Amazon.com From the smallest guitar to the youngest astronaut to the all-time home run hitter， the world has produced a whole lot of amazing record-breakers. Scholastic's Book of World Records 2002 clues readers in to 300 of them. The easy-to-follow text is organized into 7 categories of records: nature， human-made， U.S.， science and technology， money and business， sports， and popular culture， with such intriguing subgroups as disasters， tunnels， vehicles， Olympics， movies， industry， and more. Multicolored tabs allow readers to quickly find the sections they're interested in， and brief， fact-laden text， coupled with crisp photos， makes the information highly accessible. Revised for 2002， this trivia-packed volume features more than 600 photographs and graphics， updated records in technology and computers， and a record held by each of the 50 states of the USA. Readers of all ages will find the information irresistible， and young readers especially will benefit when writing school reports. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter From Publishers Weekly In the Scholastic Book of World Records 2002 by Jennifer Corr Morse readers can find out about more than 300 record-setters， such as what country consumes the most chocolate， which animal spends an average of 22 hours snoozing in a tree and what turned a teddy bear into the "world's most valuable" (a Steiff teddy bear dressed in Louis Vuitton clothes that went for nearly $200，000 at auction). Color photos and comparative bar graphs on every page plus a section on records held by each of the 50 states make this a real winner. (Scholastic Reference， $9.95 paper 320p ages 8-up ISBN 0-439-31398-8; Nov.)Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information， Inc.