CitizenKid: If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People (Hardcover)

from Kate_Schulte078

This book would be good to use when talking about diversity or as introduction geography. I think students will like this book because it is eye opening to see how most of the world lives.

from Omrythea

Imagine if all of the people of the world could be represented by just 100 people living in a village. Each villager would represent about 62 million people from the real world. Using this scenario, the book explores the villagers and what language they would speak, how much money they would have...

from kami.hodgins

Content: "If the World Were a Village" takes the world down to a small scale village of 100 people so that children (and adults) can better comprehend the demographics of our planet. The book goes through such important topics as religion, language and location to give the reader an idea of what ...

from manich01

A member of a noteworthy series of books that shrink the world to a village of a hundred, thereby helping readers understand their position in the world as compared to the other 99 percent. Provocative and earnest, the book may be used personal or educationally to stimulate discourse regarding se...

from shelf-employed

First published in 2002, If the World Were a Village, received a much-needed update this year. The colorfully-painted, folk-art illustrations haven't changed, but the statistics have been updated. As with the original book, the numbers are fascinating to contemplate, and offer Western children a ...