Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is such a cool encyclopedia. I actually didn't think I'd ever say that about a print encyclopedia again. Basically, every encyclopedia published in this century has to compete with Wikipedia, and quite frankly, most are losing. So, it's really cool to see an encyclopedia that is better in some ways than that online encyclopedia. Granted, it's not better in all ways. This encyclopedia certainly is not as exhaustive. But it is better in three important ways: #1: Full of topics that kids are interested in. Ask any kid what they're fascinated in, and this encyclopedia probably has a couple pages dedicated to it. Planets, Birds, Dinosaurs, Cars, Trains, Human Body, Robots. They're all in there. This encyclopedia has some really cool topics. #2: Thematically arranged. Almost every encyclopedia that I've seen is arranged alphabetically. This one is really well arranged by theme. So, if you look up something cool in the index, then you're probably also really interested in the page before and the page after. I know that I was. #3: Awesome integration of pictures in every page. Whoever did the graphical layouts of each page on this was awesome! The pictures really jump right out of the page at you, and they integrate really well into the message of each page. Watch my video for some examples of how cool some of these pages are. I definitely recommend getting this, if you either have a curious kid, or if you're and adult who needs to quickly catch up on learning some stuff you might have missed. It's a great way to complement what your kid is learning at school, as this has lots of school themes, too. Pros: +Nice and big, but not too big +Tons of fascinating topics +Great organization by themes +Tons of extremely wonderful photographs +Excellent graphical design and layout +A great way for a quick education Cons: -Some parts aren't 100% accurate -Many parts gloss over the information