An amazing picture of our world right now - created for the internet generation

Help your child learn all about our world and its people. Clever illustrations tell the story of our modern world, from a skyscraper skyline scaled to show the population density of cities to a pyramid chart showing the youngest and oldest populations by country.

Jaw-dropping facts, figures and incredible photographs combine to tell the story of our modern world. So your child will not only understand the world, but see it in a whole new light.

This ground-breaking book for today's internet generation offers a whole new way of reading, seeing and understanding our world.

This book was recognised in the Best Book with Facts category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

There are 240 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2010 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .