Product Description

Inside is a stunning, comprehensive visual encyclopedia featuring gorgeous photography that not only illustrates, but educates. This encyclopedia is driven by its striking imagery that brings more than one million things to light. It is a crucial addition to homes and classrooms alike.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17211 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 5 Up—When you're a kid, you think that bigger is better. Machines, buildings, ice-cream cones—they're all better with an increase in dimensions. DK has put together a visual encyclopedia that runs with the concept of cramming a million bits of information into one volume. The book is not 300 pages of arbitrary fact. There is an organization to the madness. Arranged in sections from nature to nutrition, the human body to technology, people and places to art and culture, the breadth of subject matter is impressive. Vital to the operation are the photographs. This may be the single largest collection of pictures kids have ever seen in one place, and each page shows as much as it tells. Readers can open it up, discover something new, and enjoy. A quality selection for most collections.—Travis Jonker, Dorr Elementary School, Holland, MI
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Customer Reviews

Excellent book that promotes learning
This is a great book that is great for browsing and learning. It is not a comprehensive encyclopedia, but I highly recommend it even if you have other encyclopedia books. The cover has a mirror-like surface that compels children to want to read it and learn. Great illustrations and good content. I like almost everything that I've seen from DK publishing. We use it for homeschooling but adults will also enjoy browsing it too.

Fascinating!
I gave this book to my 10 year old nephew for Christmas. After he opened it, he kept looking and looking at it saying "this is really cool." The illustrations are beautiful, and the book has a little of every topic from science to music to art and history. This book will be a reference for him through at least middle school. I highly recommend it to anyone buying for children 8 years and up.

Book Review: One Million Things
When you're a kid, the bigger the better. Machines, buildings, ice cream cones, it's all better with an increase in dimensions. The same holds true for numbers. A fact: kids love stepping things up to seven digits and will do so at the drop of a hat. They will pull out "one million" as soon as possible. DK knows this well and put together a visual encyclopedia - "part museum, part search engine" - that runs with the concept of cramming a million bits of info into one volume. It's an astonishing deluge of knowledge that readers will be clamoring to pick up.

"One Million Things" is not 300 pages of arbitrary fact placement. There is an organization to the madness. Arranged in sections from nature to nutrition, the human body to technology, the breadth of subject matter is impressive.

Vital to the operation are the photographs. This may be the singe largest collection of pictures I've seen in one place. Each page shows as much as it tells.

DK books are famous for their visuals, and "One Million Things" continues that tradition.

In short: open it up, discover something new, enjoy. A quality selection for libraries, classrooms, and home collections alike.