Scholastic Children's Encyclopedia,   ISBN:9780439438162

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This book is beautiful! My son, who hates to read, LOVES this book! I enjoy this book personally. The pictures are often times astounding and add so very much to the text. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! Each page is a new adventure of plain English that even a 9 year old can grasp.
If you are interested in getting a child's attention almost instantaneously, buy this encyclopedia. Oh it's also hardcover which is what my all male son needs to have the book for longer than one week! :)

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I prefer my child to look things up rather than use the internet and this product really holds my childs interest. Looking up things in a book seems to help remembering the item too. Good research tool, good book to have in any classroom or home.

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This in on perfect condition. This is new one. I do not feel to add more.

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This is the last straw.

I bought my son this encyclopedia several years ago, and I can't tell you how many times I encouraged him to look up something (or he wanted to find out more about a person or topic on his own), and there was NO MENTION of it in this encyclopedia.

The latest misfire for this "encyclopedia"? He wanted to learn more about Amelia Earhart because of the Night at the Museum 2. Yow won't believe this, but she is NOT in this encyclopedia! Not even mentioned in it! (I looked in the index, too, in case she was part of some expanded area on aviators).

I can't remember the other common people and things he has wanted to look up over the last few years (I was going to write a review before, but didn't), but it's ridiculous what IS included in this encyclopedia--as well as the glaring omissions. (One of them was a famous composer; can't remember who right now.)

Can't recommend another children's encyclopedia, though, because I bought this after returning one that was even WORSE than this one!

Colorful pictures, yes, and nice text with great charts--but it's NOT a good encyclopedia for kids, especially homeschoolers wanting to know more about figures from history.

My advice? Get your child the Microsoft Encarta 2006 encyclopedia instead. My son is on his computer right now learning about Amelia. (You may want to snatch it up quickly; MS won't be making Encarata anymore. Although you won't be able to get updates, all the relevant historical information will be there--including movie clips, audio clips, charts, pictures, comprehensive text, etc.)

-- Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book

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I have a very inquisitive 6 year old girl. She saw Grandma's encylopedia set a month or so ago and she wanted to read them all! Well, we don't have the space for a set, but this book has a little bit of everything. She will just grab it from the shelf and start going through it, and stop to read whatever catches her eye. If she needs MORE info, we go surfing! (On the WWW of course!) So glad we got this encyclopedia for her. It's also a great starting point for any studying (or exploring) we like to do.