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Review
“My son loves these books. We started reading National Geographic Kids books when he was about six (he’s nine now) and I can honestly say that these books have been instrumental in teaching him to read.” – Consumer
“My kids love these books. Super fun and interesting.” – Consumer
About the Author
Amy Shields is a longtime editor of National Geographic books who is known for her work in children’s literature. She has written several popular titles, including Little Kids First Big Book of Why and numerous installments for the National Geographic Readers series. Shieldslives in upstate New York with her beloved dogs, Jenny and Toby.
Linking to a popular feature in the super successful National Geographic Little Kids magazine, this book brings the browsable fun of the bestselling National Geographic Kids Almanac to a new audience: pre-schoolers!
Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child’s immediate world, the Big Book of Why delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more. What makes a car go? How does mushy dough become a crispy cookie? What does the doctor see in my throat? An essential parent reference, The Big Book of Why invites children to ask big questions, think big thoughts, and get answers that are accurate, engaging, level-appropriate, and based on sound educational findings. It helps prepare pre-schoolers for school in an interactive way—the very best way to foster learning at this age, according to research. Highly photographic and playful, this big book is an adventure in exploration.
Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child’s immediate world, the Big Book of Why delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more. What makes a car go? How does mushy dough become a crispy cookie? What does the doctor see in my throat? An essential parent reference, The Big Book of Why invites children to ask big questions, think big thoughts, and get answers that are accurate, engaging, level-appropriate, and based on sound educational findings. It helps prepare pre-schoolers for school in an interactive way—the very best way to foster learning at this age, according to research. Highly photographic and playful, this big book is an adventure in exploration.
Jan H Bevan –
Found this book really helpful explaining various questions that crop up when young people children are curious.
Rebecca Meehan –
Its an informative, engaging book but too advanced for a 4 year old.
carol –
Bought as Christmas gift for a 4 year old, looks great
Gabriela Diaz –
Great book
Great book for kids and also for adults. Good for reading together with kids and for kids who are starting to read. Nice content and illustrations.
Melba Blazic Grubelic –
Educational
Plentyof good educational facts and photos
Brandi Stajcar –
Why?
Everyone needs an answer to the word “Why”!
gwadabe isa gwadabe –
Educational
My kids loves the book . Fun and informative.Money well spent
Moma McGee –
Perfect book for littles who ask why
My daughter who just started asking why this why that this book is perfect. She loves reading about wrinkles and exploring different parts of the book. It was a last minute gift but she’s such a little book worm I can’t wait to get her more.
Nina F. –
A keeper for the library
Good graphics
David –
Great book, don’t listen to the negative reviews.
It’s not perfect but has tons of content. One of the reviews said it has misinformation because it classifies humans as “carnivores”, but some recent studie shave classified humans as such “based on the percentage of meat in the typical human diet”. See: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/04/20/150817741/for-most-of-human-history-being-an-omnivore-was-no-dilemmaAnother negative review said the information is shallow and gave this example: “Some question do not even have answers like this one, ‘why some animals are big and some are smalls?’ the answer ‘life happens everywhere it can on this amazing planet. life comes in every size, shape and color’ ? what kind of answer is that?” Well, I think is a very good answer for the audience the book is intended for. Why are some animals big and others small? Because there are all kinds of animals in the world, some big and some small. I think it’s a perfectly valid answer. If your kid needs more information you can teach him about evolution for an hour if you want. You have to understand the purpose of this book is having a lot of questions and a lot of content. If they start going deeper into answers then that means less content. I rather have more questions with simple answers than a few questions with 3 pages of an answer.Finally, another reviewer seems to be confusing this book for something else and tries to show the “inaccuracies” but only comes off as a trying to display his knowledge of things. We get it, you know how to use wikipedia, guess what? This is a book for “KIDS”, if you want to show off how much you know why don’t you review a PHD book on physics?This is a great book with tons of content and my kid loves it. It’s not perfect, but that’s why you’re there as a parent.