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The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook: 1,001 Questions & Answers to Help You Win Again and Again!

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This book is exactly what I needed several years ago, when my son was studying for the State Geography Bee. It is so helpful to have so many questions (with answers!), in such a user-friendly format. The study tips are useful,too. Having compared this book to the one published by the National Geographic Society, this one has a lot more study questions and preparation tips. This is the book I'm now recommending to anyone interested in the Geography Bee. I'll be using it with my daughter!

This book is really great compared to the National Geographic version. My child was in the state level geography bee. This really helped him. It includes terms, tons of questions, and facts about what seems like everywhere in the world. If your deciding between this and the National geographic version buy this one. It has lots more information and questions.

We found this book a great help in our son's preparation for the National Geographic Bee. This book gives a great start to understanding the basics of geography. We only got through part of the book before the school's bee. Next year my son will have completed the book, and the other book of Matt's, "The Handy Geography Answer Book". The combination of these two books will definately increase your childs knowledge of the world. Matt gives some tips on how to do well in the bee, but most of the empahsis is on learing the material. There is no simple way to study for the bee. His advice on narrowing the answers was very helpful. We spent some time on learing the "superlatives". My son did not get any of those questions during the bee, but the knowledge of knowing the tallest, longest, biggest etc... is invaluable.

What a great book to take along in the car on a trip. Good questions for adults to ask each other while driving long distance and something for the kids to enjoy also.
Good, short questions about the world that you probably knew most of the answers to but forgot. Skip the fast food drive-thru, get the book.
The Geography Bee book is a better buy.

This book has been an invaluable source, crammed with information, for me. By using it to study, it has greatly improved my chances in the state bee(April 2).

This geography bee book is the best on the market to help students win the bee. The chapters provide great information about the bee and how to study for it and the 1000 questions are written in true bee style. If your child can do well on the 1000 questions he or she is likely to do well at the state or local bee. Practice makes perfect; good luck!

My son started showing an interest in Geography in the 3rd grade so we bought him several books & this was one of them!! He is now a walking text book! watch out!! He has won several Geography bees & this is one of the books he has studied from!! Plus he just loves reading the information & sponging up the information!! This book had a lot of great tips about what to expect at & from a Geography bee. Tips for kids & for parents (which I felt helpful.) We recognized several of the study questions were used in the bee to... not his questions :) - But it was enjoyable as a parent too to learn the facts from this book! Enjoy!

This book is in a user-friendly format that is easy for studying. The questions are divided into different sections such as US information, places to know on the map,Tidbits of information, and then random questions. It isvery helpful.

This book is really neat. I love it. I learn so much every time I sit down with it. It is divided into parts for US questions, World questions and I can't recall what else. It comes complete with maps and it's very user friendly. I am not so strong in geography. When my son in grade 7 was second in a geography bee, I decided that he and I should brush up. So I got this book from Amazon and I do like it. I think the authors have put a lot of care and interest in this book and if you desire to strengthen your geo knowledge, this is the book for you.

Cramming for a geo bee is really tough. There's a near infinite amount of information about the world for you to try to digest - but precious little information about what a bee is really like and what kind of questions they really ask. "The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook" covers those issues better than anything else out there. While there is some good geography overview source materials here - this isn't what makes this book special. The study guides are good, but can't compete with online games like geonet or purposegames. The real strength of this book is the articles about what the bee is really like and how to go about structuring your study plans and practice sessions. That and the 1001 practice questions. These questions are true to the style and feeling of real Nat'l Geographic GeoBee questions. Time and again I find I have trouble cooking up a good supply of these types of questions for study sessions on my own. Having a big supply like this on hand is invaluable. My only real complaint is that there isn't more of them. I'd like a book of 10,001 questions!

All in all, this is the best and most useful geography bee study guide I've seen (and I've seen most). Highly recommended for anyone getting prepared for a geography bee.