Houses and Homes

by Renee P on 2011-10-15
I am not a fan of this book. It has alot of good information, except for the naked people.

by Julie S on 2011-09-16
We liked Houses and Homes more than Peoples of the World, though it was not one of our favorite books. We do not have sons, but I didn't find the nudity degrading at all to women. We simply discussed that it was the way the people were. The illustrations were not extremely detailed and were not done in a titillating fashion. The illustrations were interesting and kept attention. The text was a bit dry at times and very factual. This book does a good job of exposing children to different cultures around the world.

by Debra H on 2011-07-27
Both my 6 1/2 year old daughter and I disliked this book. It was simply too much info on each page (it took about 10 minutes of reading just to cover one page!). Strangely, we enjoyed other Usborne books with a similar format (World of Animals was excellent), but perhaps it's because it had less info per page and more photographs rather than tiny drawings. The nudity did not bother us, but it was simply a dry, dull book. After trying for a few weeks, we gave up and simply skipped it.

by Stephanie C on 2011-06-07
My children loved these books. For the reviewers who were concerned that these people were naked... this is an accurate depiction of how other people of the world dress in their cultures. To depict them with clothing on would be completely inaccurate. I am grateful to Sonlight for the great books that they choose to help me educate my children about other Houses, Homes, and Peoples of the World so that they are not kept ignorant.

by Jennifer M on 2010-11-18
After starting "People of the World", I looked through the other books from the Sonlight set. I immediately set this one in the pile to be returned due to the nude and semi-nude pictures in it. My son DOES NOT need to be looking at breasts at age 6!

by REBEKAH M on 2010-09-21
Only slightly better than the book on Peoples of the World. Too much info on each page and jumped around too much. I really don't have a good opinion of Usborn books after reading these two.

by JENN C on 2010-06-25
My son enjoyed the (The Usborne book of Peoples of the World) He loved the bright pictures and he enjoyed learning about the different traditions. We also had alot of fun doing the crafts that were suggested...we especially enjoyed the mask making project. We were only doing the four day sonlight program but durring this book we would do the five days because we did have with it.

by JARED W on 2010-03-27
I was very disappointed to see that in the very first book (The Usborne book of Peoples of the World) that there was Evolution being taught. They depict pre-historic life with "missing link" type people living very primitively hundreds of thousands of years ago. Not only is this un-scientific, but it flatly contradicts the teachings of the Bible. I am very disappointed that an organization putting out "Christian" literature would condone advancing this viewpoint. The tagline of the curriculum is deceiving as it says from "Creation to the Roman Empire", implying that they use the Bible as the basis for their starting point for history. This simply is not true. The Usborne book Houses and Homes has a few pre-historic scenes as well.

by GREG M on 2008-10-21
I am very suprised to find a Christian based curriculum promoting materials that have bare breasted women depicted. Under the guise of showing different people groups of the world, this book has taken the liberty of depicting women with bare breasts. Bare breasts are shown on pages 2, 6, 7 & 15 And adult men bare butts are depicted on pages 2 & 15. I DO NOT recommend this book to ANYONE.