2024 the best pictures of the world review

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Packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this beautiful children’s book takes you on an exciting round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent!

Did you know that Cuba’s national sport is baseball, one of the most popular sports in the US? And that kids in both Japan and Chile have earthquake drills on their school schedule? Find out about
anything from the spookily vibrant Day of the Dead parade in Mexico and the beautiful springtime cherry blossom displays of Japan, to blueberry-picking in Sweden and India’s space program. Discover the countries of the world – explore their geography, wildlife, traditions, and arts, in this picture-packed children’s book.

Every country's profile is full of photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world they are, in this engaging encyclopedia for children aged 9-12. 

Celebrate your child's curiosity as they explore:

- Striking and detailed diagrams, drawings and illustrations on every page
- A highly visual approach to learning 
- An ideal combination of colorful diagrams with infographic text boxes
- In association with The Smithsonian Institution

This captivating kids encyclopedia tackles our weird and wonderful world continent by content, with informative profiles for each of the 196 nations of the world and striking illustrations, photographs and diagrams featured throughout provide an optimum visual learning experience for both children and adults alike, accompanied by an array of fun facts from around the globe!

This world encyclopedia includes at-a-glance panels that provide a quick reference to all the stats, making this engaging encyclopedia for kids an ideal combination of colorful diagrams and infographic text boxes with easy-to-read accessible text for readers aged 9-12, yet can be enjoyed by the entire family, making this enthralling children’s encyclopedia a beautiful and educational gift that can be passed down generations.

Learn all about the world one picture at a time!

If you like Countries of the World, then why not complete the collection? Part of the highly visual Our World In Pictures series, avid readers can dive into the world of dinosaurs with The Dinosaur Book, become a vehicle virtuoso with Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes and explore the incredible animal kingdom with Animal Book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK Children (November 24, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1465491503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1465491503
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 - 10 years, from customers
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ IG1070L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 - 7
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.74 x 11.13 inches
Reviewer: A.Lopez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great photos and information
Review: My grandson is 7 and he loves this book, it has just enough information and great pictures for him to be interested.

Reviewer: Dominique
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome
Review: My 7 year old loves to read and learn about different cultures and countries. This book is beautiful, lots of facts. Great book to ingage the adult and child.

Reviewer: Karen M Pierce
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great book
Review: received quickly, exactly as described, loved all the information on each country, great service

Reviewer: Anna K. Hebert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun way for kids to explore
Review: My 8 year old loves to pick this book up and look at one country at a time— I have found that it is a good way to encourage curiosity and learn a little bit at a time.

Reviewer: Pen Name
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: High quality
Review: My 4 year old has recently started asking a lot about countries, states, flags, etc. This book went on sale for a great price and I couldn't resist. I haven't had time to read a lot of the facts, but I definitely love the quality. It's a heavy book with thick, glossy pages. There are multiple maps of different countries and a great world map. One of my son's favorite things to study is country flags and the back cover has plenty of them. It's full of pictures and easy to read facts. I think it will be a perfect geography book to grow with him as he learns to read and begins school next year.

Reviewer: K. Mason
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book but arrived damaged
Review: It’s a great-looking book, with a good synopsis and interesting pictures of each country on every page. We bought it for homeschooling. Unfortunately, it arrived with a damaged front cover. It isn’t worth the trouble to send back for a replacement, but it is disappointing to pay full price for an item that comes damaged.

Reviewer: Cynthia B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So beautiful! Kids need books!
Review: My granddaughter loves it. She plans to learn about her 23 and Me Ancestry first. She's 8 years old.

Reviewer: Thrresa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome book
Review: My grandson was so excited when I gave him this book actually I had no idea of how many countries were listed wonderful pictures of each

Reviewer: JY
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It’a simple and very nice pictures.

Reviewer: Nelli Modesto Ortiz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Mi hijo tiene 3 años y le ha gustado mucho. Esta padrisimo porque ven las banderas y las caracteristicas principales de cada pais. Hasta yo estoy aprendiendo. Altamente recomendable

Reviewer: Antonio Ubirajara da Silva
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Product of excellent quality, excellent colorful papers. I highly recommend it.

Reviewer: Sudipta Banerjee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Attractive and informative book for age group of 8 to 80. Binding is decent. The book is very colourful, attractive and full of different kind of information. It'll increase world brotherhood also.

Reviewer: bpat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book is a wonderful cultural journey 'from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe', as claimed by the blurb, journeying across all seven continents - even Antarctica is designated a page of its own - and covering every country, attempting to describe the culture, peoples, cuisine, geography and history of each, albeit somewhat superficially in some cases. Certain nations are covered very extensively for a children's book on two pages with plenty of photographs; others are given only half or a third of a page, with the Pacific nations positively crammed into two pages at the very back! However, even in these cases, the crucial statistics - of country area, population, predominant language/s and capital - are listed, alongside the most famed objects, dishes or other cultural artefacts of the country. Overseas territories, the Arctic, flags of the world and complete geographical and political maps are also given due attention. However, it is notable that countries are not listed according to their typical cultural classification - for example, Poland is listed before the Central European countries and a full ten pages away from its nearest cultural neighbours, Czechia and Slovakia, in Eastern Europe.Overall, this is one of the best-presented books I own on the subject, certainly among the crème de la crème for children. To attempt to cover the entirety of the globe is an ambitious project, but Dorling Kindersley accomplished it as well as anyone could have done, and I can recommend 'Countries, Cultures, People & Places' wholeheartedly.