Best children encyclopedias according to redditors

i got this one just last week, are they the same?

Edit: damn, mine was released in 2011, yours in 2016.

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It's dangerous to go to these subreddits. Take this!

EDIT funny how you are getting downvoted. I wonder by who

With this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Comics-Super-Heroes-Character-Encyclopedia/dp/1465444548

Bill Bryson wrote a shorter version of his book that is aimed at kids. I did not read it, but I read his other work and it is fantastic, and the amazon reviews are very positive.
[A Really Short History of Nearly Everything](http://www.amazon.com/Really-Short-History-Nearly Everything/dp/0385738102/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1290524524&sr=1-1)

I would also recommend a simple children's encyclopedia like:

DK's First Encyclopedia

Scholastic Children's Encyclopedia

Although what I recommend is you get a nice little experiments book, and do experiments with him, that is simply the best and the most fun way to get a kid hooked on science. I suggest a chem kit, and you help him out and do experiments with him. Examples:

The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science

Theo Gray's Mad Science(WARNING:SERIOUSLY dangerous but really cool)

You can also look at this website and do experiments with him. I highly recommend this:

The Naked Scientists Kitchen Science

What's the best celebratory and informative DC book? I mean, there are plenty, DC Encyclopedia, 75 Years of Mythmaking, Visual History, Chronicle Year by Year, Character Guide etc. Do you have anyone? Do you like it?

Is there any equivalent to that but only of comicbook covers or only art? I am most specifically looking for the equivalent to this

Maybe something like this: Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty

My kids really like the DK First Human Body Encylopedia.

Edit... This 3D one looks really neat too.

http://www.amazon.com/Usborne-Encyclopedia-World-Religions-Internet-Linked/dp/0794510590

We have this book, and I like the layout and format - it would be good for a 7-year-old. You can view a couple sample pages here http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?id=4173

I had this when I was a kid, might be older than what you're looking for, but from your description this is what I thought of.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Usborne-Childrens-Encyclopaedia-Encyclopedias/dp/0746000316

Here is the Amazon preorder link for the US. The article has the UK link.

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This.

It's Not the Stork is a good one for this age about reproduction. For a more general anatomy book you might try the First Human Body Encyclopedia or My Amazing Body Machine.

Any books in the Dorling Kindersley series are great.

http://www.amazon.ca/Science-Encyclopedia-Dorling-JOANNA-Kindersley/dp/0756642965/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634566&sr=1-2

www.amazon.ca/Dorling-Kindersley-Science-Encyclopedia/dp/0751356417/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634566&sr=1-4

http://www.amazon.ca/Cool-Stuff-Exploded-Dorling-Kindersley/dp/0756673267/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634605&sr=1-1

Any other books with exploded views are great.

More for when they're older but these books were amazing when I was a kid:

http://www.amazon.ca/Handy-Science-Answer-Book/dp/1578593212/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634709&sr=1-2

Horrible science books are great too:

http://www.amazon.ca/Horrible-Science-Blood-Bones-Body/dp/0545993245/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634757&sr=1-4

Big book of experiments are fun because you can read about them together at night and do them the next day. Definitely gets kids excited to do science and puts it in their head a little longer:

http://www.amazon.ca/Great-Science-Experiments-Dorling-Kindersley/dp/0756619181/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332634816&sr=1-1

There are bunch of other great resources too but I always found the best types of books are ones that are either very pictorial and visual, or ones that break complex subjects down into quick question and answer blocks. It's a great opportunity to learn, and to learn how to read, which I personally believe is the biggest key to being a great learner later in life.

Lego Minifigures: Character Encyclopedia

That item looks mighty fine.

I gunna guess this Lego book. Looks like a pretty cool book actually .. http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minifigures-Encyclopedia-Daniel-Lipkowitz/dp/1465401725/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=VAYXJSFW4ICM&coliid=I24RDQ383VO1NE

That item looks mighty fine

The Big Book of Knowledge. It was a gift I got when I was around 4 years old and I read it many times, even once I read it upside down. It started my lifelong love of learning.

Thanks for the contest!

My son would LOVE this! His birthday is on Halloween :)

http://www.amazon.com/Britannica-Encyclopedia-Encyclopaedia/dp/1593392923/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280280636&sr=8-2

I enjoyed LEGO Minifigure Year by Year: A Visual History. It's more fluff, but the sheer number of figures is fun to go through. Add in the bonus minifigures and it's a good trip down memory lane. Plus it's easy to find below $25. Most of the DK books aren't worth it.

As /u/afuckloadoflego said, The Cult of LEGO is a great read and looks at the AFOL side of building. Warning: reading this may unlock a LEGO hungry monster in you.

Also Brick by Brick sounds fascinating, I need to pick that up.

You can start by giving him a copy of children's encyclopedia, such as this one. I was given a whole series of children's encyclopedia (in my native language, that is), which made me be inquisitive.

I will definitely do the same to my kids if I ever have one. I think this country needs to raise a lot more kids who are willing to question.

I don't have any kids... but I think every kid and LEGO fan should have this book.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HDATZ

Also, the book The Ultimate Book of Vehicles is AMAZING. I love looking at it as much as my son does.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/2848019425/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_s0sjDb6FJEA0H

I got my niece a Marie Curie doll that she absolutely loves. I know you asked for boy toys, but I figured it someone else is reading this, it might be helpful.

My nephew loved the Nat Geo Little Kids First Book of.... They have a whole bunch in the series.

Once their older I think we are going to start getting them the mechanical toy kits to make stuff themselves. I totally don't understand kids toys today though.

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Space Atlas

National Geographic Kids: Space Encyclopedia

Go For Launch by Abby Garrett

Seconding this suggestion. Not just because anything in your original budget would be little better than a toy that might leave him uninspired (seriously, look at 114mm-130mm Dobs). But also, in my experience, leading by example is the best way to foster a lasting interest. Also recommended - picking up a few space books (example) to talk about what you're looking at, if he doesn't have any already.

You can try National Geographic First Big Book of Space.

one that we have that is real nice and informative for kids is called "Children's Dinosaur Encyclopedia" published by Parragon Books. Here it is on Amazon

Any of the following? Or do any of them have a similar look/style to what you remember? I immediately thought of DK, but the chronological order and prehistoric life thing makes me think it would have been more of a general biological life encyclopedia than one with an "animal" slant.

Wonders of Learning First Animal Encyclopedia (a bit late, 2009)

DK's Visual Encyclopedia of Animals (2001)

Kingfisher First Encyclopedia of Animals (1999)

DK's Visual Encyclopedia of Animals (2005)

DK's Animal Encyclopedia (First Reference Series) (2008)

DK's Animal Encyclopedia (2000)

EDIT: Here's what I mean about a general biological life encyclopedia:

DK Nature Encyclopedia (1998)

He won't learn to read when he's one year old but if you have him immersed with language and written representations of it (read picture books with words interactively with him, play with alphabet blocks to form words etc), he will learn it very early to a degree where he can sustain development by himself. I learned to read when I was three years old and spent lots and lots of time with illustrated encyclopedias and such long before going to school. Consequently I was very bored in the first few grades and got to stand in the corner of the classroom because of that almost daily, but don't let that bother you :P

Once you get him to read, a whole new dimension is gained in the stuff he can learn. Also for a kid there's nothing more joyful than showing off to your parents when you know shit that they don't.

Edit: by illustrated encyclopedia I mean something like this, with the reservation that I have not read this particular book but many in the same vein.

Just made this comment in the same thread:

>When it initially exits the body, it is sterile. As time goes on, like you say, it accumulates germs.

>As a kid I had this book and recall a little tidbit in there claiming even Mahatma Gandhi may have begun the day by drinking his pee for whatever reason, but that it was "okay" because he drank it so soon after peeing that it was still sanitary. While it is very unlikely that Gandhi drank his own pee, as far as I'm aware, most of the other things they say about its properties are accurate. Even Nathan For You, one of my favorite shows, made a joke about this a few seasons back, for a shameless plug.

Pee is sterile, but just speaking as someone who gets squeamish about bodily fluids, I have a hard time believing that a germaphobe would be okay with something like that. At the same time, however, psychologically, it does make sense in a twisted way, therefore the reason for the second paragraph that listed off other examples of twisted fetishes that are polar opposites of what a person stands up and claims to believe publicly.

I have had a bunch of books, but I have given a lot away to another 3-year-old who loves bodies, so some of the out-of-print or rare books are not easy to find for me. I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/First-Human-Encyclopedia-Reference-Series/dp/0756609976/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=14M5S3ATR6T05TJT3MTQ

I don't have the ones I listed below, but they look interesting. I have always had slightly "older" books than my kids, and let them look at the pictures and read what they were interested in. For example, my 4- and 7-year-olds have some books about the brain and are reading about neuroanatomy and neurotransmitters, and the central and peripheral nervous system, but sometimes they just pick up the books and look at the pictures and learn that the brain is responsible for all kinds of actions and thoughts and sensations.

http://www.amazon.com/Uncover-Human-Body-An-Book/dp/1571457895/ref=pd_tcs_compl_t_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0991ESGG92BTT0FW65QQ

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Books-Patty-Carratello/dp/1557342113/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1MF77N2TKN3B7D84Y692

Finally, these videos look pretty interesting, but I have not tried them:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/humanbody.html

I think it's really normal at 4-5 for kids to be thinking about sameness and differentness and try to make sense of what they see.

The approach I take--after a lot of thought and research--is to teach and talk about skin color the same way we would about eye color or hair color. There are some good books that talk about the science of skin color - First Encyclopedia of the Human Body touches on it--my kid is obsessed with that book, All the Colors We Are takes a matter of fact and scientific approach. The book Children Just Like Me is another really useful resource when talking about different cultures and people.


I've also made a point to buy black, brown and Asian baby dolls and Barbies (not just the standard white ones) since she was about 2. At first I felt really self-conscious about doing this, but I think it's helped her see variety as the norm instead of thinking of her whiteness as normal and everything else as "other."

At this stage, that's the message you want to be instilling - everyone has lots of differences and they're all pretty darn normal and cool.

And finally--how to deal with loud kid comments in public. A few days ago my daughter shouted and pointed, "LOOK MOMMY! A little person!!! THAT'S NOT A KID!" I was embarrassed and felt bad and I told her in the moment that it's not nice to yell out people's differences because it might make them feel like everyone is looking at them--she got that--attention can be embarrassing.

When we got home we talked about dwarfism just like hair color or normal height -- it's something about you that get when you're born. I think I said something like, "even if a person is born to be a little person, their brain grows up just like yours or mine as they get older and when they're grown ups they have jobs and families just like any other grownup." She thought it was really really cool.

I'm sure she'll do it to me again. I don't know if there's a better way to handle it in the moment to be more respectful of others--but my main focus is trying to get a message of inclusiveness to my kid.

I dunno. This stuff is hard.

Holy shit, I remember this exact fact in the first few pages of my Junior Encyclopedia. I used to love reading through that book as a kid.

It's from 1986, so it's pretty out of date, plus it was also for children so a lot of it was dumbed down. I'm not surprised the fact turned out to be nonsense.