Romania

Enchantment of the World

by Terri Willis

Describes the geography, history, plants and animals, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Romania.

Genres: Travel, History

114 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2001

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good pictures. The text is a little dated, per the 2001 release. But by being closer to the 1989 revolution, the text reflected more discussion about that impact.

I had just read another book that was more 'fun' to read:
Romania (Cultures of the World
But I still liked reading this one also.

Appendix here had slightly more data in their 'fast facts' section. Example: a short list of most populate cities. And counting 1-10 and other simple phrases.

The text was a little 'dense', so I would recommend for middle school or high school. I found this in the 'J' (Juvenile) section of my local library. My local library has a "YA" room, but it is purely Fiction in that room. I kinda feel bad for kids like I used to be, where I liked finding 'fact books'. Filing this book in the 'J' section puts it with some EXTREMELY short (30 pages) books on Romania aimed at the elementary school kids.

4.75

[Reeds]

I knew exactly nothing about Romania when I started reading this book. I was surprised to see that they had a revolution. The reason this surprised me was that I knew a Romanian immigrant personally and saw him week-in and week-out during the time his old-country was having this revolution, and he never mentioned it once. I would think that would come up in the conversation since he undoubtedly knew a lot of people there since he'd just moved from there.
I have no memory of him ever telling us what town he came from even.
The communist leaders who had been starving the citizenry while they lived high on the hog were executed by the citizens on Christmas day while I knew this guy and he never said a word about it.