A Child's History of the World

We recently started a new history program called A Child's History of the World that we got from Calvert.  Steve had purchased the book for our school a year or so ago and we had checked it out a few times, but we were using the Story of the World (SOTW)  and so I didn't give it too much attention.  Last year I found that SOTW wasn't keeping the boys attention.  So this year I started reading chapters of CHOTW to see what they thought.  They took to it right away.  The boys love history and they ask to do it all the time.  So far this program is a big hit.  It reminds me a lot of SOTW, but it seems more geared toward little boys.  They enjoy the way history is presented (like a story), and they love to interpret the lesson with an art activity afterward.  We liked it so much we ordered the workbook and lesson book- and the boys are still loving it.  Even though we had covered a lot of history last year, the boys voted to start at the beginning. It's nice to have them excited about history- I sure wasn't when I was a kid.  I look forward to seeing how the year progresses.