Everything & Everywhere: A Fact-Filled Adventure for Curious Globe-Trotters (Travel Book for Children, Kids Adventure Book, World Fact Book for Kids)

by Marc Martin

Overview

From Marc Martin, best-selling author and illustrator of the award-winning children's book A River, named Best Illustrated Picture Book by the New York Times.

From Hong Kong to Reykjavik, Ulaanbaatar to New York City, this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled adventure book will take curious kids on a lush and unexpected journey around the globe to discover what makes each place unique. Sleepy sloths, colorful cows, staggering skylines, and terrible traffic—countless surprises await globetrotting children of all ages. All you and your child need is a good travel guide and a big imagination. Let's go!

• Kids will have fun while they learn about different cultures
• Features facts about 15 places and cultures for a great introduction to the world
• Instills curiosity about the world and respect for others

Kids who read 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!), My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things: For Little Learners Who Want to Know Everything, and Timelines of Everything will want to get their hands on this book.

• Parents, teachers and librarians will enjoy sharing globetrotting adventures with kids
• A great book for curious and imaginative children ages four through nine
• A great coffee table book for fans of trivia and world facts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452165141
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	10/09/2018
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	248,149
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 13.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Marc Martin is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including A River, named a Best Illustrated Picture Book by the New York Times. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Editorial Reviews

10/22/2018
“From cities to forests and from deserts to oceans, there’s so much to discover. All you need is a good guide and a little curiosity,” Martin writes in the introduction to this jam-packed, oversize exploration of world regions. Washy mixed-media spreads identify human figures, animals, objects, and attractions. Regal monuments, matryoshka dolls, and a huddle of suited-up, cigar-smoking “billionaires” grace Moscow. Martin pokes fun across the board (in New York City, rats share a slice of pizza, and in Paris, he reports that there are “10 tons of dog droppings every day”) and offers an ebullient outing for armchair travelers. Ages 5–8. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"A swarm of facts and images." -Kirkus Reviews

"A swarm of facts and images." -Kirkus Reviews

"An explosion of facts and illustrations." —Afar

"An explosion of facts and illustrations." —Afar

"From beautiful skylines to unique animals, there are surprises at every turn." —Brightly

"From beautiful skylines to unique animals, there are surprises at every turn." —Brightly

"An ebullient outing for armchair travelers." —Publishers Weekly

"An ebullient outing for armchair travelers." —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2018-09-02

A swarm of facts and images about 15 locations spaced all around the globe.

These thronging pages are as busy as a Waldo experience, except the point here is variety. Each location gets a two-page spread highlighting a dozen features that give it character, color, and even whimsy. The locations range from New York to Ulaanbaatar, Alice Springs to Cape Town, Moscow to the Galápagos. Martin's selection of distinctive features is sure-handed: the doorkeepers of Cairo, the colorful rooftops of Reykjavik, the cheeses and cafes of Paris, the botecos in Rio de Janeiro, the salarymen and ramen noodles of Tokyo. The top-shelf watercolors capture the essence of the thing being described, whether it be Moscow's stray dogs or New York's manhole covers (caught in a moody drizzle). Sometimes the short explanations under the name of the object are jokey ("Coffee: Pronounced KAW-fee"), and sometimes they are chock full of information: New Delhi has the "world's largest fleet of environmentally friendly gas-powered buses"; Arctic terns "travel 44,000 miles every year, the longest migration route of any animal"; and Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing is the busiest in the world, with 100,000 pedestrians per hour. What's covered is covered well, if glancingly; however, it's a shame there's no city from Africa's beltline (where are Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa?), and Rio is the only South American metropolis highlighted.

A playful but incomplete introduction to the cultural geography of far-flung locations. (Informational picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews