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Evolution as you've never seen it before! An incredible pick-your-own-path adventure through the story of life on Earth.
Think of an animal, any animal at all. It could be a shark, a squid, a snail, or even a human like you! Every single animal has a secret history. A death-defying adventure that has happened across millions of years, called evolution.
On every page, you will discover a new animal with its own exciting story to tell. It's up to YOU to make the decisions that will lead to their next evolutionary step. Can you survive to the present-day or will you face extinction along the way? Will you grow a backbone, take to the skies, or dive deeper for your dinner? For the first time ever, the journey is in your hands . . .
This unique book features ferociously funny and brilliantly accessible science from zoologist, author and TV presenter Jules Howard. Meet chimpanzees and chickens, Tyrannosaurus rexes and tigers, with over 50 different animal endings to discover.
The perfect introduction to the awe-inspiring story of life on Earth.
Set your spirit of adventure free with this journey to the world's
great oceans, discovering the diversity of life that exists in the
deep blue sea. Whether you're travelling long haul with leatherback
turtles across the Pacific, snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing
with a walrus, this book celebrates the very prescient topic of the
world's oceans with LucyLetherland's animal characters. Each
section begins with an infographic map of the ocean it explores -
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic - followed by richly
detailed two-page spreads exploring its depths and the denizens
within, as well as seabirds, coral reefs and shoreline critters.
Discover saltwater crocodiles lurking in the Andaman Islands,
hammerheads gathering in the Atlantic, and the awe-inspiring
colossal squid that calls the Ross Sea home. Lucy Letherland's
illuminating artwork shows how these oceans teem with life, forming
part of complex and fascinating ecosystems, all in a quirky,
characterful style. Interesting facts and figures pepper the
scenes. Did you know that spinner dolphins can swim up to 400
kilometres a day? Or that some sea snails can grow up to half a
metre long? Or that in the deepest depths, fish can glow in the
dark? A natural history lesson in an adventure book, each spread
features 10 captions and and facts about every destination. The 5th
title in the best-selling Atlas of Adventures series that has now
been translated into 31 languages. A 'Can you find?' page at the
back challenges you to explore the pages even deeper by locating
the pictured scenes and scene-stealers. Children and adults alike
will be amazed by the incredible creatures that await in the
world's oceans.
With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations and a beautiful
fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture
book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you
follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a
young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and
roots filling the page. As the tree grows, it is joined by
well-loved woodland creatures - squirrels and rabbits, butterflies
and owls - who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on
page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates
with a fold-out page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to
continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full
poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore. Beautiful and
evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch
children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth. It
Starts with a Seed was the winner of the inaugural Margaret Mallett
Award for Children's Non-Fiction.
"Explore the incredible ways evolution works, from the beginnings
of life 3.5 billion years ago to the walking, talking super-apes
better known as human beings. Amazing Evolution is filled with
fascinating facts!" - The Week Junior Evolution can be a difficult
idea to wrap our brains around: it deals with random, unlikely
events, combined with vast lengths of time too enormous to
comprehend. But the evidence is all around us - in the fossils of
long-dead creatures, and in our genes and the relationships between
all living beings. Amazing Evolution shines a light on this
incredible process, from the beginnings of life around 3.8 billion
years ago, to the millions of different species alive today,
including the moon-walking, talking apes with super-powerful brains
- human beings! Filled with clear explanations, beautiful
illustrations and fascinating facts about the planet's strangest
and most spectacular creatures, Amazing Evolution will keep
children (and adults, too!) enthralled for hours. Delve into the
pages and learn what makes a fish a fish, why giraffes have such
long necks and how all living things, from cabbages to tigers, are
related! Amazing Evolution is the perfect first book about
evolution for young readers.
This witty, quirky, colourfully illustrated and fact-filled book
features some of the most absurd and flamboyant animals on the
planet! The second title in the series from the hilarious Philip
Bunting is filled with facts about some of the weirdest creatures
in the natural world. The antagonist voice (speaking though cheeky
annotations) points out the apparent ridiculousness of each
creature's features, while the narrator's voice describe the
evolutionary reasons or advantages for each animal's extraordinary
characteristics. With hilarious text throughout and bright,
contemporary illustrations, this guide to ridiculous animals
contains funny labelled diagrams and will help teach kids about
evolution by studying some of its most wild products! Quirky
Creatures is a series dedicated to seeking out the weird and
wonderful denizens of the natural world and explaining why they are
so strange, from the ridiculous to the truly terrifying. Also
available in this series is The World's Most Pointless Animals and
The World's Most Atrocious Animals.
Read along in this picture book and join Bluey's latest adventure!
Based on the on the wildly successful animated series, Bluey, as
seen on Disney+ Join Bluey and Bingo as they try to answer the
question: can grannies dance? This picture book retells one of the
funniest Bluey episodes: "Grannies!" Once again, everyone's
favorite Blue Heelers Bingo and Bluey use their limitless energy to
explore their world in unpredictable and hilarious ways.
From the authors behind The Stick Book and many other outdoor
adventure favourites, this interactive one-of-a-kind creative
scrapbook offers children an outlet for creativity inspired by the
wild world. This truly unique book contains prompts for all kinds
of creative activity based around the natural world around us, from
drawing to writing to mixed-media collage. Readers will be
encouraged to draw on their creativity, to express themselves
without fear of being judged, and to make their book really WILD!
They will need scissors, pens, paints, tape, glue and a magnifying
glass, plus lots of wild materials and their wildest creativity, as
this book becomes filled with keepsakes from their own outdoor
adventures. From finding the faces hidden in pictures of trees, to
collecting ingredients for a spell to keep nature safe, to sticking
the feathers back onto a mythical bird, these prompts and
activities will provide hours and hours of entertainment as they
take children on flights of fantasy through the natural world.
Readers can colour outside the lines, do the activities in any
order and go at their own pace. The mixture of art, creative
writing, collecting, games, wildlife-watching and imaginative
prompts will appeal to kids with all kinds of interests, and there
are no rules!
Little Baby Learns: Farm is the ideal early learning set for
toddlers. With a board book and 12 shaped play pieces to use
inside, it is a fun way to introduce young children to farm animals
and other things that are found on the farm. Children can learn
about animals, farm buildings, machinery and much more a they go
through the book and find different objects. Each of the 12 play
pieces matches an image on the page and fits securely into the
die-cut spaces, but can also be used separately as flash cards.
This book encourages fine motor skills and problem-solving, as well
as teaching core vocabulary.
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+.
You are about to embark on a dangerous adventure. With this game in
a book, use the pop-out Survival Spinner to learn your fate as you
face peril after peril in a wild, rugged landscape. You become lost
in the mountains after an emergency landing. Among the snowy peaks,
you are at risk from dangers including falling victim to
hypothermia, being buried by an avalanche or stumbling into a deep
crevasse. In your backpack, you have a sleeping bag, a thermal
roll-mat, a bottle of water, a bag of nuts, waterproof matches, a
pair of binoculars, a camera, a first aid kit and an old survival
journal belonging to your grandfather. As you confront each
life-threatening challenge in this adventure-filled game book,
place the Survival Spinner found inside the cover of the book on
one of the circles on your current page, and spin. The place where
the spinner points when it stops tells you if you have survived,
are still living but injured or that you have perished, with a
corresponding page number to turn to for each fate. Throughout, you
will learn about real-life survival techniques, including how to:
Make a snow shelter Build a fire Survive a bear attack Treat a
wound Use the sun and moon to navigate Cross a frozen lake
Harrowing tales of real-life wilderness survivors provide glimmers
of hope as you deal with the consequences of your choices. One bad
decision could lead to disaster... Frozen Mountain is the debut
book in the exhilarating Spin to Survive series. Discover real-life
survival tips and stories as you navigate your own perilous journey
through the wilderness guided by your decisions and the removable
Survival Spinner. Have you got what it takes to survive?
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