The Facts on File Children's Atlas - Hardcover

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Grade 2-6-This atlas appears to be designed mainly for browsing, with only minimal attention paid to children's informational needs. In each chapter or section (for example, "Hot and Cold Lands," "Europe," and "West Africa"), a physical map of the area, overlaid with red boundaries indicating political divisions, is accompanied by a brief text, captioned full-color illustrations, fact boxes and occasional charts, graphs, tables, and puzzles. Unfortunately, the text is often patronizing, oversimplified, and misleading. Photographic illustrations are generally attractive, diverse, and well reproduced, while their annotations occasionally suffer from the same defects as the text. The use of stamps as illustrations in fact boxes is at times confusing, as the stamp does not always clearly illustrate the highlighted fact or concept. In general, the focus seems haphazard and whimsical. While the maps are impressively current (not only including the new countries of the old U.S.S.R. but also showing the Czech and Slovak Republics as separate), they are not sufficiently outstanding to outweigh this volume's other flaws.
Stephen Del Vecchio, Family Academy, New York City
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