This humorous twist on the perennially popular Questions & Answers format takes a sideways look at all that is super and strange about the life of plants. Quirkily illustrated characters and playful text reveal the amazing answers. Find out which plants stink of rotting socks, how tall bamboo can grow in a day, and how plants defend themselves from attack. Illustrator: Tim Budgen. ... |
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The art of Edmund Dulac, a naturalized British French master illustrator, is channelled into an enchanting and mysterious Tarot deck. Dulac became famous during the golden age of illustration (between the XIX and the XX century) for his magic–filled artwork, capable of moving the heart and charming the eyes. 78 cards with dimensions 6.5 x 11.8 cm and multilingual instruction booklet included. ... |
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Look at the pictures and say the words! Wonderful Words: My Food! is packed with lots of bright illustrations and labels to help your little one explore the everyday subject of the food they eat. Words are grouped into categories to improve your toddler's vocabulary and encourage discussion. Questions help you to explore numbers, colours and shapes with your child. A colourful wall poster gives you a fun 5-minute word recap whenever you need it Wonderful Words: My Food! gives your curious child loads to spot and talk about on every page, encouraging them to practise their vocabulary skills as they learn new words. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. This elegant "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition of "Aesop's Fables" features illustrations by Arthur Rackham, the leading decorative illustrator of the ... |
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A little learning library using artwork from Eric Carle's classic, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Introducing first concepts, this wonderful board book collection makes a perfect first library. Each book is filled with Eric Carle's much-loved collage art and large, simple text. Ideal for little hands to hold the sturdy board pages are durable enough to withstand the rough and tumble of toddlers. Preschoolers will love learning with "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"! Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children. Eric lives ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Édouard Riou, the French painter and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The adventures of Lemuel Gulliver are the stuff of legend. First he is shipwrecked in a strange land, and finds himself a prisoner of the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. Then he washes up in Brobdingnag, where the people are giants of extraordinary proportions. Further exploits see him stranded with the scientists and philosophers of Laputa, and meeting a race of talking horses who rule over bestial humans. One of the finest satires in the English language, "Gulliver's Travels" delights in the mockery of everything from government to religion ... |
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Grandude is a one-of-a-kind adventurer - a Mary Poppins for the modern day! With his magic compass he whisks his four grandkids off on whirlwind adventures, taking them all around the globe... Join them as they ride flying fish, dodge stampedes, and escape avalanches! Beautifully imagined in a riot of colour by talented children's illustrator Kathryn Durst, it's the perfect bedtime story for little explorers. This is a new paperback edition with an accompanying CD, featuring narration, instrumental music, and sound effects - all performed by the author himself. A charming tale from the music legend - with the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Evocative of "the blue remembered hills" of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational for generations of readers, "A Shropshire Lad", with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon ... |
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Retold and illustrated by Sabina Radeva. ... The first ever picture-book retelling of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species". On The Origin of Species has been the definitive explanation of the theory of evolution since it was first published in 1859. Now molecular biologist and illustrator Sabina Radeva unites her two passions to create a 64-page retelling of this seminal text. This accessible work brings evolution to the younger generation through stylish illustrations and a simple, easy-to-understand text. Pulling together Darwin's observations from his travels around the world and his ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his adventures, undergoing a series of fiendishly imaginative trials - among them being swallowed by a giant dogfish and turned into a donkey - that will lead him to self-knowledge. Along the way he will be helped by a beautiful fairy, a talking cricket and ... |
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Как да печелиш повече като художник. 101 начина как да правиш пари от изкуството си. Тази книга е предназначена за начинаещи и напреднали, традиционни и дигитални художници, които искат да развият успешен бизнес със своето изкуство. В тази книга Деян Минчев разкрива своя опит и тайни, като същевременно се позовава на проучвания върху доказани практики при бизнеса с изкуство в световен мащаб. Прави го с една основна цел - да помогне на колкото се може повече художници да развият успешна и доходоносна кариера, като така стимулират развитието на изкуството като индустрия. В нея са включени практически съвети, тайни ... |
