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  • Age Range: 9 - 11 years
  • Grade Level: 5 - 7
  • Series: World of Tens
  • Paperback: 132 pages
  • Publisher: Annick Press (February 1, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1554514444
  • ISBN-13: 978-1554514441
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.4 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsQuirky but intriguing
By Ursiform on February 25, 2013
Format: Paperback
You might imagine that this book would include the major staples that led to agriculture and made civilization as we know it possible. Well, no.

Once you start with papyrus and pepper you know that's not where this book is going. The author focuses on plants that led to strife, skullduggery, slavery, or similar stories. Only at the end do we find potatoes and corn, the former which led to famine, and the latter to a panoply of products.

The pattern is consistent. An opening page that states the name, name origin, and the author's assessment of the plant's pros and cons. Then there's a quick facts kind of page, a picture page, and a (generally trite) fictional story related to the plant. Finally, a few pages about how the plant is used and how it disrupted the world.

The discussions are generally interesting, and seem mostly credible. The illustrations are, probably intentionally, somewhat crude, but serve the purpose, although some seem to be there for the sake of having picture pages.

This book falls into the fun facts category; it's certainly not any kind of look at the plants that made modern life. But it's fun, and suitable to pique the interest of anyone from preteen to aging adult.

The publisher provided me a copy for review.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEntertaining and Educational, heartily recommend.
By Betty Gelean on April 26, 2013
Format: Paperback
Gillian Richardson has done a great deal of research and interviews in writing this amazing book. She clarifies what you might know and tells you what you don't know about the history of these plants. Though a grandmother, I learned more than I expected from this book that is geared mostly to school children, something I always look for in a book--something new. The illustrations are fun and will add to the pleasure for young readers.

I would not have guessed pepper was once worth as much as gold, nor that corn in its original form could have been around 80,000 years ago. Not only that but how important corn has been, not just for eating but in so many products used in the past century.

There is a lot of human history, not always happy, packed into this book along with the history of these ten plants. This is education at its best; fun, exciting and a pleasure to read. Includes a Map of Plant Origins, Bibliography and other suggested reading. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in learning about the way plants have changed the world, be it in food, industry or medicine. Who knows? Maybe a young reader will become an ethnobotanist!
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4.0 out of 5 starsBut seriously? No tomato?
By Mary Lavers (in Canada) on April 25, 2013
Format: Hardcover
I thought from the title that I would be able to guess what the "10 plants that shook the world" would be. I figured papyrus, cotton and corn would be on there (they are), and I wasn't surprised by potato, tea, sugarcane and cacao (you know, chocolate). But not coffee? Then there's pepper and rubber, which I wouldn't have thought of, but it made sense. But no wheat? No soy? And what the hell is chinchona??

Turns out I should have been paying more attention to the "shook the world" part of the title. The theme of the book is actually the top plants that changed how international trade and exploration evolved. So the plants that they talk about are ones that not only changed how we eat and live, but also how we communicate (hence the papyrus) or interact with each other. So, for example, tea, sugarcane and cacao became globally traded commodities; sugarcane and cotton sadly contributed to an international slave trade; and potatoes both doubled and halved the population of Ireland and greatly contributed to Irish emigration.

And chinchona? It's the plant that provides the key ingredient to the malaria vaccine. While that's incredibly important for the people most at risk of malaria, it was also a major factor in the ability of Europeans to explore countries they previously had been unable to explore. See? It's a theme.
But seriously? No tomato? No chick pea? Not even a sweet pea in honour of Gregor Mendel?

Disclaimer: I received a digital galley of this book free from the publisher from NetGalley. I was not obliged to write a favourable review, or even any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
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