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COMPARISONS nd you World arou Sizing up the
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biggest
Earth. It grows up to a massive 30 yards in length, and every day it eats up to 8,000 lb of tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill.
Elephants
are pretty big too. The largest can weigh up to 13,000 lb. A trunk can weigh up to 400 lb, but it is so dexterous, it can pick up a grain of rice.
Elephants eat
600 lb
weight of the blue whale’s tongue!
of plant matter a day...
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“fecal plumes” (poop to you and me). That’s
FASTEST EATER
of their body weight.
NAUGHTY CAECILIANS Baby caecilians (earthworm-like amphibians) use temporary fangs to strip the skin from their mother’s body and feast upon it.
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The weight of an elephant is roughly equal to the
almost the length of three buses!
The star-nosed mole is one of the fastest eaters. It eats its food in 227 milliseconds (less than a quarter of a second).
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330 lb
of poop a day...
MEDIUM OR RARE! An adult lion can eat the equivalent of 30 steaks in one day— and they probably like them rare.
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Hummingbirds eat up to 0.14 oz of insects and nectar every day—that’s twice their body weight. If a 10-year-old child ate twice their body weight daily, that would be around 1,000 sausages every day!
...which is about the weight of three men and a 3-year-old child!
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Elephants produce about
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HUMMINGBIRD weight = 0.05-0.07 oz
NECTAR AND INSECTS
weight = 0.11–0.14 oz
EGG-STRAORDINARY The Egyptian vulture has a clever way of eating eggs. It takes a rock in its mouth and throws it at an egg to break the shell.
MONKEYS WITH MANNERS Japanese macaques wash their food, such as fruit, before eating it.
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STEVE MARTIN Illustrated by Lucy Banaji
STEVE MARTIN
ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATEDBY BYANGELA KERRY HYNDMAN KEOGHAN
Doctor Academy
Steve Martin & Kerry Hyndman
Pilot Academy
Steve Martin & Lucy Banaji
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POSTER &
240mm x 200mm 64pp + poster, board game, model and stickers 4-col throughout paperback £9.99 Age: 7+
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ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE? STEVE MARTIN & NASTIA SLEPTSOVA
Engineer Academy
Astronaut Academy
Architect Academy
Vet Academy
Coder Academy
Scientist Academy
Steve Martin & Nastia Sleptsova
Steve Martin & Jennifer Farley
Nathan Emery & Wesley Robins
Mythical Beasts Masks
Amazing Evolution Glue
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297mm x 250mm 96pp 4-col throughout hardback £14.99 Age: 8+
Craig Shuttlewood
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Town and Country
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200mm x 336mm 32pp 4-col throughout hardback £8.99 Age: 3+
RAINFOREST MASKS
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M Y T H I CA L B E A S T S
60% MEANIES
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Their daily food intake is about
of their food intake.
Tear-drinking moths in Madagascar sneak up on larger animals and poke them in the eyes until they cry so they can drink the tears.
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Gavin Rutherford & Tanya Batrak
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They poop out
of their total body weight.
EXTREME EATERS
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African elephant.
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8,000 lb
is the weight a female
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WARNING WARNING SMALL PARTS SMALL NOT PARTS SUITABLE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN FOR CHILDREN UNDER 3UNDER YEARS OF 3 YEARS AGE –OF CHOKING AGE – CHOKING HAZARDHAZARD
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Incredible Skeletons
ACTUAL SIZE KRILL
of krill in a day.
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Rain Forest Masks
Blue whales eat
8,000 lb The blue whales daily food intake is only
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Play, imagine and learn with these 10 strikingly illustrated animal masks! Simply press out, make and wear.
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DISCOVER THE BONES OF AMAZING ANIMALS
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This fascinating book reveals the amazing structures inside animals. Beautifully illustrated and packed full of facts, it features some of the world’s most interesting creatures.
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297mm x 210mm 68pp 4-col throughout paperback £9.99 Age: 8+
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pooper and eater is the blue whale, which happens to be the largest animal ever known to have lived on
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You don’t have to be big to eat and poop a lot—but it helps! Here are some record-breaking poopers and eaters.
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Biggest Poopers and Eaters
Glue
Clive Gifford & Paul Boston
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297mm x 210mm 68pp 4-col throughout paperback £9.99 Age: 8+
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Incredible Skeletons
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Anita Ganeri, Stef Murphy & Deborah Pow
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279mm x 216mm 64pp 4-col throughout hardback £12.99 Age: 6+
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Rain Forest Masks
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Gavin Rutherford & Tanya Batrak
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The Book of Comparisons
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297mm x 250mm 96pp 4-col throughout hardback £14.99 Age: 7+
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VET DOCTOR ACADEMY ACADEMY STEVE MARTIN & ANGELA KEOGHAN
Amazing comparisons and equivalents that help you to size up the world around you.
Are you ready for the challenge? In this fun, educational series, children work through a range of imaginative activities designed to explore and test the essential skills required for life as a top architect, astronaut, vet or engineer. A pull-out poster, a press-out model, game and stickers accompany each title and provide even more interactive fun.
OF THE BOOK
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Glue
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P I LO T ACA DEM Y
The Book of Comparisons
Steve Martin & Essi Kimpimäki
Steve Martin & Angela Keoghan
hot chocolate stand hats and mittens ice rink snowball fight
G avi n R u t h e r f o rd & Ta nya B at ra k
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chestnut stand snowman shoveling snow road gritter
Town snow
Amazing Evolution
frozen lake
MYT HICA L BEAS T MAS KS TO PRES S OUT AND MAK E
snowman
Mythical Beasts Masks
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skiers
MYTHICAL
tobogganing
This beautiful book helps kids to discover the wonderful variety of life on Earth, and their place among it all.
snow plow
From a unicorn to a griffin, these 10 magical masks will fire up young imaginations. Simply press out, make and wear.
Country snow
skaters snow blower snowboarders
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tobogganing snow angels
Paper craft
snow shoes
Sean McManus & Rosan Magar
Paper craft
dream bedroom of your own.
FIND THE
HIDDEN IN THE BALLETS
ROOM
ROOM
This creative interior design activity
book enables you to imagine a stunning
Where’s... series
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beaautiful
You can learn about color, texture, style and pattern through a range of fun
Can you spot the beautiful ballerina? Look carefully and you’ll find her hiding amongst the busy scenes from ten of the world’s best-loved ballets, including the romantic Swan Lake, the magical Cinderella and the spectacular, candy-filled The Nutcracker.
C O N TAC T
CREATE, DECORATE & STYLE
coloring, drawing and stickering activities.
Discover the stories behind 10 best loved masterpieces and then explore the busy scenes to find key characters.
model bedroom.
297mm x 210mm 96pp with gatefold page at back 4-col throughout paperback £9.99 Age: 9+
JASMINE ORCHARD AND OLIVIA WHITWORTH
furniture and create your own
IT’S ALL ABOUT FINDING YOUR OWN STYLE!
rug
single bed
3-D PRESS-OUT FURNITURE & STICKERS
JASMINE ORCHARD & OLIVIA WHITWORTH
bookcase
My Beautiful Room
Jasmine Orchard & Olivia Whitworth
WHICH style?
This style uses many items from the past (particularly from the 1960s to 1970s), usually creating a look from one particular time period.
Here are some of the different design styles that
from the 1960s or 1970s could
plan the furniture, colours, patterns and textures to match it.
A retro room designed with items
designers choose for people’s homes.
include furniture from this time and
bright colours that were popular then.
Rustic
This style looks very natural and uses materials found in nature.
A retro style could include wood
Before carpets were used to
furniture made from teak (a type
cover floors, people had wooden
of wood), plastic chairs, big plants,
floorboards and used wooden
colourful cushions, lamps and a
furniture and handmade items.
bright painted wall or patterned
wallpaper from that time.
This style might include natural or
painted wooden floorboards, wooden furniture, and crates and ladders as
shelves. Ceramics, old glass bottles,
hand-stitched quilts, woollen blankets and sheepskin rugs can all be used.
Eclectic
Minimalist
This style is really a mix of different
looks, old and new. In an eclectic-style
The word minimal means the smallest
room, you might mix retro furniture with
very little furniture and only a few objects. It
floors and use crates as bedside tables.
amount needed. A minimalist room will have
a new lamp but have rustic hardwood
requires you to be organized, tidy and to have
a very small amount of stuff on show!
Each ballet comes with a summary so that you can easily follow the drama and excitement of every story.
K A J A M U R AW S K A kaja.murawska@quarto.com Germany • Austria Poland • Switzerland
Where’s the Ballerina? 297mm x 250mm 48pp 4-col throughout hardback £9.99 Age: 6+
P H I L I P PA PA I N T E R philippa.painter@quarto.com Nordic Countries • Baltic States Czech Republic • Slovakia Hungary
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IN THE BALL
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Illustrated by ABIGAIL GOH Written by ANNA CLAYBOURNE
Where’s the Ballerina?
Abigail Goh & Anna Claybourne
MARION SERRE marion.serre@quarto.com France • French Canada
RU T H M I D D L E TO N ruth.middleton@quarto.com Italy • Spain • Central & Latin America • Turkey • Greece Slovenia • Croatia • Serbia Bulgaria • Romania
FRONT COVER RIGHTS CATALOG 2017
Getting this style right takes more than
just putting anything anywhere. It is about
This style often uses plastic, metal,
choosing items from different styles
stone, glass or wooden furniture and some
that look good together. It can be quite
good storage to keep items organised and
cluttered, displaying several items, such
hidden out of sight.
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IRINA BRUNELI irina.bruneli@quarto.com Portugal • Brazil • Russia China • Taiwan LUCY GIBBS lucy.gibbs@quarto.com Japan • Korea • Indonesia Vietnam • Thailand • Malaysia Middle East • The Netherlands
Retro
When interior designers are planning a house interior or
room, they will choose a particular style for their design and
S I M O N GW Y N N simon.gwynn@quarto.com North America
FIND THE BALLERINA HIDDEN
In addition to the ballerina, there are a whole cast of other characters for you to find, including the Swan Princess, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Puck, a mischievous fairy servant.
Once you’ve grasped the essentials,
you can construct 3-D model bedroom
WHERE’
ABIGAIL GOH & ANNA CLAYBOURNE
This beautiful and engaging interior design activity book introduces design concepts in a fun and accessible way, and includes a press-out room set to make and decorate.
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My Beautiful Room
Steve Martin & Essi Kimpimäki
as a mix of cushions or rugs, together.
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Where’s Will? 297mm x 250mm 48pp 4-col throughout hardback £9.99 Age: 6+
Ovest House, 58 West Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2RA, United Kingdom
Where’s Will?
Tilly & Anna Claybourne
Where’s Jane?
Katy Dockrill & Rebecca Smith
Where’s Jane? 297mm x 250mm 48pp 4-col throughout hardback £9.99 Age: 6+