9781474978477 Peep Inside a Beehive (硬頁翻翻書)Help instill a love of bees in little children with this little flap book that explores their world. Peep inside flowers, beehives and under busy bees, to see what they do all day, how honey is made, how baby bees are born, and how a queen bee leads the way to build a new home.9781474953023 Peep Inside How a Plane Works (硬頁翻翻書)Peep inside a plane to find pink fuel, a powerful engine and a cockpit full of controls. Discover how a fleet of trucks gets the plane ready to fly, then follow the plane as it zooms up into the sky. Caroline Attia's colourful illustrations bring the workings of a plane to life, from the pilot's secret bedroom to where the snacks are stored.9781474950824 Peep Inside Bug Homes (硬頁翻翻書)Peep inside meadows, flowers, logs as well as underground nests and natural hives to discover all kinds of bugs in their homes.9781474950817 Peep Inside the Forest (硬頁翻翻書)Peep inside a forest to discover what lives there and how the forest ch
Modern Art Explorer is a witty and brilliantly illustrated introduction to modern art for children that takes readers undercover to discover the stories behind thirty famous artworks from the Centre Pompidou's collection in Paris. By going behind the scenes and turning each artwork inside out, young readers will see that artworks aren’t remote monuments but real things that are shaped into being by ideas, inspirations, human lives, world events and the materials artists use. Children will be entertained and intrigued by a variety of engagingly specific details and buoyed by their ability to understand what these works of art are all about. Award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch’s cheeky, comic and energetic illustrations serve to illuminate the information and the ideas in each artwork. The thirty featured artworks themselves represent the work of a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists from one of the world’s most celebrated modern art museums. Modern art has never seemed so
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A visual celebration of more than 80 great artists, from the Early Renaissance to the present day.Exploring the vision and techniques of the greatest painters and sculptors throughout history, Artists
From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, delve into more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured
From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers.Introduced with a stunning p
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Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an ecl
