5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) (National Geographic Kids)

This book is awesome. It's big, has a glossy hardcover, about a inch thick and filled with colorful photos, and pages of info. My kids loved it and could not stop looking through it. My second grader (7) is reading through and soaking up all the worldly facts. My preschooler (5) loves looking all the pictures and asking questions. Even my tot (2) enjoys it. This is just perfect and a window into our fascinating world for young curious children, especially since we have all been stuck at home for almost a year now due to the pandemic. It's fun to read through, peruse, and useful as a quick reference. I ordered it before Christmas but it was out of stock. It arrived on 1/3 nicely packaged and in perfect condition. The timing was actually great. After the excitement and madness of the holidays, my kids were hungry to read and learn. This would also make an excellent gift for any child! If you know a curious child, don't hesitate.

This book is wonderful...from the gorgeous, glossy cover to the thousands of photos and facts inside. My kids will read it for up to an hour at a time, put it down and come back to it the next day to read more. Be prepared to hear "Did you know..." over and over again. We purchased the hard cover, and it's a large book which is great for sharing. Two people can easily sit side by side and read it together. It was on sale for about twelve bucks when I purchased it, and I feel it's a great value at that price. We have always bought the Guinness World Records book for the kids for Christmas, but this year we decided to get three different books and make them share. I'm glad I did. This book holds its own and is different enough from the Guinness books that it doesn't feel like an attempt to copy them. Long story short, it's a great book for kids and young teens, the content is fascinating and timeless, there are thousands of awesome photos, and I'm very pleased with this purchase.

Good books for curious minds

I bought this book as a Christmas gift for needy kids. WOW! It's big, sturdy, and beautifully designed. And packed with fun information. When I was a kid, we got our info fix from an almanac. Today, it's books like this. I think a fun resource like this book will be a springboard for its recipient to learn more about many fascinating topics, and reinforce that learning can be F-U-N.

The title of my review might sound contradictory, but this is exactly what I found out with this book: it has many great facts, but somehow neither I or my 7 year old son (who LOVES fact books) ever feel like reading. I think the book's main problem is that it tries to provide so many facts that it becomes difficult to approach. As an example, look at the facts about sharks. It is so much information, with so small font, that I feel like I am reading a prescription drug disclaimer. Yes, fact 33 about sharks, "Port Jackson sharks use their flattened teeth to feed on shellfish and sea urchins" might be a very interesting fact for other people, but by the time I get to that line I really could not care less. Fact 39, "Far more people are killed each year by dogs, elephants, and bess than by sharks!" is way more interesting. I probably would have preferred that fact to have way more space, and a picture of a puppy next to a shark. Now I would be entertained! Not every page is like this, though. As a good example, the "25 Red Hot Facts" page shows mixture of small facts that are interesting and well illustrated. Knowing that the Sahara is almost as big as USA is definitely interesting. And call me simple, but having a picture of the desert enhances the whole feeling of reading the book. I think I would have preferred this book to be "500 awesome facts" and have just a selection of facts, with better illustrations. Overall, I still rate it 4-stars just due to the effort they put to collect all the information, and just the massive amount of information on it; but I would like if I said we read it often.

good book for kid.

Very fun to look at with our granddaughter, so much to read and look at.

Purchased for my 12 yr old granddaughter. She loved it...her dad was excited about it also since she tends to need "short bits of data" and the book is full of all kinds of information!

I bought this book for my niece's 7th birthday. I was slightly concerned on arrival that it would be too old for my niece (although her reading age is very advanced) but she was thrilled with the present and is already absorbing and repeating many of the interesting facts. I intended this to be a book that she dips in and out of rather than reads from cover to cover and this is indeed perfect for this type of reading. Each page is absolutely packed with relevant facts and pictures and I am sure that she will be reading this on and off for the next 5 years at least. Really happy with my choice and my niece was thrilled. Great value for money I think. (One point to note maybe is that it is a very big and heavy book. Maybe not suitable for taking on holidays or on trips, and maybe even a bit heavy for younger readers to read on their laps or in bed.)

Good read

My son really liked this one. Kept his attention well and he's already read it several times. Worth getting.

Estoy muy contenta con la compra, por el precio me parece genial porque son 5000 datos, (5000!), entonces tiene muchísimos datos nuevos que aún no sabemos! No solo para los niños, sirve para los adultos tambien por supuesto. Lo recomiendo a todos quienes tienen el interés de aprender y saber de cosas del mundo, de temas diferentes.

One of the nicest book I saw recently. Glossy paper, beautifully edited and photos are fantastic. Very interesting reading.