Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9613 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Synopsis
Once you pick me up, you won't want to put me down...I'm an encyclopedia, but not as you know it. Big books with facts are boring - I'm not. I'm more like a computer game than a book, crammed with funky pages and cartoons. Forget A-Z, just follow my lead and you'll be amazed where you end up! Was Beethoven a punk? Why is 10 to the power of 100 called a googol? How are smelly feet connected to nuclear weapons? I've got it all covered. Read me in bed, read me on the bus, or even in the loo! Just pick me up - go on. I'm exciting, I'm addictive - I'm unputdownable! Curious? Try me! "This looks like a PlayStation game" - Taz, 10. " I wouldn't sit and read an encyclopedia, but I'd read this" - Holly, 12.

Customer Reviews

Attractive, Interesting and brilliant
I can dip into this book at any time, and no matter how many times i look thorugh it, there is always something that i havent read yet!

It is so colourful and the layouts are simply fantastic. It really draws you in!

I have learnt so much from it including that vending machines in japan dispense single pages of newspapers, the smalles thing in the world is the quark and the average life expwctancy in swaziland is 33.

Theres something for everyone, with sections on: society places and beliefs, the natural world, history, your body and many more!

Go on, buy it!

Winner of the English Association's Key Stage 2 Non-Fiction Award 2007
I'm information for the iPod generation - this is certainly true of this eye-catching and innovative encyclopaedia through which the reader navigates as if at a computer screen. The philosophical underpinning seems to be that everything connects, so readers are directed to linking topics in different parts of the book. There are copious interesting and unsettling questions - such as 'Can you imagine a world without printed words?' And then there is the kind of miscellaneous information that young readers love to come across when browsing - how many people use the internet? what are the most dangerous kinds of litter to humans and animals?
This book is visually exciting - much learning is communicated through the vast variety of illustrations: drawings, maps, diagrams, cartoons, photographs and charts. The dramatic 3-D effect front cover ensures that this is abook that will be picked up!

Wonderful collection of random knowledge
The perfect present for every teenager with an enquiring mind - and the grown-ups around them. You can open this book at any page and find a visually engaging, fun, knowlegeable and stimulating spread of facts, illustrations, observations and thoughts. Literally unputdownable, you might have to buy two copies.