Award-winning storyteller Weiss brings Bauer's best-selling history to life for your elementary age students. They'll hear about the Sun King, the Black Hole of Calcutta, a California town named Ground Hog Glory--and discover that listening while you learn is better than whistling while you work. Companion booklet features tracks listings and topic references to the original text. Ten CDs, approx, 12 hours total.
CD 1: A World of Empires; Protestant Rebellions; James, King of Two Countries; Searching for the Northwest Passage.
CD 2: Warlords of Japan; New Colonies in the New World; The Spread of Slavery; The Middle of the East.
CD 3: The Western War; For East of Europe; The Maghul Emperors of India; Battle, Fire, and Plague in England.
CD 4: The Sun King; The Rise of Prussia; A New World in Conflict; The West.
CD 5: Russia Looks West; East and West Collide; The English in India; The Imperial East.
CD 6: Fighting Over North America; Revolution!; The New Country; Sailing South.
CD 7: Revolution Gone Sour; Catherine the Great; A Changing World; China and the Rest of the World.
CD 8: The Rise of Bonaparte; Freedom in the Caribbean; A Different Kind of Rebellion; The Opened West; The End of Napoleon.
CD 9: The End of Napoleon (cont'd); Freedom for South America; Mexican Independence; The Slave Trade Ends; Troubled Africa.
CD 10: American Tragedies; China Adrift; Mexico and Her Neighbor; New Zealand and Her Rulers; The World of Forty-Nine.
