Amanda (age 10) enjoys the perks of having a mom who is a reviewer. Whenever I get a package or padded envelope in the mail, she asks, “Is it something I would like? Can I open it?” Most often it’s not something that she would have any interest in (although she sometimes still likes to open the package). 
When I got this particular book in the mail, I was able to tell her, “Yeah — take a look and tell me what you think.” Well, she started thumbing through the hefty 9 x 11 inch 300 page book at the kitchen table, and she didn’t move for about an hour! “So you like it?” I asked her.
“Yeah, it’s really cool. I love it!”
Take Me Back offers a “trip through history from the stone age to the digital age.” Each page is bright and colorful and offers facts in bite-sized amounts. I think that any child — from avid reader to reluctant reader — would be able to spend time leafing through this colorful book reading and learning. If you click on the “Look Inside” link you can see some of these pages and the index as well.
From the publisher: History may repeat itself, but there is no need to make the same old history book over and over. From the creators of the award-winning, New York Times Bestsellers Pick Me Up and Do Not Open comes Take Me Back–a journey throughout history like never before! Rock out at a gory Aztec festival, read the blog of Louis XVI’s closest confidant, take a pinball tour of Celtic Europe, and check out Alexander the Great’s fan site. With content that’s comprehensive, irreverent and witty, Take Me Back is bound to become a classic.
We have four copies of Take Me Back to give away, and one Grand Prize winner will receive Take Me Back plus seven other titles from DK Publishing (pictured below) — a $200 value.
Leave a comment here if you’d like to win. We’ll announce the winners on November 12.
Managing Editor Jennifer Donovan is a contributing editor at 5 Minutes for Mom. She has been blogging at Snapshot for over two years.
I’d love to be entered!
My boys are the same way. I think they’re on a first-name basis with the UPS driver now! Every package that comes they want to open and my 10 year old wants me to get books he can review too. Please choose me!!!
My son would so love this. Please enter me!
I love history and with my and many of my friends thinking of homeschooling this would be fun!
My grandsons would like this. Thanks for the offer and the heads up review!
I would love to be entered! My nieces would love this, I think (or maybe I’d save it for my daughter – or read it myself, lol)! Thanks for the giveaway, you guys are awesome!
Lindsey
Please enter me! I have rabid DK fans in my library who would love this and it’s a bit out of my budget range (-:)
I would love to be entered. This sounds like a great book to add to our homeschool collection.
Sounds like a great read!
I think my son would really enjoy this book! I would love to be entered.
I’ve never wanted to win a giveaway so badly! This book and the others from DK Publishing look fabulous. I’ll have to put them on my Christmas list.
What a great giveaway – this sounds fantastic!
What an incredible prize!
Forget my daughter (she’s a little young anyway) – I’d love this for myself! 🙂 I love history and could use some brushing up.
This looks like a great book to add to our homeschooling collection–if I don’t win it, I’ll have to buy one.
Another great giveaway! Please throw my name in the virtual hat.
That sounds awesome: I’d love to be entered.
I love children’s books and my grandchildren are good excuses to still be reading them. Thanks for your good reviews of children’s books. Enter me in your drawing. Thank you.
That is a wonderful prize! Please enter me.
This would be an amazing tool for my children for our upcoming school year!
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DK books rock! An all-inclusive history book sounds amazing.
What a great way to share our history with our children.
As a history buff I would really love one for myself, but this would be better to give to my daughter who is homeschooling her children. What a great addition to her history and reading time. Thanks for the chance.
I would really love this as an introductory history book for my daughter
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Ok…this set would be so great for my kids and my classroom! I’d love to win them all!
This looks so cool!! Would love to win this either for my youngest brother, or for the little guy I nanny…both of whom are real history nuts!!
This would be fabulous! I know my daughter would love it when she gets older.
This book is perfect, perfect, perfect for both my boys. I’m buying it whether I win or not…but winning is better, ha!
toss my name in too
Oh my goodness, I would love to win-history books are my favorites!
This sounds so neat! Count me in.
i’m a huge fan of history so i’d love to win this!
Looks like an interesting read. Please sign me up for your contest.
Hi,
I would love to win this book. Thanks for offering it.
I’d love to win this book!
I’d love to win!
This sounds like a very interesting, informative , fun book. My daughter and I are both really into history. Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
My daughter is a 3rd grade teacher and these would be a great gift for her!
Great set of books. Count me in!
I would love to win this! We homeschool and these books would be great! Thanks for the contest
Count me in!
This would be perfect for my son. He would really enjoy them.
I would love to win.
Please add my name! Thanks!
Great prize! Thank you.
Boks are always a great prize!
We do a lot of reading in my house. This prize would be great to win.
There is nothing I like better than cozying up with family, reading good books, and drinking cocoa. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Love to read, so please enter me.
Would love to win some books.