My Pop-Up World Atlas

I bought this for my nephews who are 7 and 8 years old and they absolutely loved it. Its a nice gift to enthuse interest in Geography for little people. The book and its pages are hard bound, but the pull tabs are a little fragile. I’ve asked the kids to handle them delicately. Overall, its colourful and fun, and they’re a great source of learning for kids!

Got this for My friend’s kiddos bday gift. She is making incredible progress on country names!

Es un libro muy interesante y bonito

There are 8 pages, each page show a different conitent, like Europe, Africa, Austrila... A lot of informations embedded with some pop-up paper engineerings, suitable for collections or sharing with childs.

Super Calidad

Christmas was coming up. The 6-year-old for whom I bought this is an advanced reader, capable of reading chapter books, but he has a soft spot for pop-up books and requested one from Santa. I wanted to find one that straddled his slightly childish aesthetic interests and his capacity for higher-level intellectual engagement, and this particular one, which introduces the seven continents three-dimensionally, came recommended by The New York Times, which provided this interesting context for the fact of its existence: “Even in a world in which Google Maps is set to declare dominance, atlases continue to be published and illustrated, especially for children. But given the multimedia lure of online versions, it’s not surprising that print representatives increasingly boast their own bells and whistles.” The review reminded me, uncomfortably, of how Big Tech is encroaching not only on our lives but on our children's as well. At restaurants, we let the 6-year-old watch YouTube videos while we eat, and sometimes, we look over and find that the algorithm has led him to discomfiting places: a video of someone putting together Elsa's castle with Legos begets a video of someone putting together Santa's sleigh, which begets a video of a stampede involving a misunderstanding among Santa's reindeers from which Santa does not come out in one piece. It's unnerving, but then, we've gotten out of the habit of hiring babysitters because of the pandemic, and we have YouTube to thank for relatively quiet dinners out. I try to avoid shopping on Amazon, too — for related reasons — but, as I mentioned earlier, Christmas was coming up, and, because of the pandemic, there were a lot of product delays. It wasn't clear to me whether I could trust that My Pop-up World Atlas would arrive by Christmas if I ordered it elsewhere, but Amazon had proven to be generally reliable. And the book did arrive in good time, and it's as fascinating as I hoped for, and, as the 6-year-old pointed out when I asked why he needed the book from Santa and couldn't just get it from the library, there is something extremely satisfying about lifting the fresh, untouched little flips on a newly purchased — not checked out from the library — pop-up book.