"What games did the Mayans enjoy?" "Why did Aztec warriors dress in animal costumes?" "What is a pow wow?" "Who were the first Americans?" is packed full of fun and facts which answer the first questions a child asks about American history. It invites the reader to travel a continent, discover its native people and read about the first Europeans to land on its shores. The text presents a wealth of information in a comprehensible form and accompanying artwork gives a simple introduction to history for children of six years old and upwards.

 

This book is part of a book series called Usborne Starting Point History .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Chris Oxlade has worked as a writer, editor and consultant on over 70 books. He specializes in writing children's science and technology reference books. Struan Reid is an archaeologist and historian who has written a number of educational and reference books for children. His main area of expertise is writing history books aimed at a younger audience.

This book has the following chapters: Who were the first North Americans?; what did they look like?; did they build towns?; what were their houses like?; how big was a tribe?; did they all speak the same language?; what did they hunt?; where did they buy things?; what did they do for fun?; did they believe in God?; did they have an army?; who were the first European visitors?; who were the first European settlers?; did the Europeans stay?; what happened to the Native North Americans?; in search of the thunderbird.