EARTHSEARCH A Kid's Geography Museum in a Book by John Cassidy

         This is one of the most interactive and engaging books I have seen. Every page has some sort of interactive activity for the reader to do. This book is longer and divided into sections such as: "Get Lost," "Trash," "Meet the Humans," and "Earth." One of the first pages shows pictures of "wiener" hot dogs and describes how they were buried for ten years in a dump, then dug up and photographed.........they still looked pretty much the same because they had not rotted much. (landfills apparently store more things that don't rot as quickly as you would expect.) There is an actual sand timer built into one page to represent the fact that every 10 seconds, 44 people are born on Earth. There is a whole section about getting "lost" on Earth, and how Christopher Columbus is the most famous "lost" person.
          There is a section about the solar system, and earthquakes, and another section about how quickly Africa is growing. On another page there is an interactive "people color wheel" that spins around to create any skin tone......there is also a blurb about "the whole world handshake" because so many people have shaken hands that eventually everyone on Earth will shake hands through someone else. This books asks lots of questions and then provides the answers to them all in the last few pages. This book is packed with interesting trivia and would be a fun to have in a classroom library. John Cassidy also wrote, The Explorabook.