Freshwater Fishing for Kids (Edge Books: Into the Great Outdoors)

Bought this as a gift for a 6 year old newbie angler. While he seemed to like it I was puzzled by the question how the publisher of this book defines "kid" and how they approach that target audience. I rather felt that for the younger readers this book uses age inappropriate language, introduces technical terms that are only poorly explained, and on the other hand it doesn't provide enough meaningful substance for an older reader. Further, this booklet appears very colorful and "visual" when you simply flip through the pages. However, when actually reading the book it turns out that the pictures are more or less purely decorative but don't really help explain the subject (e.g. page 11: "Most freshwater fishing is done with rods that go with baitcasting, spincasting, and spinning reels" Since these terms are not further explained to the juniors, why aren't there some meaningful pictures/illustrations? Instead an entire page is wasted to show a hand holding a spinning reel and rod. So how is this different from the others? How do any of them work?)

Well done

Good for older kids around 10, our little guy whose 8 had a bit of a hard time reading! But he loves his fish books!

Great book for kids even if they can't read. My son loved looking at the pictures. Great information too.

My 10 year old grand daughter has turned into a fisher girl. She loved the book.

I bought this for my 4 year old grandson and he loves it! He loves the colorful pictures. He loves to fish!

My 7 year old son got this for Christmas and loved it. Very informative and great for his reading level.

I love the book! Perfect print for my 10 year old grandson and simple directions. I was disappointed in the way it was shipped in an envelope.....the paperback book came with a crease that is through the whole book

To be clear, this book is terrible - and not for a UK audience. For a start, it is 32 pages long - including cover page, acknowledgements, TOC, index, glossary and 'read more' pages. This is more like a pamphlet. The worst bit for a UK audience is that it only mentions North American fish - I can't see a single mention of a fish found in UK waters. Next, it's just generic waffle with no diagrams of methods, nothing on float fishing, ledgering or methods other than mentioning spinning. This is an embarrassment of a book and if I'd seen it in a book shop first, there's no way I would have bought it. It's gone straight in the recycling.

The book wasn't what we thought it was going be, it appeared to be an American Publication, and woefully weak information for an 11year old fishing in England, and appear to be quite expensive for its contents.

The book is a waste of money more like a free book you get with a happy meal only 36 pages postage was good cant complain about that

EXCELLENT

Easy to read