If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People, 2nd Edition (CitizenKid)

I am a pastor and used this book as a reference in a sermon. It was an interactive sermon as we checked our answers. It was very eye opening for folks.

Bought these for my children's school. The illustrations and explanations are beautiful and not too heavy-handed. However, they are not something to just hand to a child for them to read themselves. They definitely need the context that an adult would provide. Many of the concepts could be confusing for a child--dying by the age of 40, poverty in the midst of plenty. Hard things for even an adult to grasp at times.

I wanted to use this as a read aloud in my second grade classroom but the format is not good for that purpose. It is also meant for older students. May be a good intro or supplement for understanding ratios or relativity in some way.

Most children, but espeically those in the USA don't have a good grasp of the world and it's people, the economy of such and what thaat means. These children grow up to be adults who also don't have a clue. This book give a good general picture of who has what which can lead to discussions about who is doing without, how we can all share and then have what we need. It is a good place to start.

I used the second edition with my students. The second edition includes updated numbers and statistics. One of the things I like about this book is that it takes huge numbers that are too mind-boggling for students to really understand and makes it understandable. I also like the way the pictures compliment the text. This is a great book for helping students learn to look beyond their own neighborhood.

great idea for a book, to reduce the world to a 100-person village and give statistics about the members of the village, truly eye-opening especially for western kids who don't realize how much they have. only issue is, a bit dry so my 2nd grader lost interest fairly quickly, so I donated a copy to his school hoping they could make it part of the classroom experience

Good concept, but pretty basic.

It has good illustrations, and is really interesting. You can learn a lot about the world from this book!

This is a most thoughtful idea translated into a most appealing book for children of a considerable age span – probably from around 4 years with guidance and into the early teens. Like so many great ideas it is essentially simple in its concept. Whether used as a focus for discussion in the classroom, read to younger children or read by the older ones, it will stimulate minds in the most entertaining way. The Global Village is here given fresh and colourful meaning. Again, like the best of children’s books, it will exercise plenty of pull on the attention of adults. Highly recommended.

Part of me was hoping for more of a detailed book, but I bought this because I intended to use it in my maths lessons (I'm a secondary school maths teacher) and it gives some great info to make resources for pupils at school. REally helps them visualise percentages and ratio. Some kids did comment though, that "Clean air? It's a village, if one of them has clean air they all do... villages aren't that big!"

Bought this to do some maths work with. Bought the ebook version but there are numbers missing on every page. Opened it on a number of different devices and experienced the same problem. Requested a refund and ordered a paper version instead.

This is a great book to help children - and adults - to understand unequal divisions and access to resources on a global scale. I do think, however, that it needs to be updated. I have given this book to many teachers who haven't heard of it. It really does spell it out in a very easy to understand way.

A wonderful and thought-provoking book, which every child (and every adult!) should read. Such a brilliant way to help us all understand the nature and the scale of the inequalities which still exist in the the world. An invaluable addition to my school's library.