Scholastic Book of World Records 2014

by Jenifer Corr Morse

The 2014 update of the very successful BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS.

The 2014 edition will feature another fun, foil cover, full-color photographs throughout, completely updated facts and stats, brand-new interior design, new chapter openers, at least 20% brand-new content, a brand-new bonus section in the back, and the inclusion of the "Read for the World Record."

Genres: Childrens, Reference, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 29, 2013

Reviews

[K.L. Bernard]

People all over the world are coming up with ideas and ways to beat existing world records or are coming up with their own new first time achievements. Scholastic has put together a wonderful page turner filled with records in categories like science and technology, money, pop culture, nature,s ports and more. Short bursts of fact based information are found on each page so that readers can be brought up to speed on what world records exist. If readers are up to speed with the latest video games then they will be interested in knowing that Super Mario is the best selling video game franchise with over 290 million copies sold. Sports enthusiasts will want to know that Manchester United is the most valuable soccer team and the Los Angeles Dodgers was the most expensive sports team purchase costing Guggenheim Partners $2 billion. The top-grossing animated movies was Toy Story 3, the worlds largest coral reef is the Great Barrier Reef, and the most common insect is the beetle. There is a section for records accomplished in the United States alone. For example, Minnesota has the largest indoor amusement park and Idaho harvests the most farm-raised trout. Anything and everything you'd want to know can be found in colorful pictures and graphs. Each page has a large color photo, a graph indicating the points of each participating country and a paragraph describing the record. Its simplicity makes it easy to navigate and find exactly what your are looking for. Kids around the world participated in the Scholastic Summer Challenge and read for 176,438,473 minutes. Parents and teachers can challenge kids to read for the world record. To learn how is shown in the back of the book. There are more than 300 records found on these pages. Readers of all ages will be astonished at what they will find.

[Alger Smythe-Hopkins]

A slim selection of records that are more chosen to highlight a theme rather than an attempt to be useful as a reference. For example, the state section has to reach pretty far to find a record for all of the 50 states, The entertainment section highlights things like the MTV awards, like they are real. There are interstitial sections that are just chatty and not about superlatives at all. I mean, it was a fun book to leaf through, but not very interesting.

[Belle Meade School]

031.02

[JackAnnie Latham]

Really fun some of the articles weren't interesting

[Traci Barger]

Morse, J. (2014). Book of world records. New York: NY: Scholastic, Inc.

Citation by: Traci Barger

Type of Reference: Almanac

Call Number: 031

ISBN: 9780545679503

Brief Description: This book contains over 300 world records in categories such as sports, science and pop culture.

Content/Scope: The purpose of this almanac is to inform readers on the different world records set around the world for science/technology, money, pop culture, nature and sports. The targeted audience is third through seventh grade.

Accuracy/Authority/Bias: The almanac is published by Scholastic, which is a publishing company that was established around 1920. They have been publishing resources for many years. The book contains records that connect with students who are curious and full of wonder.

Arrangement/Presentation: The almanac is arranged in different categories in which students can locate through the table of contents. The record book contains charts and graphs, photographs and colorful pictures. Each page contains a short paragraph which gets right to the point.

Relation to similar works: The reference collection contains several outdated almanacs on topics that the students are no longer interested in reading. The 2015 almanac will enhance the reference collection.

Accessibility/Diversity: The book contains information that meets the 21st century learner. The almanac includes a section on science and technology that exhibits learners how technology has evolved. The almanac includes records on topics that are current. The book contains colorful tabs that make it more accessible to locate information.

Cost: $16.41

Professional Review: Verbeten, S. (2014). Book of world records. School Library Journal, 59(2), 68.

[Bert Becker]

Scolastic Book of World Records. (2014). Woodland Hills, CA.Scholastic

Citation by: Bert Becker

Type of reference: Record Book Almanac

Call Number: Ref 550.

Content/Scope: This book contains information on world records. It did not limit itself to jsut one category like in the human world, It had records for items that were living and non living.

Accuracy/Authority/Bias: Scholastic is a world leader in developing books for kids and is a trusted publisher.

Arrangement/Presentation: The book was easy to follow. It had a quick way of of getting the information quickly by making seperate sections for each category. It had a lot of pictures that were enjoyable to look at and were well done.

Relation to other This book is related to other world record books. It contianed more information in it than some of the other ones but also had less than a few of them. It was one of the better ones that were looked at this for this assignment and it was a lot easier to use.

Accessibility/Diversity: The topics covered are related to what students may need to use as references when doing research. It gave some historical inforation that could be used. It is inteded for middle school ages.
Cost: $14.99

Professional review of the item:
Morse, Jennifer (2014). Scholastice Book of World Records. (2014). Woodland Hills, CA. Scholastic.

[Ethan Zawacki]

World Records

A cool book that taught me a lot.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes Guinness World Records much.

[Davean]

Interesting records!