The Days Before History

“How the Present Came From the Past,” by Margaret E. Wells, Volume I.

How earliest man learned to make tools and build homes, and the stories he told about the fire-makers, the sun and the frost. A simple, illustrated account of these things for children.

“The Story of Ab,” by Stanley Waterloo.

A romantic tale of the time of the cave-man. (A much simplified edition of this for little children is “Ab, the Cave Man” adapted by William Lewis Nida.)

“Industrial and Social History Series,” by Katharine E. Dopp.

“The Tree Dwellers—The Age of Fear”

“The Early Cave-Men—The Age of Combat”

“The Later Cave-Men—The Age of the Chase”

“The Early Sea People—First Steps in the Conquest of the Waters”

“The Tent-Dwellers—The Early Fishing Men”

Very simple stories of the way in which man learned how to make pottery, how to weave and spin, and how to conquer land and sea.

“Ancient Man,” written and drawn and done into colour by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

The beginning of civilisations pictured and written in a new and fascinating fashion, with story maps showing exactly what happened in all parts of the world. A book for children of all ages.