This title helps you rediscover the lost world of ancient Central America, with 450 exciting pictures and 15 step-by-step projects. You can step back in time to Central America before the Spanish conquest and discover fascinating facts about the people who lived there. You can explore the cultures and beliefs of the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs and Aztecs - the great cities they constructed, their astronomical knowledge, their use of medicine, and their insatiable drive for human sacrifice. It features 15 step-by-step projects that actively involve the reader in bringing the past to life - use a fan fit for an emperor, make a Maya backstrap loom, wear a mosaic mask, and create the amazing Aztec sun stone. More than 450 photographs and illustrations include diagrams, historical maps and a pictorial timeline. It is ideal for home or school use for 8- to 12-year-olds. History records the Aztecs and Maya as bloodthirsty warriors and priests who committed brutal acts of human sacrifice, yet this is not the whole story. Ancient Mesoamericans also formed close-knit family groups, made beautiful masks from jade and built breathtaking pyramids that are still standing today.
A variety of easy-to-make projects enable you to recreate the past. You can build a Maya house or a pyramid temple, eat Aztec-style tortillas, wear a bat brooch, and enjoy the Mesoamerican board game of patolli.
See what happens to different desert animals over the course of a day and night, discussing different aspects of the animals' anatomy and behaviour, e.g. sleeping, eating, hunting and moving.
A fun, challenging adventure for young children with a picture puzzle to solve on every double page, plus stickers to add along the way. It's the day of the Puzzle kite-flying competition and Marcy plans to steal the precious Soaraway Bird and use its feathers to make her kite fly highest of all. James, Cath and Max set out to stop her.
Alison Dupernex explains how to knit in simple step-by-step terms, making the craft accessible for complete beginners. Relax and have fun creating beanie hats, purses, bags, belts and more with this fantastic book.
Bags, purses, lucky charms and more! Claire Buckley makes embroidery fun for beginners; explaining how to make wonderful embroidered items in simple steps. Embroidery techniques are covered in an easy to follow section that leads into the projects.
Take a closer look at life cycles! During their lives, animals and plants change and grow. This book explains how a guinea pig develops from a pup into an adult. You can also find out where guinea pigs live and the dangers they face.
If you are clever and sort of devious, you are already halfway to becoming a detective. However an ace agent also needs to be intelligent, observant and resourceful! This lively book shows you all the secrets of spying with projects for making invisible ink, dusting for fingerprints, spying on suspects and deciphering codes.
The next three Horrid Henry joke books - HORRID HENRY'S HILARIOUSLY HORRID JOKE BOOK, HORRID HENRY'S PURPLE HAND GANG JOKE BOOK and HORRID HENRY'S ALL-TIME FAVOURITE JOKE BOOK - collected together in one outrageously funny bumper volume. Horrid Henry fans will laugh their heads off!
Have you ever thought that science was boring? Or that what you've learned in science class is all there is to know? This book was designed to show you, whether you are a budding scientist or a skeptical bystander, that science is more than you've ever learned in school. This monster of a book is packed with interesting facts including what keeps planes in the air, how to stay alive if you are struck by lightning, how to live on another plant, how to turn yourself into a robot, and much more! If you want to learn how to see in the dark or to turn invisible, this is the book for you! Packed with cool diagrams and hands-on activities to try at home, getting to grips with science has never been so much fun!
