Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.
For years now, my children and I have enjoyed coming together to read selections from the Heroes of History series by YWAM Publishing. We've delighted in the way these living history books immerse us in narratives about key historical figures, weaving important names, dates, and facts into engaging and memorable stories that highlight timeless lessons and virtues while teaching history.
We regularly find ourselves referring back to the books we reviewed about George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Milton Hershey, so were excited when we were offered the chance to review another title in the Heroes of History series and spent some time debating which book to select. My youngest son ended up deciding for us: Daniel Boone: Fronteirsman!
My Youngest Loved Reading about Daniel Boone with Heroes of History!
As soon as our copy of Daniel Boone: Fronteirsman came in the mail, my youngest grabbed it and began reading it. 
So much for doing it as a family read together, I thought. This kid wants this book to be his.
Thus, considering that my older two children were busy readying for Speech and Debate tournaments on top of their regular life and learning pursuits and that my youngest obviously did not want to wait for together times to read Daniel Boone: Fronteirsman, I went with it. Daniel Boone: Fronteirsman became my youngest son's solo assigned reading and history - and, boy, did he like it!This is what he had to say when I asked him to dictate to me for this review:
Daniel Boone is a softcover Heroes of History biography by Janet and Geoff Benge. It is 212+ pages long and includes a map, 19 chapters, and a bibliography.
The book tells about the life of Daniel Boone, and I really liked it! It was entertaining. I was interesting to read about his life.
I liked his adventurous personality, his persistence with settling Kentucky, and how he was role model to other people.
I read the book on my own every day for 15'-30'. I liked it so much that sometimes I read it for a couple hours and had to get told stop to go to bed. This is one of the first long chapter books I have ever read completely on my own!
I recommend it to others!
From early chapters, when my son reported to me about how "Daniel Boone was escaping the Shawnees who were Indians that he had been living with, then went back to his childhood when he got smallpox and started hunting with a slingshot..." then how "Daniel Boone did many mischievous things such as putting more gun powder in a gun after his dad had loaded it and, so, almost killing a guy and accidentally killing his father's horse when coming back from sneaking off to a hunting trip... and he was in a battle at Fort Duquesne in the French and Indian War." to the day my son finished the book and told me how much he had enjoyed it and wished it was not over, Daniel Boone: Fronteirsman provided a wonderfully engaging read for my nine-year-old.
My 14-year-old and 12-year-old are not deciding which of them will read it next now that their Speech and Debate commitments are over for the year - and I hope to find time to read it, too.
We also received a digital Study Guide to go with the book.
The guide is chock full of ideas for a complete unit study with a fact sheet, maps, timeline, and a wide variety of questions, prompts, and suggestions.
Since my youngest son was so eager to just read the book, I did not ask him to complete any of the suggested activities, but did find the discussion questions helpful when he chatted to me about the book since quickly reading the chapter-by-chapter questions clued me in to some of the details of the story so that I could better engage my son in conversation.
I truly appreciate how the study guide can work for just as well for families that seek inspiration or a few activities as it can for those that seek in depth, unit study learning. The flexibility of it is fantastic!
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