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Do you know what you want to do when you grow up? Why not work as a babysitter . . . for sloths? Or become a farmer . . . of corpses? You might even grow up to be someone who gets paid to actually sleep on the job! From taste testers to dinosaur dusters, there are all kinds of incredible jobs that you've probably never heard of . . . and one of them might be just right for you! Discover all kinds of weird and wonderful jobs you never knew existed in this incredible, large-format picture book brimming with wit and wow-factor, from fresh new author-illustrator talent, Natalie Labarre.
Pierre the Maze Detective has a new case. Mr X has stolen the Maze Stone, which has the power to turn the whole of Opera City into a maze. Can you help Pierre and his friend Carmen find their way through the mazes - and stop Mr X before it's too late? This beautifully illustrated book features 15 full-spread illustrations of intricate, magical mazes. Take a trip through a fantastic world of underground cities, hot-air balloons, tree-top towns and haunted houses. Trace your way through each maze, spot the clues and solve the extra mystery challenges along the way. Hours of puzzle fun, for all maze detectives aged 8+. A page of answers with the routes through the mazes and other solutions is included at the end of the book.
With unicorn-themed mazes to solve, dots to join, differences to spot, objects to count and dotted pictures and numbers to trace over, little children will have great fun completing the activities while practising the vital pen-control skills they need to be ready for writing. The wipe-clean pen can easily be rubbed off the shiny pages so children can do the activities again and again.
Every year, millions of applications stream to a handful of companies that regularly top the listings of best employers: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, Disney, SpaceX, Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers and others. In 2017, Tesla received as many as 200 applications for each vacancy, making it ten times more selective than Harvard. The only way to choose who to hire is with uniquely demanding questions that test imagination, persistence and creativity. Questions like: How is a milk carton like a plane seat? Why don’t animals have wheels? What would happen if you drilled a hole all the way through the Earth and jumped in it? How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It reveals more than 70 outrageously perplexing riddles and puzzles and supplies both answers and general strategy for creative problem-solving.
Dive into redstone with the official Minecraft Inventor’s Gift Box, packed with tips and tricks for Minecraft players. Ever wanted to build a redstone contraption? Seeking inspiration for your next epic build? This gift box is the perfect toolkit for unlocking the inventor in you! Learn the basics of redstone in the Mini Redstone Handbook, start to apply your creative skills with Amazing Bite-Size Builds Mini Edition and then take inspiration for an immense build in Epic Inventions. Plus kit out your bedroom with the double-sided poster and door hanger, and build yourself a little creeper friend to keep you company as you play!
This pocket-sized adventure guide teaches young adventurers about all the fun you can have at the seaside: what to pack, how to spot sea creatures and wildlife, how to catch a fish and much, much more! Children will also learn exactly what not to do, from getting stung by a jellyfish to getting caught in a rip current. With fun games to play, interesting information about protecting the coastline, and a useful chapter on what to do in a seaside emergency, this is the perfect book for young costal adventurers!
Dive into fantasy-world adventures with this Hidden Pictures puzzle book that features over 100 magical scenes and more than 1,500 hidden objects in these Highlights trademark black-and-white puzzles. This imaginative Hidden Pictures puzzle book features illustrations of dragons, unicorns, fairies, monsters, and more. Each puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills and attention to detail. This book is sure to delight every fantasy-loving child!
Take a deep breath and dive into the fascinating world of sharks! Exactly 100 facts will help you discover everything you need to know about these incredible creatures. Find out about enormous whale sharks, strange-looking hammerheads, deadly great whites and many more.
Would you like to wear a toga or trousers? Would you play with a doll or dice? Would you live in a tent or tree? This fascinating picture book encourages children to make their own choices on every page. Featuring hundreds of amazing photographic objects from the British Museum and a QR code so you can find out more, Pippa Goodhart makes it irresistibly fun to choose between this or that.
Which tunes could save a life, and which should come with a health warning? How do talking drums tell the history of Africa? What happens in your brain when you listen to music? Find the answers to these questions and more in 100 Things to Know about Music - an exciting book exploring all corners of the diverse world of music. Ideal for fact loving readers aged 8+. Each book in this best-selling, award-winning series presents 100 bite-sized topics, with bold, graphic illustrations and clear text. Perfect for dipping in and out of, and for sharing with family and friends. Discover all the titles in the 100 Things to Know series: 1. 100 Things to Know About Science 2. 100 Things to Know About Saving the Planet 3. 100 Things to Know About Music 4. 100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computers & Coding 5. 100 Things to Know About Food 6. 100 Things to Know About the Human Body 7. 100 Things to Know About Space 8. 100 Things to Know About the Oceans 9. 100 Things to Know About Planet Earth 10. 100 things to Know About History
Discover how to build your own awesome LEGO (R) dinosaurs! Be inspired by 30 incredible LEGO dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, from a fierce T-rex to a giant Brachiosaurus, a winged Pteranodon and so much more. Each dinosaur idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps. Learn essential building techniques to create claws and teeth, legs and tails, textures and colours and much more, for your own wonderful creations. Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book. How to Build LEGO Dinosaurs features: - Clear images and easy-to-follow visual breakdowns of key parts of the models allow anyone to feel confident building the creations. - Fifteen "Accessory" feature pages highlight a key technique, part of a dinosaur or its environment (e.g. teeth and claws, eggs, habitat, prehistoric plants, fossils, horns and spines), so that the reader hones their building skills as they go through the book. - Tips throughout from LEGO expert builders. Ideal for LEGO lovers aged 7-9, including children who are new to LEGO building who want to learn the basics, as well as more experienced LEGO builders who would like inspiration for exciting house models. You can build anything!
Johnson has collected string picture games from all over the world for this lively book which includes everything from the cat's cradle and the witch's broom to Jacob's Ladder and the Eiffel Tower. Full-color illustrated instructions. (Consumable)
A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum! Tom's not only lost in time, he's lost his cat, too! Can you find Tom and his naughty cat, Digby, on every page? Packed with detailed artwork, fascinating ancient Egyptian facts and over 100 other things to find - from a sphinx missing a paw to a child dressed up as a mummy - lose yourself in ancient Egypt with this brilliantly interactive book! The perfect book for fans of Where's Wally! Filled with stylish artwork by award-winning illustrator Fatti Burke. Now in paperback!
Revealed! All the cut-throat facts about Celtic Britain with history's most horrible headlines: Celts edition. Jump into Celtic life with Terry Deary, the master of making history fun. Discover why Celtic warriors fought without any kit on, how they preserved their enemy's brains once they'd won the fight and why it was perfectly normal to laugh at funerals. It's all in Horrible Histories: Cut-Throat Celts: fully illustrated throughout and packed with hair-raising stories - with all the horribly hilarious bits included with a fresh take on the classic Horrible Histories style, perfect for fans old and new the perfect series for anyone looking for a fun and informative read Horrible Histories has been entertaining children and families for generations with books, TV, stage show, magazines, games and 2019's brilliantly funny Horrible Histories: the Movie -Rotten Romans. Get your history right here and collect the whole horrible lot. Read all about it!
From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest, a beautiful new coloring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves. With this coloring book for adults, Johanna Basford invites color-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden in the depths of the sea. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses, and delicately penned seahorses. Visit coral reefs and barnacle-studded shipwrecks, discover intricate shells and pirate treasure. Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest fans and newcomers alike will welcome this creative journey into an inky new world. For Lost Ocean, Johanna picked a crisp ivory paper that accentuates and complements your chosen color palette. The smooth, untextured pages allow for beautiful blending or gradient techniques with colored pencils or are perfect for pens, allowing the nib to glide evenly over the surface without feathering. Filled with stunningly detailed illustrations, Lost Ocean is a blissful and relaxing at-home activity for people of all ages.
The perfect gift for puzzle loving kids this Christmas. When you step into an enchanted storybook in the library, your magical quest begins! The pages of this book are all mixed up and the only way for you to return is to piece the stories back together. Meet missing characters and solve mystical mysteries in this fun-packed book of puzzles. Solve mazes, wordsearches, number puzzles and more Find the clues and crack the code to finish the story Will you take on the quest? For more puzzling fun...collect the set! Mythical Mystery (9780008457457) Enchanted Lands (9780008457464) The Missing Astronaut (9780008457471) Secret Island (9780008532109) The Lost Emerald (9780008532116)
An out of this world card game guaranteed to keep young space enthusiasts amused. There are 52 snap cards (13 matching sets of 4), with labelled pictures of planets, asteroids, the Hubble telescope, a satellite, a rocket and lots more. The game can be played with fewer cards to make it easier for younger players to join in.
Chill out and explore a winter wonderland, searching for super-cool poo friends as they try ice skating, visit the North Pole and take a tasty trip to Candyland. A new cast of poos includes Pip the penguin poo, Ruby the reindeer poo, Polly the polar bear poo, Snowy the snowman poo and Eddie the elf poo. Every scene is packed with snowy things to find, for hours of frosty fun - and there's a bonus peppermint poo to look for, too!
Here are Mad Libs to fill in and send. This fabulous format makes mailing letters from sleepaway camp as easy as filling in the blanks Letters from Camp features 21 original letters--illustrated with fullcolor spot art--that children can fill in with their friends and then mail off to their parents Letters perf-out and can be sealed with the special stickers.
Test your football knowledge with over 300 funny and fascinating questions about the beautiful game. How much do you know about football - and the world? Test yourself and your friends with over 300 brain-busting questions from Football School. Discover questions on star strikers, crafty coaches, momentous matches and much, much more. Packed with hilarious cartoons and fascinating trivia, this spin-off from the bestselling series is the perfect way for fans to learn more about the beautiful game. |
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