National Geographic Kids Almanac 2022, U.S. Edition (Library edition)

by National Geographic Kids

Overview

Kids can have fun keeping up with our quickly changing world with the New York Times best-selling almanac, packed with incredible photos, tons of fun facts, adventures with National Geographic Explorers, crafts, activities, and fascinating features about animals, science, nature, technology, conservation, and more. The 2022 edition features a new Kids vs. Plastic chapter, packed with ideas on how you can reduce your plastic waste. There's a whole chapter full of fun and games, including activities, jokes, and comics. Practical reference material, including fast facts and maps of every country, is fully updated. Homework help on key topics is sprinkled throughout the book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426372032
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Series:	National Geographic Kids Almanac (Hardcover)
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Based on content from the award-winning and top-selling children's magazine, National Geographic Kids, and National Geographic Kids books, the almanac is created by multiple National Geographic contributors—including researchers, photographers, content experts, and educational specialists.

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-25
The newest edition of a wide-angled page-turner, rearranged and refreshed.

Moderate quantities of new visual and narrative material have been stirred into the 2021 edition’s tweaked and reordered chapters, but the occasional tables of summarized reference data still coexist uneasily with hundreds of bursts of memorable general facts and images. To go with the tiled gallery of U.S. presidents (including Joe Biden) and a timely shoutout to the recently deceased civil rights icon John Lewis, for instance, the “History Happens” chapter is largely filled with ganders at a few random subjects. Likewise, rather than a timeline or highlight reel of recent events, the opening “Your World 2022” chapter throws together profiles of heroic dogs and other animals, celebrates the Harry Potter series’ 25th birthday, and commemorates nine lesser-known holidays like International Joke Day. Readers hoping for straight (or any) dope on the Covid-19 pandemic, information about Taiwan (according to the editors, not a country but a “disputed area”), or even just to see Native Americans in other than ceremonial dress will have to look elsewhere. Still, this gathering of upbeat, vividly illustrated, browser-friendly dips into topics ranging from black holes to blue-footed boobies to Bolivian street food is hard to put down, and the pop quizzes and research guides at each chapter’s end will give studious sorts a leg up, too.

More suited to dipping than diving but notable for both scope and production values. (index) (Nonfiction. 9-13)

Kirkus Reviews