I was immediately drawn to this book because of its easy-to-follow "100 facts" format. A lot of elementary-aged students that I know are really interested in learning and memorizing facts, which is why I think this book would be a good addition to a classroom library. It includes pictures with labels, fun facts, illustrated diagrams, and sections about certain extraordinary events/places. I think this would be a good book to use with students who are easily intimidated by long texts-- the teacher could easily assign them a number of "facts" to read to help them finish the book piece by piece.

I would use this book as a jumping-off point for a research project (i.e. do research on one "fact" from the book) or as a way to help students tackle small amounts of reading at a time instead of whole books or chapters.