Peter the Great

Fantastic read and awesome illustrations. Used this as a read-a-loud for my homeschool classroom.

This is a fun book, great illustrations and one that we have enjoyed as a read a loud with our family.

Good

she is so wonderful i wish there were more. fantastic book

Great with Tapestry of Grace curriculum

GREAT BOOK!

This book buys right into the theory that Russians are incapable of self-government and require a tyrannical dictator to haul them into order. Sheesh.This is a 1986 book by Diane Stanley, and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Like all her books, this one is magnificently illustrated in the style of the time and place -- breathtaking illustrations on every page are more than worthwhile.However, it is this kind of reading of Peter the Great forcibly modernizing a backward and reluctant traditional people that led to Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Stalin... and Putin.Don't give a boost to history's bad guys by telling them people are incapable of self-rule.

nice book

This book is great, a really good history of Peter the Great for kids.

Great book