Kirkus Reviews -Using a large time line format, this unique book tells the history of North America over the past 13,000 years. Notably, this title covers a lot of information. Each spread contains many important historical events from all over the continent. Albee doesn't glorify Christopher Columbus's "discovery" and actually describes what truly happened to the Indigenous people when the Europeans started to colonize the continent. Along with the plethora of information, there are many detailed illustrations for readers to explore. The illustrations offer a bit of cohesion by having four different color schemes to represent the different areas of the continent. An important thing to know about this book is that it isn't really a book. The thick pages are actually one long piece that unfolds into one eight-foot long page.
It might be fun to lay it out and let students walk around and read the various bits of information, but it may not last long as a circulating book. The foldout pages make it a bit unwieldy and difficult to hold. VERDICT A lot of great and updated information may not be enough to warrant spending money on a book that might not hold up to the daily wear and tear of circulation.-V. Lynn Christiansen, Wiley International Studies Magnet Elementary School, Raleigh, NC School Library Journal "Along with using careful, respectful language when referring to Native groups and "enslaved people", Albee highlights women. Tailor-made to lay out, and with, on a clear stretch of floor." - Kirkus Reviews "One of the most uniquely-designed books I've ever seen. I know kids are going to love folding out an eight-foot continuous work of art filled with facts.
" - Mr Schu Reads "This book is not a story but a fold-out timeline that is about 6 feet in length! Brimming with information and will probably take several readings to really see everything on each page." - Youth Services Book Review "Albee manages to condense history to an 8 foot double sided timeline. I wasn't expecting this when I opened the book and it kept unfolding. I imagined a group of kids unfolding the timeline across the floor and gathering around it to read the various facts and going back and forth through time by moving forward and back along the pages. A book to pore over and read and come back to read some more." - Kid Lit Frenzy blog "Using a large timeline format, this unique book tells the history of North America over the past 13,000 years. Notably, this title covers a lot of information. Each spread contains many important historical events from all over the continent.
Albee doesn't glorify Christopher Columbus's 'discovery' and actually describes what truly happened to the Indigenous people when the Europeans started to colonize the continent. Along with the plethora of information, there are many detailed illustrations for readers to explore." - School Library Journal "North America lives up to the high expectations we have for publications from What on Earth? Books.The construction of the book is brilliant and simple. You can spread it out, getting a bird's eye view of our shared history or you can flip the pages like a normal book and narrow your view to just a few hundred years. The painful and shameful parts of history are not sugar-coated (though they are age-appropriate). Slavery, residential schools, and 'European Invaders' are all called what they are. North America does not read like history books from my childhood: it is interesting and honest.
" - Glass of Wine, Glass of Milk "Visually and physically experience the unfolding of history with an articulate and thorough timeline. This book has the "wow" factor and is beyond spectacular." - wanderingbookseller blog.