A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

I liked this book, but found it a little difficult to sift through as their is an intense amount of facts combined to make one book. It reminds me of the question and answer books that I used to read as a kid except for a much harder to follow version. The author, Bill Bryson, suggests he has spent

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the past 50 years getting answers to all the difficult questions we have. He has definitely accomplished this goal and has brought light to several questions that weigh on the minds of readers. I di like the comical illustartions and I think that they appeal to kids who decide to give this intimidating book a try.

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I'm buying this book for that kid who wants to know if we carry The Times of London. Okay, and maybe all the kids like him.

This book is really interesting. It covers a huge variety of science topics and explained them in an easy to understand way. It had lots of great pictures, and the way many were sporadically arranged on the page helped to make the book to have an interesting look. It would be really neat for a

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grade school age child to look through to get inspiration to learn more about a specific subject. It is neat that Bryson wrote this version of his book "A short history of nearly everything" for a younger reader.

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The author has a good sense of humor, is able to provide history in an interesting perspective, and is able to explain science in understandable language. This an interesting read.

I checked this out because the person who had borrowed the Illustrated Short History of Nearly Everything had not returned it and this version of the book for children certainly promised illustrations. It's a well-designed book, but the illustrations are irritatingly cartoonish, sometimes barely

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related to the subject, and also in places horrifying with the horror obscured by the cartoonish style. Better illustrations would have totally made this book.

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