Reviewer: Owen Sieffert
Age: 12

If you want to learn about the Aztec or Maya, this book is for you! It’s not just about jobs, but about their culture and customs, too.

I found this book interesting because it’s not a common topic and some of the jobs are very peculiar. For example, a volador is a man who swung around a 30-metre-high pole with only a rope supporting him. Or, as an Aztec, you could be a farmer — of bugs! Many bright and colourful pictures line the pages and help show what the jobs were really like.

One thing I would change about this book is to include more information about the Maya if possible, because the book is centred on the Aztec. This book was very fun to read at the beginning, but after a while it seemed that not so many jobs needed to be described in such detail, seeing as there are 100 of them listed.

I would highly recommend this book for young historians. Out of a score of 10, I would give it an 8.5. The one word I would use to describe it is original.

(Originally published in the March/April 2009 issue of YES Mag.)