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Title: If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People by David J. Smith, Shelagh Armstrong ISBN: 1-55074-779-7 Publisher: Kids Can Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Great concept, too bad it lost site of it's goal...
Comment: I actually wished for a 2 1/2 stars with this book. It's concept of making the world a village of 100 people makes statistics easier to understand. The mind is much more able to visualize the world and it's conditions. However, speaking against the tide of praise, which is never popular, I was very put-off by the pages at the end of the book regarding how to teach children about the global village. More than once, the author tells us that the "ONLY way" the goals of sufficient food, literacy and clean living conditions for everyone in the global village can be met is to stablilize the world's population. A book so focused on presenting facts and figures to children wants us to pump them full of government controlled population or worse, zero population, as the only way to "save the global village". A book that could have, and quite honestly should have, produced healthy conversations about environmental/humanitarian concerns and solutions just became a one way street of population propaganda.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Appreciated Gift
Comment: We received our first copy of this book as a gift last year. It provoked a most interesting conversation in our family (which includes two teenagers). Soon after, we took our copy on a family visit and it generated another lively discussion. We left our copy with our hosts and ordered another one for ourselves. And, we realized that this book could be a first-rate gift for anyone, anytime. Since then, it has become our standard "house present" when visiting. It is universally appreciated and commented on long after its initial receipt. It's a unique gift that delightfully engages giver and receiver immediately.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this With a Child Again and Again!
Comment: Both thoughtful and equally stimulating, "If The World Were a Village" succeeds in opening the eyes and the minds of young readers through a quite creative format. As a father of two children, the book offers several topical "lenses" to discuss and really share in the wonderful effort to better understand some of these very timely and also profound issues so relevant for each and everyone of us. If the mark of a good book is to provoke our thinking on a topic and engage our minds - adult and child - you've got the perfect thing right here.
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Title: Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann, Paul Kennedy ISBN: 0871564300 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 03 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Children Just Like Me by Susan Elizabeth Copsey, Barnabas Kindersley, Anabel Kindersley, Harry Belafonte ISBN: 0789402017 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: A Life Like Mine by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, UNICEF, Harry Belafonte ISBN: 0789488590 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Houses and Homes by Ann Morris, Ken Heyman ISBN: 0688135781 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 29 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition by David Smith ISBN: 1590093836 Publisher: Tom Snyder Productions Pub. Date: 20 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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