Learning begins here! With this accessible, easy-to-use, feature-rich, family reference, children of eight years and upwards will find help with homework and school projects, be able to satisfy their own curiosity, or simply enjoy browsing. This is the most comprehensive, visually enticing, one-volume encyclopedia available for children today. Organized A-Z, over 450 main entries and 1,500 subentries cover all the facts kids want and need to know: from science, technology, and space to history and the arts. Lavishly illustrated with more than 3,500 photos, artworks, cutaways, and maps, ensuring your child understands even the most complex subjects.
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It's a curious youngster's dream come true! DK's Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is an engaging visual guide to the world--with 450 one-to-two-page main entries that are written and checked by experts and arranged in alphabetical order from "Aboriginal Australians" to "Zoos."
Open to "Oceans and Seas," and you'll find a lively spread awash with small photos, maps, and captions about tides, ocean currents, the Gulf Stream, the Kontiki expedition, and the continental shelf, as well as pictures of ocean dwellers from the blue-ringed octopus to the Dall's porpoise. More interested in "Space Flight" than the watery depths? This section features an illustrated cross section of the space shuttle, with a brief overview of space flight, a historical list of "space firsts," and short descriptions of space probes and space stations. The "find out more" box leads insatiable astronaut-wannabes to astronauts, comets and meteors, gravity, moon, planets, rockets and missiles, and satellites.
Written in clear, lively text--and enhanced with more than 3,500 spectacular, specially commissioned illustrations, photographs, and maps; a "Fact Finder" reference section; and a 15-page index--this beautiful, authoritative one-volume encyclopedia will solve arguments, help with school projects, or simply provide hours of contented browsing. This enticing set belongs on every child's bookshelf! (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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Oxford's children's encyclopedia has refreshing perspective.,
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This review is from: DK Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
It was with some trepidation that I opened The Oxford Children's Illustrated Encyclopaedia, being it is a product of acedemia. I need not have worried. It is refreshing and is crammed with facts; and without being jingoistic, it cheerfully assumes it is not a bad thing to view the world through Western eyes. That is, it speaks from a largely Western perspective.Chinese history gets its due, for instance, but mainly as it intersects with European; the same goes for Africa. It is also notable that the encyclopaedia explains herbalism, reflexology and aromatherapy in a one-page article on complementary medicine, for instance, but devotes pages and pages to standard science: bacteria, viruses, breathing, cells, the brain, the heart, immunity, pregnancy, birth and so on. The "wisdom of the rainforest" is absent. So is the group theory of scientific discovery, in favour of the accomplishments of such individuals as Archimedes, Marie Curie, James Watt and Albert Einstein. Pollution and its effects are discussed, but without any technology-bashing. The entries on the steam engine, crane, battery and photocopier (bet you didn't know that the key to photocopying is magnetism) are more than clear; they impart to children that each is a triumph of the human mind. Its accurate chronology and historical structure for example include Medieval England with exposition of king, law, parliament, God and the Black Death. Then there is the matter of religion. Its pages on Buddhism, Islam and Judaism provide excellent synopses, and the entries on Christianity are packed with information. Space was found for Methodism founder John Wesley, the Quakers' George Fox and many more. In summary, it is accurate, factual but more important it presents things in perspective. Nathan Greenfield [BCR]
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This review is from: DK Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
This is a great buy for $6 inclusive of shipping and handling. It is a nice book to have on the bookshelf for your child to page through on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Still, it lacks the entertainment value of the DK Eye Wonder and Eye Witness Books.
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