Description
About the book. Infographic Guide to the Globe uses diagrams, graphs, and colorful illustrations to present facts about Earth and its inhabitants. This Lonely Planet Kids book has 48 pages and was published in 2020. Its visual format allows for comparing sizes, distances, and other information differently than through continuous text.
Content. Topics range from Earth’s distance to the sun and planetary motion to weather records, animals, and countries of vastly different sizes. World religions and the internet are also included. Eliza Berkowitz compiled the material, while Gwen Keraval created the illustrations. Each topic provides a new starting point for observing patterns and differences through the book’s graphic presentation.
Who is this book suitable for? Suitable for children who enjoy numbers, comparisons, and world reference books. Adults can use the spreads to discuss what a diagram shows and how different magnitudes can be understood. The book offers a broad introduction to nature, geography, and society; information and comparisons are from the 2020 edition.
Read together and discover more. We recommend reading with an adult who can assist with English words, and allow the child to describe what they notice in the images. Choose one topic at a time and allow for questions, short breaks, and personal associations along the way. Revisit a spread that sparks interest; new details may emerge upon closer inspection. Connect what you read to things the child has seen at home, on trips, or in a museum. The book can serve as a basis for conversations in Norwegian, even though the text and captions are in English. Let the child’s interest and reading experience guide the pace, and feel free to alternate between reading aloud and jointly exploring the illustrations. It is easy to share a discovery when multiple people can look at the same spread and point out what they observe. Such a reading session can continue by finding another book or map to further investigate a question.
About the edition. English book, published 2020. 48 pages. ISBN 9781838692254.
