I got this for my daughter as she is obsessed with everything global and it came in great handy for her history project she had to do in May. The globe lights up and when she has all her lights off and it set in the middle of the room it does light up the whole room (it must be extremely dark for this to happen though), the added bonus was seeing all the zodiac animals on here too. The light has not burned out yet and it’s been a couple of months on daily and nightly. I’d recommend for any ages my daughter is 14 and loves it.