Maps (2013)

An atlas built for lying on the floor with. Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski give each featured country its own oversized spread and fill it with tiny labeled drawings of local wildlife, food, activities and famous people, so a child learns where a place is by what happens there. It is a picture atlas rather than a political one, with fewer than 50 countries and nothing to memorize for a test, and it dates from 2013, so treat it as an invitation to the world rather than a fact checker. Ages seven to ten get the most from it, but whole families end up poring over the same page.