Timeline: A Visual History of Our World

by Peter Goes, Peter Goes (Illustrator)

Overview

A big visual introduction to the history of our world for children, young and old.

Travel through time with this cleverly illustrated 80-page journey of our planet’s culture and events, from the Big Bang to the iPod and into the future.

Take a trip across the timeline of world history, past dinosaurs, Vikings, Aztecs and spaceships, wars and disasters, artists, explorers and leaders, mythology, politics and inventions.

With a combination of facts, figures, infographics and fun illustrations, each double-page scene covers a period in history, showing key events and aspects of culture in all parts of the world. Every page includes talking points for young children and a chance for older children and adults to put their own political, cultural and historical knowledge to the test.

An accessible and fascinating timeline of historical events for children of every age.

Peter Goes lives in Belgium, where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and his other books include Timeline Science & Technology and Rivers.

Praise for Timeline

“Peter Goes’s stunning Timeline, with its ribbons of pitchblack winding through subtly-colored, deeply involving pages, perfectly lives up to Gecko Press’s avowed championing of work rich in language and illustration.”—The Guardian

“Hugely informative, hugely entertaining.”—The Financial Times

“An explosion of information in giant, annotated montages of imaginatively represented detail, from the Big Bang to Charlie Hebdo. Stylish, comical and serious, it deserves to be pored over.”—The Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year, 2015

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776570690
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	10.80(w) x 14.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Peter Goes lives in Belgium where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium.

Peter Goes lives in Belgium where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium.

Editorial Reviews

"An inky swath of black bisects this gorgeous oversize volume, its shape transforming to create prehistoric seas, ancient monuments, and more. . . . [R]eaders will be left with a powerful sense of how far we have come and how far we have to go."―starred, Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2016-01-09
Carried along on a broad ribbon of time that winds across oversized spreads, thousands of small images re-enact the human story. Goes, a Belgian illustrator, begins with the Big Bang, but by the fifth spread, Lucy is peeking from behind a tree as Neanderthals stroll through a torch-lit cave. From there, each page turn offers a panoramic view of a whole civilization up through the Middle Ages, a single century from the 14th to the 19th, decades or half-decades post-World War I, and finally a glimpse of the "2010s" that ends with the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Now and then such diversions as "The Aztecs" or "Space travel" offer pauses in the march. The book is highly selective with both the hordes of stylized but recognizable artifacts and historical figures and the buckets of specific facts and dates scattered throughout. Still, the artist resorts to such extremes of compression that Native American cultures are largely distilled to a cluster of teepees around a totem pole near some buffalo, and one crowd listens to both Jimi Hendrix and "black religious leader" Martin Luther King Jr. while watching JFK motor and singing anti-war songs. It's an ingenious use of space—but with few exceptions, the world beyond Europe and North America barely figures. The absence of an index makes this a browsing item rather than a resource. A handsome overview, parochial for all its chronological scope. (Nonfiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews