Picturepedia, Second Edition: An Encyclopedia on Every Page

Epic! This book is amazing. Wonderful balance of informative without being too technical. The photos and the page layouts make it easy to follow. So much information! Perfect for my 9 yr old.

Great detailed pictures with clear explanations. Very pleased with the quality and detail.

This is a marvelous book for the curious of any age. I think I must have ordered a used copy that was exposed to some moisture, but all the pages separated well. It was half the new price. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants expansive visual displays rather than lists of stuff from a search engine. The new book price would be well worth it.

I absolutely love DK books bc of their actual pictures vs cartoon illustrations you'll find elsewhere. I think it's very important for little Learners to learn and understand what is real before cartoon drawings. I use/d these books primarily to build vocabulary. We started off by pointing at objects and saying the name, then we advanced to us saying the name and she would find and point at the object, and then it was her repeating the words and eventually she would go through and name everything. Anyhow, I purchased this for my daughter when she was 15 months and was starting to outgrow the dk tabbed books, she knew what everything was. This book at 2.5 years is still a hit! She still loves to flip through it and explore what's on the page. Of course there are subjects above her comprehension like the history of the civil war, but the animal pages helped her realize yes, we can recognize a dog but there are many types of dogs and many types of birds etc... We never run out of words to learn with this book! And I love the teaching conversations that evolve from looking through this. I know 100% that these dk books helped develop my my daughter's advanced language skills. Of course I think she's the smartest cookie ever!! But since 2 years old she has spoken regularly in 7-9 word sentences and would even string together multiple sentences to tell stories when Google says normal development of a 2 yr old is just beginning to combine two word sentences like "baby crying." So yes, I recommended this to parents of toddlers!

Good book for inquisitive kids!

This is such an awesome book! We look at this a lot and we always find something interesting to learn about. My kids have their favorite sections they like to go back and look at again and again. I know we will continue to use this book for years to come when questions arise on various topics.

It’s a great book, but hope you can have a quality check before sending it out. The back of the cover was teared apart.

8yr old grandson has something to become smarter Great gift.

Amasing and fascinating

As for all their books, Smithsonian delivers first class info and illustrations. Books that follow a child through adolescence and adulthood. Great investment. Will probably be purchasing a fourth one for my grandson!

Livre traitant des sujets diverses et variés, avec beaucoup de photos et un peu de texte. Mes filles (8 e 9 ans) le feuillettent de façon régulière, elles ne cherchent pas un sujet en particulier mais elles y passent pas mal de temps à découvrir les sujets. Pour les adultes aussi, il s'avère très intéressant.

This is a great version of encyclopedia with extensive pictures that make learning interesting for kids. We have an hour of night reading daily exploring 1 topic a day. Written font is small, but the pictures are plenty...

My son, 3, and me, we can spend curious sessions over these magnificent plates. I was initially skeptical: The book is arranged by topics - my son was interested in earthquakes, but he also loves tractors, the body, crabs, insects... Each plate is filled with loads of comparable items. Dozens of trains (with a timeline) on two opposing pages, dozens of tractors (again with a timeline), dozens of crabs, dozens of dogs, dozens of animal skeletons - I was not quite sure whether it made sense to give all these varieties with short descriptions but the concept is brillant. The variations give a perspective on all the aspects these things have in common - and on the minute distinctive differences. I was surprised that a three year old is able to identify different skeletons - including a bat's skeleton. He identifies intestinal organs, he speaks about magma and the earths crust - and he is immensely curious. The plates trigger questions - and excursions on YouTube or in real life. Not a single depiction is childish, pedagogic - all is precise realistic, objective photography wherever possible. The book is not reducing its young spectator to an idiot - it is opening the world of grown ups, and that is what my son is able to sense.