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Amazing Earth

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This book is wonderful and kids with an interest in the world will completely love it, The photos and illustrations are beautiful and it’s crammed full of facts and information! Would make a great gift for a curious kid!

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Beautiful book full of information for kids (and all ages, really!). Great mix of photos and illustrations, and a huge amount of topics in geographical areas. Would be great fun for kids of junior age onwards to absorb

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This book is an absolute treat for anyone who has a love and curiosity for planet earths remarkable places.

The photography is breath taking and puts you right in the heart of the place visited and detailed. A sense of wonder lust remains long after you close the book. I love how DK books broaden horizons and give children such a vast knowledge of the world.

This book would not be out of place on any adults coffee table and should be a staple on the bookcases of curious children everywhere. Children are able to learn the geography and facts about photos we often see circulating the web, such as monkeys bathing in hot springs in Japan, scientists believe it actually helps lower their stress levels! And the fire falls in Yosemite National Park in North America.

A really fantastic book which will successfully ignite passion and awe in children.

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Unnecessary airmiles. Now I'm not going to accuse anyone seeking one of these wonders out for their own reasons of killing Mother Nature, I haven't got my Greta Thunberg frightmask on. I'm just wondering why the book couldn't get a grip on regions, and why it felt the need to skip from Iceland to Norway via the Philippines. There's no real chance to link these places by theme, apart perhaps from the wet then the dry, or go from hot to cold, but this is a hodge-podge of the world's most scenic places presented in four-page nuggets. Each nugget has suitable illustrations and photos and descriptions of both the places and how they formed, geologically, but this didn't feel like a must-have for the coffee table. Yes it has the science behind the Instagram, but it's a bit of an irreverent bucket list, and as I say there was just something about the way it wasn't sorted that marked it down a smidge, too. But in case you're wondering, I've been to three and a puffin's throw from a fourth. So three and a puffin's fart of a star, then.

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