Maps: Aleksandra Mizielinska - Daniel Mizielinski

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The countries are illustrated with animals - both current and prehistoric - which makes retention of facts so much easier.

Not every country in, fro example Africa or South America, is included, but, those that are, give a flavour of the variety to be found there. Es un libro hermoso, las ilustraciones son de lo más lindas y tiene muchísima información divertida hasta para adultos. This book is a celebration of the world, from its immense mountains to its tiny insects - and everything in between!Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2007. This beautiful large-format poster book lets you put the world on your wall with the gorgeous images from Big Picture Press s bestselling Maps. This book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis.

I've spent a lot of looking at the pages with my nephew aged 7 and he has been fascinated with the book. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Much more than an ordinary atlas, this book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis.

In 2010 they were nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Award and have since been nominated for the IBBY Honour List (2010). The amount of interesting information any child or adult can pick up from thumbing through this book is amazing in my opinon. The tagline on this gorgeous book promises you can 'Travel the globe without leaving your living room' and, for the armchair traveller this surely is the most fun way of doing so.

What makes Maps so special, aside from its fantastic and unique illustrations and fun and quirky facts, is the sheer atmosphere it creates and the feeling of discovery you get from turning its pages.Informative and inspiring, the myriad activities in this book challenge the reader to discover something new and explore their imagination to draw, decorate and design every pull-out page. While we have a lot of books in our house, we realised recently that we didn't have a lot of reference books. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The country pages are very detailed and all include the flag, capital city, the languages spoken, population, and area as well as a host of other illustrations about the country including the wildlife, food, buildings, famous people and many more.

My daughter is so happy with it, lots of friends and family have commented on how beautiful it is and the quality is amazing. Our site uses high-level SSL encryption technology, the most advanced security software currently available for online transactions. If you love BIG books and clear informative maps, then this is the book for you , and for your grandchildren! Opening with an original style of contents page, consisting of a world map with countries labelled with the pages where information can be found, the atlas is divided into eight sections, looking at countries within each continent plus the Arctic and Antarctica. Não é um atlas completo, pois não contem todos os países, mas recomendo como livro introdutório para crianças.This book is so informative, and generates so many conversations for learning about the world - Geography, Cultures, Language, Food, Animals, History, etc.