Are you kidding? You must buy these histories for yourself and your children. Regardless of your level of knowledge, do your children read these books like you? Don't take them in the vernacular. Your prodigy, historical records and historical records are more formal if they are faithful to the original works. People's literature generally produces some ancient novels and so on. Four classical novels, evil sea flowers, travel notes of Lao Can, mirror flowers and so on.
To tell the truth, I still don't recommend you and your children to read such books. Publishers are generally loyal to the original works, so it's best to see who made the annotations, such as The History of the Three Kingdoms approved by Pei Songzhi. In addition, for history books, look at Lv Simian's General History of China (in the vernacular) or Fan Wenlan's Outline of General History of China. You will benefit a lot from reading these things.