DK First Atlas: A First Reference Guide to the Countries of the World

by Anita Ganeri, Chris Oxlade

The DK First Atlas brings each continent and country to life, making geographic concepts easy to understand. Packed with detailed pictorial maps specially designed for young readers, this First Reference title is an invaluable learning tool for home and elementary school.

Genres: Geography, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Owen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love all the countries!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful first atlas, great detail in the maps, in addition to information on each country/region. I would like for them to add a map of each continent at the beginning of each section that shows all of the regions mentioned in the section together, in addition to the maps shown of the regions broken down. I use the atlas in combination with a globe so that my children can see where the region we are covering fits into the continent as a whole. (For example, France, Lowlands, etc. of Europe is covered thoroughly as are other regions, but at the beginning of the section on Europe, would like to see a map of all of Europe, a map of all of Asia, etc.) Overall, though, it is a wonderful atlas, highly recommend it!

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

DK books are things of beauty. This is a really lovely atlas. Paul only sort of gets the ideas of maps. He identifies most land masses as "umurca" but there are lots of interesting animal, plant, and people pictures to pick through.