Review Detail

The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid takes you to 100 fun, obscure places around the world. This book hops from country to country through a chain of attractions, you’ll go through Mexico’s caves, then travel over to Vietnam, Japan, France, and more. You’ll travel through mountains, zip-line over the forests, go into the oceans, and more.

What I liked: From the first page this book is packed with fascinating information about each of the locations that you visit. It gives the reader exact coordinates that you can loop up on a map, making this journey feel so much more immersive. This feature allows children to connect the book’s illustrations with real-world images which adds an educational element to encourage deeper exploration of each site.

One of the highlights from this book is the variety of locations that are featured, with two places to explore within each country or state that you visit. This approach showcases hidden gems and obscure places that might not be well known or won’t be the first place you think of visiting when you think of these countries or states. This inclusion of obscure places makes it so that readers are discovering something new.

This book does a great job at varying the type of places that are featured as well. There are plenty of mountains to scale, caves to explore, and other natural wonders, there are also mystical places, and unique animal habitats to explore. The mix keeps this journey exciting and ensures that there is something for all types of explorers. The closing of this book contains various adventures that you can go on depending on the type of explorer you are.

The art really stands out in this book as it is vibrant, fun, and fantastical, bringing all of the locations to life with rich colors and imaginative details. The illustrations take readers to amazing landscapes which allows them to really visualize the wonders of each place. The art captures the essence of each destination in a way that will spark curiosity and adventure in young children’s hearts and minds.

Final Verdict: The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a fun, thrilling book for children who are interested in traveling and exploration. This is a book that people of all ages can enjoy as they learn about new places you may have never heard of. The best part is that this is a book you can revisit time after time and go on different adventures each time you open it, take a look at the end of the book for some suggestions.