Biographies are a staple of our home education. Whether we are studying history, science or character, biographies give insight into the lives of real people who lives worth learning from. We would much rather read an interesting biography than dull text books.
YWAM Publishing is one of our favorite sources for biographies. Over the past few years, my daughter has been enjoying the Christian Heroes missionary series. She likes them so much that she asks for them as gifts at Christmas and birthdays.
I knew that YWAM has a Heroes of History series, and I’m not sure why I never picked any of them up. Back in April, at the 2 to 1 Conference, Dollie at Teachers Of Good Things gave me a copy of George Washington Carver’s Heroes of History biography for my daughter who was traveling with me. I was excited, because I wanted to read some scientist biographies this spring and my daughter was excited to have a new book! She read half of it the first night.
Since then, my daughter has read more of the Heroes of History series. She says the YWAM biographies are different from others. They are written in a very readable style that makes the story interesting for all ages and easy to follow for younger learners. (Although, there is a Heroes of History series for younger readers, as well.) The books often include conversations and dialogue instead of straight documentation of facts, This adds personality and reality to the biographies.
We have not tried them, but YWAM offers study guides and unit study guides for many of their biographies. Check out the Heroes Of History series for yourself!
Have you read anything from the Heroes Of History series? What are your favorites?
These look great! There are a lot of great titles … looking forward to exploring them more. 🙂
We are just starting to incorporate biographies into our classroom. I’m excited to share them with my kids since I love to read them myself.
We have a few biographies that were included in our American History study, but they do not look as interesting as these. Your books look like a great resource that would keep the kids interested which would make our study more successful! I would love to win some! Thanks!
I’ve been wanting to work more biographies into our schooling because my girls love to learn from stories.
my sister in law RAVES about these books, we’ve always wanted to try them!
We love biographies! Looks amazing!
I would love to give these a try. My boys love learning about major historical figures.
We’ve read simple biographies but I’d love to be able to use these. What great heroes to read about!
Lookslike a great series of books. We have a lot of biographies in our library already and it’s always good to have more!
We do read biographies as we study history and historical figures, but have not had the privilege of reading these yet!
I have just begun our homeschooling journey and have a couple that came with our Sonlight curriculum. I can’t wait to dig in! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Oh my girls would love this!
Looks like a great set of books… wonderful giveaway. =)
These books look incredible!
We have some of the Christian Heroes series and the kids loved them. Would love to have these books!
We haven’t yet but would love to.
Would love to win these book. We don’t read many biographies but really want to start next year .
These look great! Would love to win 🙂
We’ve read Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime and it was very good.
We’ve read a few we liked– Cameron Townsend, and Gladys Aylward were 2 🙂
would love to try this series!
We love biographies! We just used the one about Benjamin Franklin in our study of the American Revolution.
I haven’t settled on a history curriculum yet and these look great. 🙂
This is such an amazing series and we could use the Lewis and Clark stuff in the upcoming year on Early Modern History. I appreciate the stories and their perspective.
We have never read these, but they look really fabulous. Thanks for doing such a great giveaway to introduce these books to us!