DK Books makes learning fun, and I love building our home reference library with DK Visual Encyclopedias. With the kids finally back to school, what a great time to stock up on reference books for school projects and to help foster in-depth learning! We received two visual encyclopedias from DK Books’ Back to School Boutique. My girls love leafing through these volumes, looking at the pictures, and asking questions about what they’re looking at. Visual encyclopedias are a great way to encourage their interest in the world around them!
Human Body: A Visual Encyclopedia
One of the first of its kind aimed at young children, Human Body: A Visual Encyclopedia is a complete reference guide with sections on the musculoskeletal, circulatory, immune, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, and reproductive systems of the body, along with units on the bodily senses and the relationship between the mind and personality. There’s even a fun section at the end with a simple personality test and some fun brainteasers and logic puzzles for older kids.
Colour-coded tabs make the book easy to navigate, and lots of full-colour pictures, diagrams, and specially-commissioned 3-D imagery of the body systems and organs make it engaging and appealing even for non-readers. Every page has fascinating facts and points of interest to draw kids in.
WOW! Each day, enough power is produced in the heart to drive a car 20 miles (32 km).
WOW! You can’t cough, sneeze, yawn, hiccup, or laugh when you’re dreaming since most of your muscles are paralyzed during dreams.
WOW! Your six salivary glands release nearly two pints (one liter) of watery, slimy saliva into your mouth every day.
Tee always has questions about how or why our bodies do the things they do, and this hardcover encyclopedia is a great resource to pull out and help me explain complicated concepts and processes in a way she can understand.
This is my kids’ favourite book right now. Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia explores the world’s oceans and sea creatures with gorgeous full-colour photography and close-up images of the beautiful, majestic, and wonderfully weird wildlife under the waves.
Colour-coded sections organize this volume into sections surveying the open ocean, shallow seas, coast and seashore, polar seas, and the interaction between humans and the ocean. There’s a whole lot of information here too about how oceans are formed, ocean floor topography, and oceanic weather.
But my girls love the animals the most. Did you know that seahorses don’t have a stomach, so they have to eat non-stop to stay alive? Did you know that the biggest crustacean on Earth is the Japanese giant spider crab, which can have legs spanning almost 13 feet (4 meters) from tip to tip? My kids do!
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The Sea Otter is our favorite. They’re so cute.
We love Dolphins. I would love to be able to swim with them at some point!
Dolphins are a favourite of my children.
My favourite is a dolphin, such graceful creatures 🙂
when I asked him he said ‘fish’ LOL
We find seahorses and jellyfish very fascinating, but I personally would prefer to only watch them, don’t really like touching jellyfish 🙂
My son’s favourite sea creature is probably the shark. My daughter’s favourite changes from minute to minute.
Her favourite sea creature is the narwhal. I think it is because of its unique tusk.
Our daughter just love dolphins 🙂
My favorite ocean animal is the sea turtle but we don’t see any here on the west coast so my second favorite would be the orca as we have our own resident pod of orcas here on the West Coast.
My grandson loves sharks. He just had a shark themed birthday party.
My kids love penguins and humpback whales.
My children love Sea turtles and whales.
I think my daughter would pick jelly fish.
My daughter loves whales.
Dolphins and whales for sure!
We both love Orcas! Such beauty!
Feliciity’s favorite is a dolphin! She just loves them!
dolphin!
We can’t pick just one – we love dolphins, whales and sea turtles. We loved that we got to see all 3 on our trip to Hawaii last year!
My daughter’s’ favourite ocean animal is a whale!
my daughter loves Narwahls and dolphins
My son loves watching the otters at a local zoo.
Penguins are a current favorite over here!
Dolphins are our favourites.
Well my oldest Loves Dolphins, my middle Gal loves the Starfish, then my youngest loves a Beluga Whale..
My daughter loves dolphins.
Mine love turtles, fish, dolphins. They love them all, including sharks because they know that they need to eat too 🙂
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
My daughter loves Orca Whales !
Blue Whale
Beluga whale
My kids love whales. We were lucky enough to see some Orcas go by our house the other day.
My kids are fans of sharks!
My family really likes Sea Turtles. Thank you
My son loves whales.