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The LEGO Book Of Bedtime Builds: With Bricks To Build 8 Mini Models

Help your kids build their way to a better night's sleep!

A relaxing bedtime routine with quiet, screen-free activities-like building with LEGO bricks-and stories is recommended by Pediatricians to help children sleep better. "Calming activities and stories before bed can help your child get a good night's sleep." - Lauren Hale, PhD, sleep expert

This book includes eight adventures to build, play, and read to help kids wind down before bed and let you spend quality time together.

To get started, choose and build one of the LEGO models from The LEGO® Book of Bedtime Builds. Then read the story together. When it's time to sleep, the mini model and story will inspire exciting dreams. The next night, take apart the mini model and choose another adventure to build and read together.

Convenient brick storage and packaging make for easy building at home or on the go. Includes easy-to-follow building instructions and bricks. Stories feature a pirate ship, dinosaur, robot, bird, castle, elephant, spider, and spaceship.

©2019 The LEGO Group.

Science Experiments: Loads Of Explosively Fun Activities To Do!

Conduct 120 exciting science experiments with this award-winning activity book for kids.

The ultimate collection of eye-popping, jaw-dropping science experiments for kids by science supremo, Robert Winston. Designed for kids to carry out safely and easily from home, with more than 350 engaging photographs and illustrations to help you explore the world of science first-hand!

This kid's book offers a winning combination of the fascinating and the factual. Every experiment features step-by-step visual and text instructions and crystal-clear explanations of how the science works.

Go back to basics with easy examples, including blowing gigantic bubbles, making colourful crystals, and launching explosively fun bottle rockets. Then move on to trickier activities using light and electricity, such as fashioning a flashlight or creating a homemade radio that you could dial into signals with!

This book breathes fresh life into science for kids through spectacular first-hand experiences. Remember, practise makes perfect, so you can repeat the experiments to test your own results and keep learning.

Most of the demonstrations in this educational book call for every day, affordable materials that you likely already have around the house, others might require a trip to a chemist or hardware store.

Budding scientists, the fun starts here!

Test - Learn - Enjoy The Science!

Make enormous bubbles at home, launch a bottle rocket or make your own radio and tune into BBC!

Science gives us an understanding of where we come from, the animals and plants around us and affects every aspect of our lives. It starts with experiments, to explore the nature of things around us.

Find your inner mad scientist with some devilishly fun experiments like:

Winner of The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012. Check out other excellent science titles in the DK collection next, like Science Squad, Ask A Scientist, Look I'm A Scientist and more.

First Space Encyclopedia: A First Reference Book For Children (DK First Reference)

Zoom off into the galaxy and investigate all the planets, from Earth to Mars with First Space Encyclopedia.

Packed full of stunning photography, quizzes and amazing facts, children will become space experts in no time. Covering everything from observatories and rockets, to the solar system and the death of stars, children will discover all about space and space travel.

The First Space Encyclopedia is the perfect first reference book for children.

Turn To Learn Times Tables

Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning multiplication times tables, but it's tricky to keep it fun and fresh. Now kids can learn with Turn and Learn Times Tables, to drum those times tables into their heads without turning them off.

Spin the unique wheel built right into the book's cover and watch the times tables appear. Lift the flaps to find all sorts of multiplication tricks, hints, and tips. Full of colourful pages which reinforce the times tables in different ways: there are number grids, multiplication charts, tips and memory clues, with number lines to say out loud.

Turn to Learn Times Tables is the incredible turning, learning book!

How The Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How It Works)

Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud?

Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. Moving on to function, it explains how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication.

There's also a guide to the brain's disorders, including physical problems, such as tumours and strokes, and psychological and functional disorders, ranging from autism to schizophrenia. Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and peppered with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.

All About Virtual Reality: Includes 5 Amazing VR Experiences

A groundbreaking children's book that explains everything you need to know about virtual reality including how we see in 3D, how a VR world is created, how VR works on a smartphone, how VR can feel real and even who uses VR. Includes a make-it-yourself VR viewer that can be used with a smartphone to experience the wonders of VR. Plus stickers to decorate your VR viewer!

Want to see the world without leaving your seat? Fancy exploring the Roman Colosseum or hopping aboard the International Space Station? Virtual reality is here - are you ready for it? With DK and Curiscope's All About Virtual Reality, you will be.

Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about VR, from aircraft simulators to the more recent developments such as Oculus Rift and Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee, an augmented reality t-shirt. Using the make-it-yourself VR viewer you can start experiencing virtual reality straight away with Curiscope's DK Virtual Reality app available on Apple and Android systems. Use your VR viewer to explore 5 scopes and come face-to-face with a T.Rex, explore the inside of a volcano, go back in time to the Colosseum in Ancient Rome, visit the International Space Station and jump into a pond.

All About Virtual Reality has been developed with educational VR company Curiscope to create a perfect introduction to an out of this world digital experience!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In order to experience virtual reality with this book, you will need to ask a parent or guardian to download the DK Virtual Reality app from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play. It is free of charge. Links to the app can be found at: www.dk.com/virtualreality Minimum OS version: iOS 8.3 and Android 4.4.4

The following phones support the app: iPhone 6; 6 Plus; 6s; 6s Plus; 7; Samsung Galaxy S5; S6; S7; S8; Samsung Galaxy Note 4; 5; Motorola Moto X; Motorola Droid Turbo; LG G3; G4; G5; G6; Google Pixel; HTC One; Nexus 5; Nexus 6; Sony Xperia Z3; Z5. If your phone is not on this list, the app may still work. Devices must have rear camera and support OpenGL ES 2.0. See device manufacturer for more information.

It is important to be sensible when using the virtual reality viewer. Please read the safety tips in the book before assembling the viewer and using the virtual reality app.

Help Your Kids With SATS: The Best Preparation For SATS Success (DK Knowledge 5+)

A practical guide for parents and guardians on how to support and prepare your child for their Year 6 SATs.

SATs can be daunting for both parents and guardians, and children, who may find themselves experiencing exam stress for the first time. Help Your Kids with SATs gives you a complete overview of the KS2 SATs system with tips and advice on caring for your child's wellbeing during this pressurized time.

DK's Help Your Kids with SATs covers everything you need to know from how to handle your child's exam anxiety to what the SATs test papers cover. Discover your child's learning style, and use core skills section and practical activities with your child to help them prepare for the three Key Stage 2 SATs areas: Reading; Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation; and Maths.

Help Your Kids with SATs is the one book covering all you - and your child - need to be successful and happy during their Year 6 SATs.

LEGO Disney Princess My Enchanted Sticker Book

Create your own magical worlds with this charming book of LEGO® Disney Princess™ sticker scenes, with over 250 stickers!

Discover all your favourite LEGO Disney Princess minifigures and locations. Fill Ariel's underwater cave with treasures, decorate Cinderella's sparkling carriage ready for the ball, and help brave Moana prepare for a sea voyage to Te Fiti island.

Full of fun, colourful scenes, LEGO Disney Princess My Enchanted Sticker Book is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind sticker book and a perfect gift for fans of Disney Princess and LEGO bricks alike!

©2020 The LEGO Group.

100 First Things To Know

100 carefully curated, useful things that will stimulate your baby or toddler's natural curiosity about the world around them...

Help your little one learn important vocabulary and build knowledge with this first word and picture book. Cleverly designed to inform and entertain, 100 First Things to Know takes your little one on an exciting learning adventure. As they point to the pictures and say the words, children can soon recognise colours, shapes, and patterns, count to 10, learn about life cycles, and name weathers and seasons. They will also be introduced to words from the worlds of art, music, maths, and science.

Part of an award-winning first word book series that mixes engaging, real-life photos with entertaining illustrations,

Baby Touch And Feel Animals

This charming interactive baby book is packed with cute animals and quirky characters ready to entertain your little one!

Filled with soft animal textures, the book's touch and feel patches are designed to encourage early learning. Now your little one can pet the furry belly of a waddling penguin or the fluffy tummy of an adorable puppy.

Each page of this engaging board book features a cute colourful image of an animal, along with the noises they make. Find the super fun tactile elements that encourage your little one to tickle and touch the textures.

Make reading time fun and educational for you and your toddler with this animal book! The easy to follow pages include short, fun text that is great for reading aloud and building language skills. Little ones will have tons of fun discovering their favourite animals like a puppy, kitten or bunny!

Not too big, not too small, this sturdy, padded activity book is just the right size for little hands to hold. No need for mom and dad to turn the pages. Babies and toddlers can turn the tough board pages themselves, which helps to develop their fine motor skills while building an early language foundation.

Touch and Learn

Packed with charming animals, from soft, cuddly rabbits to scaly fish, there are all sorts of textures for your baby to explore in this safe and sturdy book. With more than one million copies sold, Baby Touch and Feel: Animals is the ideal first book for pre-schoolers.

This baby touch and feel book includes:

- Different animal textures from fluffy and adorable animals

This delightful book is part of the Baby Touch and Feel range of children's books from DK Books and includes titles such as Baby Touch and Feel Baby Dinosaur, Baby Touch and Feel Bedtime, Baby Touch and Feel Colours and Shape and more for your little one to enjoy!

LEGO Epic History: Includes Four Exclusive LEGO Mini Models (Lego Book & Toy)

Discover the past like never before - in LEGO® bricks!

Discover the history of the world and get inspired to build your own epic LEGO® models!

The book also comes with bricks to make four exclusive LEGO mini-builds - woolly mammoth, Parthenon, pagoda, and rocket launch pad.

Covering global history from the earliest humans building fire and inventing the wheel, to a modern day city with sustainable energy technology and robots, LEGO Epic History is the perfect introduction for children learning about the past.

LEGO models and minifigures bring to life scenes from the most epic historical periods and inspire children to get creative and build their own! Covers fun, accessible aspects of history through time and place, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Space Race and from Aztec temples to Chinese inventions.

©2020 The LEGO Group.

English For Everyone Junior Beginner's Course: Look, Listen And Learn

Learn English with this fun course for complete beginners. Simple exercises and lively audio will have you speaking and reading more than 500 words in no time!

The perfect introduction to English vocabulary and grammar, English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course provides children aged 6-9 with the support they need as they take the first steps towards learning English as a foreign language.

Equally effective for home study or the classroom, this carefully levelled English-language course assumes no previous knowledge of English. It takes children through the basics of the language, helping them use and understand elementary English clearly and confidently.

The book is carefully aligned to the pre-A1 level of the internationally recognized CEFR framework, and covers all the material necessary to prepare for the Cambridge (Pre-A1 Starters) and Trinity GESE (Grade 1) exams. Vocabulary is taught through attractive illustrations, and reinforced with audio resources. Each language/grammar point is explained in a dedicated panel, accompanied by clear examples of how it's used, and reinforced by exercises. At the back, there is a handwriting guide, grammar overview, and a glossary of language terms used throughout the book.

Building on the worldwide success of the English for Everyone series, the Junior Beginner's Course contains everything a child needs to acquire a firm grasp of English in a fun and interactive way.

Pop-Up Peekaboo! Baby Dinosaur

Roar! Can you help baby T-rex find its mum? Travel back in time to play hide-and-seek, look behind the logs and under the rocks to find where all the dinosaurs are hiding!

Get to know a little T-rex, a baby Ankylosaurus and more of their friends. Just lift the flaps for a pop-up surprise! Read the lively rhymes for a fun story time book.

Follow the beautifully illustrated dinosaur escapade through the lands before time, as baby T-rex goes in search of mummy T-rex. There are many places to look and many other dinosaurs to find. Each one has its name written phonetically, so you and your child can sound them out together.

Babies and toddlers will be enchanted by finding the surprises behind each flap. This interactive book helps teach young children object permanence, which is an important step in childhood development. Turning the pages and moving the pop-ups help learn motor control for improved dexterity in toddlers.

This book has been designed as an all-round activity learning experience to get the most out of story time. Read the lively rhymes aloud and create an amusing story for your kids to follow and guess who is behind the flap! The rhymes and easy to read text help pre-schoolers remember the new words they are learning for early language development.

Peeka...Rawr!

Bold, brightly coloured pictures, lift-the-flap pages, and entertaining rhymes. This book provides lots of opportunities for parent-and-child interaction and hours of dinosaur entertainment. It's a fantastic gift for birthdays.

Inside the pages of this pop-up adventure book, you'll find:

- Hands-on play that builds confident book skills

Surprise! The peek-a-boo-fun doesn't stop here! Your little one will enjoy hours of hide-and-seek surprises with The My Pop-Up Series. Find your farmyard friends with Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm, search the oceans in Pop-Up Peekaboo! Under the Seaand travel into the rainforest to find sloths and elephants in Pop-up Peekaboo! Baby Animalsand more!

DK Book's Pop-up Peekaboo! series has been shortlisted for the Best Preschool Reading Range in The Progressive Preschool Awards 2018.

Easy Peasy Chinese : Mandarin Chinese for Beginners

Do you want to learn the world's most spoken language? This easy-to-use beginner's guide and audio app will get you speaking basic Mandarin in no time.

With useful tips, practice exercises, and fascinating insights into Chinese culture, Easy Peasy Chinese teaches you how to read, write, and speak Mandarin Chinese step by step. The accompanying audio app will help you perfect your pronunciation and quickly get to grips with the Mandarin tones. Aimed at children aged 8+, but of appeal to beginners of all ages, it will teach you all the words and phrases you'll need to get by in China, so you can introduce yourself, read and write numbers, and chat about the weather, food, and interests. What's more, you can give yourself a Chinese name, haggle over shop prices, and learn all about the national culture.

The book covers Pinyin, the system used to spell out Chinese characters using Roman letters, and introduces the Chinese writing system, including more than 200 of the most frequently used Chinese characters. Bold illustrations and photographs, and a compact, super-stylish design help make the process of learning fun and accessible. There is no Great Wall stopping you from learning now.

Our World In Pictures: Countries, Cultures, People & Places: A Visual Encyclopedia Of The World

Packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this beautiful children's book takes you on an exciting round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent!

Did you know that Cuba's national sport is baseball, one of the most popular sports in the US? And that kids in both Japan and Chile have earthquake drills on their school schedule? Find out about anything from the spookily vibrant Day of the Dead parade in Mexico and the beautiful springtime cherry blossom displays of Japan, to blueberry-picking in Sweden and India's space programme. Discover the countries of the world - explore their geography, wildlife, traditions, and arts, in this picture-packed children's book. Every country profile is full of photos, and each nation has a full-colour map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world they are, in this engaging encyclopedia for children aged 9-12.

Celebrate your child's curiosity as they explore:

- Striking and detailed diagrams, drawings and illustrations on every page

This captivating kids encyclopedia tackles our weird and wonderful world continent by content, with informative profiles for each of the 196 nations of the world and striking illustrations, photographs and diagrams featured throughout provide an optimum visual learning experience for both children and adults alike, accompanied by an array of fun facts from around the globe!

This world encyclopedia includes at-a-glance panels that provide a quick reference to all the stats, making this engaging encyclopedia for kids an ideal combination of colourful diagrams and infographic text boxes with easy-to-read accessible text for readers aged 9-12, yet can be enjoyed by the entire family, making this enthralling children's encyclopedia a beautiful and educational gift that can be passed down generations.

Learn all about the world one picture at a time!

If you like Countries of the World, then why not complete the collection? Part of the highly-visual Our World In Pictures series, avid readers can dive into the world of dinosaurs with The Dinosaur Book, become a vehicle virtuoso with Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes and explore the incredible animal kingdom with Animal Book.

Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean!: Our Watery World As You've Never Seen It Before

Explore the deep blue like you've never known before with this children's encyclopedia perfect for a young explorer.

Forming part of a fantastic series of kid's educational books, this bold and brilliant kid's encyclopedia uses ground-breaking CGI imagery to reveal the world as you've never seen it before. Informative, diverse in subject matter, easy-to-read and brimming with beautiful graphics, young learners can explore the incredibly detailed cross-sections and cutaways that reveal the inner workings of our incredible oceans.

This charming children's encyclopedia opens the world in new ways, with:

- Packed with facts, charts, timelines, and illustrations that cover a vast range of topics.

This fully-updated edition of Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean! is the perfect encyclopedia for children aged 9-12, ideal for inquisitive minds, covering the topics of ocean science, seashores, polar oceans, ocean maps and so much more! Jam-packed with fun facts about sea creatures and ocean environments, you can explore sharks, jellyfish, turtles, dolphins, octopuses, penguins, and seahorses, fish and an array of other animals that call the ocean their home.

Explore, Discover And Learn!

DK's Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean! uncovers the marvels of the underwater world in unprecedented detail and with stunning realism. Encompassing engaging facts about animal behaviour under the water, including a closer look at the geography, geology, and ecology that lies beneath the waves from the dramatic landscapes of the deepest trench and towering underwater chimneys, to coastal coral reefs and kelp forests teeming with life, you can spend quality time diving into the deep blue with your children, accompanied by impressive visuals to engage their senses. A must-have volume for curious kids with a thirst for knowledge, this enthralling ocean encyclopedia is structured in such a way that your child can read a bit at a time, and feel comfortable to pause and ask questions. Doubling up as the perfect gift for young readers, who are always asking questions about the underwater world.

At DK, we believe in the power of discovery.

This thrilling kid's encyclopedia is part of the Knowledge Encyclopedia educational series. Celebrate your child's curiosity as they complete the collection and discover diverse facts about the world around them. Explore the animal kingdom like never before with Knowledge Encyclopedia Animal! Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth with Knowledge Encyclopedia Dinosaur! And hone your knowledge on how the human body works with Knowledge Encyclopedia Human Body! Whatever topic takes their fancy, there's an encyclopedia for everyone!

Water Cycles

Dive into the life-cycle of water and discover how it supports all life forms, how humans harness its power, and why we need to conserve it.

From snowflakes falling from the clouds and deep ocean currents to hot springs and water in space, this children's nature book showcases the beauty and power of water in the natural world.

Inside the pages of this fascinating science book for kids, you'll discover:

- Bite-size facts about inhabitants of freshwater and saltwater

The wonderful world of water awaits! Water is essential for life. We drink it, bathe in it, and thousands of creatures live in it. But we are running desperately low on it. Water Cycles shows children how important keeping hydrated is for our health and what we can do to save this life-giving substance in the face of climate change.

This children's wildlife book is packed with incredible facts about water. Little ones will learn how it affects Earth's weather, through rainstorms, snow flurries, and cyclones, how it is used in growing food and in making electricity, as well as how water travels into our homes at the turn of a tap.

From rushing rivers to vast oceans full of animals and plants, water is everywhere. Children will love seeing starfishes, manatees, and orcas come to life through spectacular photography and illustrations. It's the perfect gift for kids aged 7-11 years who love nature and its processes!

How Not To Get Eaten: More Than 75 Incredible Animal Defenses

An in-depth look at the many clever, creative, and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predators.

For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator’s menu. So they’ve had to come up with lots of cunning ways to avoid being eaten. From camouflage and color-changing, natural armor, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back, the range of survival tactics in the natural world is quite astonishing (and sometimes pretty disgusting). 

How Not To Get Eaten is a fun introduction to the ingenious antipredator strategies in the natural world. Discover how meerkats post sentries to guard their homes and possums play dead, to how mimic octopuses change their shape and bombardier beetles unleash a chemical weapon attack. Perfect for children aged 7–9, the book is filled with intriguing illustrations and spectacular photographs of the amazing, obscure, and incredibly strange. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

LEGO Party Ideas

A fun collection of more than 50 ideas for party-themed LEGO® models to inspire young LEGO builders

Get ready to celebrate with more than 50 playful party build ideas!

Use your LEGO® collection to build your own brilliant party decorations, party hats, a minifigure party band, and many more entertaining creations. Then challenge your friends to fun LEGO party games. 

Let the celebrations begin!

I Feel Happy: Why Do I Feel Happy Today?

The sunshine character, Happy, is here to teach your little ones how to recognize this big emotion and name their feelings.

Happy teaches small children that the feeling is sometimes loud, and other times it's calm, like having a quiet cuddle. This brightly illustrated board book is a gentle and simple introduction to sometimes overwhelming emotions.

This adorable book puts words to the feelings that small children have experienced, but might not have the names for just yet. This will help your preschooler tell you how they are feeling and teach them what happiness looks like in other people.

I Feel Happy lets kids know that even if they don't feel happy right now, the good feeling will come back again. It explains what happens in the brain in uncomplicated terms, perfect for young children. It shows how being happy affects the body, like smiling and laughing.

The easy language makes for a fun and educational reading time. This helps children with language, vocabulary and talking about their emotions, especially if they have difficulty expressing feelings. Let the Happy character help your toddler answer difficult questions with simple explanations

Why Do I Feel Happy Today?

This fantastic kids' feelings guide includes:

- Easy-to-understand descriptions of the key emotion: Happiness

The ray of sunshine Happy from this delightful book has friends! Look out for the little star in I Feel Proud, the raincloud in I Feel Sad, the little flame in I Feel Angry and all of them together in How Do I Feel?

Science Activity Pack

Perfect for kids, this children's pack will excite young kids by revealing the everyday ways they can be scientists.

Unleash your child's scientific curiosity and creativity with this exciting science pack for kids. The handy backpack contains an activity book where kids can play their way through 13 fun STEM projects, more than 20 stickers, a certificate, and your very own lab goggles.

The Science Activity Pack is bursting with exciting, easy-peasy science fun to do at home and on-the-go that will keep kids busy for hours! Little scientists are invited to discover why water goes stiff in the freezer, what makes slime super stretchy, how magnifying glasses work, and lots more.

With this pack, children can touch, smell, see, hear, taste, and above all, play their way to scientific amazement!

DKfindout! Rubbish

Discover the key facts about waste and how we can produce less to help protect our planet.

Waste management is an issue humans have encountered throughout history. We can learn a lot about the past by looking at rubbish that was buried in early rubbish dumps, called middens. This book covers the different types of garbage, how it is dealt with, and the problems that occur because of rubbish.

This is a timely entry into the award-winning DKfindout! series. It highlights some of the key global concerns, such as space waste, the problem of plastic, growing landfills, and fast fashion. It also looks at what is being done worldwide to help manage waste better, from renewable energy to eco homes.

Positive suggestions are made for trying eco-friendly swaps for single-use plastic items, wasting less food, and converting trash into treasure. This book is thought-provoking as it gets the reader to ask themselves if they really need to purchase an item and if they do buy something, to consider where it will end up after it's been used. A key way to prevent creating trash is to avoid consuming so much.

The Met Faith Ringgold: Narrating The World In Pattern And Color (What The Artist Saw)

See the world through Faith Ringgold's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.

Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw, and be inspired to create your own artworks, too. In What the Artist Saw: Faith Ringgold, meet inspiring American activist Faith Ringgold. Step into her life and learn what led her to mix different media and craft powerful stories into quilts. Travel with her from Harlem, New York, to Europe, Ghana, and Nigeria. Pick a cause that you care about and try combining it with fabric or sculpture to make your own artworks!

In this series, follow the artists' stories and find intriguing facts about their environments and key masterpieces. Then see what you can see and make your own art. Take a closer look at landscapes with Georgia O'Keeffe, or even yourself, with Vincent van Gogh. Try carving a woodblock print at home with Hokusai. Every book in this series is one to treasure and keep: perfect for budding young artists to explore exhibitions with, and then continue their own artistic journeys.

Code Breakers: Riveting Reads For Curious Kids

Delve into the secret history of the greatest code makers and code-breakers.

From the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone to cracking the Enigma code during World War II, curious kids can explore how codes are created and cracked to reveal top secrets!

Venture into the world of codes and cyphers! Inside the pages of this fun children's book, you will discover:

- Exciting and easy to read stories to engage young readers interested in the world of codes and code breakers

Many adventure stories have ended with the hero "cracking the code" and saving the day! The truth is people have been using codes throughout history to guard and pass along secret information that they don't want in the hands of their enemies (or nosy siblings!)

In this code-breaking book for kids, explore the mysterious world of clever codes and cyphers that have been invented over the years. Learn all about the brilliant people and the fiendishly innovative ways they eventually cracked the codes. Become an expert in cryptology as you follow the stories of famous code-breakers and their place in history.

Code Breakers is part of the Mega Bites series, which uncovers the secrets of history, science, and the natural world. Go back into the past and investigate the fascinating history of the ancient Egyptians in Mummies and then journey to the Gladiators' deadly world. Closer to home, learn all about the most lethal predator in the ocean - sharks! Whichever title you pick, you'll get expert knowledge and fun facts you need on each topic, with every book packed with illustrations, entertaining stories, and anecdotes.

The Met Louise Bourgeois: She Saw The World As A Textured Tapestry (What The Artist Saw)

See how iconic artists like Louise Bourgeois were influenced by their environments in this beautiful series produced in collaboration with The Met.

See the world through Louise Bourgeois’s eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.

Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw and be inspired to create your own artworks too. In What the Artist Saw: Louise Bourgeois, meet famous French American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Step into her life and learn what led her to explore her fears and emotions through her art. Learn all about her family and what inspired her to create her large spider sculptures. Have a go at producing your own art inspired by your dreams!

In this series, follow the artists’ stories and find intriguing facts about their environments and key masterpieces. Then see what you can see and make your own art. Take a closer look at landscapes, or even yourself, with Vincent van Gogh. Try crafting a story in fabric like Faith Ringgold, or carve a woodblock print at home with Hokusai. Every book in this series is one to treasure and keep— perfect for budding young artists to explore exhibitions with, then continue their own artistic journeys. 

DK Eyewitness: Volcano & Earthquake

Uncover the Earth's inner secrets as you explore the world's most magnificent volcanoes and earthquakes like never before.

Become an eyewitness to the world's most explosive volcanoes and powerful earthquakes with this picture-led guide that will take you on a visual tour of the hotspots of the world.

Explore everything you need to know about the Earth's most extraordinary natural forces - from active volcanoes, including Kilanea in Hawaii and Etna in Italy, to devastating earthquakes that have hit San Francisco and Japan. Discover how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius devastated the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, but left in its wake remarkably preserved treasures.

Throughout the pages of this newly- revised incredible history book, you can expect to find:

-All information updated by expert consultants

Eyewitness Volcano and Earthquake explores how tectonic plates collide, what causes magma to escape from deep inside Earth and why eruptions affect our weather. Learn how scientists predict and measure the magnitude of earthquakes, and find out what a volcanologist does!

Packed with striking full-colour photographs and illustrations of lava flows, pyroclastic clouds, rocks

From tectonic plates, to liquid lava, this all-encompassing geography book is a must-have volume for curious children aged 9+ with a thirst for knowledge and learning, alongside teachers, parents and librarians.

So, what's new?

Part of DK's best-selling Eyewitness series, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, up to 20 per cent new images, including photography and updated diagrams, updated information, and a new "eyewitness" feature with fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field.

Explore the series!

Globally, the Eyewitness series has sold more than 50 million copies over 30 years. Join the journey to combat climate change with Eyewitness Climate Change or take a trip aboard the most famous ship in history with Eyewitness Titanic.

What's The Point Of Science?

Find out about the wonderful world of scientific discovery, how science works and why it has changed the world.

Turn boredom into awe! Learn about the most notable scientists in history, scientific discoveries, and the answers to your questions about biology, chemistry and physics. This illustrated science book is packed with stories and hand-drawn graphics that will make science fun! 

Wondering where science started and how scientists solve centuries-old mysteries? Inside this science book, you’ll find:

- Each main topic features a discovery or breakthrough presented as an illustrated story.

Discover the amazing humans who challenged the thinking of their time and put their lives at risk to learn about everything on the planet — and in space! Understand why science matters so much, and the incredible places it will take us in the future. This illustrated science reference guide will intrigue and inspire children ages 9-12 to love science, and to marvel at the world around them.

Students will learn how science is practical and applicable to the real world, and helps to solve everyday problems through the stories and discoveries of notable scientists. The easy-to-follow format explores the origins of science and answers important questions like how the universe started, how to build a pyramid, how to save a life, how to capture lightning and even how to live on Mars. The answers and stories in this scientific book will change the way children think about science forever!

DK’s What’s the Point? series is packed with surprising facts, tales of ingenuity and endeavor, and beautiful, unique illustrations. Each book in the series includes crazy facts, quizzes and puzzles. Look out for What's the Point of Maths? to encourage young students to find fun in their math homework!