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A review by erine
The Famous Family Trees by Kari Hauge
2.0
This book may have suffered from my own too-big expectations. I loved the concept, loved the illustrations, and enjoyed the tidbits of information.
I appreciate the difficulties of laying out a family tree on a single page, but still had a hard time with some of the layouts. Each tree had it's own lovely vibe, but this means that each page required a bit of fresh deciphering to figure out the link lines. Each tree was bordered by a double line that occasionally (and confusingly) connected folks who should not have been connected. Each focal person is depicted *slightly* larger than the rest of the people in the tree, but not by a lot. So each time it took me a minute to find the "main character" of the tree. And then in Mary Shelley's family tree, her stepmother and every single one of her stepmother's children as well as Lord Byron lived from 1768-1841. This was a very distracting typo.
There were suggested additional resources, but I don't think these were actual source material for this book.
I appreciate the difficulties of laying out a family tree on a single page, but still had a hard time with some of the layouts. Each tree had it's own lovely vibe, but this means that each page required a bit of fresh deciphering to figure out the link lines. Each tree was bordered by a double line that occasionally (and confusingly) connected folks who should not have been connected. Each focal person is depicted *slightly* larger than the rest of the people in the tree, but not by a lot. So each time it took me a minute to find the "main character" of the tree. And then in Mary Shelley's family tree, her stepmother and every single one of her stepmother's children as well as Lord Byron lived from 1768-1841. This was a very distracting typo.
There were suggested additional resources, but I don't think these were actual source material for this book.