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 enlarge | Author: David Smith
Creator: Shelagh Armstrong
Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $10.98
You Save: $7.97 (42%)
New (31) Used (15) from $10.59
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 10593
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1550747797
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.6
UPC: 625816477978
EAN: 9781550747799
ASIN: 1550747797
Publication Date: March 1, 2002
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 Excellent Classroom Teaching Tool February 16, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I use this book in my AP Human Geography course for sophomore, junior, and senior high school students to help introduce them to the global perspective and unequal distribution. The concept of world population is difficult to grasp using numbers in the millions and billions of people and The Global Village concept brings the message into an comprehensible form. This is a must-have for the social studies classroom.
I"m sure the stats changed already. September 25, 2006
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I like this book. Great to leave in a pediatric office. Keeps it real...so to speak...
Required Reading for the Developed World August 18, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
What an extraordinary book! This book, with its beautiful, imaginitive illustrations and straightforward presentation of the simple realities of our complex world, is one of the most important books in my library of thousands. Smith's simplicity in his presentation of statistics without bias allows the thought process that inevitably follows the reading of each page to take over the reader's mind as it soars with the accompanying illustrations. As a teaching tool for children, I use this book with kids in grades 3-6 from a very poor school district to illustrate their comparitive socioeconomic advantages, study geopolitics, and meet our data analysis standards. My kids then can be heard enthusiastically retelling and explaining their new understanding of the world throughout the school. HOWEVER, this is as powerful a book for adults as it is for children. I have often given it as a gift to friends. We would have a different world if everyone read this book, read it with their kids, and carried the information with them as I have since I first opened it.
 Creating "world-mindedness" July 27, 2006
2 out of 46 found this review helpful
That is one teacher's description of what the book helps her to do. It is certainly good to learn about other cultures and develop empathy and compassion towards all. Nonetheless, it is the height of moral relativism to assume (teach) that all cultures are equally good. Look with an open mind towards the cultures of Somalia or Palestine, then look to the flag of the USA with renewed patriotism in your heart.
Excellent Book July 21, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
There just aren't many books willing to tackle the huge subject of the world population and its composition as this one does. It achieves its goal with all age levels using colorful illustrations and examples on how people differ economically, culturally, and religiously. If the World Were a Village gives a valuable perspective to anyone inquiring about their relative place in the world.
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