Leif the Lucky

This book was such a great buy for our family library. The book itself is beautiful with the cover image printed on the book itself as well as on the protective sleeve, gorgeous detailed pictures and an incredible story to learn about the Vikings. Opening this book made me excited to read to my kiddos.

We LOVE this story in my household. My 6 year old boy immensely enjoys reading this as does my 3 year old girl, even with the long form story. The illustrations are very detailed and interesting, and we thoroughly enjoy all the books we own from these authors. They spent a lot of time including interesting story lines and facts about the main character, and this is a great book for learning about early explorers and norse culture.

We homeschool and have used this book for one of our history lessons. Every single page is filled with beautiful and amazingly detailed illustrations. The pages of the book are of great quality and thick textured paper. Definitely get this book of you plan on teaching about the Vikings coming to Vinland.

Fun book with great illustrations

We are using this for some of our homeschool curriculum and it is stunning. Some of the most beautiful illustrations I have ever seen. A great, living book for the topic of the Vikings. Honestly anything by the D’Aulaires is A+

I have an original copy of this book that has been in my family’s collection for a long time (40+) years. I assumed the book was a rare find. Our original copy is a first edition that was a discard from a local library. This newly printed copy is very, very close to the original. This new copy includes the paper jacket and a vocabulary explanation to help educate readers. I’m glad to have found this book so I may read it to my children without fear of damaging my first edition copy. If I had to complain about something it is some of the pictures are not quite as vibrant as the original. Not a big deal in my opinion. The photo has the first edition on top and the less vibrantly colored new edition on the bottom.

there are wonderful illustrations on every page. This would be good with elementary students, though I'm planning on having my 7th grader read it, and I'm sure he'd enjoy it. The book was quite a bit larger (not thicker) than I had expected (since I hadn't bothered to look at the dimensions), which is fine except it makes it harder to store and a bit more cumbersome to sit and read (so I docked it, but it's really more a 4.5), so just be sure you know you're getting a larger book!

Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire first published "Leif the Lucky" in 1941. It has been nearly seventy years and the book is still in print. There are very few children's books that have enjoyed such longevity. The reason this book has survived so long is that it is well written and the mid-century modern lithographs that illustrate the book have a timeless quality to them. "Leif the Lucky" feels as fresh today as it did in the year it was published. One can only hope that more publishers will bring back these classic children's books. Finally, I would recommend that if you can afford it, purchase a 1941 edition of the book. The smell of the old paper only adds pleasure to reading the book.