Errata: A Book of Historical Errors by A. J. Wood

by A.J. Wood

Challenges readers to find the ten historical errors hidden in twelve exciting scenes from history, featuring a variety of cultures from Aztec to Zulu, and provides the correct version along with much fascinating information.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Kennedy Baydo · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an interactive finding book. It shows villages and people from other cultures. It is interactive in the way that the readers get to spot what is wrong with the pictures without the illustrations.

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this book in university library in China, in the dusty and forlorn foreign-language section. This is, I believe, the only children's book the library owns, so naturally I read it.
Errata: A Book of Historical Errors is an entertaining and educational nonfiction book. There are twelve illustrations, each depicting a unique culture from world history, for example Aboriginal Australians, Tribal Zulus, or Ancient Egyptians. Each illustration also contains ten errors, ten inaccuracies that the reader must find. Sometimes the mistakes are easy to find (Ancient China did not have power tools) but sometimes it takes special knowledge to find them (Peacock feathers on a Zulu tribesman look completely normal, unless you know that peacocks are not native to Africa). At the back of the book, the reader will find an answer key, explaining which parts of the picture were wrong, and why they were wrong.
So all in all, Errata is a fun look-and-find picture book that teaches and reinforces information about world history and world cultures. Not a bad way to pass the time.