You Wouldn't Want To Be…

We've been reading this series of book for a few years now.  Historically accurate they depict the life of various people, from history and present it in such a way as to highlight the difficulties of the period and the position of the persons.

Usually around 30 pages in length, each page has text, drawing, cartoon text and small windows of 'extra facts'.  All the books contain a glossary of vocabulary words and there is table of contents as well as index to help exercise research skills.

Some of our favorites are:

• You Wouldn't Want To Be An Egyptian Mummy!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Roman Gladiator!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Slave In Ancient Greece!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Viking Explorer!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be An Aztec Sacrifice!
• You Wouldn't Want To Sail on the Titanic!
• You Wouldn't Want To Live In A Wild West Town!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be An American Pioneer!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Pirate's Prisoner!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be An American Colonist!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Mammoth Hunter!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Pyramid Builder!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be In A Medieval Dungeon!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be On Apollo 13
• You Wouldn't Want To Sail With Christopher Columbus
• You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Great Wall of China!
• You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Soldier!
• You Wouldn't Want to Be Joan of Arc!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be In Alexander The Great's Army!
• You Wouldn't Want To Be A Crusader!
• You Wouldn't Want to Live in Pompeii!
• You Wouldn't Want to Be in the First Submarine!
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty!
• You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Medieval Castle!
• You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Salem Witch!
• You Wouldn't Want to Travel With Captain Cook!
• You Wouldn't Want to be Tutankhamen!

Here is a peek inside the You Wouldn't Want to be Tutankhamen! book:

Have you read this series? 

Do you have any other series to recommend?