Editorial Review

In this series, the reader learns about a variety of countries and special characteristics of each country. For example, each book discusses the customs, traditions, food, landscape, climate, celebrations, and the people of each country. The beautiful photographs of each book capture the
readers’ attention and support the informational text within the book. These non-fiction books include numerous non-fiction text features to support the reader in understanding the important facts in the book. Some non-fiction text features included in each book are engaging photographs, maps, a table of contents, labels, headings, bold-faced words, a chart, a diagram, a timeline, a glossary, and an index. For fellow educators, these books are a dream for teaching non-fiction text features and utilizing them for student research projects. The books are all set up in the same format, which allows for whole group discussions on the text features and information within the text. The books share similar information in the same order, thus allowing for great discussions for students to share about their ‘country’ and compare countries to one
another. Readers, pack your bags for an epic adventure of discovering all of these fascinating countries!