Attractive, Interesting and brilliant - Rated 
I can dip into this book at any time, and no matter how many times i look thorugh it, there is always something that i havent read yet!
It is so colourful and the layouts are simply fantastic. It really draws you in!
I have learnt so much from it including that vending machines in japan dispense single pages of newspapers, the smalles thing in the world is the quark and the average life expwctancy in swaziland is 33.
Theres something for everyone, with sections on: society places and beliefs, the natural world, history, your body and many more!
Go on, buy it!
Winner of the English Association's Key Stage 2 Non-Fiction Award 2007 - Rated
I'm information for the iPod generation - this is certainly true of this eye-catching and innovative encyclopaedia through which the reader navigates as if at a computer screen. The philosophical underpinning seems to be that everything connects, so readers are directed to linking topics in different parts of the book. There are copious interesting and unsettling questions - such as 'Can you imagine a world without printed words?' And then there is the kind of miscellaneous information that young readers love to come across when browsing - how many people use the internet? what are the most dangerous kinds of litter to humans and animals?
This book is visually exciting - much learning is communicated through the vast variety of illustrations: drawings, maps, diagrams, cartoons, photographs and charts. The dramatic 3-D effect front cover ensures that this is abook that will be picked up!
Wonderful collection of random knowledge - Rated
The perfect present for every teenager with an enquiring mind - and the grown-ups around them. You can open this book at any page and find a visually engaging, fun, knowlegeable and stimulating spread of facts, illustrations, observations and thoughts. Literally unputdownable, you might have to buy two copies.
'PIck Me Up' - exciting new reading experience - Rated
An encyclopedia but not as we know it - 'Pick Me Up' practically jumps off the shelf at you. Ultra-cool design, exciting visuals and a ton of fascinating facts are guaranteed to keep any child - or adult, for that matter - engrossed for hours (it certainly filled a few gaping holes in my own general knowledge - and I'm 35!) Everything about this encyclopedia breaks new ground - the way the content is arranged and related thematically is pure genius, and makes for an entirely different reading experience every time you pick the book up (the two children I read it with likened it to 'going on a quest'...)
A resounding thumbs-up - has the makings of a modern classic.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too - Rated
Gone are the days of boring, cumbersome, and, ultimately, not all that helpful encyclopedias. The new king of interesting resource information is here, and it's called PICK ME UP. Everything you've ever wanted to know about just about anything (and maybe even some stuff you didn't even know you wanted to know!) is included in the 300+ pages of this book.
Although there are eight actual categories included in PICK ME UP--Science, Technolgy, and Space; Society, Places, and Beliefs; History; The Natural World; People Who Made the World; Arts, Entertainment, and Media; You and Your Body; Planet Earth--this book is actually hard to categorize. There are numerous ways to find the information you need, from browsing one of the aforementioned categories, to cross-referencing individual pages, to using the index, or simply picking a page at random to begin your quest for knowledge.
For instance, did you know that Albert Einstein's brain was actually different in width and shape than those of us who claim to be not-so-smart geniuses? It's true! Or how about the fact that the Vikings were expert ice-skaters? Or even that a "jamon" is an entire leg of ham--the best of which comes from a pig who has been fed nothing but acorns. Seriously, I'm not making any of this up! It's all there, right in the pages of PICK ME UP.
Amazingly enough, my nearly ten-year-old son, who usually has to be tied to a chair and threatened with having his video games taken away to even look at a book, found plenty to hold his interest within the pages of PICK ME UP. Sure, he seemed to have a knack for finding the weirdest and grossest facts inside the book, but to me this was still considered an
accomplishment. Take my word for it--PICK ME UP is the reference king, and you'd do well to add a copy to your home library. Who knows? You just might learn something.
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