The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name - which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well" - encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. In this book, author Jim O'Connor describes how a simple concept - small plastic bricks that snap together - morphed into a cultural phenomenon.

Winner of the Children's Choice Book of the Year Award for grades 5-6
Did you know fortune cookies aren't even found in China? Or that alligators don't actually live in the sewers of New York City? Want to prove it to your friends? This book gives kids the tools to break and bust wild and wacky myths from around the world. These myths reveal a broad range of historical and scientific truths that keep kids learning while interacting with their favorite fictional "facts."
Chock full of colorful photographs and funny text, this book includes hundreds of fascinating facts and interesting tidbits that prove you can't believe everything you're told. Each busted myth also features an explanation of where it originated, which uncovers often surprising historical significance. So next time someone tells you that the average person accidentally ingests 8 spiders each year--don't tell them that if they believe that they are as dumb as an ox--because oxen are actually quite smart.

Find out how many seeds a pomegranate has, how fast a woodpecker pecks, how many plays Shakespeare wrote, which is the warmest sea in the world, and much more.

Teach your preschooler the letters of the alphabet with this engaging collection of I SPY puzzles. Jean Marzollo's delightful text has been tested and reviewed to ensure that the words and objects in the book are age-appropriate and educationally sound. Beautiful, hand-painted letters cleverly illustrate the alphabet.

Kids love pets, and they'll love Hidden Pictures Pet Sticker Puzzles just as much! These puzzle scenes feature cats, dogs, birds, pocket pets and more. The book also includes over 280 vibrant stickers to mark hidden objects inside. Great for animal lovers and puzzlers ages 3-6, this 96-page activity book is filled with hours of seek-and-find fun. Stickers bring an exciting new element to timeless Hidden Pictures puzzles. The 280+ colorful stickers add to the fun as kids mark the hidden objects in classic black-and-white scenes. There are full-color puzzles to solve, too, and over 500 total objects to hunt inside! Placing stickers is an irresistible way for kids to improve their fine motor control through play. This book is great for travel, after-school fun or screen-free entertainment on rainy days. Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new challenges. Searching for hidden objects is also a great way to build important school skills like concentration and visual perception. Like all Highlights products, Pet Sticker Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.

Go on safari or a jungle adventure in this awesome activity book with 2,000 stickers! It's packed with regal predators, graceful flyers, gentle grazers, and sweeping views of majestic habitats, plus mazes, spelling and pattern games, drawing activities, and more. What better way to keep young readers engaged, entertained, and learning.

From Johanna Basford, 36 postcards for coloring in and sending to friends (or keeping for yourself!) These clever postcards feature beautiful drawings from Magical Jungle, illustrator and ink evangelist Johanna Basford's wondrous expedition through the jungle. Color in the cards to bring to life speckled tree frogs and dainty hummingbirds, prowling tigers and playful monkeys, and then share the magic with your friends-that is, if you can bear to part with them! Each postcard is an invitation to an exotic rainforest teeming with creatures large and small. For explorers of all ages.

Think you know everything there is to know about your favourite online stars? Prove it! The perfect challenge for anyone who spends every spare minute searching for videos from their favourite vloggers - packed with quick quiz questions to help you sort a Sprinkle of Glitter from ThatcherJoe. Readers will love this colourful, family friendly book from the team that brought you Vlog It! Vlog On... and The Vlog It Yearbook.

Bite Size Advice is a business book, an education book and a general knowledge book. It casts a light on the key issues affecting each one of us every day. Learn about the factors that are shaping politics, redesigning business, changing society and driving technology. This is a practical guide that immediately takes hold of the readers inquisitive nature. Thoroughly engaging and brimming with information, barely a page goes by without an interesting fact. The snappy text is presented in bite-size nuggets and moves effortlessly from topic to topic. The writing is lucid while simultaneously being witty and wise.

Printed on stiff card, this book contains templates to cut out and construct a model of the Parthenon in Athens, one of the most famous temples in the world. The completed model is 30cm x 47cm square, and includes a lifting roof to reveal the interior and opening doors to reveal a giant statue of the Goddess Athena. Decorated with friezes and carvings showing scenes from mythology. Includes cut-out models of characters including worshippers and priests.

This 1000 piece adult jigsaw from our bestselling Mindbogglers series features the wild Mount Shuksan and Picture Lake, USA. Test your mind and your puzzles skills, with sturdy pieces this jigsaw is great fun to put together on your own or with friends. Once completed, you can frame your masterpiece, or mess it up and start all over again!

Entertaining and instructive book includes over 40 lifelike vignettes of young music makers -- playing the cello, viola, guitar, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, concert tuba, trumpet, flute, French horn, snare drums, triangle, and more. Detailed drawings accompanied by informative captions.

With I Can Draw: Cats & Kittens, young artists can use basic shapes and easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects to draw 15 of their favorite felines.

A sleeping cat, a playing kitten, and a scaredy cat are just some of the cats included in this book. With 15 fun drawing projects, I Can Draw: Cats & Kittens is a collection of some of kids’ most loved cats. All of the drawings are created with simple shapes that are easy for young artists to make, and the cute illustrations are appealing and approachable to young ones.

The book begins with an introduction to drawing materials and instructions on how to use the book, and then it jumps right into the drawing projects. For a cute kitten:

• Kids start with a square, add a line, a curved line, and some more straight and curved lines. They are encouraged to keep following along with each step.
• As they make their way through the multiple steps, all the new pencil marks to make are shown in a different color so it’s easy to know what to draw next.
• Once they near the end of the project, these young artists will start to see a drawing of a baby kitten appear on their paper, and all they need to do now is add some color.

From the gruesome and the gross to the filthy and the foul, Yuck! covers a range of disgusting topics. Have you ever wondered how much blood a tick can drink? Do you know how many cockroaches a man can eat in one minute, or which bird defends itself by vomiting? With answers to all these questions and more, there are hours of stomach-churning fun to be had.

Get ready to be grossed out - in a good way! This latest addition to the crazy popular Weird but True series is slimy and sticky and jam-packed with more icky, zany fun! Step up to the plate and try not to lose your lunch, with 300 all-new, amazing facts plus photos that kids just can't get enough of.

Bubble Monkey doesn't know the proper way to wipe or blow her nose, so bubble solution is getting on all the other toys. Luckily, Doc McStuffins is there to teach a lesson in hygiene Sniffly boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love this Little Golden Book retelling an episode from the popular Disney Junior series Doc McStuffins.