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This is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming is the kind of book that calls to a child to flip through it. The red cover (and red pages with text boxes and pictures inside) are lively and fun. The information presented in a factual way includes an overview of our planet, how weather works, how changes in our climate affect the oceans and polar caps, and finally what we can do about it.

After reading it, my nine-year-old daughter went around switching off unneceplanet.jpgssary lights saying, “Global warming, Mom!” I was thinking more about the high cost of electricity, but whatever the motivation, this book is a good overview for kids age seven and up that feeds into the sense of responsibility for our earth that most of them seem to have.

The World Atlas for Young Explorers has what you have come to expect from a National Geographic book. The pictures are dramatic and evocative. The maps are detailed. The information is presented in a kid-friendly way, yet it’s comprehensive. In fact, when my daughter’s friend was over recently, she easily found some information for her fourth-graatlas.jpgde class project on Japan.

Another feature perfect for our tech-savvy kids of today is that the book gives web links throughout, all of which can be easily accessed via a special website for the atlas to provide more information, video, or even a fun game. The website can be searched by topic or by book page.

Remember last month when I said that if you are giving a gift, a big book makes more of an impact? National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers is a big book — 11 by 14 inches. This would be a great gift for kids aged eight and up.

Books make great last-minute gifts! If you’d like ideas for preschoolers, school-aged kids, men, or women, click the 5 Minutes for Books category below and browse some of the books we’ve featured over the last seven months.

We are giving away one of each of these books to a U.S. or Canadian reader. Please leave a comment, indicating your preference, if you’d like to win. We’ll post the winners next week in this column.

The winners of Can I Have a Cell Phone for Hanukkah? (a great parenting book for school-aged children, regardless of your religion!) are

#29 Dodo O.
#20 Shari
#26 Kristine
#41 Kristen
#31 Taryn

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  11. Oh I would love this,my daughter thats 10 is trying to save the earth,my doing her part,this would give her more ideas.GREAT BOOK

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    I would love to have this one! 🙂

    Jim Burns is the bomb!

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  14. My daughters would love the World Atlas for young explorers. They dream of traveling the world together, and I’m for anything that helps to further ignite their passion for wayward wanderings.

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  18. I love giving books as gifts and the Atlas is a great way to get young children to connect with the idea that the world is large with many people and cultures.

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  21. I am forever looking for books that help me discuss REAL topics with my grandchildren. This book it right up my alley! Thanks for sponsoring this type of giveaway. Count me in.

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  36. either book would be fine. i like the atlas more. my husband is in college to be a scientist. i think he would enjoy reading these books with our kids

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  38. The World Atlas for Young Explorers would be awesome for my nephew for his birthday, which is very soon after Christmas. I get him the “Big Backyard” from NWF every year for Christmas so this would be awesome as an add on.

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  42. World Atlas…I have an 8 y/o daughter who is really into maps. Her dad’s atlas is a dinosaur and this would be so helpful.

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  56. This is my planet would be good, my daughter is learning in school about weather & the earth. This would make a great extra!

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  65. Hello, Please enter me in another one of your fantastic contests. I would be extremely tickled to win any of the books. Thank you…..Cindi

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