Small Growing Bibliography
on how to tell Prehistory at school
It starts in third grade, a good time to hook the curiosity about our most distant Ancestors and Forefathers through the language of images, to which the mind not yet completely caged in the logical-rational thought of girls and boys knows how to react very well.
But the images must be the real ones, those left on the walls of caves and caverns, often signed by very small hands, those of the little girls and boys who accompanied the Mothers into the darkness inside the earth, in the oscillating light of the torches that animated the irregular walls creating the illusion that they were inhabited by moving animals.
Similar books are beginning to appear, while those illustrated by cartoonists who are as “witty” as they are ignorant, who project caricatures of the present onto the past, must be carefully selected. As if History Before History it was a blank, silent screen to be filled with fantasies at will…
Let's start with 4 titles, the last two of which are full of reproductions of original images:
Many of you asked us about it after the February 11th meeting, and it was important for us to make it available. Here is the recording of the "Teaching Prehistory" meeting. A moment of reflection born from a simple yet fundamental question: how do we tell the story of humanity's origins, and what images do we convey when we teach prehistory? For too long…
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Author: AavvPublisher: Grillo ParlanteSeries: La Macchina del TempoYear of publication: 2021Format: HardcoverPages of the print version: 40 ill pages, boundReading age: from 6 yearsEAN: 9788861777095€ 17,00 A journey from the birth of the planet to the age of the dinosaurs, from Australopithecus to Homo erectus, up to the first villages and the most ancient cities, passing through…
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Author: Elisabetta SerafiniIllustrator: Caterina Di PaoloPublisher: SettenoveSeries: Storie nella storiaYear of publication: 2018Pages of the print version: 56 pp. illPaperbackReading age: from 7 yearsEAN: 9788898947331€ 14,00 Is it possible to tell the story of Prehistory without talking only about prehistoric “men”? Of course: just look very carefully at the traces it left and…
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Author: Marta YustosIllustrator: Diego Rodríguez-RobredoPublisher: La MargheritaSeries: Libri illustrataYear of publication: 2024Format: PaperbackPages of the print version: 48 pp. ill, boundReading age: from 7 yearsEAN: 9788865324714€ 17,00 A long and complex journey through scientific explanations and fabulous images, to discover many exciting stories of distant ancestors…
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Author: Telmo PievaniIllustrator: Adriano Gon, Katerina KalkPublisher: Editoriale ScienzaSeries: A tutta ScienzaYear of publication: 2016Pages of the print version: 144 pages, hardbackReading age: from 9 yearsEAN: 9788873077053€ 19,00 An adventurous investigation to discover the evolution of the human race, told to girls and boys by an exceptional popularizer: Telmo Peviani. Also…
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