With the arrival of summer, I thought it would be a good time to share some books that are great for keeping an elementary-aged kid busy for a long time - these are kind of an older kid equivalent of something like a Richard Scarry picture book, where there's just so much to investigate on every page that they end up poring over it for hours.
Hendrik is a nerd of many stripes, so he's into allll of these, but key to keeping a kid busy of course is finding the big book of whatever subject they're really into. Sometimes we find them by browsing the nonfiction shelves of our library's children's section, based on subject type (outer space, sports, geography, birds, etc.); sometimes I specifically seek out National Geographic Kids or DK books as these tend to have lots of great pictures when they go in-depth on a topic; and sometimes I just search the library catalog online for whatever our subject du jour is, place a bunch of holds, and just see what sticks when we bring our stack home.
Above are a variety that we've borrowed (or even bought, which turned out to be well worth it) that are some great examples of books with lots of info in easily digestible snippets, great pictures, and a deep dive into a variety of topics, whether you have a kid who loves the Harry Potter series, random facts and trivia (he also loves this series), Legos, biology/science (this is another fave), even Formula One racing (Peter loves this book too - the aerial maps are quite cool).
And bonus - while I've been trying to do less Amazon shopping and thus have done less linking to Amazon, a few of these are included in their current "buy 3 for the price of 2" promo currently going on, which is pretty great if you really want to stock your shelves for summer... I'm pretty tempted to add this Kids' Encyclopedia to our collection.
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