Description
About the book. The Big Earth Book uses earth, fire, air, and water as four entry points into the history of our planet. Mark Brake’s text connects natural science, geography, and human history with photographs and illustrations. This Lonely Planet Kids book is hardback and contains 256 pages.
Content. The section on earth covers the planet’s structure, rocks, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and fossils. Fire chapters examine human use of fire, internal combustion engines, and carbon. Air is linked to weather, climate, flying animals, language, and music. Water provides themes such as oceans, rivers, the water cycle, canals, bridges, and seafaring. These four main sections place many different phenomena into a shared narrative of change.
Who is this book suitable for? Suitable for children who enjoy broad non-fiction books and wish to see connections between nature and human creations. Readers can follow one of the main sections or choose a topic of interest. Published in 2017, the English text can be read together with an adult. The illustrations provide multiple starting points for questions about what happens underground, in the air, and out at sea.
Read together and discover more. Read together with an adult who can explain English words, and let the child choose a topic they want to know more about. Feel free to stop at an image or a question that sparks interest and talk about what you notice. A short reading session may suffice; the book can be opened again when curiosity leads you to the next topic. You may wish to compare what you read with other books or a map, so that new information is placed in a larger context. Let the child point out a detail they have discovered and use it to start a conversation. It is easy to return to favorite pages and find something you did not see during the first reading. Alternate between reading aloud and studying the illustrations, so that text and images complement each other.
About the edition. English book, published 2017. 256 pages. ISBN 9781787012776.
