Follow the Equator product reviews

My daughter is hugely into animals and nature. She loves learning about our planet and often shares with me her hopes of future adventures. She has this dream where she'd like to take a boat to South America and study parrots and things. As a mum, I want to be engaging with that spark in her and I look out for anything that is going to help us with that.

This book is pretty amazing. On the face, it is a book about the geography of the Equator. You travel through 13 countries along the Equator and learn a little snippet about each country. It's not terribly detailed, but it's a lot of travel for one picture book. I liked that you got to know a little about the area and they showed some of the animals that came from each region.

Some of the facts we had learnt from other sources, but it was good. This book did help us cement those facts in our memories. I also loved the large font, and the layout. This was easy to read with only a few things I struggled to pronounce. My daughter was thoroughly engaged in the information and we both poured over the pictures.

I was really amazed by the photos of the animals. For example, the close up of the Hippo, showed it's whiskers. I had no idea they had hair on their faces. So it's fair to say I learnt quite a bit about the region that I didn't know and I loved sharing that with my kid. Thanks KIWIreviews and Scholastic for giving us this opportunity.

Follow the Equator is a fun and colourful book that teaches you a little about life along the line of the equator, something that taught even me a couple of small facts.

Each double page is set in one specific place along the equator, each one has an animal indigenous to that part of the world, a short paragraph about the area and the basic climate etc. This is a good sized book and takes advantage of the images it puts on each page.

The only page that I thought could have been done better has a photo of an Okapis, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I personally feel that a side on view of the Okapis would have had a better impact. Other than that I loved all the pictures, my kids don't care about the reading side of it, they just want to look at the picture.

A lovely, vibrant and informative book, such a lovely easy to read book and well worth a look at.