For an objective and reasoned assessment: the choice of history textbook

This article is characterized as a bibliographic review in which were used mainly books and dissertations authors researching on the textbook and the teaching of history. The aim is to describe the criteria that educators of the discipline of history, in the final years of elementary school, can use to support their choice of the most appropriate textbook, because it is in the daily school teachers this task. With this material were made comparative analysis of the criteria proposed by the authors to choose the best history book. It was used mainly as a theoretical Bittencourt (2008; 2009) and Rusen (2011) authors that were essential to achieve the objectives. They are found among the common criteria that authors should guide the practice of choice.