Epic of Gilgamesh, Ancient Venerable Text
It's easy for children living now, to believe that this life is all there is or was. But if we could see time as river, beginning to end, we'd see that now is a little droplet in a vast body. I wish we would quit throwing crap facts and useless, narrow information at kids and get them reading the sacred and ancient texts. Here's a place to start. Gilgamesh, the Oldest Book in the World