My 14yo daughter has ‘slogged through’ Augustus Caesar’s World… she didn’t like the book at all. Now we are trying another Genevieve Foster book, “The World of Columbus and Sons”, and after the first chapter she is complaining about it. (Boring, do I have to read this, etc.) The thing is that after this book I have “George Washington’s World” for her to read. The three books are part of her curriculum with Sonlight Core Alt7 (Core W). I have her read them herself. I do only one of her readings per day and it’s usually one of the novels which I read at night to her while she cross-stitches before bed… I don’t really have time to do any of her reading during the day.
Should I just have her skip these books? She’s also reading through Hillyer’s “A Child’s History of the World” and “The Usborne Book of World History”… maybe that’s enough of a ‘spine’. What will she miss by not reading them?
Has anyone else NOT like Genevieve Foster’s books? I read some of the “Augustus Caesar’s World” to her and I didn’t really love it, but ancient history isn’t my favourite time period and I hate reading books with a lot of strange names to try to pronounce. I was hoping the next two books would be better, because I’ve heard so many recommendations for Foster’s books.
