Earth's Incredible Places: Grand Canyon

By Author / Illustrator

Susan Lamb

Genre

Non Fiction

Age range(s)

Publisher

Flying Eye Books

ISBN

9781838741600

Format

Hardback

Published

04-04-2024

Synopsis

Stretching across a rocky plateau in America, carved deep into the rocks by the rushing Colorado River, lies the Grand Canyon. Its bands of rock tell us about millions of years of our planet's history and the indigenous Hopi, Havasupai, and Navajo tribes that have ties to the land. Today at least five million people visit Grand Canyon National Park every year.

This stunning illustrated guide is packed with incredible facts about this natural wonders' wildlife, people, geography, and history. The Grand Canyon has captured humankind's imagination since the Ice Age. Now it is your turn to explore!

Reviews

Earth's Incredible Places: Grand Canyon by Susan Lamb is divided into four sections: Welcome to the Grand Canyon, People of the Canyon, Wildlife of the Canyon and the Park today. There are links to pretty much every subject of the curriculum within the beautifully illustrated pages of this book.

For someone teaching about the Grand Canyon or America or amazing landscapes, this book is ideal. It contains double page spread after double page spread of informative text on many themes including: myths, tribes, timeline, ecosystems, fossils to name but a few.

One of those great books to dip into or base a whole topic on!

80 pages / Reviewed by Sharon Porter, teacher