Children's Catalogue 2013/2014 by Thames & Hudson

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Draw, colour, create

Make, build, do

Explore!

Read to me

Play!

Stick it!

Discover art

Travel back in time

Discover people and places of the world

Note it, stamp it, send it

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All descriptions in this catalogue are correct at the time of going to press. Prices, which apply in the UK only, are provisional and subject to alteration without notice. Front and back cover: illustrations from My Big World ÂŠ OKIDO

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Become the master of your own superhero universe! This compendium of ideas, drawing, colouring and activities helps you to create your own crusaders for justice, their sidekicks, secret hideouts, outfits and super gadgets

DRAW, COLOUR, CREATE Hands-on activity books NEW

The Super Book for Superheroes Jason Ford

28.9 x 21.0cm 144pp ISBN 9781780673059 ÂŁ9.95 pb 8+ Laurence King

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... Dot to dot to dot to dot

can you make? What kind of delicious smoothie

spotted in the sky? What has the computer

by colouring it in? Can you fill it with power The robot’s battery is empty. robot appear! join the dots and watch the Once the battery is full,

Colour in the dotted squares.

Colour in the fruit and juices.

What has the computer spotted in the sky?

vegetables. Colour in the fruit and

Keep the kids occupied at mealtimes! Features 36 generously sized mats and nine designs. Draw some birds in a tree, create your own comic strip, sketch your favourite meal…

juices. Colour in the fruit and

squares. Colour in the dotted

cost cost? called How much do they What are they called?

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Colour Me In!

Let’s Make Some More Great Placemat Art

An activity book OKIDO

Marion Deuchars

23.0 x 23.0cm 128pp ISBN 9780500650172 £8.95 pb

26.0 x 37.0cm 72pp ISBN 9781856699358 £8.95 pb

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Let’s Make Some Great Art

Let’s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art

Let’s Make Some Great Placemat Art

Packed with stimulating ideas to spark your creative imagination, this interactive book takes the broad canvas of ART and fills it with drawings and activities that let you discover what art can be.

Achieve amazing art effects using only your fingers and ink! Make letters, patterns, animals, characters and even whole works of art from your fingerprints. Let the inky fingers begin!

ISBN 9781856697866 £12.95 pb

ISBN 9781780670157 £9.95 pb

Make up your own pasta shapes; draw your favourite meal; sketch Mona Lisa’s smile; craft a meal for an alien. Whatever you choose, this book will help you make some great placemat art! Features 36 generously sized mats and 9 designs.

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ISBN 9781856699211 £8.95 pb

Marion Deuchars

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Let’s Draw with Oscar

How to Draw Like a Fashion Designer

Color it Chic

Inspirational Sketchbooks • Tips from Top Designers Celia Joicey and Dennis Nothdruft

by You and Nancy Riegelman Nancy Riegelman

As inspirational as it is practical, this book is essential reading for budding fashionistas everywhere. Includes interviews with leading designers, among them Anna Sui and Valentino.

This fun colouring book gives you the opportunity to explore your creativity, to become your own designer and learn about clothes, shapes and ideas about fashion while revelling in your sense of colour and design.

ISBN 9780500650202 £7.95 pb

ISBN 9780500650189 £12.95 pb

ISBN 9780970246370 £9.95 pb

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Anton Poitier

Grab your pens and pencils and join Oscar on a trip through a world of dotty dinosaurs, haunted houses and funny fish. You’ll find holes in some of the book’s pages – draw through them and see what happens when you turn the page!

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My Wonderful World of Fashion

My Even More Wonderful World of Fashion

A Book for Drawing, Creating and Dreaming Nina Chakrabarti

Another Book for Drawing, Creating and Dreaming Nina Chakrabarti

My Wonderful World of Shoes

An interactive colouring book for all fashionistas, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed with beautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion-illustrator Nina Chakrabarti.

This companion to My Wonderful World of Fashion includes scores of new illustrations to colour in and designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing.

Embellish over 140 beautifully drawn shoes with sequins, embroidery, tassles, glitter or buttons; colour in shoe decorations including the African savannah, peacocks, a taxi and even the New York skyline! It’s up to you: let your imagination run riot.

ISBN 9781856696326 £12.95 pb

ISBN 9781856697606 £12.95 pb

ISBN 9781780670010 £9.95 pb

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Nina Chakrabarti

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My Fashion Lookbook Design Your Own Collection Jacky Bahbout and Cynthia Merhej

‘Put the My Fashion Lookbook under the noses of bored teenage girls and watch as moodiness gives way to mood boards … a steady source of inspiration’ The Daily Telegraph ISBN 9780500650035

£12.95 pb

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My Monster Bubble Writer Book Linda Scott

Inspiring and encouraging creativity with both words and drawing, this book shows kids how to craft cool hand lettering and crazy alphabets, monster-inspired scripts and patchwork letters. It’s monstrously good fun!

How to Be the Best Bubblewriter in the World, Ever! Linda Scott

This guide to creating your own hand-drawn alphabets features over 70 typefaces, inspired by everything from Hairy Monsters to butterflies, insects to ice cream.

ISBN 9781780671024 £9.95 pb

ISBN 9781856697613 £8.95 pb

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Secret Garden

Make Faces

Everybody’s Activity Book

An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book Johanna Basford

A Silly Scribble Activity Book Christopher Harrisson and Abigail Burch

Go on a ramble through an intricate, inky wonderland just waiting to be brought to life through colouring; uncover the tiny creatures hidden throughout.

A face-drawing doodle book with a difference: the exuberant artwork invites you not only to add faces to people but also to toast, fruit, bowling balls and more.

Cut, Stick, Colour! With sticker sheets and printed pages for extra cut-and-paste fun Pascale Estellon

ISBN 9781780671062 £9.95 pb

ISBN 9781782400677 £9.99 pb

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‘A beautiful volume of simple, stylish ideas’ The Sunday Times ISBN 9780500286913 £12.95 pb 5+ Thames & Hudson

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My Big Photo Activity Book Pascale Estellon

Fill a vase with flowers, wear crazy costumes, help the potatoes escape the pot! This photo album lets you draw, colour, cut out, stick and try lots of new things. All you need is your imagination!

Doodle All Year Four Seasons of Endless Fun! Taro Gomi

Playful drawings of spring, summer, autumn and winter scenes will have kids of all ages doodling, drawing and stretching their imaginations all year long!

Doodle Numbers Taro Gomi

‘If you fear you may be trapped in a car with fractious kids, Doodle Numbers, a chunky paperback stuffed with fun things to draw, colour and count, may be a lifesaver’ The Irish Times

ISBN 9780500650073 £9.95 pb

ISBN 9780500287064 £9.99 pb

ISBN 9780500288597 £9.99 pb

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Color & Doodle Your Way Across The USA John Woodcock

This concertina-bound sketchbook folds out to an incredible 40-foot-long, coast-to-coast trip across the USA, filled with line drawings of 54 famous landmarks for the reader to colour in.

Draw Me a House Architectural Ideas, Inspiration and Colouring In Thibaud Herem

The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Britain Patricia Hansom and Stephen Crummy

This wittily illustrated book invites children to think about, doodle and engage with architectural elements from Malian houses to New York skyscrapers.

Simple line drawings illustrate artefacts and scenes from the everyday lives of Ancient Britons.

ISBN 9781781570234 £9.99 hb

ISBN 9780956205377 £12.95 pb

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ISBN 9780714131221 £5.00 pb

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The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Egypt

The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Rome

The British Museum Colouring Book of The Vikings

Covers every aspect of Egypt, from mummies, pharaohs, hieroglyphs and families to scenes of farming, gods and goddesses, real animals and mythical beasts.

Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word and picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, and jokes and cartoons.

The Vikings were feared as warriors and raiders but they also had a more peaceful aspect. This book is the perfect introduction to Viking culture.

ISBN 9780714131009 £5.00 pb

ISBN 9780714121857 £2.99 pb

ISBN 9780714121949 £2.99 pb

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Richard Parkinson and Claire Thorne

John Green

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A beautifully illustrated papercraft book, featuring 12 paper mobiles to cut out and keep – the perfect rainy-day activity!

MAKE, BUILD, DO

BIRD

MOBILE

MOBILE mobile How to make your Bird

dashed line Fold down along the Red Bird mobile pieces the 2 wing tabs on the Press out all of the (the holes double-sided and the holes carefully body. Stick a strip of are shown in white). sticky tape to each. when folded to check Tip The flaps work best This is a good time goes with in opposite directions. which pair of wings to fix the tape sticky or body. Use glue which bird the Red Bird ––wings centrally onto Cut 5 lengths of thread end of the thread inches. body. Take the other Red Bird needs 8 cm/3 the matching cm/10 inches. and guide it through Yellow Bird needs 25 e inches. hole. Knot or sticky-tap cm/6 Piece 16 Twig needs Bird Blue cm/12 inches. it in place. Green bird needs 30 with the needs Repeat steps 4 to 6 And the Twig Piece also threads. other birds, wings and 30 cm/12 inches. length thread and Take the Red Bird thread Take your Twig Piece the hole. Knot and guide one end through feed it through the top or sticky-tape matching wing hole. Knot or sticky-tape it in place. mobile it in place. And now, hang up your birds! and admire the twirling

Book kits for DIY projects

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Make a Mobile 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and Hang Lydia Crook 29.7 x 21.0cm 76pp ISBN 9781908005809 £12.99 pb 7+ Ivy Press

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Bring the weird and wonderful creatures of your imagination to life! Includes 15 templates, 12 of them gruesomely illustrated by trend-setting artists, plus three blank sheets for you to customize

You’ll need... Jeans (washed and ironed) White dressmaker pencil Assortment of paint brushes White fabric paint Iron

Dead Cool Denim your design, Once you’ve decided on create your follow these easy steps to own pair of unique jeans.

might For a punchier effect, you so that want to place your design pocket. it’s overlapping the back

to Use a fine-tipped paint brush around outline white fabric paint design. the edges and details of your

Top T ip!

washed Make sure your jeans are to help if and ironed (ask an adult especially you aren’t used to ironing), the areas the back pockets which are you are going to paint on.

design You can either draw your make straight onto your jeans or around a cardboard template to draw here). (tracing paper won’t work

Once the paint is dry, use a thicker brush to paint inside the design outline, and then leave this to dry.

Use a white dressmaker pencil to mark out your design. If you don’t have one, use a ballpoint pen – just make sure you cover all the lines with paint.

Give your design another coat of paint if it isn’t looking thick enough; just repeat the process.

Follow the instructions on your fabric paint packaging and seal your design by ironing over it. Ask an adult to help with this if you need to.

You could design motifs of your favourite things

or look at some magazines for

the latest trends.

Top T ip! Dylon® is a good fabric paint, and it comes in many colours.

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This Belongs to Me

Create Your Own Monster

Cool Ways to Personalize Your Stuff Anna Wray

Magma Books

29.5 x 21.0cm 128pp ISBN 9781908005786 £9.99 pb

25.2 x 19.4cm 15pp ISBN 9781856699303 £17.95 (inc VAT in UK) £14.96 (ex VAT) box set

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Make Your Own Robot Magma Books

Perfect for all robot obsessives: a box-set with 15 robot templates, 12 of which have been illustrated by influential artists, plus three blank DIY sheets for you to customize with your own designs. ISBN 9781856699037 £17.95 (inc VAT in UK) £14.96 (ex VAT) box set 6+ Laurence King

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Paper Play

Glam My Watch

Lydia Crook

12 cool watch straps to make and wear Megan Parkin

Roll it. Rip it. Fold it. Snip It! A page in this fabulously innovative book is so much more than just a piece of paper. ISBN 9781908005793 £9.99 pb 7+ Ivy Press

Create your own unique watch to match any outfit. Includes step-by-step instructions for 12 on-trend watch straps and a free watch face, buttons and elastic cord. ISBN 9781782400660 £12.99 pb 8+ Ivy Press

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Build Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Robot

Robot Rumble

Alien Anarchy

Julius Perdana

Alexander Gwynne

Jennifer Bryan

Contains all the parts you need to make your very own glow-in-the-dark 3D mecha robot model.

20 cool characters to press out, fold and glue, alongside a lively backstory that kids will love.

Press out and make 20 aliens, then pay a visit to the weird and wonderful world of the Galactic Space Port.

ISBN 9781908150752 £7.99 (inc VAT in UK) £6.66 (ex VAT) pb

ISBN 9781908005601 £8.99 pb

ISBN 9781908005618 £8.99 pb

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Build Your Own Paper Robots

Build Your Own Paper Air Force

Build Your Own Pinhole Cameras

Amazing Mecha Models to Print Out and Assemble Julius Perdana and Josh Buczynski

Amazing Plane Designs to Print, Fold and Fly Trevor Bounford

Create amazing paper robots with this fun book-plus-CD package! The CD contains detailed blueprints, and the book offers step-by-step guidance for turning them into exciting, fully jointed, paper mechanoids.

Craft some soaraway paper planes with this aerodynamic book-plus-CD package! Designs include ‘The Horned Goat’, ‘The Stingray’, ‘The Bat’ and the ‘Hexagon’.

A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Camera and Taking Photographs Justin Quinnell and Josh Buczynski

ISBN 9781907579011 £7.99 pb

ISBN 9781907579028 £7.99 pb

One of the world’s top pinhole photographers shows you how to make your own camera for next to nothing! Includes camera templates, step by step assembly instructions and practical advice.

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ISBN 9781781579923 £8.99 pb 12+ ILEX

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Origami

Origami X

Origami XOXO

Inspired by Japanese Prints Steve Biddle and Megumi Biddle

Paper Folding for Secret Agents Nick Robinson, Susan Behar and Paul Harrison

A reissue of this popular book with a gorgeous new cover design. Unfolds to reveal 48 brightly coloured double-sided sheets of origami paper.

Sshh! Learn how to smuggle your secret messages by folding them into clever paper shapes. Also offers coded messages and cool spy missions.

Sshh! Learn how to smuggle your secret messages by folding them into beautiful paper shapes. Also offers ideas for prettily presented notes and invitations.

ISBN 9780714124711 £16.99 hb

ISBN 9781908005625 £6.99 pb

ISBN 9781908005632 £6.99 pb

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Paper Kites

Paper London

Paper Chess

Includes materials to make a paper kite Nic Compton

Take a tour of the city’s iconic sights, then build your own model metropolis Kell Black

Create Your Own Chess Set with a Detachable Board and 2 Full Sets of Punch-out Pieces Kell Black and John Saunders

Construct your own metropolitan masterpiece from one of the 20 die-cut paper models included here.

In a brilliant move of its own, this book has everything you need to construct a set of elegant chess pieces.

ISBN 9781908005274 £9.99 pb

ISBN 9781905695829 £14.99 pb

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Contains everything you need to make a tetrahedal kite, as well as an instruction book and a CD-Rom. ISBN 9781907332722 £10.99 (inc VAT in UK) £9.58 (ex VAT) pb 10+ Ivy Press

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Archidoodle

The 1000 Dot-to-Dot Book

Soda-Pop Rockets

An Architect’s Activity Book Steve Bowkett

Twenty Iconic Portraits to Complete Yourself Thomas Pavitte

20 Sensational Projects to Make from Plastic Bottles Paul Jarvis

A fun, interactive way to learn about architecture.

A unique collection of dot-to-dot drawings to complete yourself – and when you’ve finished, tear them out and put them on your wall.

Perfect for that ‘I’m bored’ moment in the summer holidays: a guide to making your own rocket, with 20 examples easily constructed from everyday objects.

ISBN 9781781571040 £9.99 pb

ISBN 9781907332050 £7.99 pb

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ISBN 9781780673219 £12.95 pb 8+ Laurence King

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African Crafts

Crobots

Felties

Fun Things to Make and Do from West Africa Lynne Garner

20 Amigurumi Robots to Make Nelly Pailloux

How to Make 18 Cute and Fuzzy Friends Nelly Pailloux

Try out five traditional African crafts – block-printing, coiling, mask-making, drum-making and strip weaving – following the clear, well-illustrated instructions in this book.

You’ll soon get hooked on these adorable amigurami robots, none more than 10cm high. This book features 20 easy patterns – perfect for the crochet beginner!

Small in size, big in charm: from a teensy rabbit to a colourful Russian babushka, this book shows you step-by-step how to create 18 charming felt characters.

ISBN 9781907332012 £7.99 pb

ISBN 9781905695874 £8.99 pb

ISBN 9780714130347 £6.99 hb

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Forest Felties

Star Felties

Zodiac Felties

8 Cute Characters to Stitch and Stick Sarah Skeate

16 Compelling Astrological Characters to Craft Sarah Skeate

A stitch-and-stick first book with simple step-by-step instructions for making 8 eccentric little tree characters. Includes enough felt, thread and buttons to get you started.

The perfect learn-to-sew project: create some oddball – but charming – new friends from other galaxies. Includes enough felt, thread and buttons to get you started.

The perfect follow-up book to Felties shows you how to create the signs of the zodiac and some of the planets they represent. Includes enough felt, thread and buttons to get you started.

ISBN 9781908005595 £7.99 pb

ISBN 9781908005588 £7.99 pb

ISBN 9781908005229 £8.99 pb

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‘Has everything from making moon biscuits to star gazing and tree hugging. The perfect interactive holiday book’ The Daily Telegraph

Make a biscuit moon Make a rocket panel

You will need

110 g plain flour

60 g soft butter

85 g brown sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoons of powdered ginger

a pinch of salt

different flavoured jams

You will need

Card from a cereal box, glue, paper, pencils, plastic lids, bottle tops and a small pot

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2 Whisk the egg. Stir it into the mixture. Add the flour a little at a time. Mix it all up to make a dough.

ginger and salt with a wooden spoon.

Draw stars and planets. Stick them to your control panel – just ust like in this photo. You are ready to fly!

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4 Dust the rolling pin and table with flour. Roll the dough into a circle as thick as your little fingernail.

Mighty mountains

Planet Earth is one of eight planets in our solar system. Where will you visit?

mountains. Get ready for a finger walk up in the 5

Chamois are good climbers.

Skiers enjoy skiing down the mountain.

Only a few trees grow high up in the mountains.

along First, find START in the picture. Walk your fingers the the dotted line. Which animals do you meet along page. way? Find out their names at the bottom of the

EXPLORE!

3 Knead the dough into a ball. Cover it with cling film. Put it in the fridge for two hours.

Glue the plastic tops to the card The small pot is your destination to make buttons. dial.

2 3

Science, geography and animals

A bear’s fur coat keeps it warm.

A forest of fir trees grows at the bottom of the mountain.

Mountain animals are suited to living in the freezing cold.

FINISH It gets colder higher up the mountain.

START

Find these animals in the picture.

boar

bee

bear

eagle

marmot

weasel

ibex

chamois

wolf

fox

cow

rabbit

deer

goat

sheep

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My Big World Facts and fun, questions and answers, things to make and do OKIDO 32.0 x 23.8cm 64pp ISBN 9780500650165 £12.95 hb 4+ Thames & Hudson

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What’s

30 marvellous and magical world myths retold in half a minute

insid

e a wha Look, it’s le? a whale! Is a wha No, it’s a le a huge mammal fish? . You’re a mammal , too! Hold this page up to the light to see insid e the whale.

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Myths in 30 Seconds Anita Ganeri & Melvyn Evans 23.0 x 18.0cm 96pp ISBN 9781908005748 £9.99 pb Splash! Why does a huge whale come to the sur face?

Whales like this one are the largest kind of animal on our planet.

8+ Ivy Press To say a big ‘Hello’?

Whales breathe air. That’s why they come to the surface. Before they take a new breath, they need to blow out first.

Well, let’s find out! whale? What’s inside a whale

Some whales eat fish, crabs and squid. Others eat lots of tiny sea creatures.

ton has a skele The whale s, made of bone

Give children the power of X-ray vision!

30 super-stellar subjects for cosmic kids explained in half a minute

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What’s Inside?

Space in 30 Seconds

See-through pages and magic surprises! OKIDO 29.7 x 21.0cm 96pp ISBN 9780500650196 £12.95 hb

Clive Gifford and Melvyn Evans 23.0 x 18.0cm 96pp ISBN 978 1908005731 £9.99 pb 8+ Ivy Press

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Space Academy

Flight School

Explore!

How to fly spacecraft step by step Deborah Kespert and David Baker

How to fly a plane step by step Nick Barnard

The most dangerous journeys of all time Deborah Kespert

5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Blast Off! This dynamic book – the only astronaut training course for children – will have kids wanting to don spacesuits and head off into orbit.

‘A great introduction to aviation … presents the basics of flying, and beyond, in a fun and engaging way … a great start to inspire and encourage youngsters to get airborne’

‘Accessible and entertaining … a welcome addition to the subject and may even inspire future explorers and pioneers!’ The School Librarian

ISBN 9780500650141 £7.95 pb

Flyer Magazine

ISBN 9780500650134

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ISBN 9780500650011 £7.95 pb

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£12.95 hb

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My head-to-toe body book OKIDO

This look at the body inside and out is all about asking questions and getting answers. It’s packed with things to do on and off the page, including games, recipes and craft activities.

Our Living Earth A next generation guide to people and preservation Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Isabel Delannoy

The Earth from the Air for Children Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Robert Burleigh

ISBN 9780500650004 £12.95 hb

School Librarian

Soar above the earth. Look down. And what do you see? Water and land, trees and buildings, people and animals. And more, so much more. The remarkable aerial photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand enable all children to travel around the world.

4+ Thames & Hudson

ISBN 9780500543696 £12.95 hb

ISBN 9780500542613 £10.99 hb

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‘Will capture the minds of many aspiring environmentalists and young campaigners … packed with facts … an excellent choice for any school library’

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Around the World in 80 Animals

My Polar Animals Journal

My Big Cats Journal

Add your own drawings to this colour-in wall frieze! Guy Parker-Rees

In search of polar bears, penguins, whales and seals Steve Bloom

In search of lions, leopards, cheetahs and tigers Steve Bloom

A fun concertina format book featuring 40 scenes from around the world that kids can colour and complete.

‘As a sequence of fine wildlife photos this book is unsurpassed … an excellent book fit for any school library’ The School Librarian ISBN 9780500650103 £7.95 hb

Join Steve Bloom as he goes on expedition to photograph awe-inspiring big cats. His fact-packed journal entries and amazing photographs transport the reader into the heart of the wild.

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ISBN 9780500650028 £7.95 hb

ISBN 9781782400417 £10.99 hb 5+ Ivy Press

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Elephants A Book for Children Steve Bloom and David Henry Wilson

Why do elephants flap their ears? How much do they eat? Why do they roll in mud? Open this book, and you will find out: 80 stunning photographs capture every aspect of this wonderful creature’s life and world.

Horses: A Book of Children’s Stories

My Monster Notebook

‘The sheer scope of Arthus-Bertrand’s pictures is astonishing … beautiful and informative’ The Daily Telegraph

This book presents creepy creatures and characters from ancient times – it’s a great giftbook for all young fans of monsters and myths!

ISBN 9780500543283 £14.95 hb

ISBN 9780500515709 £9.95 hb

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Christophe Donner

John Harris and Mark Todd

ISBN 9780500543443 £9.99 hb 5+ Thames & Hudson

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‘Charming … will keep you on the edge of the bed, wanting to know the outcome of this tender and feverish journey’ Stylenest NEW

Dot to Dot...

Malcolm Cossons and Neil Stevens 22.0 x 28.5cm 32pp ISBN 9780500650158 £7.95 hb 3+ Thames & Hudson

READ TO ME Stories for all ages

DOUBL E COVERS, reads bo th ways!

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Then they sat and watc It was Daddy’s favourite And they tried to not di As they made their Dad

‘Original and exceptional … remarkable for its photographic illustrations of Su Blackwell’s extraordinary paper sculptures’ The Sunday Times

Award-winning artist Jonty Lees brings his idiosyncratic style and The young one painted big one brushed his humour to two charming tales The And the Daddy looked s That he had

Too Many Girls Jonty Lees 28.0 x 22.0cm 36pp ISBN 9780955432293 £6.95 pb 5+ Eight Books

The Fairytale Princess

The Moustachapillar

Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest Su Blackwell and Wendy Jones

Jonty Lees

28.70 x 23.50cm 96pp ISBN 9780500650066 £14.95 hb

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28.0 x 22.0cm 36pp ISBN 9780957471702 £6.95 pb

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Operation Alphabet

Timmy the Tug

‘Beautiful, muted colours and retro illustrations make this book a real pleasure for grown-ups too’ ISBN 9780500515846 £9.95 hb

‘T&H have done it beautifully, of course, and the poem is very fresh, as well as fascinating. The illustrations are really sensationally good I think – not just because that they’re so evocative of their time’ Andrew Motion

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ISBN 9780500514962

Al MacCuish and Luciano Lozano Designed by Jim Bletsas

The Daily Telegraph

Jim Downer and Ted Hughes

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£12.95 hb

The Mushroom Picker Penny Bun’s Great Escape David Robinson

David Robinson’s beautiful luminograms tell an enchanting tale of mushrooms in an English wood. Children will love the charming mushroom characters and the scary Mushroom Picker. ISBN 9781900828413 £14.95 hb 5+ Violette Editions

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Create over 100,000 fashion fantasies – go from fashion faux-pas to fabulous in one flip!

PLAY! Games on and off the page

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Flip Fashion Lucille Clerc

27.0 x 16.0cm 46pp ISBN 9781856699235 £9.95 hb 7+ Laurence King

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b it a t s

to s in s

Slitherin g, wrigg ling wor ms push through the soil around t he roots . A tree’s roots gr ow long and deep The root . s soak u p water from rai which he n, lps to k eep the tree aliv e.

The wind blows le aves off the tree . Can you see who is restin g under th is leaf p ile?

hold th e

ge to light pa

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Many animals live around the tree. Can you see who the bird is about to grab?

Brrrrr ...

hes are bare. In winter, the branc

es drift to One by one, the leav ut the tree will the ground in fall, b spring. grow new leaves in

The perfect introduction to the secrets of the natural world

A pop-up parade of number fun for young children

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Secrets of the Apple Tree

Pop-Up Numbers

A shine-a-light book

3-D Fun with Figures

Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner

Courtney Watson McCarthy

26.0 x 26.0cm 36pp ISBN 9781782400684 £10.99 hb

28.0 x 24.0cm 16pp ISBN 9780500650219 £12.95 hb

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The 10 Best Games in the World

Bird Bingo

‘Forget Snakes & Ladders, how about a round of the Viking Game or a session of Jungle Chess? This bright, sturdy boardbook unites ten games from around the world … a clever distraction for children during the holidays’ Junior

Featuring 10 classic pastimes in one beautifully crafted compendium, here is everything you need to discover a world of games! From such favourites as Solitaire or Snakes and Ladders to lesser-known treats like Bizingo or the Goose Game, there’s lots of fun here for everyone.

This beautifully illustrated bingo game features 64 species of birds from around the world. Contains 64 bingo chips, 1 board, 12 bingo cards and counters, as well as a leaflet containing basic information and a few quirky traits for all of the birds featured.

Àngels Navarro

Christine Berrie

ISBN 9780500515990 £14.95 (inc VAT in UK) £12.46 (ex VAT) hb

ISBN 9780500650127 £14.95 (inc VAT in UK) £12.46 (ex VAT) hb

ISBN 9781856699174

Warning! Contains small parts (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive ‘CE’ logo)

£19.95 (inc VAT in UK) £16.63 (ex VAT) game

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Magic and Fairy-tale Dice

Magma Books and Hannah Waldron

Revive the art of storytelling using these nine beautifully illustrated wooden dice to create the most imaginative, funny and bizarre stories: this is the perfect family game. ISBN 9781856699198

£9.95 (inc VAT in UK) £8.29 (ex VAT) game

Find My Piglet! The Animal Family Memory Game Oscar Bolton Green

Learn the names of animals and their offspring with this traditional memory game. Contains 62 beautifully illustrated cards and a colourful poster.

Match a Pair of Shoes Memory Game Metropolitan Museum of Art

This gorgeous memory game tests your recollection of some of the world’s most fabulous shoes, from vintage Ferragamos to the latest Manolos. The set of 50 cards is presented in a stylish mini-shoebox.

Warning! Contains small parts (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive ‘CE’ logo)

ISBN 9781856699105 £12.95 (inc VAT in UK) £10.79 (ex VAT) game ISBN 9781856699075 £12.95 (inc VAT in UK) £10.79 (ex VAT) game

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Eye Benders The Science of Seeing and Believing Clive Gifford

Ping Pong

Ziggy Hanaor

Cat’s Cradle Games You Can Play with String Sophie Collins

Boggle your brain and astound your eyes with this selection of incredible illusions – and discover how the science of illusion works.

The thrill of ping-pong is beautifully captured in this delightful little gift book, which presents basic rules and techniques as well as a survey of the design and culture surrounding the sport.

ISBN 9781782400844 £11.99 hb

ISBN 9781908714015 £5.99 pb

ISBN 9781907332517 £12.99 hb

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The oldest playground game of all, repackaged for a new young audience in a neat pocket format and offering dozens of cradles, from simple to challenging.

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Colours

Sizes

Paper Chess

An Interactive Box of Books Dereen Taylor, Judith Stevens and Estelle Cork

Colours encourages children to name and identify colours, understand colour moods, language and themes, and discover colour mixing. ISBN 9781908005878 £12.99 hb

Four different-sized picture books introduce children to the concepts of Big, Small, Long and Tall. A fold-out frieze offers fill-in activities on one side, and two simple printed rulers on the other.

Create Your Own Chess Set with a Detachable Board and 2 Full Sets of Punch-out Pieces Kell Black and John Saunders

3+ Ivy Press

ISBN 9781908005861 £12.99 hb

In a brilliant move of its own, this book has everything you need to construct a set of elegant chess pieces. ISBN 9781905695829 £14.99 pb 10+ Ivy Press

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Discovering King’s Cross

Create Your Own Monster

Make Your Own Robot

For monster enthusiasts of all ages, this box-set includes 15 templates, 12 of which have been gruesomely illustrated by trend-setting artists, plus three blank DIY sheets for you to customize with your own designs.

For robot obsessives of all ages, this box-set includes 15 robot templates, 12 of which have been illustrated by influential artists, plus three blank DIY sheets for you to customize with your own designs.

ISBN 9781908714022 £17.95 hb

ISBN 9781856699303 £17.95 (inc VAT in UK) £14.96 (ex VAT) box set

ISBN 9781856699037 £17.95 (inc VAT in UK) £14.96 (ex VAT) box set

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A Pop-Up Book Michael Palin and Dan Cruikshank

With flaps to lift and an amazing interactive pop-up that brings the station to life, this engaging book pays a well-deserved tribute to an iconic piece of Britain’s architectural history.

Magma Books

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Sticker Fashionista gives fashion sticker books a makeover, featuring gorgeous illustrations of amazing clothes, style capitals around the world and fashion themes from denim to red-carpet glamour

STICK IT! Sticker books

Sticker Fashionista Kelly Smith 30.5 x 23.8cm 44pp ISBN 9781780670171 ÂŁ8.95 pb 8+ Laurence King

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Get stuck in to over

a century of style

Follow the fashionistas through a year of stylish events

NEW

Sticker Fashionista: Vintage Style

Sticker Fashionista: A Year in Fashion

Kelly Smith

30.5 x 23.8cm 44pp ISBN 9781780673035 £8.95 pb

30.5 x 23.8cm 44pp ISBN 9781780671130 £8.95 pb

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Emma Calder’s Moody Days Sticker Book

Ancient Egypt Sticker Book

Aztecs Sticker Book

Whether you’re feeling chirpy, grumpy, aimless or in the mood for romance, 260 beautifully crafted stickers and witty words sum up life’s whims and dilemmas – picture tweets.

Delve into the past with this lavishly designed sticker book, packed with about 150 stickers of magnificent monuments and amazing objects from Ancient Egypt.

About 100 colourful stickers celebrate the famous civilization of the Aztecs who flourished about 600 years ago in what is now central Mexico.

ISBN 9780714131375 £4.99 pb

ISBN 9780714131368 £4.99 pb

ISBN 9780500515037 £12.95 hb

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Emma Calder

Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Susan Raikes

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DISCOVER ART Books on art and artists

The alphabet goes pop NEW

Roy Lichtenstein’s ABC

Bob Adelman Designed by Samuel N. Antupit 20.3 x 20.3cm 64pp ISBN 9780500516836 £9.95 hb 4+ Thames & Hudson

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ORIGIN ALS AND COPIES

“[I wanted] to create a challenge for your eyes. I wanted your eyes to open wider.”

SOMETIMES A REPLICA CAN MAKE US LOOK EVEN MORE CLOSELY AT THE ORIGINAL THAT INSPIRED IT. The small painting on the far left was made by the artist Francis Alÿs. Alÿs lives in Mexico, where brightly colored, hand-painted adverts are common, and he invited two local sign-painters to copy and enlarge his original. He encouraged them to change and improve his painting as they wished. What alterations have they made? And how does the presence of the two copies in Alÿs’s *installation* change how we look at the original?

HOW DID SHE DO IT?

Vija Celmins

Celmins picks up many stones on her walks, but she keeps only those with the

CHINESE WHISPERS Francis Alÿs is a *conceptual artist* who

most interesting surfaces and patterns.

Vija Celmins is also interested in imitation and

is interested in ideas and concepts as much

She kept these stones in the boot of her car for a long time, occasionally taking them out

replicas. In this work, called To Fix the Image in Memory, she displays eleven stones that she collected while on a walk in northern New

as in the final appearance of his artworks. This installation comes from a larger series called the “Sign Painting Project”, which resulted in more than one hundred paintings by Alÿs and his team of sign-

to admire them. Eventually, she decided to make copies of them, *casting* the stones in bronze. It then took her five years to paint them carefully

Mexico. Alongside the original stones are identical copies of each that Celmins made in bronze. Can you match up all of the pairs? Celmins wanted her casts to resemble exactly the stones she had found, encouraging us to look closely and intensely. Which stones do you think are real here, and which artificial?

painters. Alÿs compared the series to an artistic game of Chinese Whispers, where the original image changes in small ways each time it is repainted by another artist.

by hand.

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Francis Alÿs, Untitled, 1994 Vija Celmins, To Fix the Image in Memory, 1977–82

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GIANT METEOR-LIKE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS BURDEN. SCULPTURE BY CHRIS is named this 5-ton artwork Called Medusa’s Head, had creature Medusa who after the mythical Greek looked at turned everyone who snakes for hair and of snakes, Chris Burden her into stone. Instead and trains, tracks railway has used model What of steel, rock and cement. crisscrossing a mass think of? ly sculpture make you does his otherworld

MO ON ROC KS SPACE that Some artists make works outer space, look as if they’re from in darkness while others are interested Bontecou says, “I like and infinity. As Lee ... Black is like space that never stops mean boxes and that. Holes secrets and shelter.”

by outer space, ted constructions and many of her wall-moun made holes. This one was feature voids and black soon space age in the 1960s, at the dawn of the had orbited the earth. after the first satellite in this materials Bontecou used unusual well as rawhide and soot, as sculpture, including objects* belts. These *found old canvas conveyor . below her apartment came from the laundry

Lee Bontecou is fascinated

from Buraco Preto (Black Hole) Anna Maria Maiolino, nhos Objetos” the series “Os Buracos/Dese 1974 (Holes/Drawing Objects),

has created of hole by the simplest a mysterious black torn paper that she has means: layers of black on top of each other. in circles and mounted here and fold paper, and Maiolino loves to cut sional sheets into she turns the flat, two-dimen a sense sculpture, creating a three-dimensional of dark, infinite space.

Anna Maria Maiolino

Chris Burden, Medusa’s

Untitled Lee Bontecou, Untitled,

1961

Head, 1990

What is Contemporary Art? A Children’s Guide Jacky Klein and Suzy Klein

The Story of the World’s Greatest Paintings Charlie Ayres

30.5 x 24.0cm 64pp ISBN 9780500515891 £12.95 hb

28.9 x 24.9cm 96pp ISBN 9780500238806 £9.99 hb

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Meet Edvard Munch

The Boy Who Bit Picasso

Picasso and the Great Painters

A journey into the art of Edvard Munch conceived for little readers, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

‘An inspirational mini-memoir for children’

‘The brilliance of this book lies in the way it will educate children without them even knowing it’

ISBN 9788857219479 £16.95 hb

ISBN 9780500238738

9+ Skira Editore

4+ Thames & Hudson

Hilde Dybvik and Lill-Heidi Opsahl

Antony Penrose Harper’s Bazaar

‘A must for children of all ages’ The Art Newspaper £8.95 hb

Mila Boutan

Artists & Illustrators Magazine ISBN 9780500288078 £9.99 pb 5+ Thames & Hudson

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Lives of the Great Artists

Look Again!

The Little Van Gogh Museum

Introducing young readers to 20 of the greatest artists of all time, this eye-opening book includes a careful selection of masterpieces, exciting life stories, lavish reproductions, extensive side-features and references.

‘An excellent book to share with young children … Not only is it an introduction to art but also to the skills of discussion and critical appreciation’ The School Librarian ISBN 9780500514757

A charming little book that gives children an easy way ‘in’ to Van Gogh’s art. Includes scores of the artist’s much-loved works, including Sunflowers, Starry Night and The Potato Eaters.

ISBN 9780500238530 £9.99 hb

7+ Thames & Hudson

Charlie Ayres

7+ Thames & Hudson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

£12.95 hb

Rene van Blerk

ISBN 9789055449569 £12.95 pb 5+ Ludion

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People

Places

Shapes

One in a series created to help children learn the basic vocabulary of art, this book explores how people are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art.

One in a series created to help children learn the basic vocabulary of art, this book isolates the key elements of place to see how places are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art.

One in a series created to help children learn the basic vocabulary of art, this book explores how shapes are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art.

ISBN 9780870701740 £8.95 hb

ISBN 9780870701733 £8.95 hb

ISBN 9780870701771 £8.95 hb

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Philip Yenawine

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The Colossal Book of Costumes Dressing up Around the World Joëlle Jolivet

The Story of Costume John Peacock

‘Beautifully illustrated … sure to delight and inspire any child who has an interest in fashion or history’

Explore the British Museum A Family Souvenir Guide Richard Woff

ISBN 9780500514344 £14.95 hb

ISBN 9780500513095 £12.95 hb

This colourful new souvenir guide introduces children to nine of the most famous and unusual objects in the British Museum.

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ISBN 9780714130323 £3.50 pb

‘Outsize and eccentric … wonderful juxtapositions … Great fun, presented with wit and panache’ Books for Keeps

Education Today

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The British Museum

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME

Gladiator Survival Kit Mike Corbishley

Gladiator Activity Book Judy Lindsay

Learn everything you need to know to survive in the tough world of the gladiator!

Full of exciting puzzles, brainteasers, puzzles and games inspired by the world of the Roman gladiators.

ISBN 9780714131047 £14.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130286 £3.99 pb

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DRAW LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

The book includes lots of drawings for you to follow, along with photographs of ancient Egyptian art to help and inspire you.

History books Claire Thorne is an artist who works in the British Museum. She specializes in drawing Egyptian antiquities.

britishmuseum.org/publishing

ISBN 978-0-7141-3114-6

9 780714 131146 £5.99

Claire Thorne

Create your own art in the style of the ancient Egyptians! Clear stepby-step drawings show you how to begin with simple shapes and build up lovely detailed colour pictures. It’s easy to get started. You’ll be amazed at how soon you will be drawing animals, people, gods and goddesses – and even plants, houses and gardens – like a real Egyptian artist.

Draw Like an Egyptian Claire Thorne

Fun With Hieroglyphs Catharine Roehrig

Ideal for anyone interested in drawing people and animals in the distinct style of the ancient Egyptians.

A fun activity kit that contains everything needed to design artwork, do school projects, and decode secret messages in ancient hieroglyphic script.

ISBN 9780714131146 £5.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131313 £14.16 (ex VAT) hb

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Games Discover and Play 5 Famous Ancient Games Irving Finkel

The British Museum

Quiz Book

Five fold-out boards let you play five fabulous games from Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia and India.

Carolyn Howitt

ISBN 9780714131122 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130354 £6.99 pb

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7+ British Museum Press

This delightful quiz book and board game offers hours of fun for the whole family.

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Mammoth Activity Book of Prehistory

Mummy Activity Book

Daniel and Delia Pemberton

Pyramid Activity Book

This fun-to-use book focuses on the animals and people of the Stone Age.

Delia Pemberton Games, puzzles, maps and other activities with a pyramid theme.

Games, puzzles, and maps fill the pages of this activity book on mummies.

ISBN 9780714131061 £3.99 pb

ISBN 9780714130248 £3.99 pb

ISBN 9780714130163 £3.99 pb

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The Great Pyramid

Fantastic Mummies

An Interactive Book Cooper and Croll

Open up the Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Mummies John H. Taylor

Judy Lindsay

Tutankhamun Ultimate Activity Book Hendrikje Nouwens and Martin Hense Tells the amazing story of Tutankhamun’s life and death and the discovery of his tomb, and offers lots of fun things to do and make.

This colourful interactive book introduces children to the culture, gods and people of Ancient Egypt.

Full of all sorts of fantastic information about mummies in Ancient Egypt.

ISBN 9780714130385 £9.99 hb

ISBN 9780714119137 £12.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130378 £5.99 pb

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Stained Glass Colouring Book

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS TO COLOUR

Viking Ship Model

A die-cut model to press out and make, based upon one of the most famous Viking ships ever found, the ship dug up at Oseberg on the edge of the Oslo fjord in Norway. Titles in this series

ISBN 9780714130132 £4.16 (ex VAT) pb Amazing Animals The Amazon Rainforest Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece The Anglo-Saxons Aztecs Bible People

Cats The Celts Masks The Middle Ages Mosaics Roman Britain The Vikings

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£2.99

Patricia Hanson

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My Egyptian Mummy File Delia Pemberton

A selection of the most splendid and colourful stained glass windows from churches and cathedrals of Britain.

A fun-packed re-usable folder with secure fastening and carry handle, containing a lift-the-flap Egyptian mummy and lots of things to do and make.

ISBN 9780714130170 £3.99 pb

ISBN 9780714130279 £12.99 hb

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Fun Book Ancient Greece Sandy Ransford and David Farris

Fun Book Ancient Rome

Fun Book Ancient Egypt

Sandy Ransford

Sandy Ransford and David Farris

Crosswords, word-searches, anagrams, hidden words and more!

64 pages of puzzles, games, jokes and brain-teasers all based on Ancient Rome.

Cracking codes, word-searches, jokes and games – enough to keep any child busy.

ISBN 9780714121680 £2.99 pb

ISBN 9780714121697 £2.99 pb

ISBN 9780714119151 £2.99 pb

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The Romans The Vikings David M. Wilson

Ralph Jackson, Simon James and Emma Myers

The Ancient Egyptians Their Lives and Their World Angela McDonald

A popular, low-priced activity book focusing on the culture of the Vikings.

Find out more about the Romans in this absorbing book, full of games, puzzles, crafts and activities.

ISBN 9780714121741 £2.99 pb

ISBN 9780714127224 £2.99 pb

ISBN 9780714131153 £8.99 hb

5+ British Museum Press

Meet the people of ancient Egypt and find out about their daily lives.

The Anglo Saxons Activity Book Their Lives and Their World John Reeve and Jenny Chattington Full of fun and information about the Anglo-Saxons. ISBN 9780714127262 £2.99 pb 5+ British Museum Press

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The Ancient Egyptians

The Ancient Greeks

Their Lives and Their World Angela McDonald

Their Lives and Their World Alexandra Villing

Meet the people of ancient Egypt and find out about their daily lives.

Discover the world of the ancient Greeks by exploring what they left behind.

ISBN 9780714131153 £8.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131351 £8.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

Lives of the Great Spiritual Leaders The Ancient Romans Their Lives and Their World Paul Roberts

Ancient civilizations

A highly visual introduction to the people of the Roman empire.

20 Inspirational Tales Henry Whitbread ‘A much needed and valuable book that should be read in every classroom in the country’ Michael Morpurgo

ISBN 9780714131276 £8.99 hb

ISBN 9780500515785 £12.95 hb

7+ British Museum Press

10+ Thames & Hudson

Explore the British Museum

Explore the Parthenon

A Family Souvenir Guide Richard Woff

An Ancient Greek Temple and its Sculptures Ian Jenkins and Kate Morton

An informative and stimulating souvenir of a visit to the Museum that will also inspire lots of ideas for exploration and discovery within the galleries.

Explains the Parthenon’s wonderful sculptures in a vivid and simple way, and puts them in the context of Ancient Greek religion, life and art.

ISBN 9780714130323 £3.50 pb

ISBN 9780714131306 £4.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

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V-Mail How the Olympics Came To Be

Hunefer and his Book of the Dead

Helen East and Mehrdokht Amini

Richard Parkinson

Letters from the Romans at Vindolanda Fort Near Hadrian’s Wall Katharine Hoare

A gorgeously illustrated and light-hearted picture story book for children.

Follows the ancient Egyptian man Hunefer (‘Mr Happy-Day’) on his magical journey to the afterlife.

Features fascinating illustrated translations of a selection of the Roman empire’s equivalent of the email or text message.

ISBN 9780714131443 £6.99 pb

ISBN 9780714131429 £4.99 pb

ISBN 9780714131344 £3.99 pb

5+ British Museum Press

7+ British Museum Press

Timeline of the Ancient World

500 Things to Know About the Ancient World

The Story of Writing

A fold-out timeline comparing the major events and personalities of Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Mesopotamia.

Carolyn Howitt

Carol Donoughue

The experts at the British Museum sift out all the best bits of ancient history into one essential, easy-to-read book.

The story of writing – how, where and why it was invented – is explored in this fascinating overview.

ISBN 9780714130293 £12.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131184 £7.99 pb

ISBN 9780714130231 £9.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

Pyramids and People in Ancient Egypt

Pocket Guide to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Katharine Wiltshire

Joyce M. Filer

How to read and write Ancient Egyptian Richard Parkinson

The Tomb of Nebamun Explore an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Meredith Hooper

Shows children how to recognize and read hieroglyphics.

Explores the paintings from Nebamun’s tomb, which are filled with marvellous and lively detail that children will love to explore. .

ISBN 9780714131023 £8.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130071 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131245 £6.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

Introduces children to the famous monuments of ancient Egypt and the people who built them.

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The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Native North America

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

Ancient Egyptian Animals

Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

A fully illustrated reference on the culture and history of the native peoples of North America.

Angela McDonald

George Hart

A delightful and often surprising survey of the animals of Ancient Egypt.

An excellent introduction to the rich pantheon of Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses.

ISBN 9780714125435 £15.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130224 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714119489 £6.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

Ancient Egyptian Mummies

Aztec & Maya Gods & Goddesses

Nigel Strudwick

Clara Bezanilla

A colourfully illustrated little book offering a brief overview of the whole history of Egyptian mummification.

Handy reference book illustrating 29 deities from the ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America.

Richard Woff

ISBN 9780714131054 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130392 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714130156 £6.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

Heroes & Heroines of Ancient Greece

Kings & Queens of Britain

Richard Woff

Katharine Hoare

Pharaohs and Queens

The stuff of legend! Read up on the classical heroes, whose deeds have stood the test of time.

An essential guide to 20 of the most famous, fascinating and important monarchs of the British Isles.

Marcel Marée

ISBN 9780714131030 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131177 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131092 £6.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

Rayna Green and Melanie Fernandez

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

Greek & Roman Gods & Goddesses Brush up on your classical knowledge with this handy reference guide.

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

An essential guide to ancient Egypt’s most famous, fascinating and important monarchs.

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The British Museum Pocket Explorer

African Civilizations

The British Museum Pocket Dictionary

Roman Army

Roman Emperors

Richard Abdy

Paul Roberts

An essential guide to an amazing military machine.

A perfect gift for all children interested in Ancient Rome.

Attractive small guide to Africa’s heritage, packed with colour images, plus a free fold-out poster map.

ISBN 9780714131269 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131160 £6.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131405 £7.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

The British Museum Pocket Explorer

Ancient Egypt and the Nile Joyce Filer

The British Museum Pocket Explorer

The Ancient Greek World

Nicholas Badcott

The British Museum Pocket Explorer

The Roman Empire

Travel to ancient Egypt and meet the people who lived and worked there. Includes a fold-out pictorial map.

Richard Woff

Sam Moorhead

A colourful guide to the influential world of the ancient Greeks, with free poster map.

A colourful guide to the mighty world of the Roman empire, with free poster map.

ISBN 9780714131252 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131283 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131290 £7.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

The British Museum Pocket Timeline of

Helen Strudwick

Ancient Greece

Ancient Mesopotamia

A handy pocket-sized reference to the history and culture of Ancient Egypt, including a detachable fold-out timeline.

Emma McAllister

Katharine Wiltshire

Richly illustrated, this pocket reference is augmented by a foldout timeline for wall display.

A lively introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia, enhanced by a colourful fold-out timeline.

ISBN 9780714131078 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131115 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131139 £7.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

The British Museum Pocket Timeline of

Ancient Egypt

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The British Museum Pocket Timeline of

Ancient Mexico

Ancient Rome

Islamic Civilizations

Penny Bateman

Katharine Wiltshire

Nicholas Badcott

A handy pocket-sized reference to the Aztec culture of ancient Mexico and the civilizations that led up to it.

A handy pocket-sized reference to the history of the Roman empire, with fold-out timeline to display.

A handy pocket-sized reference to the artistic and cultural achievements of Islamic cultures.

ISBN 9780714131382 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131085 £7.99 hb

ISBN 9780714131337 £7.99 hb

7+ British Museum Press

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With colourful notecards, envelopes, letter sheets, stickers and a booklet on bubble writing – great fun and great value

NOTE IT, STAMP IT, SEND IT Stationery

NEW

My Amazing Bubble Writer Stationery Kit Linda Scott

22.5 x 16.3cm Stationery set ISBN 9781856699310 £7.95 (inc VAT in UK) £6.63 (ex VAT) boxed set 6+ Laurence King

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NEW

My Wonderful World of Fashion Stamp Set

My Wonderful World of Fashion Notebook

Create your very own wonderful world of fashion using stamps that have stunning new illustrations by Nina Chakrabarti. This set contains ten stamps, featuring shoes, handbags, bows and other fashion items, plus two inkpads (in pink and black).

A superbly produced notebook featuring the wonderful illustrations of Nina Chakrabarti. With pink quarterbinding, an elastic closure and a pocket inside the back cover, this notebook will appeal to Nina’s many fans.

ISBN 9781856699143 £14.95 (inc VAT in UK) £12.46 (ex VAT) stamp set

ISBN 9781856699280 £7.95 (inc VAT in UK) £6.62 (ex VAT) pb

7+ Laurence King

Nina Chakrabarti

My Wonderful World of Fashion Postcard Book Nina Chakrabarti

Contains 30 detachable postcards of Nina Chakrabarti’s beautiful drawings from My Wonderful World of Fashion: perfect for sharing your favourite fashion creations. ISBN 9781856699068 £6.95 (inc VAT in UK) £5.79 (ex VAT) hb 7+ Laurence King

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The Doodle Book : Postcards

Manga Girls

Tattoos

With 66 Postcards Taro Gomi

30 Postcards to Complete & Color Yishan Studio

30 Postcards to Color and Send Jian Yi

‘Battily brilliant … heaven for idlers and slackers of all ages’ The Sunday Telegraph

Cool communications for young fans of manga art: a slicky designed book with 30 removable postcards of Yishan Studio’s hippest manga girls.

Creative inspiration for tattoo fans everywhere: this fun, interactive postcard set includes 30 of the coolest designs by top manga artist and tattooist, Jian Yi.

ISBN 9781908150806 £7.99 (inc VAT in UK) £6.66 (ex VAT) hb

ISBN 9781908150790 £7.99 (inc VAT in UK) £6.66 (ex VAT) hb

8+ ILEX

ISBN 9780500286852 £8.95 (inc VAT in UK)

£7.92 (ex VAT) hb 5+ Thames & Hudson

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