This book is fantastic for elementary kids to understand the history of population growth and the effect overpopulation is currently having on humans, animals, and the land. The layout is easy to follow with pictures that add to the topics discussed. This would be a great book if you want to teach your kids more about the environment and our impact on it. The last chapter also provides ideas on how kids could help lessen that impact in their homes, neighborhoods, and the world.

Jones covers a great deal of group living in a handful of pages. This means that this is a simple overview but that's to be expected. Anything beyond an overview of the history of community becomes pretty complicated pretty quickly. Jones walks us through different forms of early society with a special focus on shared resources. It's the modern era, of course, that gets the most focus and that changes format. In the modern era we look at the difficulties of living in communities and the problems sharing resources. This highlights a serious and complex issue in a way accessible to young kids.

Ours to Share was clearly a book of the heart. It took time, passion and research to clearly represent what is happening to our world. I appreciated every picture, density fact and sharing our world section. It was a well written and executed book. I was glad to see the focus on indigenous people and their connection to the land we call "our own." I very much appreciated the end of the book where it talked about what children around the world were already doing to make sure we continued to have land to share. I wish this section would have been a little more in depth and given a few more suggestions about where we go from here. Overall a beautiful book that should be shared widely.

Ours to Share is a great depiction of some of the issues our world faces today due to overpopulation and scarcity of resources. It is so vital for children to be aware of these issues so they can begin to change their habits from youth.. I love that the author tied in history of the Earth, growth of population over the centuries, disparities in income and opportunity in the present, and how our presence affects nature. I would recommend this to middle graders or middle schoolers.

Ours to Share is great book for older kids. The content accurately describes a complex problem the world faces, but the manner in which it is presented to this age group is spot on and will definitely resonate with them. The overall presentation is wonderful.

This is an excellent introduction to the history of human population growth and how this growth has increasingly negatively impacted the planet. This book is so thoughtfully written. In particular, the author brought in relevant anecdotes and photographs from her own life which enhanced many of the points in the book.

Not only does she address how population growth has affected humans and animals, but she also calls on children to be proactive in being responsible citizens and also encourages them to volunteer and do what they can to make the world a better place.

I would love to have this book in my classroom and to share it with my students!

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Kari Jones did an excellent job in making a very complex issue understandable for kids. The issues she touches upon in Ours to Share are extremely relevant and her audience holds a great power to change the course of this story. I love how she not only explains the history of how our planet became so filled with humans as well as the consequences that resulted from that, but she also offers straightforward doable solutions. On top of that, Jones offers hope and power by providing the reader with her very well argumented story. Any kid should feel excited after reading this work and feel ready to take on their part in sharing our planet and all that it holds.