National Geographic Our World: A Child's First Picture Atlas

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Summary: I like this book
Review: I like the maps because they are simple and colorful. The words are easy and I like to look at it by myself. My favorite map is of Asia because my grandparents live there and I like to look at it on the map.

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Summary: I like this book
Review: In general, a good effort at introducing various areas and cultures, but a bit too simplistic. My 3-year-old son loves maps, but was somewhat confused by these. He pretty soon noticed that Japan's four main islands had been "simplified" to two. I noticed that the Philippines, a nation of hundreds of islands, had been reduced to two islands far apart. Sicily had been absorbed into the rest of Italy and Cyprus, by no means a small island nation, had disappeared. Is this what National Geographic's "expert cartographers" can produce? How can a family with ancestors from Sicily explain to their children where they came from? One can argue on whether small minds need the extra detail, but a Japanese book my son also owns directed at the same age is much more detailed and my son seems capable of noticing that detail. I really do have to question the decision by the authors to turn these maps into "three-dimensional puzzle pieces": that's OK for puzzles, but not atlases. Treat young minds too simply and they will remain simple forver.

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Summary: A bit too simple
Review: In general, a good effort at introducing various areas and cultures, but a bit too simplistic. My 3-year-old son loves maps, but was somewhat confused by these. He pretty soon noticed that Japan's four main islands had been "simplified" to two. I noticed that the Philippines, a nation of hundreds of islands, had been reduced to two islands far apart. Sicily had been absorbed into the rest of Italy and Cyprus, by no means a small island nation, had disappeared. Is this what National Geographic's "expert cartographers" can produce? How can a family with ancestors from Sicily explain to their children where they came from? One can argue on whether small minds need the extra detail, but a Japanese book my son also owns directed at the same age is much more detailed and my son seems capable of noticing that detail. I really do have to question the decision by the authors to turn these maps into "three-dimensional puzzle pieces": that's OK for puzzles, but not atlases. Treat young minds too simply and they will remain simple forver.

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Summary: Simple enough for me!
Review: This atlas allows me to develop some geography and map concepts that are often difficult for children. The few words and easy to "read" illustrations are going to be a great boon to students who are having difficulty with understanding concepts such as continents, etc.