A current, fact-filled, full-color reference presents brief articles on a wide variety of topics from Abolition Movement and Earthquakes to Prehistoric Peoples and Zoology.

This updated edition features nearly 200 new entries added to the more than 30,000 words with clear, understandable definitions that invite readers to interact with the words and definitions. Features a pronunciation guide and boxes offering extra facts.

Profiles birds, fish, mammals, insects, and amphibians in alphabetical order, providing information on each animal's physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat.

This stimulating and comprehensive encyclopedia for children ages 8-12 provides answers to all the questions kids love to ask. Each chapter is jam-packed with maps, charts, timelines, diagrams, beautiful images, and amazing facts. Did you know, for example, that a single drop of blood contains around five million blood cells? Or that there are areas of desert in all seven of Earth's continents? Kids can build their knowledge on a wide range of topics-including Earth and beyond, plants and animals, history and politics, science, technology, and the human body-arranged thematically with more than 9,000 indexed entries and 2,500 colorful images. Cross-reference icons encourage children to explore and discover linked information, feeding their curiosity and building their general knowledge. The New Children's Encyclopedia, which has sold almost 500,000 copies worldwide since 2009, has now been fully updated in line with the latest knowledge and research. Developed, written, and checked by experts, this is the must-have reference book for every child's library.

This series has been updated with a comprehensive coverage of the contemporary world: from science and technology to nature and the living world, from space and the universe to history and the arts. The scope of the encyclopedias reflects the educational needs of children. The featured entries cover key topics that children will want to look up. It combines text with illustrations of animals, plants and more. Each page communicates in a language children can understand, and carefully planned cross-referencing should encourage the reader to travel easily from one related entry to another. This should help children to place information in a wider context and so create a series of journeys. This particular encyclopedia examines people.

Text and drawings explain the equipment and rules for approximately one hundred sports, including track and field, snow sports, ball sports, and motor sports.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.