A review by wardo2700
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

1.0

This book took me a week to read and it was a struggle to stick with it. I’m not sure what child sat down in 1922 and read this and I doubt many children today would or should read it. The only positive thing it has going is the entire history of the world in one volume but it is so slanted that doesn’t help much. There are some interesting chapters and the extra 100 pages that were added in the 1970s and 1980s were better written in my opinion. I just can’t recommend this book to any age group but I checked off another Newbery winner.