[mrmikel]

There is a series of books I have been reading on archive.org that are out of copyright that all start with Famous Men of. They include Rome, Middle Ages and Modern Times by Haaren. I think they did one on Greece, but I haven't found it yet.

They include a series of short biographies of various historical figures written to a child's level, but which I have found interesting as short vignettes of figures which I had forgotten or never had heard of. There are perhaps 20 per book, so you don't have to keep going on and on.

Hero Tales in American History which I have posted already is somewhat in the same vein although in more detail.

The Harren works are available as scanned PDFs, readable on a computer, but not easily in a Sony reader. However, I am currently working on the Middle Ages and Modern Times works and if you're interested I will post them or get them to you somehow. I have put the pictures back into Middle Ages and I don't recall how large this has made it, since there is an 8 meg upload limit on mobileread.com. I have the html version of Modern Times mostly fixed as of this morning, but still need to check it out a bit.

This Churchilll book, on the other hand is somewhat dated, though interesting to anyone following Churchill's life and career. It is definitely written for adults. Racial attitudes have changed over the last century and may raise issues you might not want to discuss until the proper time in your child's development. It is about a short journey Churchill made to Africa about a century ago. It expresses his views on African development and the attitudes of white settlers and details some of his hunting adventures.