A guide that contains facts and gives various information about Ancient Egypt. It helps see inside the Great Pyramid at Giza and discover how Tutankhamun's tomb was found. It is suitable for projects or just for fun. It i

This is a detailed and thoroughly-researched pop-up book that brings the art and monuments of ancient Egypt to life.

Helps you to be an eyewitness to Ancient Greece. This guide and CD shows you the past: from how Greek athletes did the long-jump to why Socrates drank hemlock - explore the history, daily life, beliefs, and achievements o

Covering ancient Iraq, this guide and CD takes you back in time between 3500 to 500 BC, to visit the 'land between two rivers'. It shows you the birthplace of writing and farming and where the first great cities, states a

Helps your child learn about Ancient Rome. This title includes a fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. It covers everything from why Roman baths were so popular to how sea b

From aardvark through to zebra, bring your child face-to-face with their favourite animals with this first reference for young animal lovers, now in paperback. Discover all about over 2,000 animals from the largest and the loudest,

Which animal swims the fastes? Who has the most acute sense of smell? Which is the smallest mammal? Who lays the largest egg? This highly-illustrated reference is packed with startling information, sure to fascinate the whole

Laid out thematically this book explores a wide range of media, such as watercolours or pastels and provides illustrated examples which show the reader how to get started and achieve results.

A guide to things to do and create, including projects involving spycraft, science experiments, paper projects and jokes and tricks. It teaches you how to create and crack codes, make pop-up cards, make a rainbow and cr

How many bones do you have? Why do you need to eat? What happens to your ears and nose as you get older - but not your eyes? Open up the giant fold-out skeleton, pull the pop-ups and peek through the 3-D glasses to find out ho

02 With stunning images and a child-friendly text based on the latest scientific research, the award-winning author of The Big Picture Book explores the effects of changing climate on environments around the world. 03 O

A guide that contains facts about birds. It covers topics ranging from the moment a chick hatches and grows in the nest, to how birds camouflage themselves, fly, hunt and feed. It includes a clip-art CD with over 100 amaz

Were your school dinners liver and onions rather than turkey twizzlers? And was MySpace a den in the back garden built with runner bean canes and bed sheets? This illustrated book contains images from the Ladybird Books archive dating

"Look and Learn" is fondly remembered by thousands as the classic children's magazine from the 60s and 70s. This illustrated tribute to the magazine presents a kaleidoscopic journey through time, whose narrative pauses for oc

Imagine a world without insects and creepy crawlies - there'd be no air conditioning. This book lives at every kind of creeping, crawling, flying, sticking, stinging, poisoning, recycling, murdering, marching, jumping, regurg

A book of puzzles and paradoxes which introduces some of life's important questions with tales and tall stories, reasons and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions.

Helps your child learn about castles. This title includes a fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. It covers everything from why round towers are better than square ones to h

Explores the developing technology and economy of Australia at the hands of the new white settlers: whaling, sealing, farming, timber- felling, ship-building, exploring and transporting go

Whether for homework, school projects, or just for fun, this work includes everything. From computers to music, space exploration to the natural world, the essential subjects are here. This work covers advances in technology,

Helps your child learn about climate change. From what's being done to stop pollution harming life on earth, to why rising sea levels mean maps will need to be redrawn- this title lets your child discover all about our planet a

Helps you to be an eyewitness to crystals and gems. This guide and CD shows us their beauty, uses, structure and variety - from what gives them their colours to how a Quartz watch works. You can get the picture using the

Helps you to explore the watery world. This title helps you to find out how they live, what they eat and how they hunt. It features six photographic pop-up scenes and pull-out surprises on every page.

A guide that contains facts and offers information about dinosaurs. It helps discover how ancient fossils and footprints reveal their awesome world. It includes a clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download, and

Millions of years ago dinosaurs were the masters of the planet. This book takes you on a journey to a lost dinoworld where you'll meet the meat eaters, giant veggies and strange beasts that lived beside them.

Containing unexplained topics, this book is all about exploring lost worlds, unravel secret codes, marvel at mysterious places and meet spooks, spies, secret keepers and scandal makers of the world.

This is a lively and humorous first dictionary with over 2,500 words and definitions. It contains a pronunciation guide for tricky words. Helpful guidewords on every page help children search for words mor

Bluetooth, HDTV, SEMs, PSP and Wii: your world is full of cool gadgets and clever technology. Want to know how it all works? This book reveals what's inside your games console, how spies use GSM for covert operations, the wor

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves" has sold over 3 million copies world-wide. This illustrated follow-up for children shows how confusing the world would be without apostrophes, and how they can completely change the meaning of a sentenc

Helps children learn about musicians. With a clip-art CD, giant wallchart and dedicated website, this title shows them how modern artists like Jim Hendrix transformed music. It also allows them to download 100s of amaz

What defeats foot-eating fungi? How does the brain tell you when you're hungry? Where's there an acid bath in your body? This book reveals what's happening in your insides, exploring the important bits, and how they work.

Juicy Writing is a treasure-trove of inspiration and practical advice on creative writing, and on living a confident, creative life, especially for teenagers. It is a book to relish, to dip into, to read on the train; to len

Did you know caltrops - nasty spiked objects - were scattered over the ground before battle to injure animals or men who trod on them? This title helps you to be an eyewitness to the life of a knight. It lets you take a l

Helps you to be an eyewitness to oil around the world. This guide and CD shows you where it comes from, its history, how we can use it more efficiently to help our environment, and what alternatives scientists are investi

A dictionary for children in their first years at school. It contains 1500 entries in alphabetical order, along with simple, easy-to-read meanings, parts of speech (noun or verb), plurals, and topical examples of sentences t

The Oxford First Rhyming Dictionary is organised alphabetically and contains rhyming words, rhyming families, rhyming sounds, phonics, poems and illustrations. It is the ideal tool to build children's phonic and spell

Take a trip back in time with this interactive, pop-up-and-play adventure with 18 amazing play pieces and a dinosaur book. Read it with your child and see the enormous brontosaurus take a prehistoric flight with the pterodactyl, and

From stone-age settlement to modern marina, this book shows what life was like through the ages, and shows how the port has been transformed over time. It features panoramic pictures which show each stage of the port's history

A tale of Remy, a French rat whose ambition to be a great chef sets in motion a hilarious rat race that wrecks havoc on Paris. How does Remy manage to swop sardine heads for cordon bleu cuisine? Visit Paris, explore Remy's res

A guide that contains facts and offers information about rocks and minerals. It offers topics ranging from how our landscapes evolved, to mineral mining and how diamonds and precious stones are cut. It includes a clip-art

Aims to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. This book contains practical solutions, showing there are many ways to improve your child's reading and stim