 | Spend the Day in Ancient Greece: Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life (Spend The Day Series) by Linda Honan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.36 fantastic - proper story following an ancient Greek family through a day in Athens, plus relevant craft. This was a winner
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 | My Best Book of Ancient Greece by Deborah Murrell
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.01 Nice pictures. Good on bitesize history, from Minoans to Classical Greece, plus Athens, Sparta etc.
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 | The Story of the Greeks by H., A. Guerber
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £8.99 VERY easy reading. For getting to know the subject, as a read-aloud, or for older children to read on their own.
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 | I Wonder Why Greeks Built Temples and Other Questions About Ancient Greece by Fiona MacDonald
Buy new: £2.32 / Used from: £0.01 Probably wouldn't buy this one, but if you have it as part of set, very good for little ones.
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 | Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Step-into-reading) by Emily Little
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Lovely reader - nice structure, and get Schliemann discovering Troy at the end.
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 | Greece in spectacular cross-section by Stewart Ross
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.98 Nice for older boys, I would think - not for non-technical children. Illustrations a bit ORANGE!
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 | Ancient Greece (DK Eyewitness Books) by Anne Pearson
Buy used from: £2.72 As always, full of artefacts, but British Museum site is just as good...
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 | The Adventures of Ulysses (Dover Coloring Book) by Bruce LaFontaine
Buy new: £3.36 / Used from: £0.86 This range is FANTASTIC, cheap and accurate - use for lapbooks, notebooks etc.
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 | Tales of Troy and Greece (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Andrew Lang
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent retelling - very simple.
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 | Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.63 Not as keen on this Iliad retelling - 'Fantasy' style illustrations a bit dead. Text ok.
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 | The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus (Trophy Picture Books) by Aliki
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.96 Informative; lovely illustration - reservation as a Christian is the author's all-out love of these 'gods', partic. in creation narrative.
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