The Story of People: A first book about humankind Hardcover – March 5, 2019

This book is awesome. Hell, I even enjoyed it! Although, not a fan of saying Homo Erectus was a type of ape, but that's minor I guess. My little girl likes it a lot and I think it's simply a great way to get kids into real human history and human evolution.

Kids loved this book and we enjoyed it too. Great gift for a child to share with parents learning about our history!

Overly brief, Euro-centric take on history where neanderthals and early homo sapiens are white, there are apparently just 2 religions (Christianity and Islam) and and the only reference to Africans or Indigenous people in North America in recent history is European/American's horrific and treatment of them (rather than references to culture and contributions). Appreciate that the book includes both human achievement and human failings, abuse and destruction. However disjointed and brief, it's hard for young children to process or understand as presented, and yet too simple/brief for older children. My 4 & 6 year old had questions on every page. I considered returning, however even with its failings, it is a genuine attempt at covering a millions of years of human history in a short young child friendly manner, including oppression and recognizing negative impacts alongside achievements, and offering a good starting place for conversations and exploration - both from the content provided and into what's conspicuously missing/erroneous.

My kid and I both learn a lot from this book. Nice illustration and quality and of course, content.

"The Story of People" is a wonderful intro book about human history for young children. It isn't easy to summarize million years of human evolution in 40 pages but the authors managed to squeeze in as much as they could and they retold the tales of our ancestors without being verbose. The beautiful illustrations help children to absorb the information visually making "The Story of People" an awesome read.The book is written in timeline format covering history from 60 million years ago to present time. The authors neatly divided the information into 14 distinctive historical eras. Each era has two spreads of illustrations and summaries of important milestones that human achieved or disasters they encountered. Since this is a nonfiction book targeting young children, do expect omissions of many other essential events. Nonetheless, "The Story of People" is a good introductory book to education youngsters about human.P.S. When children are old enough and are ready for more in-depth coverage about human history, the publisher has an advanced version on the topic called "Curiositree: Human World" (ISBN: 9781847809926) which I highly recommend as well.

As the title states, this is the history of how humans came to be and evolved into what we are today.You can tell this is for kids when it starts with “A gigantic rock crashed into our planet” instead of “asteroid.”I love that the handprints from the Lascaux cave are shown here. I also like that it doesn’t shy away from the history of religion, and uses BCE and CE instead of BC and AD. It also describes the Americas after the Europeans arrived as “stolen lands,” and doesn’t mince words telling the story of slavery.It’s simple, especially the artwork, but it works. Many adults would benefit from this just as much as kids.4.5 pushed up to 5/5

Sweeping ~ Diagrammatic ~ Age-appropriatetl;dr: The history of humanity in picturesThis book does an admirable job of offering the broad swath of human history for young readers. The illustrations are done in a naive style, perhaps meant to add playfulness or decrease the seriousness of the topic. The text is particulary good, with broad concepts being simplified appropriately. This book doesn't shy away from the problems humans have caused, like slavery. I was impressed by the author's ability to distill enormous concept is an age-appropriate book. School libraries should certainly acquire this book.Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book felt very disjointed. If I didn't already know the major events in history, I would be very confused by this book. If I read this book aloud to my kids, I would be stopping to explain how one page related to the next many times over. It also casually mentions things like the atomic bomb the ended WW2 saying millions were left dead. This is an important part of history, but geez, this book is written for the 6 year old set. The language is very harsh compared to the childlike drawings. But the main reason I returned this book is the differences in the pages (right next to each other) depicting homo erectus and homo sapiens. Both were in Africa, so I think we can assume BOTH were dark skinned, but the page with homo erectus is dark, and the page showing homo sapiens before some migrated from Africa are suddenly white. What? Subtle (or not so much) racism here IMO.

Absolutely lovely books. Great starters for kids who are starting to ask questions. My little boy loves it

Really thoughtful, well put together book. My kids love it. The illustrations are brilliant!