Each title looks at each country through a variety of themes such as location, landscape and climate, population and health, settlements, family life, religion and beliefs, education and learning, employment and economy, industry and trade, farming and food, transport and communications, leisure and tourism and environment and wildlife. Includes maps, statistics panels and simple graphs and charts; and a topic web showing links with this series to other subject areas.

Author Biography

Susan Crean has worked in educational publishing in the USA and UK for more than 10 years. She has written and edited hundreds of books for children and young people, specialising in world history and geography.