Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures

There are several entrants to this series now – this one looking at the world's superlatives, as opposed to all the others that looked at, well, the world's superlatives. Anything can be here, from the deepest-diving mammals known, to other natural phenomena such as the most prolifically active volcano or lethal trees, to purely manmade entities such as underground cities or long train routes. Every continent gets a map with copious record-breaking things of note on, and we then focus on three or four each time, donating an annotated double-page spread to each. It's always fun to guess which will be featured, but the way this jumbled its subjects up and tried to cover geography, natural sciences and human engineering and endurance did kind of make it a little too diverse for the cash-strapped school librarian. Still, it might not fit in with any curriculum plan, but the trivia it contains is always worthwhile. I certainly couldn't have told you the world's deepest river, so if I learnt something you can bet the target reader will, too.

I received an advance copy of, Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures, by Emily Hawkins. This is a great book. It goes country by country around the world, with fun facts ans record breaking adventures. Such a cool idea. Like discover the world largest cob web in Madagascar, or the most poisonous creature in Colombia. The pictures are great, in this book.

Like all books in this series, this one was brilliant. Absolutely perfect for children, colourful, accessible and interesting. Explore the hottest place on earth, the Paris catacombs or any number of remarkable creatures. I shall be using this in both the classroom and school library.

Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures is an excellent children's book. There are a lot of different records and fun facts mentioned from all around the globe. There are illustrations of maps and various record-breaking animals or things. I was curious and wanted to know more about some facts that I found here. But that is material for another book or even more books.

I would recommend this book to all curious children. But I would say that their parents could enjoy this book too. 4.5 stars

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this! All opinions are my own.

This is an amazing book with all the facts and information about the different record-breaking things all over the world. The author really did a lot of research and I commend her for that. The illustrations are also great and eye-catching.

I really enjoyed this book, and I think kids will too! The illustrations are captivating, and the cover the entirety of each and every page. They are the type of illustrations that you have to sit and stare at to see every little detail that might be randomly hiding...love that!
My favorite highlighted places were the Underground City in Turkey and the Glow Worm Cave in New Zealand.

A fascinating illustrated compendium that introduces children to a huge variety of record-breaking places, animals, things, etc. Some things featured include: deepest underground city, tallest trees, loudest animal, longest-erupting volcano, largest mammal colony, longest horse race, etc. Interesting facts about every continent is featured in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Information on each topic is pretty brief as the audience for this book is middle-upper elementary school aged children. This would be a wonderful starting point to pick a school project or simply to pore over in fascination!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

My son loved this book. He loves trivia and had already read some of the entries in the book, but enjoyed reading it all again. This book also gave more details about a single phenomenon, natural feature or animal, so that was nice too. I had issues with a previous Atlas of book we had read, as I thought the trivia wasn’t exactly placed in order and was all over the place, but I got used to the placement in this one and was able to enjoy it as much as son did.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.

What an amazing premise! Recordbreakers in all kinds of categories: human building, animal feats, and other natural wonders depicted with beautiful art, and showcasing all sorts of places. Perfect for homeschooling or just fans of The Guinness Book of World Records.

My son loves this book, he loves the detailed illustrations and was fasinated by the records. A must read!

Emily Hawkins books are always beautifully illustrated and the rich info is so artfully presented. It's no surprise that this became an instant favourite for my 7 year old son, who was very engaged and was gleefully reciting the facts he learned with the rest of our family. Well done! Very grateful to netgalley for the opportunity to review this.