Almost Everything

I am in love with this book. My son is in love with this book. It's oversized, a bit eclectic and jam-packed with images and accompanying words, featuring both ordinary and unusual objects with great attention to detail.Each page is a theme - trees and plants, the human body, costumes, transportation. It's part history, part anatomy, part cultural reference, part botany and totally entrancing. There are so many objects on each page, it's easy to miss some objects in a single read. That's part of the fun, because it's fun to find new things in subsequent readings. Slightly older children can use it to associate uncommon words with accompanying images, which makes it a keeper on our bookshelf for years. Lovely book. Recommended.

Heads up, this book has a human anatomy page. It shows it all... This page surprised us. I was able to color "bathing suits" onto the people using a black sharpie and nobody is the wiser. We also have the ZOO book by Joelle Jolivet. My kiddos love reading these, tracing pictures etc. these books are quite large, make sure to read the dimensions before purchase. I think the size makes them that much more fun though. There's also an index if you will at the back of this book. It lists facts etc for picture. Plenty to do and learn with these books.

I purchased this book and the biology book as a gift for my neices & nephews. I was so excited to look through them! I'm glad I did so before wrapping them! There is a page with human anantomy in the Almost Everything book. There is a full frontal illustration of a man & woman. I myself, think the illustrations are tasteful and child apporariate. However, I will not be giving my inlaws this book for their children. I feel like it is their decision when and how their kids learn about human anatomy. :) My husband and I like the books so much though, we're just going to keep it for our own future children. Just a word of warning! Otherwise I am very pleased with these beautiful books.

Such an amazing, informative book. My kids read this one and the animal one nightly. The only thing I don’t like is that they aren’t sturdy. They get a lot of use, but the binding fails after just a few reads, probably due to the size and weight of the book. Really sucks because my kids are obsessed with them!

At first, I bought this because I liked the large format, and it looked good in the room, thinking he would look at it when he's older (it's not your typical kids book - the objects are more realistic, varied, and less cartoony). He was learning about something in school (igloos maybe?) and we pulled the book down. Now we read it every night, always pointing out something new and talking about it, then he points it out the next day. Great book to move beyond "Flower" to "Iris, Rose, Lily" etc. He can't get enough - highly recommended to kids at any age. PS - we like to identify an object in the book (like an ocarina), then watch a YouTube video of someone playing it as a special treat from time to time.

This book is the best! However, the copy I got was scratched up and had names etched all over the front and back covers... But other than that, this book is great. I was entertained for probably a solid hour, examining everything on each page.

This is a beautiful classic book. Something that will last for years. Right now my son just points at pictures and names them, or flips through the pages to look at the beautiful drawings. This is a very large book, so young kids will need to be reading this with assistance; the thin pages will tear as they may be awkward to turn. This would be a beautiful gift.

Awesome book! I couldn't believe how large this book is. Great for all ages!