Raise your hand if you remember the year your family found a set of encyclopedias under the Christmas Tree! As exciting as that was years ago, kids today will not be marching quietly through an alphabet of information. Today publishers are giving kids a vast array of informational books with formats that get kids thinking “out of the box”. Each of these books is a visual explosion. Facts are presented in ways that leave kids hungry to read on…discovering, exploring, thinking and having fun doing it! What a great gift to give a child this Christmas!
Pick Me Up, Created by David Roberts and Jeremy Leslie is an invitation to do just that!
This book can be opened on any page and the reader is off on a “choose your own adventure” through nature, history, and technology, the arts, societies and beliefs.
Think blogs are new? Really? Find out how blogging relates to a form of communication used 300 years ago! What about propaganda and advertising and oh, ever heard of Dr. Joseph Goebbels? Go ahead pick it up! I guarantee the quest will be as fascinating as the final discovery, in this amazing and truly unique volume. Each reading takes the reader down a new path. What is the connection between dogs and rockets? Check out the (brief) history of medicine in six (graphic) chapters. War is BAD! Well, of course it is but, find out why war is good for some very important reasons having nothing to do with who wins! The problem with this book is how to put it down!
Ages 9+
*Companion book: Do Not Open, An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best-kept Secrets. Did you know that there are 13 symbols hidden on our very own dollar bill?
How to be a GENIUS…Your Brain and How to Train It, byJohn Woodward 
This tempting book, beckons to most everyone! An amazingly simple explanation of how that mysterious blob inside our skull works! What is the connection between vision and the brain? See simple illusions that are difficult to shake even when we know how they work! Learn how “impossible” illusions can make your brain do…flips! This book is packed with stuff to try with the brain power of a friend or even your pet! Learn ways to improve memory or boost creativity. Take a personality test and see what makes you tick! Dreams, emotion, fear and intuition are very heady business! Colorful, crazy and fun…a book that will give kids 9+ a whole lot to think about!
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