Tecnodidattica - Arca Globe for Children | with Animals and World-Famous Landmarks |Illuminated and revolving | Graduated Meridian | Texts in English | 10"/25cm Diameter, Blue

My 3 year old is animal mad and he love love loves this globe. He enjoys talking about where his favourite animals live in the world before he falls asleep at night. We also have friends and family in Scotland, Spain, Italy, Australia, China and the USA, so this has helped him understand how far away from us they are. We use it as the only light in his room at bedtime and it gives off enough soft light to read by as well as providing a great distraction to allow me to leave him - "you look at your globe and i'll be back to check on you in 10 minutes" He's always asleep when I go back in. Because the bulb is so well hidden we can have this right on his bedside table knowing he wont burn himself on it. Its not the greatest in terms that its quite rudimentary - the diagrams are more like illustrations, Wales is a bit squished, and it really only covers the basic animals. Its also a bit difficult to spin but ours may just need oiling or something. Overall a great item for the younger child. Educational, fun and practical!

Not very good for showing capital cities and some of the Countries aren't very clear, I suppose it's because it concentrates on the animals. I chose wrong for my needs. Other than that it is a great quality globe and I would recommend it.

My 4yr old nephew loved it, and the illustrations across the map turned learning into fun and fun into exploring. The light up of the Globe is lovely at night, though I would caution that the connecting power cable (not pictured in product photos) is quite chunky and not very pleasing to look at. It would be much better if the cord match the colour of the Globe's base and if it were thinner and longer. Overall very happy!

I would give this product and seller 5 stars. Although when it arrived, the light switch didn’t work; when I contacted the seller, they promptly replied to my email and sent out another globe. This was done all within a couple of days and I didn’t need to fuss about returning the first globe (which is still good - just doesn’t light up). The globe itself is great as you can see the animals that live around the world. My nephew loves it!

This globe feels low quality. I have no experience of buying a similar product but for £30 I would have expected something a bit nicer. Eg the stand is very lightweight so when you want to rotate the globe the whole thing including its stand and power cable spins on the table. The globe itself is nicely illustrated but the overall assembly isn’t very sturdy and doesn’t feel quite right.

Excellent Product

A fantastic globe for younger children as it doubles up as a night-light and has images of animals located in the countries that they live in the wild. However I was disappointed that it didn’t have as many smaller city and town names printed on it as the much earlier edition of Tecnodidattica used to have.

The globe has some really good features for kids, nice to have the illustrations throughout. It's raised some good questions from my little girl already, so well happy with that. She did say to me randomly (why do fat people live in Japan). Proof right there that she is paying attention to the images placed on the countries! We have since Sumo wrestled to help explain.