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"Pick Me Up" Description
Just try to put Pick Me Up down--we dare you. Like surfing the Web, it's alarmingly easy to lose oneself in this heavy compendium of "stuff you need to know." It's even designed with Internet-savvy readers in mind. Once you get beyond the dizzying lenticular cover, open to any page. After gawking at the many bright, sharp photos, illustrations, charts, and caption sunbursts, dig in to the meat: blocks (and triangles and circles) of text about everything from how to confuse an angry seagull to a history of medicine to Germany's exports and imports to an exploration of the meaning of life. As you read along, you'll come across underlined and bold-faced words with a page number following. These are the cross references that will send you flying from page to page, ever deeper into understanding the topic du jour. In the spread about wheels, for example, thereâs a highlighted reference to "Inca, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations 298." Turn to page 298 and start reading about pyramids and lost citiesâ¦then get sidetracked by "fight 154." Suddenly youâre into "rappers 306" and "immune system 86." Get the picture?
Students won't necessarily be able to write entire school reports from Pick Me Up, but they will certainly be able to pepper their papers--and conversation--with unusual and useful facts. Kids and grownups alike will happily spend hours browsing Pick Me Up, always finding something new to marvel over.
Just where else you find out 'Why the Roman Empire is like McDonald's.' (Answer: Both are set on world domination.) And then to find two pages that talk about Rome and McDonalds comparing the two organizations. Strange but I had never thought of comparing them. Let's see, Rome had some 645,000 troops, McD's has 1.5 million employees. Hmmmm! This is beginning to make sense. Then on most pages you find a Link - a hyperlink like you have on the web, that takes you somewhere else.
And most of the pages are like this. You want to read about the Beatles, or find five places that have more sheep than people. And who were the kings and Quees of Denmark (No, Hamlet wasn't really one of them, but then again, he was a Prince.)
Anyway, that should give you the idea. This is a random, off beat, marvelous encyclopedia.
Students won't necessarily be able to write entire school reports from Pick Me Up, but they will certainly be able to pepper their papers--and conversation--with unusual and useful facts. Kids and grownups alike will happily spend hours browsing Pick Me Up, always finding something new to marvel over.
Just where else you find out 'Why the Roman Empire is like McDonald's.' (Answer: Both are set on world domination.) And then to find two pages that talk about Rome and McDonalds comparing the two organizations. Strange but I had never thought of comparing them. Let's see, Rome had some 645,000 troops, McD's has 1.5 million employees. Hmmmm! This is beginning to make sense. Then on most pages you find a Link - a hyperlink like you have on the web, that takes you somewhere else.
And most of the pages are like this. You want to read about the Beatles, or find five places that have more sheep than people. And who were the kings and Quees of Denmark (No, Hamlet wasn't really one of them, but then again, he was a Prince.)
Anyway, that should give you the idea. This is a random, off beat, marvelous encyclopedia.
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