Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales for ages 8 and up relate significant historical events in graphic novel form, with just enough snark and humor to keep the kids interested.
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Donner Dinner Party (5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.39)
The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It’s also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape.
From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party’s predicament in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The graphic novel focuses on the struggles of the Reed family to tell the true story of the catastrophic journey.
This popular topic is a perfect addition to the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales brand, and a great showcase for Hale’s storytelling skills. Visit www.hazardoustales.com for more!
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Big Bad Ironclad! (5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.39)
Each of the books in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history.
Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War.
From the ship’s inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his project, to the mischievous William Cushing, who pranked his way through the whole war, this book is filled with surprisingly true facts and funny, brave characters that modern readers will easily relate to.
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy (5/5 stars, currently priced at $8.85)
Nathan Hale, the author’s historical namesake, was America’s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country before being hanged by the British.
In the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history’s roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format. One Dead Spy tackles the story of Hale himself, who was an officer and spy for the American rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Author Hale highlights the unusual, gruesome, and just plain unbelievable truth of historical Nathan Hale–from his early unlucky days at Yale to his later unlucky days as an officer–and America during the Revolutionary War.
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood – A World War I Tale (5/5 stars, currently priced at $8.85)
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal.
Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist.
Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war.