Clive Gifford

So interesting, so much cool trivia, great pictures showing the relative heights of famous buildings, mountains, the relative size of various animals and ... pretty much everything, the solar system as fruit.

Try to get the edition with measurements in your preferred system. Amazon has many reviews from Americans complaining about the metric measurements plus one review from someone in the UK who likes metric except when it's kph instead of mph. However, I'm in Canada and ended up with the "first American edition" -- we really do kph so the mph weren't helpful, the temperatures were completely incomprehensible, and I could sort of get on board with the lengths and weights only because I learnt measurements at school in the pre-metric days two generations ago. My grandchildren would be completely confused, or at least they would be if not for the clarity of the pictures. Every page is jam packed with colourful illustrations, worth quite a few words apiece!… (meer)