Compare the tallest mountains from each continent, see the entire volume of water on the Earth poured into one glass, stack up Eiffel Towers and compare the height of the world's tallest waterfall, and more! From tectonic plates and meteorites to erupting volcanoes, the atmosphere, and the world's longest rivers, this book explores planet Earth using a wide variety of icons, graphics, and pictograms. Highly visual and accessible, infographics are an increasingly popular way to introduce complex stats, facts, and figures to children, helping them to digest complex information on a number of topics.

JON RICHARDS has 20 years of experience within the publishing industry working for Marshall Editions, Aladdin Children's Books, DK, and Tall Tree. As well as editing books, he is the author of more than 50 titles, mainly for children, on topics such as the environment and technology. He has lived in London and Sydney, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, South and North America, Australasia, and Africa.

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During his 20 years in publishing, ED SIMKINS has worked for Reuters, David West Children's Books, Marshall Editions, Egmont, and Tall Tree. In that time he has designed hundreds of titles for both children and adults. He lives in London.

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Great for inquisitive kids who like to browse through its eye-catching page design and clever graphics…Planet Earth offers both dedicated autodidacts and casual readers concepts and some memorable facts to take away with them.

Books for Kids Blog

'A picture is worth a thousand words' has never been more clearly demonstrated ...

Canadian Review of Materials

"For those who love interesting and diverse facts, this will be a great choice."

Resource Links

"Filled with maps, captions, side bars, fact boxes, speech bubbles and a glossary ... an excellent tool for teaching reading skills of non-fiction text."

Canadian Teacher Magazine

"These hardcover books would be a great addition to an elementary school library or classroom collection. Serving as reference materials, they could inspire a class assignment challenging students to visually present data using infographics of their own design."

Green Teacher

Remarkable factoids ... accompany colorful, bold, straightforward graphics.

Foreword Reviews

Ideal for home or school.

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