Grammar: Medieval/Early Renaissance: 400 A.D. - 1600 A.D.
First Encyclopedia of History by Fiona Chandler (Nonfiction/Survey--12,000-present)
A Short History of the World by Ruth Brocklehurst (Nonfiction/Survey--12,000 B.C.-present)
The Maya by Jerome Martin (Nonfiction/Brief survey--c. 2,000 B.C.-1539 A.D.)
The Story of Spying by Rob Lloyd Jones (Nonfiction/Ancient times to cold war--336 B.C.-1991 A.D.)
The Story of Rome by Rosie Dickins (Nonfiction--27 B.C.-476 A.D.)
Story of London Picture Book by Rob Lloyd Jones (Nonfiction/Survey from Roman times to present--47 A.D.-present)
The Story of London by Rob Lloyd Jones (Nonfiction/Survey from Roman times to present--47 A.D.-present)
London by Catriona Clarke (Nonfiction/Survey from Roman times to present--47 A.D.-present)
Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe by Antonia Barber (Poland/Slovakia/Russia/Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia/Romania--no definite date)
Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings by Hazel Maskell (Nonfiction/Britain--410-1066)
A Medieval Feast by Aliki (England/Middle Ages--476-1453)
Medieval Patterns by Struan Reid (Nonfiction/Art History--476-1453)
The Usborne Official Knight's Handbook by Sam Taplin (Nonfiction--476-1453)
Knights and Armour by Rachel Firth (Nonfiction--476-1453)
Knights by Jane Bingham (Arthurian stories/England--late 5th or early 6th-century)
The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla (Arthurian legend/England--late 5th or early 6th-century)
Knights of the Round Table by Gwen Gross (Arthurian legend/England--late 5th or early 6th-century)
The Usborne Illustrated Tales of King Arthur by Sarah Courtauld (England--late 5th-century)
The Adventures of King Arthur retold by Russell Punter (Graphic Novel/England--c. late 5th-century)
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall (Epic Poem/Scandinavia--6th-century)
Ancient West African Kingdoms by Jane Shuter (Nonfiction/Ghana, Mali, & Songhai Kingdoms/History Opens Windows Series--770-1591)
Norse Myths & Legends retold by Russell Punter (Graphic Novel/Scandinavia/Viking Era--793-1066)
Usborne Illustrated Norse Myths by Ales Frith (Scandinavia/Viking Era--793-1066)
Viking World by Philippa Wingate (Nonfiction--793-1066)
Vikings by Stephanie Turnbull (Nonfiction--793-1066)
Viking Raiders by A. Civardi (Nonfiction--793-1066)
Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla (Viking Era--793-1066)
Who Were the Vikings? by Jane Chisholm (Nonfiction--793-1066)
The Story of the Vikings by Megan Cullis (Nonfiction--793-1066)
Kings and Queens Picture Book by Sarah Courtauld and Kate Davis (Nonfiction/English monarchs from Alfred through Elizabeth II--886-present)
Royal London Picture Book by Struan Reid (Nonfiction/Royal history of London/Great read alongside Kings and Queens--886-present)
Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky by Barbara Schiller (Norway/Greenland/Iceland/North America--950-1020)
Who in the World Was the Unready King? The Story of Ethelred by Connie Clark (Nonfiction - 978-1016)
Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See by Libby Romero [National Geographic Readers Bios] (Nonfiction - Persia--1011-1021)
The Middle Ages by Abigail Wheatley (Nonfiction/Britain--1066-1487)
A Medieval Feast by Aliki (Nonfiction/Picture book/Britain--1066-1487)
What Were Castles For? by Phil Roxbee Cox (Nonfiction/Began being built in--1067)
The Story of Castles by Lesley Sims (Nonfiction/Began being built in --1067)
Usborne Book of Castles by Lesley Sims (Nonfiction/Began being built in--1067)
Crusaders by Rob Lloyd Jones (Nonfiction/People, places, battles--1096-1271)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare retold by Russell Punter (Graphic Novel/Denmark--timeframe disputed, but scholars lean towards the 1100s)
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through three continents in the twelfth century by Uri Shulevitz (1159-1173)
The Storyteller by Evan Turk (Morocco/My guess: the Almohad Dynasty--c. 1160-1147)
The Adventures of Robin Hood retold by Russell Punter (Graphic Novel/England--1194)
Robin Hood by Annie Ingle (England--1194)
The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski (France--1195)
Big John's Secret by Eleanore M. Jewett (England/Fifth Crusade--1218)
The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz (Novel/Outside Paris/Travelers/Religious tolerance--1242)
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay (France--1252)
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull (Picture book biography/Kublai Khan/Most of Asia--12-60-1294)
Marco Polo by Charles Parlin Graves (Asia/Travels--1271-1295)
Aztecs by Catriona Clarke (Nonfiction/Current day Mexico--c. 1300-1521)
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff (Switzerland--1307)
Mansa Musa: Leader of Mali by Lisa Zamosky (Africa/Mali/Emperor--1312-1337)
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta by James Rumford [North Africa, Middle East, Asia, China] (Nonfiction--1325-1354)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Morpurgo (English Legend/Arthurian lore--mid-to-late-14th century)
Fine Print: A Story About Johann Gutenberg by (Germany/First moveable type printing press/Bibles--c. 1398-1468)
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley (France/Hundred Years War--1412-1431)
Pippo the Fool by Tracey E. Fern (Nonfiction/Florence/Architecture/Brunelleschi's Dome--1420-1436)
Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz (Nonfiction - Italy--1452-1519
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley (Italy/Biography--1475-1564)
Getting to Know Michelangelo by Mike Venezia (Nonfiction/Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists--1475-1564)
Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer retold by Barbara Cooney (England/Canterbury Tales--pub. 1476)
Leonardo da Vinci by Karen Ball and Rosie Dickins (Nonfiction/Biography/Art history/active--1478-1519)
Tudor's Picture Book by Galia Bernstein (Nonfiction/English monarchs/Fashion, art, theater/Reformation--1485-1603)
Tudors and Stuarts by Fiona Patchett (Nonfiction/Britain--1485-1714)
Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad [Columbus] (1492-1493)
Christopher Columbus by Stephen Krensky (Americas--1492)
Christopher Columbus by Minna Lacey (Nonfiction/Biography/Generally studied in--1492)
The Secret Shofar of Barcelona by Jacqueline Dembar Greene (Picture book/Rosh Hashanah/Spanish Inquisition/Jewish community/Barcelona, Spain--1493)
Henry VIII by Jonathan Melmoth (Nonfiction/Biography/English monarch--r. 1509-1547)
Martin Luther: Man Who Changed the World by Paul L. Maier (Germany/Protestant Reformation--1517)
Luther the Leader by Virgil E. Robinson (Germany/Protestant Reformation--1517)
A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh (Historical fiction picture book/Mixtec codices/Ended with Spanish sacking of Tenochtitlan--1521)
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Ninja Warrior! by John Malam (Nonfiction/Japan/Warring States Period--1550)
Elizabeth I by Zanna Davidson (Nonfiction/Biography/Britain--1558-1603)
Elizabeth I by Stephanie Turnbull (Nonfiction/Biography/Britain--1558-1603)
Will's Words: how William Shakespeare changed the way you talk by Jane Sutcliffe (Nonfiction - England--mid to late 16th century)
William Shakespeare by Rosie Dickins (Nonfiction/England/Playhouses--mid to late 16th-century)
See Inside the World of Shakespeare by Barry Ablett (Nonfiction/England/Playhouses and palaces--mid to late 16th-century)
World of Shakespeare Picture Book by Rosie Dickins (Nonfiction/England/Playhouses and palaces--mid to late 16th-century)
Life in the Elizabethan Theater by Diane Yancey (Nonfiction - England--mid to late 16th century)
Growing Up in Samurai Japan by Brenda Ralph Lewis (Nonfiction - Japan--16th century)
Mary, Queen of Scots: Escape from Lochleven Castle by Theresa Breslin and Theresa Martinez [Traditional Scottish Tales] (Picture Book/Scotland/historical event--1568)
The Queen's Pirate by Sarah Courtauld (Nonfiction/British naval history/active--1572-1596)
Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick (Italy--1581/beginning of science career-1642)
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges (England/Tale dates much further back, but is given a Middle Ages setting in Spencer's Faerie Queene--pub. 1590)
Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare by Usborne (Retellings of plays published between 1590-1613)