Discover Brazil

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Your readers can take a trip around the world with this wonderful series, which offers up-to-date information on countries that may be unfamiliar to most students. From the rainforests of Brazil to the diamond mines of South Africa, your readers will learn about the location, landscape, and economy of each country, along with the rich cultural background that makes each land unique. Maps, fact boxes, and simple graphs and charts make these books fun to read or to use as resources for study projects.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Discovering Brazil (p. 4)
• Landscape and climate (p. 6)
• Population and health (p. 8)
• Settlements and living (p. 10)
• Family life (p. 12)
• Religion and beliefs (p. 14)
• Education and learning (p. 16)
• Employment and economy (p. 18)
• Industry and trade (p. 20)
• Farming and food (p. 22)
• Transportation and communications (p. 24)
• Leisure and tourism (p. 26)
• Environment and wildlife (p. 28)
• Glossary (p. 30)
• Topic web (p. 31)
• Further Information, Web Sites, and Index (p. 32)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-5-Facilitating students who are doing comparative studies, the spreads in these broad surveys investigate the same topics, including "Population and Health," "Employment and Economy," and "Environment and Wildlife," providing statistics in textual and graphic form along the way. Since they are so succinct, the books will work best at supplementing more in-depth titles with little morsels of information. For example, in Germany, the country's entire military history is explained as follows: "Germany fought and lost in both World War I and World War II," but in the same book, children can find a "Did You Know?" bubble on the history of cuckoo clocks, and Brazil mentions the government's failure to finish the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Large, bright photographs and short bursts of text make these titles accessible and attractive. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.