Life In The Stone Age

by Deborah Lock

Published 4 January 2018

Find out everything that you need to know about the Stone Age: the life of a hunter and gatherer, what clothes people wore, the caves they lived in, as well as their arts and crafts creations.

DK Reader Life in the Stone Age explores topics including mammoths, cave paintings, shamans, and shelters. Covering the old, middle, and new Stone Age eras of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic, the two and a half million year period is explained and provides young readers with everything they would need to know about life in the Stone Age in DK's informative and easy to read style.

DK's innovative range of levelled readers combines a highly visual approach with non-fiction narratives that children will love reading. DK Reader Life in the Stone Age is a Level 2 reader, Beginning to Read, offering a delightful narrative for young children to encourage an interest in and desire to read. Simple sentences are used with an emphasis on frequently used words with strong visual clues and labels introducing and reinforcing vocabulary.

Additional information spreads feature extra stone age facts for kids that develop the topic further. There's also a fun quiz to develop reading comprehension.


A Trip to the Theatre

by Deborah Lock

Published 3 March 2008

DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading

Encourage your child to read. Find out all about the theatre. Join Jake and his mum as they take a look around a theatre at all the scenery, props and costumes.

DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, which uses lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading. Level 2 have long sentences, increased vocabulary, information boxes and a simple index – read them together with children who are beginning to read alone and with early or reluctant readers.

Over 70 DK Readers in the series.


Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations with engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.

With DK Readers, children will learn to read — and read to learn!

Learn all about the Emperor penguins as they take care of their young and brave the elements.