Good history books for 8 y os who have devoured all the Horrible Histories?

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Hi there! Wonder if anyone can help...my 8 y o ds is history-mad, and has read all the Horrible Histories. Do you know of any good history books / resources for such kids?

The Dead Famous series of biographies are similar in style to HH but on one person at a time.

Oooh, thank you! I haven't heard of those - I shall look them up.

Roman Mysteries - Caroline Lawrence. My DC really enjoyed these.

DS1 is currently reading and enjoying Our Island Story, which is a chronological history of the British Isles.

'My Story' series - 'imagined' autobiographies from all different periods of history/conflicts. And the DK 'Eyewitness' books are excellent - gorgeous photos and great text.

I second the 'My Story' recommendation.

There are also some excellent history encyclopedias by Kingfisher which DS loves poring over.

Thanks for the recommendations! I'll have a look on Amazon.

Our Island Story sounds fab! I've been watching the wonderful Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch on his mini-series on Englishness, so I'd be fascinated to read this with ds!

Our Island Story is also available on CD, DS1 listens to it loads and it livens up long car journeys.
Lots of good websites here: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/history.shtml
and not sure if it really counts as a resource, but if you live anywhere near one, try and catch an English heritage "Time Travellers Go..." event. DS1 was recruited into the Roman Army last year and it was a highlight of his young life (he and dd2 still march along shouting sin-dex, sin-dex (Latin abbrev for left-right) regularly!)

Would he like things like
There's a Pharaoh in our bath
A Viking in our school
Let's do the Pharaoh!
there's a viking in my bed
Viking trouble

Jeremy Strong

or
The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon

My eldest loves his Usborne History encyclopaedias - his has the british one, and the world history. I think he knows them pretty much off by heart.

If your DS likes encyclopedia format I'd recommend cross-section books on history (e.g. Greece in spectacular cross-section, Egypt in spectacular cross-section, Stephen Biesty Cross-sections castles, etc... all on Amazon).

My DD also really enjoyed: My first Question and Answer book which has different chapters on history and other topics. She read it cover to cover when in Y3.

The Horrible maths and science series are also good fun and very interesting and do include a lot of history as well.

HTH

Tony Robinson has written several kids' history books, including Kings and Queens and Bad Kids: the worst children in history, which are both very popular in our junior school library.

Old fashioned but wonderful - Roger Lancelyn Green on Talesof The Greek Heroes, Tales of Try, king Arthur, Robin Hood. So vivid; read them as a child and they have stayed with me - and eventually inspired me to study ancient history.

Tales of Troy

DS1 enjoyed the Tony Robinson book The Worst Children's jobs in history, he also had a great one (I'll see if I can find it because I can't remember the name) that was a 'story' style narrative of the whole of British History, which I learnt loads from too.

aha, good old amazon Kings and Things by H E Marshall

EH Gombrich "A little history of the world" is a book every child (and adult) should read it?s absolutely fantastic, all my children have read it at least twice.

Oooh, loads of ideas! Thanks, everyone!