Unit 3: Building History Picture Books

List of picture books to go with Unit 3 of Big Ideas through History which covers the First Settlements and Cities, Putting Up Walls, European Megaliths, and Ancient Egyptians.

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I have not read all of these books and there is a wide range of levels. I suggest thoroughly researching the appropriateness of each book for your situation before sharing with your children.

(affiliate links)	Section 7: ———————— First Settlements and Cities	Section 8: ———————— Putting Up Walls	Section 9: ———————– European Megaliths	Peoples III: ———————— Ancient Egyptians
A City Across Time
A Street Through Time
Living in a Stone Age Settlement
Journey to Cahokia: A Boy’s Visit to the Great Mound City
Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age
Time Travel Guides: The Stone Age and Skara Brae
The 7 Great Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia
Indus Valley City
Walls: An Ethiopian early reader about the importance and beauty of walls
Talking Walls
The Wall
You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Great Wall of China!
The Amazing Pop-up Stonehenge
Secrets Of Stonehenge
To the Land Where the Sun Might Never Set: The Story of Newgrange
Go Jetters: Summer at Stonehenge
How to Find Egyptian Treasure
Egyptians (Usborne Beginners)
Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx
Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs
The Egyptian Cinderella
Step Inside Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptians (Lift-the-flap History)
Temple Cat
Ancient Egyptian Myths
Isis and the Seven Scorpions
The Pyramid (My First Discoveries)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder!
Pyramids Through Time