What Was the Great Depression?

While this book has lots of good pictures and is a simple read, it has a very strong liberal slant to it. It would have been better if the writer would have remained objective or would have shared both conservative and liberal points of view.

I am so impressed by this book! I bought it to use during home school, but didn't have very high hopes. However, I discovered that the author (Janet B. Pascal) did a superb job taking a complicated piece of history and synthesizing it in a way anyone can understand. She really covers all the major things everyone should know about the Depression, including its causes and why it ended. I highly recommend this book.

Very few people these days know anything at all about the Great Depression.I don't know why these books are aimed for little Children - us adults can learn so much from this and other books in the series.I am 74 years old and my father told me that he suffered during this time. He had graduated in Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1933, and then found it impossible to get any practical training. He got to Germany and had his Graduate Training with Siemens Schuckertwerke and Siemens & Halske in Berlin of all places. He had even shaken the hand of Adolf Hitler when Hitler had visited Siemens to talk to the top-brass there as to how a large area like the Ruhr (industrial heart of Germany) could be blacked out with the push of a button, and a similar area in the forests could be lit in the minutest detail when British Bombers came to bomb the Ruhr. My father, fresh out of University and others like him were given small parts of a project to superimpose 500 Hz waveform on a 50 Hz waveform, which was the solution to the problem Hitler wanted solved as determined by the Siemens big shots. Later on, towards the end of the war, my father who was back in his motherland of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) discovered thar the Brits were fooled for many months. When they bombed Ruhr at night and they conducted reconnaissance by day, they were puzzled as to how the Ruhr was stll intact.Thank you Janet Pascal.

My family comes from a long line of farmers and so I thought this would be some good history for my 7 year old. While reading, I learned a lot more about the depression than I ever knew. These books are such an amazing series for kids and Moms/dads :-)

Everything in the Who Was, What Was, Where Is series are phenomenal. This one is no exception. I love the black and white photos at then back of the book, too. Informative, engaging and I recommend buying every one in the series that you can get your hands on. As a former 4, 5, 6th grade teacher, I can attest that my students loved these series of books and they were one of the most popular classroom check-outs.

I am a grown man but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book about the Great Depression. The 1930's were definitely a turbulent time for most Americans, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt did what was in his power to improve America economically and socially.

This book is part of a series (Who is and What is...) aimed at young people in order to place historical events and people in perspective. This book is packed with facts and time lines. The vocabulary is fairly simple, but adults who just want an overview of certain events will also find this a helpful read. Lots of great pictures, as well as illustrations.

Tons of facts and photos. Details the stock market crash and goes right up to the beginning of ww2. Talks a lot about FDR and the many things he did for the country.

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J'ai acheté ce livre pour ma bibliothèque de classe, en anglais donc. La période est très bien décrite, de façon très abordable pour des jeunes élèves avec quand même un niveau correct d'anglais. Des illustrations et même des photos viennent illustrer le propos.

Buen libro. Muy ilustrativo y facil de leer

The kids love it!

Une excellente lecture en anglais pour collégiens ou lycéens. Malheureusement, j'ai reçu un exemplaire en mauvais état (alors que pour une fois l'emballage était correct !).