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The Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia tells children about nearly all kinds of things. The book's motto is "From Aboriginal Australians to Zoos".

Published by Dorling Kindersley, it won Blue Peter Children's Book Award in 2001.^[1]

[edit] The Entries

At least every entry includes:

• A timeline.
• A running index.
• Some Sub-Entries.
• A 'find out more' box.
• Some Captions or explanations.
• A Map.

At the end there is 22-page illustrated Factfinder and an index.

[edit] Timelines

The pages with Timelines are:

• History of Africa.
• History of the Arabs.
• History of Australia.
• Bronze Age.
• Byzantine Empire.
• Julius Caesar.
• History of Canada.
• History of China.
• Sir Winston Churchill.
• American Civil War.
• Composers.
• James Cook.
• The Crusades.
• Ancient Egypt.
• Elizabeth I.
• Films.
• History of France.
• French Revolution.
• History of France.
• Ancient Greece.
• Habsburgs.
• History of India.
• Industrial Revolution.
• History of Ireland.
• Iron Age.
• History of Italy.
• History of Japan.
• History of the Jews.
• Martin Luther King.
• Abraham Lincoln.
• Louis XIV.
• Mao Zedong.
• History of Medicine.
• Middle Ages.
• Mongol Empire.
• Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Napoleonic Wars.
• History of the Netherlands.
• History of New Zealand.
• Ottoman Empire.
• Ancient Persians.
• Polar Exploration.
• Prehistoric Peoples.
• Renaissance.
• American Revolutionary War.
• Roman Empire.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• History of Russia.
• Russian Revolution.
• History of Scandinavia.
• Scientists and Inventors.
• History of Scotland.
• History of South America.
• History of Southeast Asia.
• History of Spain and Portugal.
• Stone Age.
• Spaceflight.
• History of the United Kingdom.
• History of the United States.
• History of the U.S.S.R..
• Victorian Age.
• Vietnam War.
• George Washington.
• Wild West.
• Women's Rights.
• World War I.
• World War II
• Writers and Poets.

The thing that shows the timeline is a sceptre, wagon,etc.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia - Dorling Kindersley". http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781405314978,00.html#. Retrieved 2008-05-11.