All of us : a young people's history of the world

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Title:

All of us : a young people's history of the world

Author:

Pommaux, Yvan, author.

Uniform Title:

Nous, notre Histoire. English

ISBN:

9781681373218

Physical Description:

93 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.

Series:

New York Review Books children's collection.

Subject Term:

World history.

World politics.

Genre:

Picture books.

Added Author:

Ylla-Somers, Christophe,

Lehmann, Anna (Translator)

Summary:

All of Us is a collective history of the world, told from an uncommon point of view. Written in the first-person plural, All of Us is a book of our history, emphasizing our unity as a species, beginning with the birth of our planet and our common origins in Africa, and describing how we came to be who we are in all our numerous guises. As hunter-gatherers and nomads, inventors of tools, farmers and breeders, we evolved in various ways, influenced by outside forces, such as different climates and geographies, which led to our divisions into different civilizations. Our past was one of incredible invention--the creation of art, the development of writing, the birth of science, religion, and philosophy--but also of constant struggle for survival, of colonization, of revolution, slavery, and war. With detailed maps, intricate illustrations, and vivid descriptions, All of Us is a gripping and inclusive world history for young readers, a history of the family of man. --

Language Note:

TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)	J 909 POM	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)	J 909 POM	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	J 909 POM	Searching... Unknown

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An inclusive and expansive telling of the history of civilization from the beginning of time, by one of France's most beloved children's authors

This book is about our history. Not the history of kings, queens, chiefs, emirs, great moguls, emperors, tsars, presidents, or dictators, but our own: the history of the men, women, and children who peopled the earth. It is a long story that began more than one hundred and fifty thousand years ago and continues today. Despite dark times, wars, and conflicts, we invented, worked, created extraordinary things, and transformed the world. Although we were often led to turn against one another, we also created strong bonds between ourselves. And we had fun too, dancing and singing and making music! Let's take a look at how our history unfolded on our earth, from the beginning to the present, without giving more weight to one country than another. What will we see?

Author Notes

Yvan Pommaux was born in 1946 in Vichy and attended the École des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand et de Bourges. He is an acclaimed children's book author, illustrator, and comic-book artist. He received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1985 and the Prix Sorcières in 2015 for All of Us .

Christophe Ylla-Somers is the son-in-law of Yvan Pommaux. He is also a singer, DJ, and historian of the Middle Ages.

Anna Lehmann has translated selected songs from Patrick Modiano's Fonds de tiroir for Harper's Magazine . Her translation of Yvan Pommaux's All of Us for The New York Review Children's Collection is her first book-length publication. She lives in New York City.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

The first nonfiction volume in the NYR Children's Collection, this ambitious panorama of human civilization covers the origins of life to the end of the Cold War. The narration moves across cultures and continents, marking developments keyed to an advancing timeline; detailed illustrations and maps by Pommaux augment the text. Readers may have conflicting feelings about Ylla-Somers's approach. The narrative frequently uses an omniscient we and is often written from the perspective of the oppressors ("We slaughtered lepers, vagrants, and Jews, who were increasingly shunned"; "There was land to be taken from the native people and cities to be built for future generations of brave emigrants"), and in at least one place removes fault from colonizing forces ("Chinese and Indian civilizations also whetted the appetites of the colonizers"). Though outmoded phrasing jars and the underlying perspective is primarily Eurocentric, the book also depicts the wide-ranging impacts of slavery, racism, colonialism, sexism, and environmental depredation. Ages 8--11. (June)

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