  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 01/01/2015 The infographic emerged as the perfect antidote to the clutter of the Internet: simple, creative, appealing representations of complicated subjects. The Super Social Studies Infographics series attempts—and largely succeeds—in extending the concept across several thematic volumes. Though the specific topics covered in each book can be scattershot, they are always helped along by each illustrator’s command of what has become the infographic’s trademark: tidy, droll, fine-lined charts and graphs that are innately appealing. U.S.Geography through Infographics is perhaps overstuffed with not-especially-scientific fun facts but it frequently excels in concepts—for example, the graphic of how Americans get to work has a huge personal automobile (80 percent) dwarfing a tiny bus and train (5 percent). Clarity across the series is inconsistent, but interest levels always remain high. - Copyright 2015 Booklist. Loading...
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