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Overview
This superbly illustrated Question & Answer book answers more than 70 questions to help you understand key subject areas.
Discover which city is the world's most populated, where the Masai people live, how the Caribbean Sea got its name, plus many more exciting facts.
Test your friends and impress them with your knowledge using the challenging quiz pages, and learn exciting new facts in the easy-to-use fact panels.
Informative maps, illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people and places that shape our world.
Synopsis
This superbly illustrated Question & Answer book answers more than 70 questions to help you understand key subject areas.
Discover which city is the world's most populated, where the Masai people live, how the Caribbean Sea got its name, plus many more exciting facts.
Test your friends and impress them with your knowledge using the challenging quiz pages, and learn exciting new facts in the easy-to-use fact panels.
Informative maps, illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people and places that shape our world.
Children's Literature
This reference book is part of the "What About" science series. Its ambitious goal is to provide young readers with information about the peoples of the world and the places where they live. The first part of the book provides various facts about the world. There are short chapters (two to four pages each) on the world in general, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Antarctica. The last part of the book provides information on various types of governments, religions, languages, and cultures. There is a quiz and an index at the back of the book. While the index is good, the usefulness of the quiz is questionable, since this is not the sort of book that one would study. Unfortunately, the choice of which facts to present appears rather random. In addition, those facts are displayed on pages that, although colorful, are also cluttered. There are some proofreading errors ("U..S." on page thirty-one, for example) as well as some debatable pronouncements (the statement on page thirty that "Every society needs a structure to make laws, defend its citizens, fix taxes, and spend money for the good of all." seems more like a discussion point than a scientific fact). Probably the most serious shortcoming of this book is that it tries to do too much, with very little context or narrative thread. There are some interesting facts here, but children (or their parents) who are using the Internet will probably be able to find the information just as easily elsewhere. Reviewer: Leona Illig