Recipe for Better Memorization? Memory Super Powers! by Nelson Dellis is What Your Kids Need!

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Synopsis:

A fun and highly practical guide to helping kids achieve remarkable memorization skills

The Memory Thief wants to steal your memories! Luckily, Nelson, the Memory Champ, is on hand to guide you through the Forest of Forgettable Names and around the Great Word Pyramids. Nelson will help readers escape the Pirates of the Periodic Table and journey through the Himalayan Memory Palace. The quest for an infallible memory will culminate on the Number Trek to finally defeat the Memory Thief once and for all.

Guided by national memory champion Nelson Dellis, readers will learn the tricks and secrets to remembering everything from the world capitals to the elements of the periodic table to speeches and soliloquies—and even enjoy themselves in the process!

Review:

Aimed at kids grades 5-8, but kids younger and older, can make use of this book (as can adults as well!). The book is laid out with a map, to get kids on an adventure of learning to become better rememberers, by looking for ways we loose memory an how to help get it back. Methods you know, like mnemonics are here, but also number rhyme, word association, visual association and the peg method, which you may not. The techniques range from simple to those requiring lots of practice. 

Especially for kids, the visual techniques in the book will be ones that they can quickly grasp and use for their different classes. Adults will do better with emotional add ons, as that plays to our experience. but for kids and adults, learning how to STORE an them recall these memories is the key, and this is what your kids (and you) can learn with this book!

I would say this is an excellent book for some at home learning over the Summer, and into the school year, to make use of the techniques learned. You could easily make a game of learning, with rewards and more.This fun book will serve them for years to come!

About the Author/Illustrator:

Nelson Dellis holds a number of memory records and is a four-time US Memory Champion and a Grandmaster of Memory. He is a highly sought-after memory expert and public speaker and has made appearances on the Today show, ABC’s Nightline, The Dr. Oz Show, Katie, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and more. He lives in Miami. 

Steph Stilwell is an illustrator and designer based in Brooklyn. She grew up in the tiny state of Delaware, where she honed her drawing superpowers from a young age.