VIKINGS - BEGINNERS

Wonderful and knowledgeable for kids who want to know more about history. My son whiz 7 loves such books that give a lot of information. He doesn't like story books

Good start for kids if they are interested in art and history. It's very very basic. Paper quality is good with lots of coloured images.

My son is crazy about vikings. He loves this book. At the end of books are internet links with interactive games hat are great!

Lots of great facts about Viking in this book. We live in Denmark and my daughter is bilingual so it was a fab introduction to the Viking history and we will be following it up with a museum trip. Usborne Beginner books are fantastic, they explain facts and illustrate in such a way that young kids find them fascinating. My 5 year old daughter often impresses people with facts she has learned from these books and she often has further questions so we end up going online and reading further which is a great habit for kids to get into.

Last year we started home teaching our two grand-daughters, so I have been looking out for books which the youngest is able to read, that link with the national curriculum. The beginning readers from Usborne are excellent. So far we have read 'Egyptians' and are now looking at 'Vikings' for history, 'How flowers grow' for science and 'Horses and Ponies' because she is horse mad!They have really good pictures, which have encouraged her to attempt the reading for herself, and have helped improve her reading tremendously. The Usborne beginners series are well worth the purchase price!

My 6 year old granddaughter had been to the museum and had to do a project on the Vikings. Sent for this book and she was so happy with it she took it to school where her teacher liked it that much he asked if he could get a loan of it to photo copy some of the pages for the benefit of the rest of the class. What more can I say

My 6-year old son absolutely loves this series, and his favourites are the Vikings and the Celts. He reads them easily without having to strain himself, but still brings a few words he hesitates or doesn't know the meaning. It doesn't have any gruesome details, gives a good overview of history, and it still brings new facts even for adults.