My Pop-up World Atlas

by Anita Ganeri, Stephen Waterhouse (Illustrator)

Overview

Watch the whole world spring to life!

Budding geographers will love to immerse themselves in this fun, bright, fact-packed first atlas with lots of detailed illustrations. Each continent has its own spread, with pop-ups, flaps, booklets, and sturdy pull-tabs introducing the world’s countries, inhabitants, and famous landmarks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763660949
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	09/11/2012
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Anita Ganeri has won the Geographical Association Silver Award. Born in India, she went to Cambridge University, then worked as an editor before becoming a full-time author of children’s information books, specializing in geography and the natural world.

Stephen Waterhouse has been illustrating since 1998, creating pictures for books, posters, cards, jigsaws, maps, advent calendars, packaging, and magazines. In 1998 he won the Association of Illustrators Student Section Gold Award.

Editorial Reviews

With a level of detail likely to leave children intrigued rather than overwhelmed.
—Kirkus Reviews

This book illuminates and sparks interest in the world at large, with its friendly and clear illustrations, and fact-filled bursts of text.
—New York Times online

Ganeri and Waterhouse offer a veritable fireworks display of information, with doublespread pop-ups for each of the seven continents. The book is loaded with facts, native animals, major landmarks, flags, record-breakers, and more. Perfect for the rocking-chair traveler, and helpful with those inevitable school reports — it’s also interactive, complete with a pull-the-tab Panama Canal and a turning wheel of Asian products.
—The Boston Globe

Elementary-aged children are likely to spend hours with the information-packed visual treat MY POP-UP WORLD ATLAS.
—BookPage

From the Publisher

Mountains, buildings and other landmarks--not to mention the entire Scandinavian peninsula--rise up dramatically as each single-continent spread opens in this dense but legible atlas. In a flat, brightly colored cartoon style, Waterhouse lays out simplified landmasses and scatters them with small but clear images of characteristic flora, fauna, human figures in festival costume, major cities, notable structures and industrial products. National borders aren't always marked, but each country is placed with a name and a tiny (usually, but not always, colored) flag. Along with basic facts about each continent on flaps, slotted wheels and pull-down sliders, Ganeri adds dozens of labels and captions on each map to point out distinctive local features. Overall, the look is invitingly full but not overstuffed, and despite occasional flubs such as a simplistic claim that "rainforests grow near the equator," the barrages of verbal and visual data will give younger geographers a solid overview. A quick planetary once-over, more suited to browsing than sustained study but with a level of detail likely to leave children intrigued rather than overwhelmed. (Pop-up/nonfiction. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews