Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest Moments | 
|  | | | Title: | Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest Moments | | Author: | Joy Masoff | | Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 24 August, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0761136843 / 9780761136842 | | List Price: | $14.95 | | You Save: | $10.50 | | Amazon Price: | $4.45 | |
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Product Description
All the vile stuff kids live for! What Oh, Yuck! did for science, Oh, Yikes! does for history, from Atilla the Hun to Vomitoriums. Solid research, plus projects. Illustrated throughout with cartoons and photographs. Ages 8-12. 224 pages. 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches.
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Customer Reviews:
• Another Great Book..... 06 November, 2007
My son has OH Yuck! and also this one OH Yikes! This is a very neat book with interesting facts. He is 10 and he loves it and is always telling me really cool facts that he reads about! Great for kids!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3MZRI6F8C6MJ1
• My Seven Year Old Doesn't Like This Book 06 October, 2007
My son likes bathroom talk as much as the next kid, but he didn't like this book. He zeroed in on the basic disrespect for everything in the past and he just didn't like it. After hearing him explain that he didn't think that George Washington's wooden teeth were what he wanted to care about, I had to agree with him that the book doesn't make history appealing. People in history end up sounding stupid for not knowing things we know now. I don't want my kids to read history with that kind of arrogance.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AXDXA14N7Z8UQ
• If It Gets Kids Reading About History, I Guess It's Good. 23 September, 2007
This book is certainly enGROSSING... You'll find yourself reading it in almost one sitting. I can see children actually being distracted from their XBoxes to read this. And anything that encourages kids to read can't be all bad.
However, as has been noted, there are several factual inaccuracies. There is also a smug "we are so much smarter now" tone to the book. Children will come away with the notion that people in the past were morons and that any modern child has more common sense than the wisest ruler or most learned person of the past.
Also, there is a distinct anti-European and pro non-European bias. European history is mostly presented as weird, violent and horrible, while the main focus on non-European history is on positive achievements. We learn that Europeans robbed corpses to make false teeth, then we learn that Africans and Asians chewed a twig to make their teeth white. We learn about medieval European students urinating en masse into a barrel to sell to a tanner, and on the next page we learn about the sophisticated advanced universities of Dark Ages Timbuktoo.
There's a conscious effort here to present historical Europeans as beastly benighted savages.
My question is, why the need to counterbalance every disturbing fact about European history with a positive fact about non-European history? The book's subtitle is "History's grossest, wackiest moments", after all, not "How Europeans were worse than everyone else".
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3V7D79CJ5B8SO
• Are You Ready For This? 01 October, 2007
If you are the kind of person who has ever wondered what life was like before tiolet paper was invented, why sailors like eatiing in the dark (you might be sorry that you ever asked), and what medicical care was like in the bad old days, then this is the book for you.
This is great research presented in a phenominally entertaining manner that really knows how to grab the attention of a kid! Books like this can really tear a child away from the TV or video games. It's also a great gift for the book junkie of any age who thinks he already knows everything about everything.
Great!
- Reviewed by customer ID: AKMEY1BSHSDG7
• Great Read, Especially For Those That Don't Like History 13 January, 2008
This is an GREAT read, especially for those that don't like history. It has alot of fun information in an easy to read style. My children think it is even better than "Oh, Yuck: . . ." by the same author.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2JB4EWX0JGJVW
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