From the author of I SPY – AN ALPHABET IN ART; and I SPY – NUMBERS IN ART, another title containing a selection of fine art paintings from artists worldwide and throughout history, combined with a simple game of shape spotting.
I spy with my little eye…
a square
a diamond
ten circles
Each magnificent painting in this book has a different shape for you to find – some are easy, but some are difficult. And when you have found them all, there are lots of other interesting things to spot.
Lucy Micklethwait has selected a wonderful range of fine art by painters including Escher, Warhol, Matisse and Magritte. With a gloriously reproduced piece of art on each spread, this title is the ultimate picture-puzzle challenge for children, making art accessible and fun.
30 awesome topics for pharaoh fanatics explained in half a minute Meet the charismatic Ancient Egyptians in this informative title for history buffs aged 812. Covering more than just mummies and pyramids, this book introduces life by the Nile, including the jobs people had, the clothes they wore, the toys they played with, and the religion they followed.
What do you call a lazy kangaroo? A pouch potato. What should you wear when you go to the beach with a monster? Sunscream. What did the skeleton say to the doctor? This will cost me an arm and a leg! Or give this riddle a try: I have many teeth but can't chew. What am I? (A comb.) This work features a range of jokes, riddles, and tongue-twisters.
The intrepid explorer can take a trip to the freezing-cold ends of the Earth in the latest Horrible Geography Handbook. This is the ultimate survival guide filled with tips on everything from how to handle a peckish polar bear to how to have a pee without geting frost bite - this is geography at its most perilous.
From growing food to eating it, this title offers the information you need to know about the main food groups. With delicious recipes, various activities and facts about how your meal gets to your table, it provides you with photographs, artwork and a growing-location map, as well as easy, healthy recipes.
To save her baby son from being killed, Moses's mother puts him in a basket of reeds in the River Nile. The basket is found by the pharoah's daughter who decides to keep the baby and Moses grows up as an Egyptian prince. The biblical story in this book is retold for children in simple language.
Psst! It's true! This is the best book on ROMANS you'll ever read!Marius butchered his enemies, Crassus stole, Clodius lied and Julius Caesar didn't care about anyone other than Julius Caesar. It's true: the Romans were gangsters.This book is full of cheating, stabbing, vomiting and general bad behaviour. There are severed heads on spears, messy massacres and streets flowing with blood. Find out who wore a purple-striped toga, who was crooked, who was mean and who was just plain crazy.Brain your buddies with bizarre facts about the bad boys of BC
Retold by internationally acclaimed Xhosa storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe, and beautifully illustrated with hand-sewn artwork, each of these eight tales comes with an introduction to the country's customs and culture. The stories are from Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, Sudan and Swaziland. Education Market: This title is suitable for KS1/KS2. Topics of this title include: Environment and Conservation; Our World; Our Global Community; and, Understanding the Wider World. It includes an introduction to the African continent and to each country in which a story takes place. This is a companion book to Shenaaz Nanji's ""Indian Tales"", illustrated by Christopher Corr (HB: 9781846860829). Gift Market: This title features exquisite and carefully researched artwork by fabric artist, Rachel Griffin.
