Customer Reviews

Dk Geography of the World

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Those who purchase this title will be very pleased!

It contains accurate information about each country, and each is catagorized by continent! The format is uncluttered & informative, yet full of gorgeous photographs, maps, and details to keep a childs attention (adults too!).

I feel one of the most beautiful features is a photo of a native person/people with each country, most of them in traditional dress. Our three children love it, and our nine year old son exclaimed, "Mom, this is the best geography book we ever owned!" How do you top that comment! Enough said!

This is a great geography book for kids. I would recommend it as the first "serious" book you give to your 1st grader about geography. First as a read-together with mom and dad, later as their own reference book.
One should note that the book is not an atlas in the original sense of the word: It doesn't have a specific map section. It is dealing with small regions at a time, e.g. "Central Europe", giving a page each to Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

The quality of the book is excellent, the quality/details of the maps is good for this level of studies, the pictures, drawings, graphs and other illustrations are very informative and easy to read and understand.
Only disadvantage is that it was published back in 1996 and the data collected is equivalent.

The fifth star would have been awarded, if the atlas had a traditional map collection as well.

Hope an upgraded edition will follow.

Review based on First American Edition 1996.

What I like to tell you is that this product was just repackaged in 2001 -- not the new edition. The book is the first edition, 1996 (ISBN 0789410044) and the software is the 1998 release. As a DK book fan, I have owned these two excellent informative products for years. I hope you not to buy the duplicate as I did a week ago.