Overview
Compiling the best titles from DK's very successful Nature Activities series, Nature Explorer allows readers to learn about rocks and minerals, birds, insects, weather, and more, with spectacular photography and illustrations serving as an informative backdrop. In addition, readers are encouraged to observe, take notes, and do their own experiments in the park, their backyards, even their own kitchen! Easy-to-do activities help teach kids about the world around them.
Synopsis
Hands-on projects encourage children to make their own discoveries and to think and learn independently. Each pack includes an activity book as well as subject-specific props and activities to lure children into its subject.
Publishers Weekly
Youngsters can examine the whole kit and caboodle with a trio of First Activity Packs from Dorling Kindersley, each of which contains two detail-packed paperbacks (12 to 18 pages) and pertinent paraphernalia. In addition to the books, World Explorer includes an Animal World jigsaw puzzle, three postcards and stickers that can be affixed to a Treasure Island wall map; Nature Explorer offers a magnifying bug viewer, pop-up binoculars, more stickers and a bird mobile to punch out and assemble; Young Detective (sparse accompaniments, nifty books) features two revolving wheels-mix-and-match disguises and a secret code breaker-plus a magnifying glass and an ID card and ``diploma'' from the Secret Investigations Detective Agency. Stylish if somewhat over-packaged ($14.95 each, ages 5-up ISBN 1-56458-898-X; -950-1; -899-8 June).