• by Robert Macleod
    Hardcover
    This book has almost everything except the kitchen sink. It contains huge colorful paintings and plenty of charts and diagrams designed for older children. Chapters focus on the Age of Vikings, Exploring the World, Viking Attack!, Life in Viking Times, and Legend and Lore. The Scottish author, Robert Macleod, grew up on Scotland’s coastline ... ... more

  • by Eric Dregni
    Hardcover
    In this book, Dregni attempts to answer, "Who are these rather odd Scandinavians in our midst", "What does it actually mean to grow up Scandinavian-American", and what's the deeper side of living amongst Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes, and Icelanders"? To answer these questions, Dregni tracked down and explored both the significant and the ... ... more

  • by Peter Chrisp
    Hardcover
    Thora, a girl living in Orkney off the coast of Scotland in the year 942, invites the reader to explore her world through crafts, activities, stories, and historical facts. Directions for activities such as making jewelry, an antler comb or a Viking ball make this book great for class projects or at-home pretending. ... ... more

  • Photography by Brian Peterson
    Essays and Thoughts by 52 Minnesotans

    Paperback
    A few years ago, the Voices for the Land project, organized by the nonprofit group 1000 Friends of Minnesota, encouraged Minnesotans to write about the land they love, and to fight for its preservation. The Minneapolis Star Tribune published a selection of these essays, paired with Brian ... ... more

  • by Eliizabeth Raum
    Paperback
    This book is in the Linking the Past and Present series offered by Heinemann. Along with a glossary and a list of key dates, the book deals with who they were, who were the raiders, how did they build ships, what new worlds did they discover, etc. Like the book, The Vikings, by Jane ... ... more

  • by Richard C. Lindberg
    Paperback
    This new book, copyright 2011, is a multigenerational tale of the Swedish-American experience. Lindberg — a first-generation, baby-boomer, Swedish American — has written an autobiography combining it with recent immigrant history and Swedish cultural history/politics, and has blended this with Chicago history focusing on how Chicago's Swedetoown became the center of ... ... more

  • by Harley Refsal
    Paperback
    The whittled little folk are delightful. From Kristian to Thea to the Woodsman, acclaimed artist Harley Refsal provides patterns and instructions for carving over 20 delightful characters in wood. Readers will find step-by-step carving and painting instructions for a Scandinavian-inspired man and woman. Once they have learned to carve these, ... ... more

  • by Jane Chisholm and Struan Reid
    Paperback
    A 32-page, fact-filled paperback with colorful sketches of the Viking life including homes, dress, ships, gods, games and alphabet. The facts are made more interesting with the addition of specific addresses to Usborne Web links that lead the reader to even more information, pictures, puzzles and games. Written for children ... ... more

  • by Peg Meier
    Paperback
    Beloved pets. Holiday rituals. Schoolyard antics. Teenage perspectives on a world at war. Childhood is a mixed bag of challenges and joys wherever one grows up. In Minnesota, youthful memories may be arranged seasonally: making snow angels in January, swatting mosquitoes in July. In this, her "Growing Up in Minnesota" collection, Peg Meier ... ... more

  • by Suzann Nelson & Janet Martin Paperback Still a bestseller, this is a cradle-to-grave humorous look at Lutherans in the '50s, especially those who were triply blessed by being rural and Scandinavian as well as Lutheran. Winner of the 1998 Minnesota Book Award for Humor and the Minnesota Independent Publishers' Award! Check out Those Lutheran Ladies. ... more

  • by Suzann Nelson & Janet Martin
    Paperback
    This book, perfect for the men in your life, traces the history of scrap lumber to the cavemen and Noah right up to Martha Stewart, President Bush, Stephen King, Ralph Lauren and Sally Jesse Raphael. If you really want to make a statement, top it off with a Scrap Lumber ... ... more