Unstoppable Us : How Humans Took Over the World (Volume 1) by Yuval Noah Harari

March 27, 2024

UNSTOPPABLE US: HOW HUMANS TOOK OVER THE WORLD (Volume 1) by Yuval Noah Harari. 🏹🦌🔥👣🛶🦏

This book for young readers is an intro to human history for upper elementary and middle grade readers. Although, really, you’ll want to read this one WITH your kid.

How did our ancestors live? Why do we tell stories about life after death? Why is it that humans create governments, corporations, systems of currency and complicated mythologies? OR: Why are humans unstoppable?

Harari paints a vivid picture of the rise of Homo sapiens, whose superpower is at once obvious and surprising! 🗣️

📚My kids and I just started Harari’s second book in this series for kids, which came out this month: UNSTOPPABLE US: WHY THE WORLD ISN’T FAIR (Volume 2)📚

Have you read these? Let me know!

UNSTOPPABLE US: HOW HUMANS TOOK OVER THE WORLD (Volume 1) by Yuval Noah Harari. 🏹🦌🔥👣🛶🦏

Bright Matter Books (2022).

Find this title in your local bookshop.

Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized — about cities, people, and creating a more equitable world — remain hugely relevant today. “JANE JACOBS: CHAMPION OF CITIES, CHAMPION OF PEOPLE, the first biography on Jane Jacobs for young readers, paints a vivid picture of a headstrong and principled young girl who committed her life to building cities made for, and by, the people who live in them.

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