Encyclopedias

Raise your hand if you like to read an encyclopedia. Well let me tell you, I sure do! Usborne has some amazing encyclopedias. They are full of tons of interesting facts and pictures. There are two things that make me just absolutely love these books.

1. These books are put together with children in mind. They know that kids will not be interested in reading more if they can't grab them. So with that in mind they break the information up into smaller chunks of information. Next to each picture is a description of the picture. This allows children to know right away what that is. The pages are also in different colors which helps their eyes to not get tired as they are reading.

This is in the Geography Encyclopedia. Look at those fantastic pictures and diagrams!

This comes from the First Encyclopedia of Science.

2. All of the encyclopedias are internet linked. This means that you can go to the specified website (found on several pages in the book) and get more information about that subject. This is great for helping children with reports or to just help build their knowledge. For example, I went to the website for Geography. I chose my page number (which was 64-65) about water in the ground. They had this amazing link that took me to this website:

http://www.floridasprings.org/learn/journey/ 

It was so much fun learning about the water cycle and it was also interactive which made it even better! Oh, and any image that has a star next to it in the book means that it is available for you to downloaded for FREE. This will really help with all of those reports!

Geography

First Science

 The First Encyclopedias are good for early and middle elementary age children. In this age range they have a Children's Encyclopedia, First Encyclopedia of Science, First Encyclopedia of Seas & Oceans, and First Encyclopedia of the Human Body.

Geography

First Science

For late elementary, middle, and high school there are Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, World History, World Religions, Geography, Living World, and Science. 
You can find all of Usborne's encyclopedias here.

Now do you see why I enjoy reading an encyclopedia?! Which one are you going to get first?