Timelines & Chronologies - General, World History, World History - General & Miscellaneous
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Parallel Universe is an interactive timeline where history comes alive through the reader's active participation. The book prompts the reader to accomplish a challenging task by setting a tone of intrigue and urgency. While navigating various historical periods in search of twenty misplaced objects in each period, the reader's observational skills and sense of anachonism are tested. The end of the book provides the answers, in the form of a debriefing. This section, coupled with the last two missions, reinforces the history that has been learned throughout. Any young person with an observant eye will appreciate Parallel Universe as an exciting and educational introduction to our world's history.An interactive illustrated world history in which the reader enters thirteen different time periods and in each one finds twenty objects which are chronologically out of place.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 4-6Fans of A. J. Wood's Errata (Green Tiger/S & S, 1992) will enjoy this expanded take along the same lines. A cosmic disaster has scattered modern (mostly) objects back though time, and to save the universe viewers must find 20 anachronisms in each of 13 busy scenes, from ancient Thebes to 1936 Hollywood. Most of the interlopersan ice-cream cone amid hieroglyphics, the exercycle in a Roman bath, a clothes dryer on a covered wagonwill be easy enough to pick out, either through knowledge or deduction; a double column of text on each verso offers general observations on each civilization depicted, plus warnings and hints. Clueless readers can turn to a set of keys at the backthough because locations within the scenes are not indicated, anyone who doesn't already know what such items as an "anglepoise lamp" or the European Union flag look like will be none the wiser. Taylor rewards readers who finish their tour through time with two additional "what's wrong here?" scenes. Despite plenty of oversimplification and a useless index, this title puts at least a veneer of educational purpose over a popular type of browsing item.John Peters, New York Public LibraryBook Details
Published
September 1, 1997
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pages
40
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780531144657