Timeline Activity Book: Create Your Own Journey Through Time

by Peter Goes (Illustrator)

This companion book for the international bestseller Timeline will spark your creativity. Drawings, puzzles and activities sit alongside facts and images from Peter Goes's remarkable visual history of the world.

72 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2017

About the author

Peter Goes lives in Belgium where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this companion activity book to accompany Timeline, readers are encouraged to stretch their thinking and their creativity by solving puzzles and embellishing drawings or envisioning their own designs. Starting with the beginnings of time and some basic creatures, they have a chance to complete the figures representing trilobites and ammonites, and then, on the final two pages, they need to organize nine scenes from world history in the proper sequence. In between these two activities, they might imagine and illustrate the Tower of Babel, draw the Crusaders from 1099, decorate Greek shields, figure out how to turn an oil tap on by moving through a complicated maze, and even invent a rocket for space exploration. Really, the possibilities here are endless, and this book should keep curious youngsters busily engaged. I'm not sure if someone necessarily has to be talented artistically to enjoy many of the pages, but I could see the activities encouraging someone to think creatively. There's a lot of territory covered here; after all, everything relates back to the modern history of our world. It might be helpful for caregivers or teachers to point out that humans part in time has been relatively short, though.