Atlas of Adventures: A Collection of Natural Wonders, Exciting Experiences and Fun Festivities from the Four Corners of the Globe (Atlas of)

by Rachel Williams (Author) Lucy Letherland (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Atlas of

Set your spirit of adventure free with this lavishly illustrated trip around the world. Whether you're visiting the penguins of Antarctica, joining the Carnival in Brazil or taking a canoe safari down the Zambezi River, this book brings together more than 100 activities and challenges to inspire armchair adventurers of any age.

Celebrate the great diversity of our planet: with every turn of the page, you'll come across different animals, people and sights unique to each of the locations. Look out for two adventurers in every scene as you travel through the book. Discover with them hundreds of things to spot and learn about.

Each section begins with an infographic map of the region it explores, followed by richly detailed two-page spreads featuring its most fascinating locations. You'll get to go to sleep under the Northern Lights, meet millions of monarch butterflies in the boreal forests of Mexico's volcanic mountains, shower with an elephant in Chiang Mai, and go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, among many other amazing adventures.

Interesting facts and figures pepper the scenes. Did you know that London's Big Ben clock bell weighs as much as a small elephant? Or that more than one-third of the world's commercial supply of pineapples comes from Hawai'i? A 'Can you find?' page at the back challenges you to explore the pages even deeper by locating the pictured people, animals and things.

With epic adventures from the four corners of the globe and discoveries to be made on your own doorstep, this book will inspire you to set off on your own journey of discovery.

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School Library Journal

Gr 3-5--Divided into seven sections that each focus on a different continent, this busy, oversize atlas has an inviting and fun tone. Facts are dispensed on the spreads, and there is no hard and fast organization. While there is an extensive index, this work is aimed at browsers, not report writers. The cartoon artwork is colorful, but the illustrations falter when it comes to people. Limbs are sometimes out of proportion, and people occasionally seem awkward. Animals are better rendered. The endpapers are a delight: the front sheets are covered with monarch butterflies, while the back pages depict penguins, swimming off at the bottom right corner of the spread. There's a "Can You Find?" page toward the end that invites children to look for specific pictures throughout. VERDICT While this isn't an essential addition, it's a fun, lighthearted introductory world atlas.--Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI

Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Review quotes

will occupy many a riveted hour - Wall Street Journal

Kids go on adventures, solve puzzles, and play games as they take a sumptuously illustrated trip around the world. - Entertainment Weekly

Our favourite page was the one on London as we are visiting in half term ... - The Guardian

This book [will] inspire armchair adventurers of any age. - Manchester Evening News

Rachel Williams
Ksenia Bakhareva is a Russian illustrator who specializes in weird and wonderful natural history drawings. Picture Puzzler is her first book for children. Rachel Williams studied literature before becoming an editor and publisher of children's books. She is also the creator of bestselling natural history and adventure books, including the Atlas of Adventures series, Slow Down, and Illuminature. She lives with her husband and two small children in London.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781847806956
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Publication date
August 20, 2015
Series
Atlas of
BISAC categories
JNF038000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | General
JNF058000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Travel
JNF048020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Reference | Atlases
Library of Congress categories
Geography
Travel
Voyages around the world

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