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Enter the prehistoric world for an incredible four billion year journey across shifting continents and dinosaur territories. Plants flourish, birds evolve, and dinosaurs charge across the pages of this lively and colourful book. Packed with dynamic historical content, it combines illustrations and photos to help young historians learn all about the period that shaped our planet. From oceans teeming with life to destructive asteroids, they’ll discover the incredible timeline of life that resulted in the world we recognise today. Meet favourite dinosaurs, from the terrifying T.Rex to the spiky stegosaurus; nurture your inner palaeontologist by learning about prehistoric plant and animal fossils; and discover destructive extinction events that changed the world forever.
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£8.99
The Rubik’s Cube is the world’s best-known puzzle, a magical object that has baffled and fascinated the world for over fifty years. This clearly-illustrated step-by-step guide teaches you a foolproof beginners’ method for solving the Cube, plus advanced techniques if you want to learn to solve it in seconds.
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£29.97
Learn how to design, build and customise over 60 mini-projects in Minecraft. This exciting collection features firefighter planes and deep-sea submarines to racing circuits and secret hidden bases.
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£9.99
Unravel a treasure trove of facts about the most fascinating rocks, minerals, and gems. Learn all about where these objects come from, what they are made of, their uses, what makes them unique. This ultimate kids’ factbook includes must-know facts and stats about more than 200 rocks and minerals – their unique colours, characteristics, and attributes.
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£9.99
All the basics of these amazing creatures are covered in this beautiful and informative photographic book on snakes and other reptiles. Anatomy, along with habitat and behaviour, and lots of fascinating facts about reptiles that every child will just love reading about. See how they survive in forests, deserts, and oceans, and how these clever creatures have adapted to live in seemingly inhospitable habitats. ‘Everything You Need To Know About Snakes’ also provides ideas for things to make, games to play, quizzes, and amazing facts to share with friends.
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£16.99
Ever wondered why we knock on wood, cross our fingers, or avoid black cats? Dive in and learn about fascinating superstitions from all over the world!
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£20.00
In Illuminoceans, use your magic three-colour lens to dive beneath the surface of the sea to discover the most unusual, fascinating and important denizens of the deep.
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£14.99
Take a journey through lush rainforests, across grassy plains and up snowy mountains to find thirty-six magnificent monkeys and apes, from the tiny pygmy marmoset to the huge Western lowland gorilla. Intriguing facts accompany every illustration, so you can find out why the Japanese macaque washes its food, how the orangutan makes tools and why gibbons sing duets. Discover all these facts and more in this wonderful compendium that you will revisit again and again.
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Nature holds fascinating secrets, from unusual features, to links between species, to insights into our amazing planet’s past – we just have to know where to find them. In this beautiful field guide to the secret stories of nature readers are invited to journey around the world – through wild forests, over mountains high, to the bottom of our oceans and even as close as our own back gardens. Readers will come away with a wealth of knowledge and discover how looking at nature today can help us understand and unlock mysteries from long ago, from bygone weather to the dinosaurs. The fascinating information from children’s author Saskia Gwinn is brought to life with meticulously detailed, vintage-style artwork from Vasilisa Romanenko, making this book a true treasure trove for the whole family to enjoy.Â
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Board a longship for a voyage of exploration and see the fearsome weapons and armour used by a mighty warrior. Marvel at mysterious picture stones, ingenious inventions and mythical tales of magic, monsters, gods and goddesses.
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£10.99
Nobody really likes to think about rubbish. But whether you know it or not, waste is part of everyone’s lives. Each year, a single person can create up to a tonne of waste. That’s the equivalent weight of a small hippo! Where does waste come from? Where does it end up? And what can we do to help our planet? Renowned picture book creator Philip Bunting answers all these questions and more in this entertaining and enlightening look at how to wallop waste and reduce rubbish. Learn how to start a compost bin, or how to use an old egg carton to sprout your very own seedlings. Get tips on cool things you can do with empty tin cans or an old pair of socks, and discover how long different things take to decompose – from an apple core to a gumboot to a plastic bag. With a positive outlook, ‘Your Planet Needs You!’ shows that taking care of our environment can be both fun and rewarding.
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Are you a team player? Do you have a steady aim? Maybe you are super fast or strong? Whatever your size or skill, there is a sport out there for you. ‘Illustrated Sports Encyclopedia’ is the ultimate guide to the diverse world of sport, from the best known ball-sports, athletics, and water sports to the most obscure racket sports and races. The book showcases different sports by grouping them into categories, including team sports, target sports, winter sports, wheels and motors, horse sports, and extreme sports. Dynamic photography brings the sports to life, and complements the clear explanations and artworks that describe the rules, equipment, competitions, and common terms. A special section on the Olympic and Paralympic Games looks at their history, from the early Greek games right up to the present day. All Summer and Winter Olympic sports are clearly identified and explained.
