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Ask Me Everything: Facts, Lists, Records, and Even More Facts
Chock full of lists and quips, stats and quotes, Ask Me Everything will keep readers of all ages asking questions for hours. No topic is left unquestioned; no question is left unanswered. In this brilliant follow-up to Ask Me Anything thousands of facts, incredible photographs, hilarious information, and hours of family fun are packed into this vibrant book.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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April 13, 2011
Don't you love browsing through a book, flipping the pages to see what catches your eye? We had the dictionaries out in library time today, and the kids loved flipping through the pages to find interesting tidbits of information. A hit in our library this winter has been Ask Me Everything. It's a visual treat, filled with facts, statistics, lists, records and more.
Ask Me Everything is packed with information, all in great nuggets with lots of visuals. DK excels at producing visually stimulating books, and this provides a wide range of information. It covers topics ranging from planets and space to society and culture, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals to geography and history. Each two page spread is headed with a bold, eye-catching question like: "How deep is the Grand Canyon?" or "How many people live in Tokyo?" The topics range from technical scientific subjects, such as space telescopes (see the page sample below) to fun favorites like "Who decides what's fashion?"
One student said, "This book is really interesting. Sometimes I act like I know everything." Another thought that one of the coolest pages was "What is the smallest country in the world?" (the Vatican City). This book is filled with Did You Know facts - did you know that the ATM in the Vatican City has instructions in Latin?! Did you know that the first stiletto heel was created in 1954? Did you know that the average human can recognize 10,000 different odors? Students also enjoyed sections with "how to" instructions - like how to do a Moon Walk dance, how to wear a kimono, and how to lift fingerprints.
While this book is meant more for browsing than research reports, it will stimulate a lot of questioning and exploring. The topics are organized clearly with a table of contents and easily referenced with an index. The reading level seems perfect for 4th through 6th graders, although many kids seem to look at the pictures more than dig into the text.
Ask Me Everything is packed with information, all in great nuggets with lots of visuals. DK excels at producing visually stimulating books, and this provides a wide range of information. It covers topics ranging from planets and space to society and culture, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals to geography and history. Each two page spread is headed with a bold, eye-catching question like: "How deep is the Grand Canyon?" or "How many people live in Tokyo?" The topics range from technical scientific subjects, such as space telescopes (see the page sample below) to fun favorites like "Who decides what's fashion?"
One student said, "This book is really interesting. Sometimes I act like I know everything." Another thought that one of the coolest pages was "What is the smallest country in the world?" (the Vatican City). This book is filled with Did You Know facts - did you know that the ATM in the Vatican City has instructions in Latin?! Did you know that the first stiletto heel was created in 1954? Did you know that the average human can recognize 10,000 different odors? Students also enjoyed sections with "how to" instructions - like how to do a Moon Walk dance, how to wear a kimono, and how to lift fingerprints.
While this book is meant more for browsing than research reports, it will stimulate a lot of questioning and exploring. The topics are organized clearly with a table of contents and easily referenced with an index. The reading level seems perfect for 4th through 6th graders, although many kids seem to look at the pictures more than dig into the text.
January 18, 2016
Ask Me Everything is the second book by DK Publishing I've ever read so far; the first one was Children's Encyclopedia. Even thought these books are mainly for children, they are metaphorically still able to pull me into the new world of general knowledge. Each page I turned, I learned something I've never known before. It includes facts, fun facts, mind blowing facts, how-to on astronomy, cosmology, biology, chemistry, geography, ecology, history, globalization, etc with variously colorful pictures. This book is highly recommended for those who might want to learn something new besides their professional subjects. C'mon, you can impress your future kids. :3
December 18, 2011
This book a non fiction book and it's about everything. There's all sorts of facts in there about the human body, dinosaurs, outer space, different places, animals, fashion and nature and all sorts of different stuff. It's a really good book.
I picked this book because while I was shalving it it fell open to a page about reading tea leaves and it looked really interesting so I decided to read it. I finished this book because it was really interesting and there were all sorts of cool facts in there.
I would recommend this book to Patrick, Ben and Cris because they like reading non-fiction books lately so this seemed like a good non-fiction book for them to read.
I picked this book because while I was shalving it it fell open to a page about reading tea leaves and it looked really interesting so I decided to read it. I finished this book because it was really interesting and there were all sorts of cool facts in there.
I would recommend this book to Patrick, Ben and Cris because they like reading non-fiction books lately so this seemed like a good non-fiction book for them to read.
November 1, 2010
Another big hit with this DK Canada book that has facts and stats on literally everything you can imagine. The best part is, every single page I felt like I learned something new. If it can do that for me as an adult, just imagine what it can do for your child's brain.
A really fantastic book, that I have to recommend to parents and teachers everywhere.
A really fantastic book, that I have to recommend to parents and teachers everywhere.
November 8, 2011
Contains answers to all kinds of random questions like How fast can a crocodile swim and Which country produces the most movies. Will be a huge hit with kids who gravitate to Guiness or Ripley's believe it or not books.
August 30, 2010
Cool--kind of like a cross between Guinness Book of Records and the encyclopedia, but way more fun. I totally wasted 3 hours flipping through this!
October 6, 2011
i thought it was very well organized
-SinisterBunny
-SinisterBunny
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