Super Earth Encyclopedia (Super Encyclopedias)
by DK (Author)
This visual encyclopedia is the ultimate page-turner, bringing our planet's most diverse and dramatic features together in spectacular style.
Go on a breathtaking journey around the world. Scale the highest mountains, explore incredible weather patterns, and come face-to-face with the deadly forces of nature.
Kids can explore the incredible, ever-changing features of Earth through mind-blowing photography, brand-new CGI artwork, fun facts, and stats. This fascinating reference book is sure to inspire the ecologists and scientists of tomorrow.
Curious kids want to know everything about their planet. How do tornadoes form? What does the center of a volcanic eruption look like? Where is the hottest inhabited place on Earth? Investigate our world from its core to its cosmic connections when you journey through the spectacular imagery of colorful coral reefs, castle-like ice caves, and violent microbursts.
The Biggest, Highest, Most Extraordinary Features on Our Planet
Feel the mighty power of the highest waterfall and discover superheated water from a giant geyser. This educational book for children will ensure that you never look at the world, or its wonders, in the same way again.Inside the pages of this stunning book about Earth, you'll find:
- Beautiful photography and CGI artworks of Earth's most dramatic features.- Dashboard-style fact files that provide information at a glance.
- Informative, fun-to-read text that is based on the latest discoveries and scientific research.
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There are more Super Encyclopedias to explore! Super Bug Encyclopedia gives you an unprecedented insight into the complex life of creepy crawlies, and Super Human Encyclopedia showcases from head to toe how extraordinary the human body is.
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School Library Journal
Gr 4-6--The visual drama never lets up in this tour of our planet's land forms and dynamic processes. Vivid photographs and conceptual images offer riveting aerial shots, close-ups, and inside looks at 67 features or phenomena, paired with suitably bombastic descriptive commentary ("Deep beneath the spectacular wilderness of Yellowstone National Park lies a simmering supervolcano."). Grouped by type, entries range from the Andes to Mount Everest, black smokers in the ocean depths to massive ice storms and wild "fire devils." Following later spreads on the "Wave of Death" wrought by the Japanese tsunami of 2011 and six other natural disasters, a closing section surveys wonders of the "Living Earth" from rain forests to marine habitats. Most entries come with a basic fact file, but the back matter is limited to a brief glossary and equally perfunctory index, with no suggestions for further information. VERDICT Likely to be a popular choice for budding naturalists and thrill seekers, but more suitable for random browsing and marveling than systematic research.--John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York
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