Packed with the latest data, bright images, large maps, and amazing photography, this reference book provides lively information about the world's land, people, and animals.  

With up-to-date facts at a glance, a glossary, a pronunciation guide, a comprehensive index, and helpful icons, this book helps kids learn information related to land, plants, animals, languages, cultures, and more fascinating aspects of the physical and political world.

Food Maps will take readers through an extraordinary voyage in discovery of ingredients, recipes and gastronomical cultures that characterise the six continents of planet Earth.

For every region of the planet, the maps of the most popular and characteristic countries have been chosen. Each map features the most typical fruits and vegetables, meat, fish and cheese, cereals, beverages, herbs and spices. From South America to Europe, from the Middle East to Australia, the panels recreate the gastronomic identities of each geographical area, revealing varieties of the most typical foods, as well as the stories, curious facts and manufacturing processes hidden behind the most typical ingredients and dishes.

One country at a time, the world of food takes shape, and children have fun exploring the gastronomical wonders of the Earth, discovering all of their differences along the way.

Meet the world's bounty of awesome, beautiful and strange animals! Each spread includes interesting facts about our planet's intricate ecosystems and their inhabitants, from the largest animal in existence to the world's smallest chameleon.

Manufactured using 100% eco-friendly, high quality FSC assured-paper and vegetable-based inks.

Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You would think it would be easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First People for a very long time. Australia's coastline was discovered piece by piece.

Mapping the coastline was a task that took hundreds of years. See who got it right and who didn't as, bit by bit, the outline of Australia appears.