Pocket Genius: Cars: Facts at Your Fingertips
Pocket Genius: Cars: Facts at Your Fingertips book cover

Pocket Genius: Cars: Facts at Your Fingertips

Paperback – Illustrated, January 19, 2016

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Price
$5.81
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
DK Children
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1465442376
Dimensions
3.87 x 0.43 x 5.06 inches
Weight
4.2 ounces

Description

DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's leading illustrated reference publisher and part of Penguin Random House, formed on July 1, 2013. DK publishes highly visual, photographic nonfiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 87 countries and in 62 languages, with offices in Delhi, London, Melbourne, Munich, New York, and Toronto. DK's aim is to inform, enrich, and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivalled clarity to a wide range of topics with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. xa0 Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. DK’s extensive children’s list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers, and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO® books. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers, as well as the award-winning travel publisher, Rough Guides.

Features & Highlights

  • From the factory to the road, browse through more than 170 cool cars — from hatchbacks to hybrids — in
  • Pocket Genius: Cars
  • . Trace the history of the automobile from early vintage cars to modern concept cars, limousines to coupes, and minivans to sports cars in this compact-size reference guide perfect for children ages 8–12.
  • Redesigned in paperback, DK's best-selling Pocket Genius series is now available in an engaging compact and economical format that is ideal for both browsing and quick reference for use in school and at home. Catalog entries packed with facts provide at-a-glance information, while locator icons offer immediately recognizable references to aid navigation and understanding, and fact files round off the book with fun facts such as record breakers and timelines. Each pocket-size encyclopedia is filled with facts on subjects ranging from animals to history, cars to dogs, and Earth to space and combines a child-friendly layout with engaging photography and bite-size chunks of text that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant readers.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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My Son Loved It

I bought this book for my now 5 year-old old son who loves cars. He was constantly turning the pages and asking me to read things to him before he learned how to read.
5 people found this helpful
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Great!

My 6 year old son loves it!! He loves the description of every car!
2 people found this helpful
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Excellent pocket book with basic car. info and very nice illustration and photos.

Excellent pocket book with basic car. info and very nice illustration and photos. Vey fair price.
2 people found this helpful
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Smaller than I thought but I’m happy

It’s smaller than I thought but it’s well made and every page is color. I bought this book to send to my friend’s son in Japan. He loves cars so I hope he will like this book.
1 people found this helpful
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11 yr old Really enjoyed this!

Got this for an 11 year old car lover, he really liked this tiny book!
1 people found this helpful
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Perfect stocking stuffer

My son has several of this set, they are great
1 people found this helpful
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Love these

My son loves all of these! They are small but very good quality and very interesting!
1 people found this helpful
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Tiny tiny book!

Tiny, tiny paperback. I thought it would be the same size overall as the hardback ones, but it is definitely not! Disappointing. My five year old likes the pictures in it, though.
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Very small type

The main text is set with 6 point *leading*, which means smaller than 6 points for the characters. This is really, really small – the size of text you'd expect to find for legal disclaimers, or even slightly smaller. People with middle aged and older eyes will definitely want reading glasses, or even a magnifying glass.

It's a pocket book, and it probably would fit in an adult man's shirt pocket, but it looks like a normal book that's been shrunk down, rather than a book that contains less information so that it fits in a small size. The book is five inches (12.5 cm) tall, so it's similar in size to a 3x5 index card, except for being wider. If they'd made it just 20% bigger (like a 4x6 index card), it would be perfect.

The contents are great. I wish they had a similar one that focused on trucks or other types of vehicles.
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VERY TINY book!

Cute book, but fits in the palm of my hand. Not for anyone who needs reading glasses!