthur and Other Celtic Heroes (by Padraic Colum)
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow – Allen French (Bethlehem Books)
Sword in the Stone xx (Separate entry because it was specifically mentioned)
The Sword in the Tree - Bulla
Sword Song – Rosemary Sutcliff
Tales from Arabian Nights (because it fit with the caliphat and harun-al-rashid)
The Trumpeter of Krakow -
Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World
Usborne Norse Myths
The Viking News
Whipping Boy – Sid Fleishman
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Books I found in my searches that look interesting:
Bearskin – Howard Pyle
Big John’s Secret – Eleanore Jewett
The Great and Terrible Quest -
Margurete Makes a Book -
Minstrel in the Tower -
Sword of the Rightful King – Jane Yolen
The White Stag – Kate Seredy
The big list is a little anglocentric. Having been in Germany last history cycle, we had a heavy exposure to figures like Charlemagne and William the Conquerer. I’d like to find more books about central European stories and history, like the Niebelungenlied and Ludwig der Springer. And religious figures like Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, whom we kept running into (but who I'd not heard of before as a protestant American). I think that I need to find some good versions of Grimm’s fairy tales.
1 comments:
Great list! We did this time period 2 years ago (wow, time flies!). My boys ages 11 and 13 now, really liked the following from your list:
Beowulf (Nye)
D'Aulaire Myths
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies (we got it on CD from the library with different actors playing the parts and it made it very enjoyable)
Son of Charlemagne
Rolf and the Viking Bow
Trumpeter of Krakow
My kids also liked the following books by GA Henty (some were Audio versions from Jim Hodges or Jim Weiss)
In Freedom's Cause
Lion of the North
Wulf the Saxon
The Lion of St. Mark
Enjoy the Middle Ages!
Sarah
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