Discover and explore lands close to home or oceans away in the fully updated seventh edition of this acclaimed atlas, created especially for kids by the world-renowned National Geographic cartographers.
Learn all about the people, places, trends, and new developments in our world with the completely updated maps, stats, graphics, and fun facts in the National Geographic Kids World Atlas, 7th edition—an unparalleled resource for every home, classroom, and library.
This new edition includes:
- New maps and facts about internet access around the globe
- A new feature on Earth’s fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean
- Colorful photographs showcasing the beauty and diversity of our planet
Count on National Geographic to give curious kids, map-lovers, and students the very best atlas of the world!---from the publisher
216 pages 978-1426376498 Ages 9-13
Keywords: atlas, maps, geography, information, Earth, oceans, mountains, cultures, Earth Science, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, facts, Social Studies Curriculum
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Leave it to National Geographic to create an atlas that is so much more than maps and mountains.
This new edition of the National Geographic Kids World Atlas organizes our planet geographically with all the information you expect to see on the physical maps and also politically with boundary lines for countries - including some boundaries that are currently in the "claimed" category", all the capital cities and important towns. We get side by side views of the deserts, the mountains, the jungles along side a view of the boundary lines of the countries and their major cities that sit within all that geography.
Tons and tons of facts and information, of course, but the magic here is the inherent power of the National Geographic approach to life through photographs. Each continent's section opens with a photo of that continent from space. Reminds you of our planet and how all these continents fit in to create our physical world.
Then you get the side by side physical and political maps and then the magic starts. You turn the page and enter the continent through photographs of jaguars and waterfalls and the remains of iconic ancient cities. You really walk into the culture itself and spend a little time getting to have your own personal visit to a continent and countries that you may never have seen before.
"Visual" is such a powerful tool and nobody does it like National Geographic. I'm not an atlas person myself but this one made me sit down and turn pages because I love a good story and that's what Nat Geo Kids has created here with the facts and the figures and the uniqueness of each continent on our treasured planet Earth.
Can't wait to share this with my 7 year old grandson.
Recommended by; Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
