The World in Infographics: Planet Earth by Jon Richards and Ed Simkins

This book is short. It contains a few pictures in it (or infographics if you want to spice up your product) covering the following:

• Inside the Earth
• On the move (about plates)
• Restless Earth (about earthquakes)
• The Rock Cycle (about rocks and not the Rolling Stones, or at least not the musical one)
• Violent Volcanoes
• Towering Peaks (about mountains)
• Habitats
• The Air we Breathe
• Water Cycle
• Water World
• The Oceans
• Raging Rivers
• Changing Earth (about climate change)

I went through it with my daughter in a couple of minutes. She was interested in talking about where countries are in the world which this book doesn’t cover at all so I just had to point to where they roughly were. 

We weren’t impressed by the fancy (computer-generated?) images in here. They look like the sort of stuff you might find on interactive websites (like the ones mentioned under websites near the end). There they’d hold the interest a bit more as you clicked through them going to where your interests took you, and seeing things happening as you do (e.g. tectonic plates coming together). Here, you flick through the book, if anything catches your eye you may read it in a second or two, but if not then it’s to the next page and suddenly you reach the end of the book.

If you want info with pictures in book-form then go for a pictorial encyclopedia. Alternatively use Wikipedia.

(I got this book to review through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)