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The Kingfisher Children's Encyclopedia: Fully Revised and Updated.


The Kingfisher Children's Encyclopedia: Fully Revised and Updated

Sarah Allen and Jennifer Justice, editors

Kingfisher Publications

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: 0753457679 $24.95

The nice thing about a single volume encyclopedia is the easy browsing; especially if page after page reveals over 2000 enticing pictures and eye-catching color. Underneath each main heading (such as ABORIGNE) is a concise definition. Did you know the term "aboriginal" is used to describe the native inhabitants
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 of any county, but the original people of Australia have come to be known as Aborigines aborigines: see Australian aborigines. ? Next, lays the vast assortment of easy to understand facts, expertly arranged in paragraphs of self-contained sections. The more than 35,000 indexed references range from topics such as the Antarctica, Balloon and Airships, the Crusades, Food, the Human Body, Migration, Nuclear Power, Plastics, Video, and Zoology zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. . At the back of the book you'll find FACTFINDER, a place where pages of information cover presidents and states, biographies of famous figures and highlights of the last 100 years. The numerous topics providing fast facts and good basic information will make this encyclopedia one the kids will love to mull over mull over
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to study or ponder: he mulled over the arrangements [probably from muddle]

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