How People Live

I have the older edition of this book and found it an edifying addition to a study of the continents and their related people and habitats. The photos are beautiful and the information included was intruiging to children and to me! I did use it with [...]to roughly place the people on the continent.

I think this book is a great visual representation of the world and it's cultures. I don't know that I would use it as a straight classroom text, but it would be a great enhancement piece for a world cultures class.

I am VERY familiar with this book, having read it at night to my 11 year old son for months now! We just finished it. He loved it--he is a huge geography buff and was fascinated with the glimpes of so many cultures around the world. We both learned a lot about people and countries we had known nothing or very little about before now. A few small things would have made this a much better book, however! I would have loved to have a small map on each 2 page spread about a culture, so that we could have seen exactly where the people talked about lived. I'd have liked very much to have some of the words in other languages spelled out phonetically, as I was often guessing wildly at how things were said. I also wish the book would have focused a little less on exotic and unusual cultures and a little more on more common cultures---the former was very interesting, but the latter would have given us probably a more realistic world view! My sons are annoyed that I am writing so many complaints! They felt this was a wonderful book, and so did I---I just think it could have been even better!

I got this for my 22nd birthday 2 days ago and I really love it. It shows in some parts of it how they combine old world to modern world. The pictures so wonderful. Its better then the refernce series of people, I forgot the title of it. Thank you. Also recommended: Other DK Books in assoctian with UNICEF. Children Like Me/Celebrations by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersey, Just Like Me.