Perhaps in having to be universal (it's little use selling a book featuring Kodiak bears to Australians or Brits, and vice versa) this does spend a fair bit of time escaping the 'nature' remit. After some good pages of geology, we hit on fossils, then end up labelling the planets and looking at star constellations. Still, this wide gamut of topics, and the well-pitched exercises (labelling this; choosing correct stickers for that – a great way to make this a use-once volume, grr; and all with little harder than a word search) both make for a decent educational/revision tool. Skills include analysing a bar graph, understanding a simple map's key, some simple maths sums, and some actual field observation, in cataloguing our rocks and spotting clouds. And by the end there certainly is enough concerning animals and wildlife conservation to make this very much on point.