Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories returns with a look at the crops that made us. Spices and Spuds takes us on a deep-dive into the history of the world via the relationship between humans and their agricultural interactions. Broken down into chapters based on highlighting each major player plant, this book can easily be broken up to focus on a particular subject (as the author points out in the introduction). However like the circle of life, there are several call backs between sections that make some knowledge of other chapters essentially in getting the whole picture. The illustrations, simple text and humor make the wealth of information in this text easily digestible for middle-grade readers.

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My kids loved this book! It's super cute and wholesome and kept their attention the whole time during reading. I highly recommend this book and will purchase a physical copy.