Guinness World Records 2006

click here for more details, find new or used items	Used from £0.14 Pages: 656 (Mass Market Paperback) Editor: Claire Folkard ISBN: 0553589067 Pub: Bantam USA Pub date: 2006-04-25 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152342

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Disappointing format (22/25 people found this helpful)

This book was meant to be a long awaited gift for my 8 year-old. However, although it is no doubt useful as a source of reference, etc, it certainly is not going to appeal to a child. My concers are the black and white pictures and small format. Basically I believe that the product details should have mentioned those facts, so that the buyer can make a more informed choice. Back to the browser now to look for a bigger and full colour version. Good reading to all.

An essential reference tool. (10/11 people found this helpful)

Whilst some readers will always buy the latest edition of this book because they are interested in the largest, tallest, fastest or whatever, personally I have always found this book to be a first class reference source.

It was from the Guinness Book of records that I learned that the largest Turtle known to man was a giant Leatherback Turtle which (to my great surprise) was washed up on the shores of Ireland - and "not" some Caribbean country as one might expect.

Of course, not all the records are repeated from one edition into the next or each book would be identical except for any new records achieved during the past 12 months. For this reason, the reader might need to collect a few editions of the book in order to have as good a collection of records as possible.

Just a few loose thoughts really.

NM

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