Who Wins?: 100 Historical Figures Go Head-to-Head and You Decide the Winner! Spiral-bound – July 12, 2016

When I pre-purchased this before its release, I thought it was a board game. I thought it would be a fun addition to the history studies in our homeschool. However, when it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised to find it in book form, wire-bound. Why? No extra pieces to keep track of or lose. This book/game hybrid gives fun facts about interesting historical figures, like Harriet Tubman, Harry Houdini, Genghis Khan, and Nelson Mandela (to name just a few that I grabbed when I quickly flipped through the options). They aren't on traditional pages, though. Each figure receives a rating in the categories of wealth, fitness, wisdom, bravery, artistry, leadership, and intelligence. The book/game allows its readers to look at the historical data of each figure, then pit them against another historical figure to see who might win serious and silly battles of Who Wins "Stopping a Runnaway Train," "Catching Jack the Ripper," "Air Guitar Championships," "Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse," and " Living in the Wild, Wild West." Because each figure and battle has its own page/section, the match-ups and battle options are seemingly endless. This is a great book to sit and ponder alone, or allows for great debate among friends (or in our case, siblings). It allows for wonderful conversation and introduction to historical figures (and the history surrounding those figures) in a fun, imaginative way.

I LOVE this book. It has inspired great writing prompt warm ups and creative activities with my students. I laugh at some of the competitions and my students are so intrigued they continue looking for facts about every historical person.

A very cool and unique way to tell these stories

My 8 year old (who says he doesn't like history) laid on the floor calling out all the silly competitions between historical figures to us and laughing. Caught him pulling it off the shelf and thumbing through it several times over the next few weeks. This would make a good discussion book for the dinner table, too, as there are really no "correct" answers - you pair up 2 people and compare their strengths/weaknesses, which requires learning a little bit about them (their background/info is in the book). Great way for kids to familiarize themselves with a wide variety of important people.

We love this book but we noticed one mistake with the printing - one of the pages is placed upside down so it is cut improperly. See pictures for a normal page (1) and the messed up one (2). So there’s no information on Louis Armstrong or Cleopatra. Other than that, this is an awesome book and really got my 6yo interested in real historical figures instead of Minecraft characters and youtube stars.

We were all excited to get our copy of Who Wins? in the mail last week! My 8 year old has not put it down since. She has been having so much fun reading to her little brother and to us, and we have had so many great discussions about who would win. I think our favorite matchup so far is- who would sell the most Girl Scout Cookies- Abraham Lincoln or Queen Elizabeth I?! Such a well-written, engaging book for the whole family! Also, as a former elementary teacher this would be a great addition to any classroom!

My nephew who is not a big reader loves this book.

I LOVE this book! What a great way to get kids talking about what they read! The biographies are so cleverly written AND witty. I thought I knew most of these people but learned new and interesting info about each one! And then to "gamify" it by pitting the biographees against each other in fun matches is GREATNESS! Highly recommended! I bought for my grandkids but as a school librarian, I think this is great for all levels!!

Great facts & very interesting. I thought it may be good for kids, but probably better for them to play with adults. Very novel idea!