World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age

This is one of the best books on world history for kids. My 12 years old son willingly and happilyreads it.

History lovers cannot deny this one. Lot of topics covered (only gist)

Nice book, covering facts from the ancient world to the information age.

Absolutely gorgeous book. I fell in love with it the moment I opened it. I've always been fascinated by history of ancient civilizations, especially Egyptian and a few others. And I've also owned previous DK books and I know how beautiful and informative they are. When I stumbled onto this book on Amazon, I did some research and I just had to have it. It's a little smaller in length and breadth (not thickness) compared to other big DK books, but it's good enough.I've removed one star because I received a copy with torn binding, and when I returned it and got the replacement, even the replacement was torn from the same side but it wasn't as severe as the first one. Not happy how the seller (Cloudtail) stores its books, but the second book's tear was small and not as severe.Thank you, Amazon and Cloudtail, for a great book!

Good product

The book’s content is excellent. However, the book is already damaged just after taking it out of the packaging.

Still reading it..

The book is too concise, not meant for those who already have basic knowledge of world history.

Un de mes plus beaux livres, l’histoire du monde en résumés synthétiques, par ordre chronologique

It is too superficial, even gives a wrong perception on some facts and periods of history - but it looks pretty ...

Bought this as a Christmas present for a high school history teacher as soon as they opened it they had so much fun going thru it. She said it had a different way of getting the information across and plans to use it in her classroom.

Great book, with a nice storytelling!

Remove the hardcover book from its outer box to reveal Tutankhamun on the front cover. The shiny hieroglyphics on box itself was enough to get my daughter interested in the history book - a first!The 416 pages inside cover 5,000 years of illustrated history and the author uses coloured bars to introduce subjects and frequent headings to split up the text into an encyclopedia style of presentation that makes the book easy to read and and keeps even those with the shortest attention spans engaged!In 'World History,' Parker hasn't just written a history book, he's created a coffee-table masterpiece that you can pick up and put down as often as you like, use it to settle those sisterly disagreements ("Dad, which came first, World War 2 or the English Civil War?") and keep referring back to it when you're caught out by a quiz show.