Cyfres Catherine Barr: Stori Newid Hinsawdd
by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams
Combining history with science, this book charts the changes in our Earth's climate, from the beginnings of the planet and its atmosphere, to the Industrial Revolution and the dawn of machinery. Kids will learn all about the causes of climate change, such as factory farming and pollution, and the effects that climate change has on humans and animals across the world.
Steve Backshall's Deadly series: Deadly Detectives (Steve Backshall's Deadly)
by Steve Backshall
Finding wildlife is rarely easy - unless you're Steve Backshall! In DEADLY DETECTIVES Steve tells young trackers everything they need to know about the origins of tracking, what you need to become a tracker and how to do it, whether the wild world is your own back garden, ancient woodlands, the riverside or coast. He illustrates his tips with examples of his own detective work on land and in the water from tropical rainforests to the African Savannah, from the Arctic tundra to the desert. Join...
Packed full of facts this vibrantly illustrated book shines a light on dinosaurs like never before! Did you know that the Argentinosaurus weighed about as much as 12 elephants and grew as tall as a five-story building? Or that T. rex could crush a car in a single bite? Or that some dinosaur eggs were as big as American footballs? This exciting picture book is full of these and many more fascinating fact nuggets. Using striking visual comparisons, quiz questions and bite-sized facts, thi...
The official guide to the amazing virtual world of National Geographic Kids Animal Jam, this colourful, fun companion book offers novices and expert gamers alike all they need to know. Richly illustrated with colourful photography and Animal Jam-style art, this book reveals never-before-known information about the game's world and its animal inhabitants. Packed with photos, facts, and fun, it's also a great guide to real-world animals, making it both a fact extravaganza and a game hand...
Let's Look at Dinosaurs (First Discovery/Torchlight)
by Donald Grant, Claude Delafosse, and Gallimard Jeunesse
Travel back in time to the dark, distant past. Meet plateosaurus, diplodocus, iguanodon, and the great sea monsters.
Thresher Sharks (Amazing World of Sharks)
by Elizabeth Roseborough
A playful book of puns from the Instagram megastar rabbit, @wally_and_molly. Described as a cross between a poodle and a pom-pom, Wally is an English angora rabbit with giant, wing-like ears, fluffy bellbottom paws, and a twinkling smile. His owner Molly brought him home on New Year’s Day in 2015. Since then, he has become a veritable Internet sensation thanks not only to his adorable stature, but also to his humorous voice. In WALLY, you'll learn about his thoughts, feelings, and hobbies,...
"Describes the search for the earliest human ancestors, from ancient apes to the australopiths"--Provided by publisher.
The Seashore (First Discovery)
by Pascale De Bourgoing and Jeunesse Gallimard
Dig in the sand, peep under stones, pick up colorful shells. Find crabs and shrimps, oysters and limpets, mussels and starfish.
How does a dolphin swim? How do they give birth in the water? How do they communicate with each other? Learn all about these intelligent, affectionate and sociable creatures that often swim in large groups, look after each other when injured and team together to catch their prey. Find out the names of different species of dolphins in the oceans around the world and about some of their close cousins.
Let's Look at the Seashore (First Discovery Close-up)
by Christian Broutin
The seashore scene has plenty of animals to spot, including a shrimp (it uses its pincers to cut up food and take it to its mouth just like a knife and fork) and a sea anemone (it reproduces itself like a plant with buds?the babies grow from the base of the anemone and gradually detach themselves).
Let's Look at the Jungle (First discovery: Torchlight)
by Claude Delafosse and Christian Broutin
Explore the jungle and discover how it grows and where to find its unusual birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles.
“This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseverance of the woman herself, who from girlhood on scoured the shifting cliffs of her native Dorset to dig out prehistoric mysteries and make sense of them—altering forever our view of the past.” —Joyce Sidman, Newbery Honor winner and Sibert Medal winner A fascinating, highly visual biography of Mary Anning, the Victorian fossil hunter who changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life and woul...
DK Eyewitness Guides: Dinosaur (DK Eyewitness)
by David Norman and Angela C. Milner
Travel back in time to the 'reign of the dinosaurs' an era that lasted nearly 150 million years. This superb collection of specially commissioned photographs brings these extraordinary creatures to life.Starting with a comparison of a dinosaur and a living iguana this book goes on to examine these animals in detail including a head-to-tail study of one of the biggest dinosaurs ever Diplodocus. Well-preserved fossils from millions of years ago help tell the dinosaurs' story - how they laid...
Fossils have been forming ever since life began 3 500 million years ago and they are still forming all around us today. Specially commissioned photographs show all the delicate details of many different fossils bringing life back to long-dead bones teeth shells and even flowers.It seems impossible that anything could survive for even 1 000 years but this book shows the remains of animals and plants that are hundreds of millions of years old. Fossil features myths and legends living fossi...
The Medina Guide to the Arabian Horse
by Kitty Carruthers and Gillian Whitworth
They slither, they bite, they go bump in the night. Meet the Big Swamp Beasts! From crocodiles and snakes to birds, frogs and bugs, meet the strangest and most amazing creatures that live in the world's wet, murky and muddy swamps. This highly engaging information book makes the world of exotic animals accessible to young readers. Packed with amazing facts, stories and high interest information about each of the swamp things covered, each spread is accompanied by quirky full-colour, annotated i...
Discussing life in Britain from early times to the end of the Iron Age, this book uses material discovered by archaeologists to talk about the very first "Britons" who lived here and to discuss the arrival of "Homo Sapiens" and the Neolithic farmers from Europe who introduced crop growing, animimal husbandry and mined flint. They also buried their dead under large mounds, which can still be seen in southern England, and built Stonehenge. The farmers were followed by settlers who made fine potter...
Written by Toby Ibbotson, son of the bestselling author Eva Ibbotson, this exceptional middle grade epic is captivating, heartfelt and brilliant in equal measure. When a storm hits a small and sleepy town, it ravages every living thing. But storms don't just destroy, they uncover. And when a young boy discovers a mysterious object that has lay hidden beneath a centuries-old tree, he instantly knows that it's special. What he doesn't know is...