Usborne Book of the Ancient World: Combined Volume: Early Civilization/the Greeks/the Romans/ (Illustrated World History)

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Summary: Usborne Book of the Ancient World:Combined Volume
Review: Awesome book for all ages, the pictures are great. There is so much information,yet it is easy to follow and understand. It is well worth the money, and much more interesting than the history books in schools. This is a book you wished you could have had to learn with when you were in school.

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Summary: Great History Book
Review: Love the pictures and the write-ups. Much prefer this to Usborne's World History which has more nudity than I can allow my children.

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Summary: Great History Book
Review: Love the pictures and the write-ups. Much prefer this to Usborne's World History which has more nudity than I can allow my children.

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Summary: A deightful eyeopener
Review: The illustations are simply beautiful in this 288+ book---WELL WORTH every cent! Though the writing at time can be challenging, and meant for the young adult reader, it's an absoulte must for any person interested in ancient civiliztions. After reading this text you will be an expert from Rome to Greece to China!

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Summary: A deightful eyeopener
Review: The illustations are simply beautiful in this 288+ book---WELL WORTH every cent! Though the writing at time can be challenging, and meant for the young adult reader, it's an absoulte must for any person interested in ancient civiliztions. After reading this text you will be an expert from Rome to Greece to China!

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Summary: Usborne Book of the Ancient World:Combined Volume
Review: This book is one of the best around for teaching ancient history to all ages! The colorful pictures, and detailed, yet short explanations hold a child's interest. There is enough information for an older child to learn and retain his new knowledge. The pictures are wonderful, which further the beauty of this book!

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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: This book is one of the best around for teaching ancient history to all ages! The colorful pictures, and detailed, yet short explanations hold a child's interest. There is enough information for an older child to learn and retain his new knowledge. The pictures are wonderful, which further the beauty of this book!

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Summary: Not what we wanted
Review: We returned this item after browsing it and considering it for our 4- and 6-year-olds. We had two main disappointments: First, we thought there were too many pictures in relation to the rather spotty text. Virtually all of the pictures are "cartoonish" hand-drawn illustrations rather than photographs. Yes, the pictures attracted our childrens' attention immediately, but we were wanting to teach them the ideas and themes of history, not just have them attracted by cartoons. And very quickly our six year old focused in on the nudity, asking us what was that unusual large "thumb" sticking straight out of the man--which was actually the erect penis of a "fertility god" representation. A previous reviewer wrote "Much prefer this to Usborne's World History which has more nudity than I can allow my children." Well, that picture and the several others drawings of nude humans (frontal male and female nudity in the "cartoons") is more of a distraction and problem than we felt our young children needed when trying to learn history. We are much happier with the Kingfisher books we obtained, which focus more on TEXT and IDEAS and relatively less on the cartooniness. They also feature no nudity. What's the point of including nudity and references to reproductive anatomy, for young children? More appropriate for older children, but by then the "cartoons" would probably look like such.