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Land covers a third of planet Earth, and water and ice cover the rest. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Land covers a third of planet Earth, and water and ice cover the rest. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3.2 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews)
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Photgraphic Journey to Introduce Children to Geography, Jan 10 2007
By Bookhound - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: DK First Atlas (Hardcover)
This is an excellent and inviting book for children who want to learn about world geography. It gives an overview of the different types of maps and atlases, topography, climates, and oceans. Also contained are illustrations of flags of the world. Each region contains several beautiful photographs and illustrations. These, along with charts, and the large, easy-to-read text, provide information about wildlife, food, natural resources, agriculture, architecture, monuments, landscape and terrain, sports, music, typical clothing, and interesting facts. The globe is on the introductory page of each region. This is particularly helpful because the region being explored is colored red, making it easy for kids to visualize where in the world they are looking. There is also a compass on the introductory pages for each region.An earlier reviewer suggested that people were half-naked. There are no photos of anyone that exposes what would normally be covered by a bathing suit. The one exception to this is the photo of sumo wrestler. He is wearing his mawashi, the thick belt that doesn't cover much of his behind.
I would not hesitate to use this book with children. Even young teens enjoy looking at this visual feast for the eyes and picking up tidbits of information.
34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very British!, July 1 2005
By Joseph Frank "political scientist in training" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: DK First Atlas (Hardcover)
I'm generally impressed by this book as a resource for teaching young children about the world, but even the US edition I have strikes me as very much oriented toward the British world view. The main thing that bothers me is that the main thing they consider interesting about Ireland is... Guinness beer! Also, the "Southern Ocean" is included, which I didn't think was recognized by US schools. Unless something changed recently, I always thought there were four oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
All right...could be better, Aug 24 2008
By Lawrence M. Sanger - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: DK First Atlas (Hardcover)
Has plenty of good pictures and does introduce kids to various places, but it does not really serve well as an atlas. For purposes of teaching the shapes of countries, where mountain ranges are, what the big cities are, and such things one learns from an atlas, this is very poor. The pages are a bit too busy. Less would have been more.
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