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Explore Africa! Take a look at the continent's countries, people, cities, plants, animals, farming and industry, transportation, and leisure activities.

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Designed for students just beginning to use atlases, these books offer well-organized, easy-to-access information. All three open with a map of the Earth highlighting the specific continent in relation to the rest of the world. The spreads also include general information about maps including definitions of terms such as equator, Tropic of Cancer, and Arctic Circle; and descriptions of map features such as legends, compass roses, and scale. This information prepares readers as they explore the contients through sections about countries (though Greenland is not labeled on the map of North America), landforms, bodies of water, climate, plants, animals, people and customs, products, and transportation. Young readers are sure to like Postcard Places, which features color photographs of the more amazing places on the relevant continent. Small photographs or colorful text boxes draw readers' attention to points of interest or fun facts. Maps and legends are simple, yet disseminate information clearly. These books will engage young researchers with a bit more ease than Wendy Vierow's Atlas of the Seven Continents series (Rosen).-- School Library Journal For middle readers just beginning a serious study of geography and cartography, the World Atlases series offers eight volumes of colorful maps showing seven continents and the polar regions. Each book has thirteen double-page spreads, starting with an introduction to map conventions and symbols (e.g., compass rose, legend, tropics, the equator, scale of distances). The political map of Africa will help kids sort out the 53 countries, brightly colored and surrounded by their flags. Other spreads present maps of Africa's landforms, bodies of water (e.g., the Nile, the Congo, Lake Victoria), climate, and major ecosystems, including a selection of African animals and plants. Especially interesting is the population map, showing a large, sparsely-populated area of desert and only a few densely-populated centers, mostly around the oceans and the Nile. A People and Customs spread tells a bit about Africa's diverse cultures with pictures of Dogon dancers, the Ashanti, and brightly-painted Ndebele houses. Designed as a bulletin board, a postcard page displays touristy views of attractions like a market in Marrakech and the pyramids at Giza. A products map reveals that Africa, though a source of precious diamonds, is mostly agricultural; a transportation map shows how Africans get around on roads, trains and rivers. As a finale, the last spread takes readers on a journey across the Serengeti, complete with elephants and a striped balloon. Summing it all up is a final page of brief African facts and a glossary.-- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This title in the World Atlases series delivers exciting facts about Africa plus an introduction to maps and map reading. First, readers find a world map that locates Africa on the globe, followed by a series of nine maps, each showing a big, colorful view of the continent shaded and labeled to convey different types of information. The first identifies the 53 countries and includes pictures of their flags. Other maps show the distribution of population, landforms, languages, resources, climate, plants, animals, industry, and more. Opposite each large map, a brief paragraph of text and smaller, illustrated panels and photos offer further details about African landscape and culture, from views of a baobab tree in the grasslands to the packed cities of Nairobi and Cairo. Focusing primarily on accurate, up-to-date facts about Africa today and the people who live there, this attractive, convenient reference for young grade-schoolers concludes with Africa At-a-Glance statistics, a long, detailed glossary, and instructions about accessing prescreened Web resources.-- Booklist

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Rebecca Elliott has written and illustrated more than 20 books and solely illustrated more than 200 books since she began her career in 2002. Her most popular books include The Owl Diaries series, The Last Tiger, Mr. Super Poopy Pants, Sometimes, and Just Because. Rebecca's work has received several awards and much press attention. Rebecca resides in Suffolk in the UK with her husband, children, and cat.

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