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Blast off to adventure! Join Ava and her cat as they pilot their rocket to the furthest reaches of the solar system and beyond.
An "absolutely stellar" (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review) board book for kids ages 1–3, with interactive die-cuts throughout and a surprise pop-up!

Join Ava and her cat on their adventure into space, where you can visit the International Space Station, ride in a moon buggy, discover a Mars rover, journey past all the planets in the Solar System, and watch the greatest show in outer space: a supernova explosion.

Board book pages with peek-a-boo holes and a pop-up make every page an interactive experience, keeping readers guessing about what surprise awaits on the next page, while fun and informative writing explains fascinating facts about space. With its bold interactive features, beautiful illustrations, and fun story, this book is the ideal gift for young space enthusiasts!

Also in the Zoom series:

• Zoom: Ocean Adventure - Join Noah on his underwater adventure
• Zoom: Farm Adventure - Join Bo on as he gets to work on his very own farm
• Zoom: Construction Site Adventure - Join Maxie as they build their dream skyscraper
• Zoom: Rainforest Adventure - Join Lin on her trek into the Amazon rainforest
• Zoom: Dinosaur Adventure - Join Jasmine and Jamie on an epic journey back to the prehistoric era

Dive into adventure! Join Noah on his underwater adventure to the depths of the ocean in this board book for kids aged 1–3, with interactive die-cuts throughout and a surprise pop-up!

Join Noah as he puts on his wetsuit and visits Earth's most mysterious environment: the ocean. Come face to face with a great white shark, join dazzling fish on a coral reef, explore the depths of the ocean in Noah’s submarine, and discover your very own pirate treasure.

Die-cut board pages and a pop-up make every page an interactive experience, keeping readers guessing about what surprise awaits on the next page, while fun and informative writing explains fascinating facts about ocean animals. With its bold interactive features, beautiful illustrations, and fun story, this book is the ideal gift for young ocean lovers!

• Zoom: Space Adventure - Join Ava and her cat on their journey into space
• Zoom: Construction Site Adventure - Join Maxie as they build their dream skyscraper
• Zoom: Dinosaur Adventure - Join Jasmine and Jamie on an epic journey back to the prehistoric era
• Zoom: Rainforest Adventure - Join Lin on her trek into the Amazon rainforest
• Zoom: Farm Adventure - Join Bo on as he gets to work on his very own farm

The perfect Shakespeare home-learning resource for children aged 6 - 14

William Shakespeare's plays are presented as never before, with all 38 masterpieces simultaneously performed in front of you on a 6-foot fold-out timeline set in the iconic Globe Theatre.

Spot the ghosts, hunt for the murderers, discover the poison, and revel in Elizabethan romance as each play unfolds. Concise plot summaries, key textual quotes, and carefully illustrated scenes help pinpoint the action.

Developed in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the timeline also features essential moments in Shakespeare's life, providing a unique narrative context to the works of the world's favourite bard. These are written in the form of 40 newspaper articles in an easy-to-read chronicle, and feature important events such as the first sale of Shakespeare’s works and the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a fifty-question quiz, and pocket magnifier to make it easy and fun to explore all the timeline’s details.

This timeline is essential for all curious minds in a world where loving learning matters more than ever before. It is perfect for 6–14 year olds, but equally fascinating for drama lovers of any age! You can enjoy this timeline many ways: unfolding it on the floor, reading it like a book or detaching it to stick it to the wall.

Explore the most amazing moments in scientific and technological discovery in this unique fold-out timeline book that brings the history of science to life!

The timeline includes over 1,000 illustrations and captions and is uniquely divided into 7 sections:

• Sky and Space
• Transportation and Communication
• Building and Invention
• Earth and Land
• Medicine and Biology
• Physics and Chemistry
• Math and Measurement
• With a timeline running along the bottom

Created in association with the American Museum of Natural History, the timeline also includes an easy-to-read chronicle, written in the form of 30 newspaper articles. These examine the key moments in scientific history in greater detail, such as the first use of written numbers and the invention of the telephone. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a 50-question quiz, and a pocket magnifier to make it easy and fun to explore all the timeline’s details.

This timeline is essential for all curious minds in a world where loving learning matters more than ever before. It is perfect for 6–14 year olds, and for science lovers of any age! You can enjoy this timeline many ways: unfolding it on the floor, reading it like a book or detaching it to stick it to the wall.

The perfect cross-curricular home-learning resource for children aged 6 - 14.

Explore the story of the Natural World from the dawn of life on Earth to the present day, in this unique fold-out timeline book that brings natural history to life!

The timeline begins over 4 billion years ago, includes over 1,000 illustrations and captions and is divided into sections (Sea, Land, Sky and Planet Earth), with a timeline running along the bottom. Witness the emergence of life, the reign of dinosaurs, the migration of mammals, and finally, the story of humanity from the first two-legged hominids to a world populated by more than 7 billion people today. The nearly 6-foot-long timeline allows readers to compare events across the world at any given moment in time – making this a wonderful cross-curricular, all-encompassing history tool for the whole family!

Created in association with the American Museum of Natural History, the timeline also includes an easy-to-read chronicle, written in the form of 30 newspaper articles. These examine the key moments in natural history in greater detail, such as the extinction of dinosaurs and the threat of climate change. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a 50-question quiz, and a pocket magnifier to make it easy and fun to explore all the timeline’s details.

This timeline is essential for all curious minds in a world where loving learning matters more than ever before. It is perfect for 6–14 year olds, and for history lovers of any age! You can enjoy this timeline many ways: unfolding it on the floor, reading it like a book or detaching it to stick it to the wall.

The timeline starts with the dawn of life on Earth 4.5 billion years ago, and continues right up to the Present Day, telling the story of the natural history of the world with stickers of the earliest life on earth, plants, sealife, dinosaurs, mammals, humans and more!

Created in association with the American Museum of Natural History, this unique timeline stickerbook has 96 beautifully illustrated stickers that you can use to fill in the 5-foot long timeline, which has captioned, white silhouettes to show you where to place your stickers. The timeline is detachable so you can spread it out on the floor and then display it on the wall when it is finished! Each stickerbook also comes with a colouring-in page.

This timeline is perfect for helping children explore chronology and sequencing in a fun, educational and entertaining way.

In a world of COVID-19, bad germs and bacteria are all around us. But, not all germs are bad!

Check in to The Good Germ Hotel to learn about all the good germs and bacteria superheroes that live inside the human body. These amazing microbes fight viruses, digest food, and keep us healthy and happy.

Did you know that your body is full of bacteria? And that most of it is good bacteria that helps to keep you healthy? Well, now's your chance to get up close and personal with the microorganisms that live inside all of us. Travel through the body with our gut bacteria guide, stopping off to meet the other amazing microbe residents along the way.

In today's pandemic climate, bad germs and bacteria are the subject of many conversations. This book helps kids learn that not all bacteria are bad and introduces them to all the good germs in the body that help us fight viruses and infections. The dialogue around good gut health has also been gaining traction in recent years, so The Good Germ Hotel is the perfect place to visit to get to know your gut microbiota.

Includes a glossary and index.

Dive into the Ocean and discover all the Secrets of the Deep! From clown fish to killer whales, and sunlit coral reefs to smoking deep-sea vents - welcome to our great global ocean.

Did you know that the ocean is home to the biggest animals in the world? Did you know that the ocean is deeper in some places than Mount Everest is tall? If your elementary school reader is asking questions about life under the sea, this is the place to look!

In this book you can dive underwater and discover menacing sharks, playful dolphins, clown fish, penguins, turtles, whales, shimmering jellyfish, a gargantuan giant squid and much much more! You can also find out about all the dangers to our ocean, including plastic pollution, climate change, and overfishing, and the ways you can help save our ocean and keep it healthy.

Ocean: Secrets of the Deep is jam-packed with over 200 stylish illustrations, infographics and surprising facts about the world’s marine life. First, readers are taken on a journey from the water’s surface to the deepest, darkest depths of the oceans. Then, information-packed pages about marine life follow, before a final section about how to protect our ocean. At the end of the book, an illustrated world map and glossary of sea-related terms provide additional supporting information.

A richly illustrated, foldout graphic history of the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.

Includes a glossary and index.

Did you know that English words come from all over the world and that their meanings have changed along their journey?

Our word "zero" comes from the Arabic word for empty space. "Companion" is from the Latin for with bread.

With simple descriptions and dazzling, evocative and witty illustrations, this is a fascinating introduction to the rich history and cultural diversity of our language.

Words included: orchestra (Japanese); zero (Arabic); guru (Sanskrit); ukulele (Hawaiian); jaguar (Tupi); royalty (Norman French); companion (Latin); kookaburra (Wradjuri); worm (Old English); mummy (Persian); caribou (Algonquin); safari (Swahili).

"Solid scientific browsing.—Kirkus Reviews

Find out how unique Planet Earth really is in this eye-catching book of comparisons!

Earth is big! (compared to a frog) Earth is small! (when it’s hiding in a galaxy) And that's not all. Earth is wet and dry, hot and cold, round and jagged, fast and slow. You get the idea. It depends how you look at it!

Get to know our planet in a whole new way by comparing it to a huge variety of other incredible things―from tiny particles to giant star clusters. Did you know soap bubbles are some of the roundest objects in the universe? Or that we humans are totally outnumbered by chickens? Or that the driest desert on Earth isn’t scorching but freezing? Tour some of the most extreme places on the planet and beyond it, take a look at life forms from bacteria to elephants to redwood trees, and explore what makes our planet the perfect home for us.

You’ll never see Earth the same way again!

Includes an index and glossary.

Explore history, culture, geology, and the environment through treasures ancient and modern! Discover 100+ of the world’s most extraordinary man-made and natural treasures, objects and places.

Giant gemstones, precious artworks, architectural wonders, intriguing ruins, moon rocks, and more! Treasures both natural and man-made make an appearance in a tour which stretches across thousands of years and all around the globe. Discover sunken wrecks loaded with pirate gold, the abandoned tombs of the world’s most powerful rulers, and even meteorites – treasures from outer space! A central foldout map reveals the locations of all the treasures featured in the book, while award-winning author David Long also addresses contemporary topics such as our threatened natural wonders and the ownership of cultural treasures.

The perfect book for any curious explorer or treasure-hunter aged 7+

Includes an index and glossary.

Other titles in the Our Amazing World series include:

• Amazing Islands
• Amazing Rivers
• Amazing Animals

Fearless adventurers, set sail on a fascinating voyage down the world’s most extraordinary rivers!

Discover over 100 of the world’s most incredible rivers in this fascinating title by Julie Vosburgh Agnone and illustrated by prize-winner Kerry Hyndman. Amazing Rivers takes readers on a tour of the world’s waterways, revealing the animals that call them home, the societies that rely on them, and the environmental issues threatening them along the way.

Learn about incredible wildlife, from brown bears catching salmon that swim upstream to anacondas large enough to eat a pig. Explore astounding natural wonders, from a boiling river so hot you can cook an egg in it to a multicoloured river that flows like a liquid rainbow. And discover awesome river traditions, from ritual baths to rubber duck racing to barefoot waterskiing!

A fact-filled celebration of some of the most AMAZING rivers on EARTH!

Includes and index and glossary.

Other titles in the Our Amazing World series include:

• Amazing Islands
• Amazing Treasures
• Amazing Animals
  

Intrepid explorers aged 7–11, get ready to embark on a breath-taking tour of over 100 islands found all around the world!

Discover over 100 of the planet’s most magical islands - their wildlife, history, diversity, people, cultures, treasures, and more - in this beautifully illustrated book. From islands that have been taken over by animals to disappearing islands, islands made of shells, artificial islands, and even islands that were once prison colonies, this book takes you on an exciting tour of some of the smallest land masses in the world.

Record breaking tongues, playful dolphins, sleepy koalas—animals come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes and sizes. Discover over 100 of the world’s most remarkable animals in this beautifully illustrated tour of Earth's wildlife.

From the record breaking tongue of a chameleon to the dashing dance of the peacock spider, you'll learn about the most amazing creatures from air, land, and sea. Discover playful dolphins, sleepy koalas, and even a fish that keeps its babies safe in its own mouth, uncovering the secrets of their survival, the incredible habitats they call home, as well as the environmental threats putting them in danger.

Includes a glossary and index.

Other titles in the Our Amazing World series include:

• Amazing Islands
• Amazing Rivers
• Amazing Treasures