An Adventurer's Guide to Dinosaurs

Travel through time to the land of the dinosaurs! Foreword by Chris Packham. 
 
Climb aboard the time machine and join adventurer Mia on a breathtaking journey to our prehistoric world, visiting an active volcano, tracking dinosaur footprints and tiptoeing around a Maiasaura nest! 
 
Starting almost 300 million years ago, you can meet: 
 
- ancient Permian reptiles 
- Triassic meat-eaters and plant-eaters 
- powerful Jurassic predators 
- fluffy and feathery dinosaurs 
- flying dinosaurs and pterosaurs 
- the world's very first birds 
- enormous Cretaceous titanosaurs 
- dinosaurs with horns, frills and crests 
 
With astonishing facts and interactive dinosaur activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

A unique, immersive take on non-fiction for children aged 5+, An Adventurer's Guide to Dinosaurs is packed with breathtaking facts and interactive play to excite and inspire young adventurers. 
 
 Starting in the Permian, explore the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous to unearth almost 250 million years of incredible creatures. 
 
With astonishing facts and interactive dinosaur activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

An Adventurer's Guide to Outer Space

Blast off on an interactive voyage beyond the stars! 
 
Pack your spacesuit and join adventurer Mia on a spellbinding journey to the depths of the universe, spotting spectacular constellations, discovering new asteroids and counting the sparkling rings of Saturn. 
 
On your way, you can visit: 
 
- the Moon and Sun 
- the International Space Station 
- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 
- the Asteroid Belt 
- the Dwarf Planets 
- the Kuiper Belt 
- Exoplanets 
- the Milky Way and distant galaxies 
 
With breathtaking facts and interactive space activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

Isabel Thomas (Author) Isabel Thomas has written more than 150 books about science for young readers and has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association of Science Education Book of the Year, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards. Lucy Hawking (Foreword By) LUCY HAWKING is a children's writer, the co-creator of non-fiction compendium Unlocking the Universe and the George fiction series, with her father Stephen Hawking. Lucy is a former journalist, having written widely for British newspapers, and she gives regular talks about science and stories to audiences all over the world. Yas Imamura (Illustrator) Yas Imamura is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. Much of her work draws inspiration from the books she enjoyed as a child, her art evolving into an amalgamation of both the timeless and modern. Yas's preferred materials are gouache and watercolour.

A unique, immersive take on non-fiction for children aged 5+, An Adventurer's Guide to Outer Space is packed with spellbinding facts and interactive play to excite and inspire young adventurers. 
 
Starting on Earth, children travel through outer space with adventurer Mia, stopping at the Moon and the International Space Station, as well as visiting Exoplanets and going back in time to the Big Bang. 
 
With breathtaking facts and interactive space activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

Hello Design!

Did you know that everything you touch has been designed? Your toys, your clothes, your scooter . . . and this book! 
 
A design can be as small as a toothbrush . . . or as BIG as a skyscraper. Every design starts in someone's imagination - an imagination just like yours. 
 
Travel through one day and discover how the world around you has been designed - even though we don't always realise it! Question HOW everyday items have been designed, and WHY they look the way they do. Guaranteed to make you see the world a little differently, pick up your pens and imagine your own designs. 
 
What will you design? 
 
With facts and questions to inspire all budding designers and get creative minds whirring - and featuring iconic designs from the experts at the V&amp;A Museum.

Isabel Thomas (Author) 
 Isabel Thomas has written more than 150 books about science for young readers and has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association of Science Education Book of the Year, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards. 
 
Aurélie Guillerey (Illustrator) 
 Aurélie Guillerey studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and now works as an illustrator in France. Her characters are often inspired by her children and she likes to work with bright, bold colours to create energetic illustration.

Isabel Thomas

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A unique, immersive take on non-fiction for children aged 5+, An Adventurer's Guide to Ancient Egypt is packed with breathtaking facts and interactive play to excite and inspire young adventurers. 
 
Travel down the Nile to visit the pyramids, meet the first pharaoh, and even have a go at some ancient Egyptian homework! 
 
With astonishing facts and interactive activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

An Adventurer's Guide to Ancient Egypt

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