What happens inside a farm? Lift the flaps to find out what a busy farmer and her family do throughout the year, from milking cows and shearing sheep to hosting an open day, running a farm shop and welcoming guests for 'pick your own'. The book gives children an insight into daily life on a family-run farm, as every member of the family works together to keep the farm running.
People talk a lot about germs, but what actually are they? Open the pages of this friendly book to find out. Discover what bacteria and viruses are, how they can spread and lots of different ways we to stop them.
This beautifully illustrated book is a perfect introduction for young children. Budding scientists can explore the world around them, from plants and animals to magnets and mirrors - and try some hands-on experiments along the way. With Quicklinks to specially selected websites with videos and quizzes.
Just what goes on behind the screen, beneath the keyboard and inside the electronic 'brain' of a computer? Lift the flaps to find out
Explore the hidden world beneath your feet. This book digs down into soil, and uncovers amazing secrets: animal burrows, telephone cables, murky caves and buried treasure. And deep, deep below you'll find the Earth's core, which is still a mystery-even to scientists.
From the Universe to Ancient Greece and everywhere in between! Explore through hundreds of mind-blowing images and exciting facts about the world we know and beyond! This fun-filled book is packed with facts and information about absolutely everything.
Futurologist Tom Cheesewright takes readers on a tour of our world, decades into the future. Eight scenes show you what wonders await in our cities, our landscapes, inside our own bodies and of course in the expanse of outer space. Lift the flaps to find out what new things we'll be able to do, how new technology will work, and what changes we can expect about the way we live. There'll be vi…
Sssh, listen... what can you hear? From musical harmonies to sonic booms, discover the science of sound and how we hear things. Why is most of space completely silent? Why does a recording of your voice sound strange? And what do bats, dolphins and a boat full of scientists have in common? The answers are all in this book, with lots of flaps to lift and simple experiments to do at home.
Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfriends of famous—and infamous—male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history, then sub…
In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highl…
Get to know more about all of Bluey’s friends in this Little Library! Follow along with your favourite Bluey characters as you learn what is special about Snickers and Coco, Indy and Rusty, Lucky and Mackenzie and Honey and Chloe. And, once you’re done reading, the four books come together to create a Bluey and friends jigsaw.
With over 100 First Words and pictures about Shapes and Colours to share, this delightful board book is perfect for developing essential early skills. It will provide hours of entertainment too. Encourages word and picture association and introduces new vocabulary. Playing with books develops hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.
In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkle skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her…
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in. “Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says. “I am the Lord,” the man whispers. So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling novel yet.
Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yes she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford…