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Kristen in TN
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I'm wondering if anyone knows of any Holland resources, books, etc...
Hans Brinker and I'm thinking a few VanStocum books. Any others?
Thanks and God bless,
Kristen in TN
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Not sure what you are looking for, but here are my picture book contributions:
A Day on Skates
The Greatest Skating Race
Boxes for Katje
Hana in the Time of the Tulips
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
Katje, the Windmill Cat
I haven't seen this one, but use a lot of the Chicago Press activity books and always find them full of great ideas and resources - The Wind at Work: Activity Guide to Windmills
Vermeer, The Milkmaid
And of course there is much to study in the Dutch (& Flemish) painters - so many to choose from including some of the most famous: Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Van Eyck, Vermeer, Jan Steen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Rubens. Lots of great biography picture books on those folks. Don't have time to list right now.
There are artist study threads on a few of them archived here:
::Bruegel, Pieter the Elder - Jan. 08
::Rembrandt - June 06
::Rubens, Peter Paul - Apr. 08
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I knew there was one in my WWII books.. The Winged Watchman but I see you already mentioned Van Stockum
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JodieLyn wrote:
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In addition to the Van Stockum books, another WWII one in Holland is The Diary of Anne Frank (though recommend you get an early edition, if you read it...)
A WWII picture book:
Hiding from the Nazis
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I love the Dutch Master's style artwork in the lovely picture book The Boy Who Held Back the Sea. Text is by Mary Mapes Dodge (author of Hans Brinker). It is the story of the lboy who put his finger in the dike and saved Holland, an important Dutch legend that illustrates well the constant battle with the sea the Dutch have faced over the centuries.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Books by Dick Laan, some of them have been translated into English.
Books by Dick Bruna
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I just finished The Hiding Place, which is a book about a Christian family who hid Jews during the German Occupation of Holland during WWII. I think it would be an excellent book for young adults.
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Thank you all so much!
This started because of the suggestion in the Ultimante Geography and Timeline Guide. I did find a few tourist websites that have a lot of pictures. I suppose countries don't mail out things like they used to for tourists due to the web being so redily avialable. We don't let our kids on the computer much at all, so I was looking for hard copeies of things. Unfortunately my large National Geographic collection was mostly ruined in a flood at my brother's house where I kept them because they would come in handy as well.
I thought I would post some of the links I found...
Motley's history of the Netherlands
Free homeschool geography page
Holland Tourism
Holland Windmills
God bless,
Kristen in TN
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Coming out of lurkdom to add The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
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I also just found this unit study. I found it when looking at a St. Patrick's Day unit study that JennGM put up in the March study.
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There was also a "unit study" insert in one of the issues of mater & magistra a couple years ago. I think. anyone have access to that? I do....it's just that it's downstairs and I am too snuggled in to go get ANYTHING right now. I want to just LIVE right here for the REST of my LIFE! 
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