Review: Adventures in Famous Places

5/30/2015

"Do you know what I like mom? I like that this book tells you how to say hello everywhere we went!"

I have to admit I was surprised by my lad's response to this book. He liked it. He really really waffled on whether he wanted to the sticker part of it. I let it be his decision. He ultimately decided he didn't want to cause "then I can let another child have fun with it too mom". (isn't my lad the sweetest?) :) Just so you know what book I'm talking about it's Lonely Planet Kids "Adventures in Famous Places"

This book is a really neat sticker and activity book. It has over 250 stickers that embrace different elements of 10 different countries. To my son's delight the book starts off with Canada! YEAH! Some of the other countries include Australia, Dubai and Japan. As we went through it my son delighted in reading what country we were looking at next. The countries flag was included on each introductory page.

The general layout was to give an introduction to the country with activities for the child to do that were specific to that country (for Canada they talked about the winter, mounties and moose). I have to admit, my lad frowned at Canada being famous for Justin Bieber...." Why HIM mom?" he asked.

The next section was a two page sticker friendly page spread. The pages are made to that stickers can be repositioned. The stickers are found gathered at the back of the book and are clearly labeled.

Each country section ends with an full page activity sheet for the child to complete.

Adventures in Famous Places ended with three different activity.   My really liked this one.    He gave it a really good search and when he got the end "I GOT IT" was the delighted response.

This is a fun book to go through with children.   It is published by lonelyplanetkids.com.   48 pages of learning fun about different countries around the world.

Geared for ages three years and up.

I overall feel that the book is aimed at about 5-6 year olds.

My son at age 9 still enjoyed the book but it was geared down for younger children. Nevertheless he learned a good number of things about different countries that spurred us on to look into things a bit deeper (using the trusty cellphone). :)

It is definitely a book worth getting if you want you children to learn abit more about some interesting places around the world.    It gives a good grounding to further study if your children are older, and if they are younger, it's a fun look around the world.