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As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the...

The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine...

In the 1930s, Black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.

An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Israel.

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before...

Discover all there is to know about the Renaissance, the period in history that took Europe from the Middle Ages to modern times! Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance was a cultural movement that spread throughout Europe and affected art, science, technology, politics, and thought. From the 1300s...

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new audiobook for middle-grade listeners that looks at the early history of humankind. Even though we’ll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry...

Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old! Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five, Mozart left a legacy of more than 600 works. This fascinating...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world...

Many classic composers faced unique challenges and obstacles on their paths to success, and these biographies highlight diverse experiences and perspectives to which children can easily relate

Educational podcast for children in which we travel back to the year 1190, in the heart of the Kingdom of Castile, to delve into the fascinating Middle Ages. In this episode of "History Has a Voice," we will don our helmets and armor to visit Don Rodrigo de Villafuerte, a knight who will teach us what it really meant to live among swords, tournaments, and castles. Through his story, we will understand how the feudal social pyramid worked: from kings and clergy, to nobles who protected the territory, to peasants who worked the land.

In this third thrilling installment of the Curiosity Quest educational adventure series for kids aged seven and up, young listeners join Curio—short for Curious—on a mind-blowing journey back to the land of pharaohs, pyramids, and powerful gods.

Podcast educativo para niños en el que viajamos en el tiempo hasta el siglo I d.C. para visitar la Hispania romana y conocer cómo era la vida en la península ibérica bajo el Imperio. En este episodio de "La Historia tiene voz" aterrizaremos en la ciudad de Emerita Augusta (la actual Mérida) para charlar con una joven romana que nos abrirá las puertas de su domus.

An educational podcast for children in which we travel back to prehistory to learn about two fundamental human species in history: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. In this first episode of "History Has a Voice," we will discover how they lived, how they adapted to their environment, and what their main differences and similarities were. Neanderthals were a strong and resilient human species that appeared about 400,000 years ago and became extinct approximately 40,000 years ago.

An educational podcast for children in which we travel back in time to the 1st century AD to visit Hispania and learn about life on the Iberian Peninsula under the Roman Empire. In this episode of "History Has a Voice," we will land in the city of Emerita Augusta (now Mérida) to chat with a young Roman woman who will open the doors of her "domus" to us. A fun and educational journey to connect with our most classical past.

I Survived: True Survivors explores high-danger nonfiction topics through the eyes of real kids who lived to tell their stories. In 1939, Werner Blumenthal and his family fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, China. When they arrive in the Shanghai ghetto, they find one small room with no running water. Poverty, disease, and fear are widespread, but Werner makes the most of his new surroundings.

Podcast educativo para niños en el que viajamos a la prehistoria para conocer a dos especies humanas fundamentales en la Historia: el Neandertal y el Homo sapiens. En este primer episodio de "La Historia tiene voz" descubriremos cómo vivían, cómo se adaptaban al entorno y cuáles eran sus principales diferencias y semejanzas. Los neandertales fueron una especie humana fuerte y resistente que apareció hace unos 400.000 años y se extinguió hace aproximadamente 40.000 años.

An educational podcast for children in which we travel back in time to the year 1502, to the Castilian court, to meet one of the most influential monarchs of all time: Isabella I of Castile. In this episode of "History Has a Voice," we will discover how this queen changed the map of the world and ushered in a new era. Isabella the Catholic was a cultured and determined woman who, despite not being the direct heir at birth and facing great challenges, managed to ascend to the throne after the death of her brothers.

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working...

A young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation?...