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Music And How It Works: The Complete Guide For Kids

Take a visual journey through the world of music and learn the science behind it, too.

Budding music fans will love discovering musical geniuses of every era, from Mozart and classical music to Bowie and pop, as well as finding out how music is created and what links it all together.

The book looks at music throughout history, beginning with the first known melody from the Fertile Crescent and covering modern music phenomena, from K Pop to hip-hop. Instruments and genres from across the world are featured, with "playlists" of key pieces encouraging kids to look up pieces to hear for themselves. STEAM spreads delve into the psychology and math behind music, from how it affects our mood to how it can improve our minds.

Covering India's Ragas, Indonesia's Gamelan, Japan's city pop, and more, this book will help children discover a love of music.

Maths Lab: Exciting Projects for Budding Mathematicians

Explore the exciting world of numbers

Whether you're a maths geek or prefer practical hands-on projects, this book combines creativity with calculations. You don't have to be a genius or even need a calculator - each of the super-fun make-and-do projects in this book comes with simple step-by-step photographs and instructions that will help you whip up a cool maths creation.

Perfect for kids who are interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths), Maths Lab features activities that cover many aspects of maths, including numbers, measurement, and geometry. You'll combine art and maths by drawing impossible objects, create beautiful patterns to make a times-table dreamcatcher, and perfect the ratio for making refreshing fruit drinks. Throughout the book, explanatory boxes show you how the maths works and how the skills you've learned can be used in the real world.

Maths Lab is the perfect package for curious kids who are interested in taking the mystery out of maths.

German For Everyone Junior 5 Words A Day: Learn And Practise 1,000 German Words

Help your child master German vocabulary - five words at a time!

Learn 1000 German words over a year with this German workbook for beginners! It's an essential vocabulary builder for young children who are starting to learn their first German words.

Discover the perfect introduction to German for children aged 6-9. It's the ultimate German lesson for kids! It includes:

- Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practised again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises

- Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practise what they have just learned

- Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary

- Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life; audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation

This unique German teaching guide contains everything your child needs to acquire a firm grasp of the German language in a fun and interactive way! Each week, 20 new words are presented over four days, and on the fifth day, your child can practise the words they have just learned. This will help them build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 German words over the course of a year!

From animals and sports to colours and plants, German for Everyone Junior teaches a mix of nouns and verbs through stunning illustrations with each new word clearly labelled. This encourages young learners to memorise the words before covering them with the cleverly designed flaps and testing their new knowledge. Accompanying audio means that children can also practice their German pronunciation as many times as they want.

The colourful, clear and comprehensive 5 Words a Day series from DK lays the foundations for your child's journey in learning a foreign language, at school or home. Look out for other workbooks in the series! Help your child learn, practise, and understand 1000 French words in French for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day.

The Met Lost In The Museum: A Seek-and-find Adventure In The Met

A visually stunning seek-and-find museum adventure for inquisitive kids.

Seven-year-old Stevie is lost in the galleries! She needs to locate a series of artworks to find her way out and back to her family. Can you help her?

Follow Stevie as she explores the most exciting and intriguing galleries and exhibitions inside The Met in this beautifully illustrated seek-and-find adventure!

As Stevie moves through The Met's galleries of Greek and Roman art, Ancient Egypt, and Modern and Contemporary art, learn about the rarest and most beautiful objects found in the museum's prestigious galleries. Who can you find? What will you discover?

(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

DKfindout! Dinosaurs

Silver award winner in the MadeForMums Awards 2017 children's books series category.

DKfindout! Dinosaurs teaches kids everything they would want to know about the prehistoric world. With beautiful photography, lively illustrations, and key curriculum information, the DKfindout! series will satisfy any child who is eager to learn and acquire facts - and keep them coming back for more!

For any child that can't get enough of these fearsome beasts, DKfindout! Dinosaurs is packed with up-to-date information, quizzes, fun facts and incredible images of all their favourite dinosaurs. Discover how fossils are formed, find out which was the biggest dinosaur, and which was the size of a cat.

DKfindout! Dinosaurs will let children uncover the ancient animals of our planet.

Baby Touch And Feel: Baby Dinosaur

An interactive touch and feel book that inspires hands on learning. Tactile elements on cute baby dinosaurs will encourage motor skill development and early learning.

Slimy scales or fluffy feathers? Every page of this adorable touch and feel book has a special dino-texture or an eye-catching shiny area designed to inspire curiosity in small children.

This children's dinosaur book has 14 sturdy pages packed full of baby dinosaurs doing what they do best - hatching, hiding, playing, and sleeping! Each page of this baby book has one bright, colourful image with tactile elements that will inspire your child to touch and explore.

The easy to follow pages include a short description about what their new dinosaur friends are doing, and how to pronounce their big names. They will learn how to differentiate the different textures of each dinosaur. From what the long-necked Diplodocus is having for lunch and the feel its leathery skin, to the T. Rex's twinkly teeth, and the bumpy plates of the baby Stegosaurus.

The padded book is just the right size for little hands so that your child can enjoy turning each page themselves. The short sentences are perfect for building language skills. Stimulating multiple senses, through touch and reading, encourages early motor skill development for kids 0-5 years old.

Touch and Learn

Your little one can delve into the wonderful world of dinosaurs with Baby Touch and Feel: Baby Dinosaurs. This fun and engaging board book makes reading time fun and educational and is the perfect first book for pre-schoolers.

Packed full of tactile dinosaur elements from bumpy scales, pointy horns and sparkly teeth, this educational book will engage small children and stimulate early childhood development. This dinosaur book, with its super sparkly jacket, also makes for an ideal baby gift.

This adorable baby book includes:

- Different dinosaur textures from twinkly teeth to pointy horns

Complete the Series

This delightful book is part of the Baby Touch and Feel range of children's books and includes titles such as Baby Touch and Feel Animals, Baby Touch and Feel Bedtime, Baby Touch and Feel Coloursand Shape and more for your little one to enjoy!

General Knowledge Genius!: A Quiz Encyclopedia To Boost Your Bra

A brilliant quiz book for clever kids - put your general knowledge to the test and boggle your family and friends with your brainpower!

Can you name the longest river in Europe? Do you know your skull from your sternum? Can you identify an archaeopteryx and an allosaurus? Can you recognise the flags of India and Italy?

You can!

Then what are you waiting for? Open the pages of General Knowledge Genius to find out what you know, and challenge yourself to learn even more!

With more than 60 topics, from across the encyclopedia, there's something for everyone. The pages are packed with eye-popping pictures - but do you know what they show? To help you, "Test Yourself" panels list what you're looking for. With three levels of difficulty, the challenge gets harder as you work your way from Starter, to Challenger, and finally the truly tricky Genius category. If you need it, there's a fun fact with every picture to give a helpful clue.

Take on the General Knowledge Genius brain-busting challenge!

Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia

Avengers assemble! Destiny arrives in this children's character encyclopedia that tells you all about your favourite Marvel superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Whatever it is that you want to know, Marvel Studios: Character Encyclopedia will make you an instant Marvel Studios expert. Wondering what Thor's hammer is called, how Iron Man builds his suits, or who Thanos is? Let's find out!

From the original Iron Man film to Captain America: Civil War, and all culminating in the epic Avengers: Endgame, there's 10 years of film history jampacked into this one book. Explore the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in incredible detail and learn things you never thought you would.

Meet The Heroes And Villains Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe

These 208-scintillating full-colour pages are filled with character portraits and titbits are a marvel to behold! Discover the most fascinating facts about your favourite characters from the amazing Marvel Studios movies. From the mighty Avengers to their biggest villain, the infamous and terrifying Mad Titan, Thanos!

Inside you'll find information on all the Avengers, their greatest adversaries, and more characters from across the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Learn the facts, figures, super-powers and origins of your favourite characters. From Ant-Man and the Wasp to Black Panther and Doctor Strange, this book spans over a decade of action-packed Marvel Studios movie releases.

Filled with interesting facts and key information, whether your favourite Marvel character is Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain Marvel or Scarlet Witch, you'll be able to find out all about their story, super-powers, weapons, and much more. It isn't only Earth's Mightiest Heroes you'll find in this book; this book includes powerful villains and their followers, sinister spies, brave soldiers, and even ordinary people who find themselves caught up in epic battles!

This educational book takes you on a journey through:

- The First Avenger, Captain America

Explore the wonderful world of Marvel at DK with best-selling comics featuring characters like Black Panther, Spider-Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Star-Lord, Groot, Hulk, Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, the Fantastic Four and more. Take them on an unforgettable adventure to the Marvel Universe with sticker books, character encyclopedias and movie guides.

© 2020 MARVEL

100 First Things That Go

A fun-filled first introduction to transportation Jump aboard and point to the busy vehicles in this things that go baby book. Filled with cars, trucks, planes, boats, tractors, and diggers, it helps little ones learn first words and build vocabulary. Favourite vehicles are labelled on every page, and the exciting photos combined with fun illustrations provide lots to talk about, learn about, and smile about, making this colourful picture book great for sharing, and an attractive baby gift. Part of a beautiful, first word book series, which includes the award-winning 100 First Words and 100 First Animals, the big board book pages are toddler tough, and cover everything from cool cars, terrific trucks, and awesome fire engines, to vehicle colours and kids' own ride-on toys. There are even some entertaining make-believe things that go, such as a fantastic pirate ship and a magic broomstick.

Every page is a visual treat, and little ones will love all the amazing machines, and be captivated by the delightful illustrations, from a digger unearthing a dinosaur skeleton to a fire engine pulling up by a tree to rescue a cat. Word labels encourage naming and picture-and-word association, building language and reading readiness, while the inviting, look-and-point pictures stimulate talking. Cleverly designed to inform and entertain, 100 First Things That Go takes your baby on an exciting learning adventure.

My Very Important World: For Little Learners Who Want To Know About The World

Bring the whole world into your little one's home! This charming children's first encyclopedia will teach your child about things like food around the world, the internet, different countries, and nature.

Learn all about the fundamentals of what makes up the world. This reference book has a story time format and exciting graphic elements to make this encyclopedia fun for children aged 5 - 9

The world is so much bigger than young minds can fathom and there is always more to learn. My Very Important World is a mind-boggling collection of everything interesting to get your child on your way to knowing it all. Full of fun facts for kids, colourful illustrations, and games that will feed your imagination. This kids' encyclopedia is filled with age appropriate knowledge on a range of topics.

Little ones can explore our world and discover a world of information - from animals and people, to the environment. Learn how many animals there are and how they live and communicate. Find out about the Great Wall of China, the awe-inspiring Giants' Causeway and even the beautiful Mountain of Peru.

Kids will learn about themselves too! Have a look inside for the answers to tough questions like, "what makes me, me?" They will learn about their bodies and brains, and how to name their feelings. There's so much crammed into one place and it's presented in colourful and engaging pages, with information suitable for young inquisitive minds.

Tell the Story of the World One Page at a Time!

My Very Important Worldis the perfect blend of adorable, simple illustrations with rich photography and lively text. Made for young minds to read together with you or alone and comes with a ribbon bookmark to pick up right wherever you left off. This truly is the ideal first reference book for young readers.

This educational book takes you on a journey through:

My Very Important World is part of the educational series My Very Important Encyclopedias. Complete the collection and learn more about the world around you, the animals that walk, fly, and swim, and the dinosaurs who ruled the earth before them.

Cheep! Cheep! Chick

Babies and toddlers will love flipping through the pages of this sturdy board book about a super cute, very musical chick called Roxie.

Inside the pages of this entertaining children's book, you'll discover:

- A delightful, read-aloud rhyming story that encourages early learning and language development

Meet Roxie and all her lovable animal friends in this delightful, rhyming picture book. Get ready to join in with Roxie's chirpy singing and listen to the cool sounds from her drum, guitar, and xylophone - biff, bang, twang, ting, ding!

Roxie absolutely loves singing and playing music. She's a very chirpy chick! However, all her friends are having some quiet time. Follow Roxie on her adventures to find out if she ever gets to sing and make her friends happy. Along the way, they'll get to meet the cutest, cuddliest animals ever!

Boost your little one's curiosity, as they enjoy the easy-to-follow bedtime story and play along by spotting Smiley Snail. He's quietly hiding on every page in this adventure book. This encourages interactive play by rewarding curiosity with surprising and engaging characters.

Fun First Storybook

Packed with bold, brightly coloured pictures, look-and-find activities, and charming, read-aloud rhymes, this educational book is perfect for pre-schoolers. It provides lots of opportunities for parent-and-child interaction and hours of Easter entertainment. It's the ultimate gift for kids who love cute animals and cuddly toys.

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Flip Flap Find! Into The Woods

Who will you find in the woods today? Take a wonderful woodland walk and guess the animals hiding under peek-through flaps.

Toddlers will love exploring the forest through each season, finding out about nature and wildlife, discovering all the hidden animals, and listening to the fun rhyme in this beautifully illustrated board book that has an intriguing cover with cutaway leaves to feel.

Into the woods we go, where the wild animals are found... let's listen and look all around... what's rustling, making a stick snap, or scuffling in the undergrowth? From springtime to wintertime, what will we find? Lift the peek-through flaps and discover a mummy deer and her fawn, a woodpecker pecking a tree, honeybees gathering nectar, rabbits digging, a squirrel looking for hazelnuts, a big-eyed owl in a snow-covered tree, and so much more!

Flip Flap Find! Into the Woods is a captivating picture book to share. A perfect gift for little nature lovers, it will spark a toddler's curiosity, stimulate their imagination, language, and literacy, and build their knowledge of the natural world.

1000 Words: STEM

Encourage Early Science, Vocabulary and Literacy Skills

Discover a different and exciting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) topic on every page of this science book for kids! Delve into the key scientific concepts from sound and light to plants and animals. It's the perfect gift for children who are curious about science and keep asking the how and why questions!

Use picture-and-word association to learn about STEM topics like:

- Seasons, the weather, and why things get hot and cold

Introduce key scientific concepts to your child and encourage early reading, writing and vocabulary skills

Did you know that science is all around us, even on the playground? Open the pages of this illustrated picture and word book for young readers to discover the wonders of STEM in 1000 words.

This fascinating STEM education book for kids is packed with bright, detailed illustrations and easy-to-read terms. Every picture-packed page is full of scientific concepts such as sound, light, senses, and machines, with words for each image. It's perfect for children aged 5-7 years, or for anyone learning English as a second language.

This must-have reference book will broaden children's vocabulary and strengthen their early reading and writing skills. Full of fun facts and stats, leading educational experts have carefully selected each topic with questions that stimulate thinking, talking, and early science skills. This vocabulary book also includes lots of useful nouns, plus some interesting adjectives, and common verbs.

Feed your child's curiosity and help them shape their language, science, and literacy skills. 1000 words: STEM helps to develop a passion for science and critical thinking to inspire kids to want to know more about how the world around them works.

My Book Of Dinosaurs And Prehistoric Life: Animals And Plants To Amaze, Surprise, And Astonish!

Travel back in time to discover the incredible plants and animals of prehistoric Earth. It's the ultimate first dinosaur book for young readers!

From the first living cells to fearsome dinosaurs and giant mammals, this children's book brings your budding palaeontologist face-to-face with these awe-inspiring creatures!

The Prehistoric World Awaits!

Packed with jaw-dropping images, fascinating dinosaur facts and straight-forward explanations, it's the perfect gift for children aged 5 to 8 with a love of prehistoric beasts and dinosaurs.

Inside the pages of this dinosaur encyclopedia from DK Books, you'll discover:

- Large pictures and clear, jargon-free text for curious minds

Little dinosaur lovers will be captivated by the amazing range of prehistoric beasts on display! Detailed artworks bring the past to life, painting a spectacular portrait of the supersized, the scary, and the downright bizarre animals and plants that inhabited Earth in ancient times.

Throughout the pages of this fascinating prehistoric book, you'll discover how the Earth has changed over time, why fossils formed, and the arrival of early humans. A pronunciation guide helps kids with tricky names and encourages early learning and language development. The helpful visual index provides a quick overview of every species in the book.

Learn more about prehistoric animals and plants, their extinction and even the evolution of early humans. Your little one will love reading about famous favourites such as the mighty Tyrannosaurus and the huge Woolly Mammoths! They will also get to know lesser-known organisms, including sail-backed Dimetrodon and aeroplane-sized pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus. These profiles are jargon-free and based on the latest science to take your little one through the evolutionary journey from fossil formation to the ice ages.

The Ultimate Sticker Book Tractor

This is the ultimate sticker book for kids who love stickers and tractors. It's filled with big and noisy farm vehicles, trucks and diggers, and over 250 reusable stickers!

Kids will love these unusual types of machines, and will love placing the stickers on the different tractors, or even on their own belongings! The stickers are reusable, and easy for little fingers to peel off the pages.

Explore the World of Tractors

Ultimate Sticker Book Tractor is the perfect way to engage your child with fun facts and interactive reading.

Inside this exciting little sticker book, you'll find:

- Over 250 reusable stickers that are easy to peel and stick to pages or other surfaces

This colourful activity book keeps kids engaged and learning as they play. The eye-catching photos and bright pictures will fascinate little ones and keep them coming back to this educational book. They're challenged to complete the images with the right vehicle parts, and they can also get creative and craft their own scenes out of different stickers. There's no end to where their imagination can take them!

Alongside the pictures are bite-sized descriptions and information that is easy to read and suitable for children 5 years and up. They will learn about the different types of farm and construction vehicles, the important jobs they do, and even what power tyres they need. This sticker book inspires little ones to explore the outside world with activities such as follow-the-trail. There's also a quiz so you and your pre-schooler can read and engage together.

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If you and your child enjoyed the activities in the Ultimate Sticker Book Tractor, and want to play with some more stickers, there are lots of other things to learn about! Look out for Ultimate Sticker Book Planes and other Flying Machines and Ultimate Sticker Book Things That Go.

Baby Touch And Feel Colours And Shapes

Discover shapes and colours in our touch and feel book. Each page has a special element to look at or touch, making reading fun for all the senses!

Each page of this adorable touch and feel book has a cut-out texture or an eye-catching shiny area that is designed to inspire curiosity in small children and stimulate their senses, like bumpy oranges or silky wings!

Each page shows either a shape, like circles or stars, or it shows objects in a bright colour, such as red, purple and blue. These are labelled with easy to read letters, to inspire early language development. It becomes an activity when you trace the shapes and letters with your fingers, and find the unique texture in the soft shoes, shiny button or the silky butterfly! Count out the bumpy peas together, to teach your little one the numbers 1-6.

Packed full of objects with tactile elements that encourage your baby to explore through touch as well as sight. Each texture feels and looks different to create a new experience on each page, all the while encouraging early motor skill development for kids 2-3 years old. There’s lots of glitter and foil to catch the eye!

All 12 pages have been made for your baby’s hands, with easy to turn pages for growing fingers. The sturdy little book can handle being thrown around and chewed. The padded cover is soft and squishy for extra tactile experience and to give the book some added toughness to take on all the play!

Touch and Learn

Make reading time fun with this padded board book that engages many senses! Read out loud, find the glitter and foil, and feel the textures to stimulate early childhood development. Your toddler can play for hours while learning. This Colour and Shape Book, with its super sparkly jacket, also makes for an ideal baby gift.

This adorable baby book includes:

- Different textures from orange skin to satin flags

This delightful book is part of the Baby Touch and Feel range of children's books and includes titles such as Baby Touch and Feel Animals, Baby Touch and Feel Bedtime, Baby Touch and Feel Dinosaurs and more for your little one to enjoy!

LEGO Epic History: Includes Four Exclusive LEGO Mini Models (Lego Book & Toy)

Discover the past like never before - in LEGO® bricks!

Discover the history of the world and get inspired to build your own epic LEGO® models!

The book also comes with bricks to make four exclusive LEGO mini-builds - woolly mammoth, Parthenon, pagoda, and rocket launch pad.

Covering global history from the earliest humans building fire and inventing the wheel, to a modern day city with sustainable energy technology and robots, LEGO Epic History is the perfect introduction for children learning about the past.

LEGO models and minifigures bring to life scenes from the most epic historical periods and inspire children to get creative and build their own! Covers fun, accessible aspects of history through time and place, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Space Race and from Aztec temples to Chinese inventions.

©2020 The LEGO Group.

100 First Things To Know

100 carefully curated, useful things that will stimulate your baby or toddler's natural curiosity about the world around them...

Help your little one learn important vocabulary and build knowledge with this first word and picture book. Cleverly designed to inform and entertain, 100 First Things to Know takes your little one on an exciting learning adventure. As they point to the pictures and say the words, children can soon recognise colours, shapes, and patterns, count to 10, learn about life cycles, and name weathers and seasons. They will also be introduced to words from the worlds of art, music, maths, and science.

Part of an award-winning first word book series that mixes engaging, real-life photos with entertaining illustrations,

Santa's Workshop

Would you like to explore Santa's workshop? Meet the busy elves and a Christmas reindeer, see the sleigh loaded with presents, and join in the festive fun!

With playful rhymes to read aloud to little ones, a sliding door on the cover, and enticing flaps to lift inside, Santa's Workshop is the perfect noisy Christmas story to share with babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, and a delightful interactive Christmas gift.

This festive board book is filled with hands-on novelties for little kids. When they open the front door slider on the cover, they find Santa and hear his ho! ho! ho! and a merry tune. Inside, they find more entertaining characters hiding under flaps to fill their Christmas with sound: a reindeer with jingly sleigh bells, a busy elf making toys - tap! tap! saw! clink!, a cute Christmas pup - woof! woof!, tired elves snoring, and finally Santa, who chuckles as jolly Christmas music plays.

Little ones will soon be joining in with the rhymes, and they will improve their fine motor skills as they lift the exciting flaps and discover who's hiding behind each one.

With 3 replaceable button cell batteries.

Note: Noisy book batteries are light activated. Please make sure the lighting is sufficient for this book.

Life Cycles: Everything From Start To Finish

This stunning illustrated children's book takes an innovative look at the circle of life, including animals, dinosaurs, stars, volcanoes, and even YOU.

Everything has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between? Follow the migration of zebra across the vast plains, meet penguins guarding their eggs on the ice, and watch butterflies emerge from their cocoons. Shoot back in time 4.5 billion years to see how planet Earth was formed and then leap into the future to see what happens when stars die. Discover a new life cycle every time you turn the page.

You'll take a closer look at the life cycles of environments, too. Discover how a river forms and changes over time. Find out how a tree grows and all of the other life cycles it supports within it. See the amazing sculptures the ocean waves carve out of cliffs. Dive beneath the surface to see how coral reefs form, and what causes them to die. Follow the life cycles of weather--from the water cycle to ice ages, to give you a better grasp of the climate situation we find ourselves in now.

From the single-celled amoeba to how the Earth formed, the life cycles in this book have been carefully chosen to give you an amazing overview of the universe, and how everything is intricately linked. Filled with facts to amaze your friends, stunning photography, and beautifully detailed illustrations by Sam Falconer, Life Cycles gets to grips with the essence of life itself.

LEGO Christmas Ideas: With Exclusive Reindeer Mini Model

Have a merry LEGO® Christmas with 50 festive build ideas!

Use your LEGO collection to create Christmas tree decorations, santa hats, snowflakes and more. Plus challenge your friends and family to fun LEGO games. You won't run out of ideas over the holiday season with this perfect stocking stuffer.

Let the holiday fun begin!

©2019 The LEGO Group.

SuperDinosaur: The Biggest, Fastest, Coolest Prehistoric Creatures

Travel back in time and get up close and personal with the biggest, fastest, and strangest creatures that ever roamed the earth.

Take a dip with the plesiosaur that's bigger than a bus, race the dinosaur that's faster than a galloping horse, and grin at the big cat with teeth that are longer than daggers. Prepare to be amazed as more than 40 incredible prehistoric creatures come roaring back to life in stunning CGI reconstructions.

Alongside the amazing images, SuperDinosaur is packed with incredible facts about these extraordinary creatures. Did you know that the fearsome Tyrannosaurus has the most powerful bite of any land animal that has ever lived? Or that the bizarre Amargasaurus had spines that stuck out 60 cm (24 in) from its neck? Or perhaps you fancy your chances in a staring competition with Temnodontosaurus - just be warned, its eyes are 25 cm (9.8 in) wide! Features on fascinating fossils and the latest scientific techniques will show you exactly how paleontologists piece together information about how dinosaurs would have looked and lived.

The perfect read for children aged 9 and over, this brilliant and informative guide will appeal to budding dinosaur experts of all ages.

Super Simple Chemistry: The Ultimate Bitesize Study Guide

From acids to alloys and equations to evaporation, this guide makes complex topics easy to grasp at a glance. Perfect support for coursework, homework, and exam revision.

Each topic is fully illustrated, to support the information, make the facts crystal clear, bring the science to life and make studying a breeze. A large central image explains the idea visually and each topic is summed up on a single page, helping children to quickly get up to speed and really understand how chemistry works.

For key ideas, "How it Works" and "Look Closer" boxes explain the theory with the help of simple graphics. And for revision, a handy "Key Facts" box provides a simple summary you can check back on later.

With clear, concise coverage of all the core topics, Super Simple Chemistry is the perfect accessible guide to chemistry for children, supporting classwork, and making studying for exams the easiest it's ever been.

Behind The Scenes At The Museum: Your Access-All-Areas Guide To The World's Most Amazing Museums

Take an exclusive tour of the world's most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures.

This behind-the-scenes guide showcases a huge range of incredible artefacts from history and reveals the hard work, care, and effort that goes into collecting, preserving, and storing them.

Ever wondered what happens to an astronaut's space suit after it's been worn on the Moon? Or how the world's most valuable diamond is looked after? Find out all about how museums work and the people that make it happen - from how historians care for Anne Frank's diary to what it takes to excavate and exhibit a wooly mammoth skeleton.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum gives you exclusive access to hidden objects that aren't normally on public display. It lets you into a world of animal specimens pickled in jars, priceless jewellery too valuable to be on display, and fragile papers that must be kept in carefully controlled conditions. Filled with incredible images, step-by-step explanations of exciting techniques, and job profiles of the people that make it happen, Behind the Scenes at the Museum offers unique, behind-the-curtain access to the secret delights of the world's most interesting museums.

LEGO Harry Potter Build Your Own Adventure (LEGO Build Your Own Adventure)

Bring the world of Harry Potter to life at home with more than 50 brilliant building ideas!

Conjure your own magical world with more than 50 ideas to inspire your own LEGO(R) Harry Potter(TM) models. Plus, a Harry Potter minifigure and all the bricks you need to make an exclusive 2-in-1 LEGO Harry Potter model!

The perfect gift for a LEGO Harry Potter fan, LEGO Harry Potter *Build Your Own Adventure* features model ideas and expert build tips to help you recreate classic movie moments from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Send Hogwarts letters flying in the Dursley's living room. Explore Diagon Alley with Harry and Hagrid.

Cook up a Halloween feast in Hogwarts' Great Hall.

Build your own wizard chess board and Devil's Snare plant.

Exclusive LEGO Sorting Hat spinner model can be rebuilt as a magical, revolving fireplace. LEGO Harry Potter *Build Your Own Adventure* also contains Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore bookmarks and a fun poster.

HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are (c) & (TM) Warner Bros.

Periodic Table: Facts At Your Fingertips (Pocket Eyewitness)

Find out about all 118 elements, the building blocks of matter that make up our entire universe, in this pocket-sized encyclopedia.

Discover all the major elements of the periodic table, arranged in chapters according to their group, including alkaline earth metals, lanthanides, and noble gases. Every important element - from hydrogen via carbon, oxygen, and gold to oganesson (that's element number 118) - is presented here.

Every entry includes a photo of the element in its raw state or in use, as well as its date of discovery and atomic information as found on the periodic table. Plus here are stunning full-page photos showing elements as you have never seen them before - perhaps inside machinery that you can't normally delve into; or in stunning macro photography that reveals microscopic details invisible to the human eye.

The Pocket Eyewitness series is perfect for all children, from reluctant readers who can easily digest the key points through to budding Marie Curies and Louis Pasteurs who want to know more about the most essential particles on the planet.

All About Virtual Reality: Includes 5 Amazing VR Experiences

A groundbreaking children's book that explains everything you need to know about virtual reality including how we see in 3D, how a VR world is created, how VR works on a smartphone, how VR can feel real and even who uses VR. Includes a make-it-yourself VR viewer that can be used with a smartphone to experience the wonders of VR. Plus stickers to decorate your VR viewer!

Want to see the world without leaving your seat? Fancy exploring the Roman Colosseum or hopping aboard the International Space Station? Virtual reality is here - are you ready for it? With DK and Curiscope's All About Virtual Reality, you will be.

Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about VR, from aircraft simulators to the more recent developments such as Oculus Rift and Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee, an augmented reality t-shirt. Using the make-it-yourself VR viewer you can start experiencing virtual reality straight away with Curiscope's DK Virtual Reality app available on Apple and Android systems. Use your VR viewer to explore 5 scopes and come face-to-face with a T.Rex, explore the inside of a volcano, go back in time to the Colosseum in Ancient Rome, visit the International Space Station and jump into a pond.

All About Virtual Reality has been developed with educational VR company Curiscope to create a perfect introduction to an out of this world digital experience!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In order to experience virtual reality with this book, you will need to ask a parent or guardian to download the DK Virtual Reality app from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play. It is free of charge. Links to the app can be found at: www.dk.com/virtualreality Minimum OS version: iOS 8.3 and Android 4.4.4

The following phones support the app: iPhone 6; 6 Plus; 6s; 6s Plus; 7; Samsung Galaxy S5; S6; S7; S8; Samsung Galaxy Note 4; 5; Motorola Moto X; Motorola Droid Turbo; LG G3; G4; G5; G6; Google Pixel; HTC One; Nexus 5; Nexus 6; Sony Xperia Z3; Z5. If your phone is not on this list, the app may still work. Devices must have rear camera and support OpenGL ES 2.0. See device manufacturer for more information.

It is important to be sensible when using the virtual reality viewer. Please read the safety tips in the book before assembling the viewer and using the virtual reality app.

10 Minutes A Day Problem Solving Ages 7-9 Key Stage 2 (Made Easy Workbooks)

Master Key Stage 2 maths problem solving in just 10 minutes a day with the activities in this essential home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman.

10 Minutes a Day Problem Solving (KS2) is a homeschool learning resource for 7-9 year olds that teaches kids problem-solving skills in bite-sized chunks. Children prefer to learn in short bursts, making this the perfect homeschool introduction to problem solving in maths. Games and tests make learning fun, leading to maximum results in just 10 minutes a day.

Activities using graphs, time tables, and the 24-hour clock will help your kids with this subject. The parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls, and gives guidance on how to avoid them.

10 Minutes a Day workbooks are the perfect at-home reinforcement for subjects learned in school and support the National Curriculum.

All About Your Brain (Big Questions)

Discover why you do what you do

Join Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person's life, All About Your Brain uncovers the amazing things your brain does while you are awake and asleep.

All About Your Brain packed with amazing illustrations and fascinating facts like why bird song is similar to human speech and what makes animals yawn. As well as fun brainteasers to test your child's memory, perception, reasoning and reactions.

Jack And The Beanstalk

Based on the traditional fairy tale, this picture book remains a firm favourite for parents looking for children's classics to read with their little one. When Jack sells his cow for a handful of magic beans, he doesn't expect a huge beanstalk to grow outside his window! Join Jack as he goes on an exciting and magical adventure up to the top of the towering beanstalk and discovers a peckish giant, a golden goose, and a magical harp.

The charming illustrations by Giuseppe Di Lernia in this picture book are sure to capture the imaginations of little ones, and the large format of this book is ideal for sharing with children aged 3 to 5 and reading together at bedtime.

How The Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How It Works)

Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud?

Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. Moving on to function, it explains how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication.

There's also a guide to the brain's disorders, including physical problems, such as tumours and strokes, and psychological and functional disorders, ranging from autism to schizophrenia. Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and peppered with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.

Disney Frozen 2 The Magical Guide: Includes Poster

Set off on a magical adventure!

Elsa and Anna must journey to an enchanted forest-and you can be with them every daring step of the way! Follow their thrilling mission to unlock the truth about Elsa's power and save the kingdom of Arendelle.

Meet mysterious spirits and forest dwellers, explore exciting new locations, and discover the secrets of the past.

The ultimate companion for Frozen fans, this book includes cool facts from Olaf, interactive quizzes, and a pull-out poster featuring your favourite characters, plus new friends from Frozen 2!

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All About Evolution (Big Questions)

Are you ready for an evolution revolution? Let Professor Robert Winston take you on a journey of discovery through evolutionary science and the way Charles Darwin's revolutionary theories changed the world.

Explore lands of fire, meet curious creatures, and peer into the future as you follow Darwin on his epic voyage in search of the origins of species. Find out what the survival of the fittest means; and see how it applies in nature, from discovering how the elephant got its trunk to the ghost genes in your own body. See the main family trees of the living world, and join in the debate about whether humans actually evolved from apes. (Spoiler alert: we share a common ancestor.)

Discover how previous thinkers believed life began and find out how theories developed after Darwin, with modern scientists revealing the secrets of genes and DNA and showing what lies in the future.

All About Evolution looks at the origins of you, your friends, and every living thing on Earth!

What A Waste: Rubbish, Recycling, And Protecting Our Planet

In this informative book on recycling for children, you will find everything you need to know about our environment. The good, the bad, and the incredibly innovative. From pollution and litter to renewable energy and plastic recycling.

This educational book will teach young budding ecologists about how our actions affect planet Earth and the big impact we can make by the little things we do.

Did you know that every single plastic toothbrush ever made still exists? Or that there is a floating mass of rubbish larger than the USA drifting around the Pacific Ocean?

It is not all bad news though. While this is a knowledge book that explains where we are going wrong, What a Waste also shows what we are getting right! Discover plans to save our seas. How countries are implementing green projects worldwide, and how to turn waste into something useful. The tiniest everyday changes can make all the difference to ensure our beautiful planet stays lush and teeming with life.

It is a lively kid's educational book with fabulous illustrations and fun facts about the world broken into easy to digest bite-sized bits. Each page can be looked at in short bursts or longer reads for more detail, making it a great children's book for a range of age groups.

Get Involved - Make A Difference!

Almost everything we do creates waste, from litter and leftovers to factory gases and old gadgets. Find out where it goes, how it affects our planet and what we can do to reduce the problem.

From how to make your home more energy and water efficient, to which items can be recycled and tips for grocery shopping, this book is packed full of ideas on how you can get involved to make our planet a better place to live.

This environment book for children has a wealth of ideas for becoming a planet-defending hero:

What a Waste is one of several nature books for kids written by Jess French, a passionate conservationist and veterinarian committed to protecting the beautiful world we live in.

Turn To Learn Times Tables

Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning multiplication times tables, but it's tricky to keep it fun and fresh. Now kids can learn with Turn and Learn Times Tables, to drum those times tables into their heads without turning them off.

Spin the unique wheel built right into the book's cover and watch the times tables appear. Lift the flaps to find all sorts of multiplication tricks, hints, and tips. Full of colourful pages which reinforce the times tables in different ways: there are number grids, multiplication charts, tips and memory clues, with number lines to say out loud.

Turn to Learn Times Tables is the incredible turning, learning book!

The Periodic Table Book: A Visual Encyclopedia Of The Elements

Ideal for home learning, this eye-popping encyclopedia takes you on a tour of all the world's elements.

From argon to zinc, each and every one of the 118 chemical elements are explored in dazzling detail. You'll be in your element as you discover the incredible variety of building blocks that make up our Universe and learn the remarkable ways we now use them.

In this perfect home-study guide, more than 1,000 photographs showcase the natural forms of each element and the range of everyday and unusual objects where they can be seen. This helps children understand exactly where the different elements have found their place in the world. The true science behind the elements is explained in properties, atomic structure, and table position.

This essential book turns the tables on traditional reference and presents the periodic table as never before to appeal to school children today. Included is a giant, glossy pull-out poster to dazzle on bedroom walls.

What's The Point Of Maths?

Maths makes the world go around. An educational book that will give you surprising answers to everyday maths challenges.

This book unpacks how maths is an essential part of our everyday life in ways that you never thought of. Crazy facts, magic tricks, mathematical brainteasers and beautiful illustrations show you that maths is interesting, fun, and unintimidating!

Ever wondered where maths originated from? This fantastic educational book unpacks all the curious questions that your child has about mathematics including intriguing historical stories that explore the often-surprising origins of maths that we use in our daily lives.

Learn about how the formation of number sequences began, to the origins of trigonometry and find out how to become a trillionaire! Maths in our daily lives is used in many things that might not even seem that obvious.

Maths Controls Just About Everything

Inspire your children with numbers and help bring mathematical explanations to life with this engaging educational book. Expand their knowledge in the complexity of understanding maths by using simple illustrative examples.

To make these topics more exciting and impactful, the book is full of great puzzles, awesome games and interesting facts that will break barriers in their understanding. "Try it out" examples give mathematical explanations that are simple and easy to grasp.

What's The Point Of Maths? will not only change your child's perception of numbers but give them the skills and understanding to apply the principles in their everyday life!

This educational book explains the point of:

English For Everyone English Idioms: Learn And Practise Common Idioms And Expressions

Want to brush up on your English idioms? Hoping to pass an English exam with flying colours? Ideal for anyone who wants to learn English to native-speaker standard, this fun and engaging visual guide to the most common and useful English idioms and phrases will help you understand and remember English idiomatic expressions and their meanings, making your English more fluent and natural.

English for Everyone: English Idioms combines an innovative visual teaching method with the best of DK design to make one of the most difficult aspects of learning English as a foreign language incredibly easy. Hundreds of expressions are presented in context, with crystal-clear definitions and attractive illustrations. The book also covers English collocations and commonly confused words, helping you avoid the kind of mistakes that native English speakers would never make. Each teaching module is followed by tightly focused practice exercises to help you remember what you have learned.

Extensive supporting audio is integrated throughout the course, with every expression in the context of its sample sentence recorded by native English speakers. The audio is free, available online, and can be played, paused, and repeated as often as you like, to help you perfect your pronunciation of each expression. Suitable for learners at all levels, English for Everyone: English Idioms is an exciting and intuitive guide to improving your understanding of English and the style of your written and spoken English.

Science Experiments: Loads Of Explosively Fun Activities To Do!

Conduct 120 exciting science experiments with this award-winning activity book for kids.

The ultimate collection of eye-popping, jaw-dropping science experiments for kids by science supremo, Robert Winston. Designed for kids to carry out safely and easily from home, with more than 350 engaging photographs and illustrations to help you explore the world of science first-hand!

This kid's book offers a winning combination of the fascinating and the factual. Every experiment features step-by-step visual and text instructions and crystal-clear explanations of how the science works.

Go back to basics with easy examples, including blowing gigantic bubbles, making colourful crystals, and launching explosively fun bottle rockets. Then move on to trickier activities using light and electricity, such as fashioning a flashlight or creating a homemade radio that you could dial into signals with!

This book breathes fresh life into science for kids through spectacular first-hand experiences. Remember, practise makes perfect, so you can repeat the experiments to test your own results and keep learning.

Most of the demonstrations in this educational book call for every day, affordable materials that you likely already have around the house, others might require a trip to a chemist or hardware store.

Budding scientists, the fun starts here!

Test - Learn - Enjoy The Science!

Make enormous bubbles at home, launch a bottle rocket or make your own radio and tune into BBC!

Science gives us an understanding of where we come from, the animals and plants around us and affects every aspect of our lives. It starts with experiments, to explore the nature of things around us.

Find your inner mad scientist with some devilishly fun experiments like:

Winner of The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012. Check out other excellent science titles in the DK collection next, like Science Squad, Ask A Scientist, Look I'm A Scientist and more.

The Wonders Of Nature

Every page reveals a surprising story from the natural world that you just won't forget.

Discover the wonders of planet Earth and learn about some of the most amazing animals, plants, rocks and minerals, and microscopic life that live here.

The storybook descriptions and close-up images let you discover the myths and legends of living creatures and minerals, as well as key facts about their natural history. Find out how the prowling jaguar uses spots to avoid being spotted, why a sticky sundew means big trouble for insects, and what on Earth a radiolarian is. From opals to orchids and tapirs to toadstools, this beautiful collection brings more than 100 remarkable items from the natural world to life.

With a decorative foil cover, gilded edges, and a ribbon for keeping your place, The Wonders of Nature is an irresistible gift for children who can't get enough of nature.