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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Natural history & pets
The perfect book for your daddy's birthday, Father's Day, a new
father, or for giving and sharing any time you want to say I love
you daddy. Join the PAW Patrol in this celebration of heroic
daddies and see how kind, funny, clever and adventurous daddies
are. From saving the day and cheering you up, to playing lots of
games and being a bit clumsy, daddies are fun to be around - just
like the PAW Patrol. Show your daddy just how much he means to you
and add your own words to the story to make an extra special gift.
The perfect way to say, 'I love you daddy'.
Zoe is a French girl on her first trip to the jungle, where she
comes upon a range of strange animals. The zany animals she meets
are based on fact. The zedonk, the liger, the beefalo, the geep,
the dogote, the cama, the wolphin, the zorse, the pumpard, and the
humanzee really "do" exist. A colorful collection of hybrid
animals.
This exciting and fact-filled title comprises all the best bits
from the popular Question Time series, giving lively, informative
answers to many of the WHAT, HOW, WHY and WHICH questions that
young children ask about the world around them. What? Where? Why?
Questions and Answers about Nature asks a variety of questions such
as 'How do caterpillars grow up?', 'Why are whales such whoppers?',
'How does the frilled lizard trick its enemies?', 'Why do peacocks
show off?', 'How can a shark drown?' and 'What is a rainforest?'
plus hundreds more. Containing information taken from the Question
Time titles Creepy-Crawlies, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Sharks,
Seashore and Rainforest, with brand-new pages on fish, this bumper
volume is sure to delight the inquisitive reader. Carefully
researched and created to fulfil early-learning needs, the book
covers a wealth of popular natural history subjects that will
stimulate children's curiosity. The topics are explored in great
detail with engaging text, and supported by colourful and inviting
illustrations that bring the natural world vividly to life. with
eye-catching cartoons and a Now I Know feature reinforces the facts
that have been explained. This focused approach will provide a
solid basis of knowledge, as well as inspire and educate.
A fact-packed fun book of horse and pony themed puzzles. Test your
knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National
Geographic Kids fun book of horse and pony themed puzzles. Shetland
ponies, Arabian horses, mustangs and more - all the favourite
equines are here! Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as
number games, crosswords and word searches, in varying levels of
difficulty with fascinating facts along the way.
BE WARNED! AWFUL ANIMALS LURK INSIDE... Millions of readers have
loved The World's Worst Children, The World's Worst Teachers and
The World's Worst Parents - now they will delight in this
ludicrously laugh-out-loud collection of pets, brought to you by
the phenomenal Number One bestselling author David Walliams, with
every story illustrated in vibrant colour by Adam Stower. These ten
tales of the world's craziest creatures will have you shaking with
laughter. You'll never look at pets in the same way again! Marvel
at Houdini, the magician's rabbit. Take a trip around the world
with Zoom, the supersonic tortoise. Gasp at the chaos created by
Griselda, a grizzly bear with a big secret. And RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
It's Furp, the monstrous goldfish! Good pets, bad pets,
supervillain pets, pets as big as a house and pets that could eat
you in one gulp - these are the most hilarious and horrendous
animals around. David Walliams was most recently Children's #1
bestseller for six weeks with Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! (TCM
chart: from 20 Nov 2021)
Meet animals from around the world with this fun search and find
fact book from National Geographic Kids. Find it! Search the busy
illustrated scenes to find more than 250 animals. From the
Serengeti to the Amazon rainforest, the wild Arctic to British
woodland they are sure to keep young readers entertained. Explore
it! Discover amazing facts all about the animals spotted. Did you
know a giraffe has three hearts? That woodpeckers have very long
tongues? Or that scorpions can glow in the dark? With colourful
photos and lots of fun activities that kids will love it's the
perfect book for kids and grown-ups to enjoy together!
In this cozy bedtime story, follow a child and his grandma through
a winter landscape to explore how the Earth goes to sleep for
winter. Spot the sleeping animals as the tale unfolds, then learn
about their hibernation habits from the information pages at the
end. Co-authors Sean Taylor (picture book author) and Alex Morss
(ecologist, journalist, and educator) offer a gentle introduction
to the concept of hibernation. In the frosty, quiet forest, the
snow blankets the ground and the trees have shed their leaves.
Where have all the animals gone? Are they asleep too? In each
cutaway scene, see what the child cannot - that underground below
his feet are dens with sleeping creatures, and within the hollow
trunks of trees, animals are nesting. After the story, annotated
illustrations explain the hibernation facts for each animal and
what they will do when they wake up for spring. Cozy up as you
expand your and your child's knowledge of the natural world.
This truly beautiful and wonderfully illustrated book introduces
children to the magic of nature, through the stories of 48
fascinating life cycles. Every story has a beginning, middle and
end and so does everything in our world. From a frog, to a cloud in
the sky to a twinkling star at night, discover the stories of the
most amazing of life cycles between you and outer space. This is a
book to show children that the world is always turning, and change
is happening all the time, it's in the turning of the season,
sometimes its as fast as a hatching egg and sometimes it's a slow
as a growing mountain. 48 story spreads tell fascinating stories of
all sorts of lifecycles, from very small, to out of this world.
This captivating book will transport children across the globe,
teaching them about just how mother nature keeps everything in our
world turning round, and round.
A fact-packed fun book of puzzles. Test your knowledge and get
thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of
themed puzzles, featuring the planet's deadliest creatures. More
than 100 brain-tickling wordsearches, sudokus, crosswords, quizzes,
spot the difference and mazes. Great white sharks, poison dart
frogs, black mambas, grizzly bears and lots more fearsome
favourites. Colourful photographs and fascinating facts along the
way.
Hierdie kartonboeke met tien lig-en-loer-flappies gee aan kinders 'n prettige geleentheid om meer oor die see uit te vind. Gaan kuier op die strand en bou sandkastele, kyk na die haai en die seekat onder die wateroppervlak en ontdek ander seediere soos seeskilpaaie swaardvisse! Vind uit watter diere woon bo-op en onder die yslaag en sluit aan by 'n duikspan om te gaan kyk na 'n ou skeepswrak op die seebodem!
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Boogie Bear
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David Walliams; Illustrated by Tony Ross
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From Number One bestselling author David Walliams comes a hilarious and heartwarming picture book, brilliantly illustrated by the artistic genius, Tony Ross.
Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can’t get any worse.
But they can…
Much worse!
An outrageously funny picture book with an incredibly heartwarming message about celebrating difference – in all its forms.
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Busy Pets
(Board book)
Louise Forshaw; Campbell Books
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Push, pull and slide the tabs to learn about looking after Busy
Pets! Feed the dog some treats, watch the hamster turn in its wheel
and visit the bunny in the garden. Young children will love playing
with this bright and colourful board book with a gentle rhyme and
wonderful illustrations by Louise Forshaw, which is part of the
Busy Book series. Busy Pets has been endorsed and recommended by Dr
Amanda Gummer's Good Toy Guide. Discover more in the Busy Book
series: Busy Farm, Busy Party and Busy Zoo.
A colourful and comical tour through the animal kingdom from
award-winning author Mike Barfield and quirky cartoonist and
illustrator Paula Bossio. Featuring key habitats, including seas,
forests, deserts and grasslands, this book uncovers the
little-known but amazing adaptations, bonkers behaviour and cunning
natural skills of the world's most interesting animals. Each story
is told from the animal's own perspective. Covering creatures from
all over the world, readers will meet flying snakes in the
rainforest, vampire squid in the ocean and meerkats in the desert.
This hilarious guide, full of fascinating facts, will entrance
animal lovers everywhere, and reveal the wild lives of animals like
no other.
From the creators of the critically acclaimed The Night Gardener
and Ocean Meets Sky comes a whimsical and elegantly illustrated
picture book about community, art, the importance of giving back -
and the wonder that fell from the sky. THE GUARDIAN "[...] gorgeous
illustration [...] intricate monochrome [...] acid-bright touches
of colour [...] will prompt lively discussion." It fell from the
sky on a Thursday. None of the insects know where it came from, or
what it is. Some say it's an egg. Others, a gumdrop. But whatever
it is, it fell near Spider's house, so he's convinced it belongs to
him. Spider builds a wonderous display so that insects from far and
wide can come to look at the marvel. Spider has their best
interests at heart. So what if he has to charge a small fee? So
what if the lines are long? But as Spider raises the prices,
insects stop showing up, much to Spider's bemusement. And then, all
of a sudden, an unexpected disaster hits and the marvel disappears!
This charming story is accompanied by characterful illustrations,
and also teaches children important life lessons about greed and
the importance of sharing.
Smart Cards are books for smart kids who want to know even more.
Each book, crammed with facts, features and fun, comes with its own
Smart Card - a cool, sculpted CD which will work with nearly all
PCs and Macs to provide tons of extra information, games and
entertainment. Ages 7+.
From Julia Donaldson, bestselling author of The Gruffalo, and
award-winning illustrator Yuval Zommer, comes a charming minibeast
Cinderella story. Crawling through the garden, the little Woolly
Bear Caterpillar wonders what kind of moth she will become. Bonny
and bright, stunning and smart, but not kind, the other
caterpillars laugh at the small, plain Woolly Bear. There is one
thing that they are sure of: Woolly Bear could never be as dramatic
and beautiful as them! But could one little caterpillar be about to
undergo a truly terrific transformation? Brilliantly written and
stunningly illustrated this engaging picture book comes complete
with a non-fiction mini book about caterpillars and moths written
by a nature specialist.
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