|
|
|
Книги издательства «Dorling Kindersley»
|
Doodle, colour and draw in this mega interactive doodling book packed with hundreds of fascinating topics — learn as you draw! Sharpen your pencil as well as your brain with this colourful, creative mega doodling book. Packed with cool scenes and fun pictures, plus bite-sized facts and thought-provoking activities, Megadoodle combines doodling and learning. From the world of dinosaurs and the big bang to jet packs and Mount Everest, Megadoodle is jam packed with fun and fascinating subjects, each brought to life with funky photography and lots of activities! Megadoodle combines facts and fun, seamlessly linking learning and doodling on the page. Children won't want to stop doodling as they learn all about a huge range of topics, including colouring in capuchin monkeys, doodling vikings, drawing creatures of the deep, scribbling seasons and more. Get doodling and discover a world of fascinating facts in Megadoodle. |
|
I spy with my little eye something beginning with...Little Hide and Seek Playtime Hunt for cuddly toy and animal favourites with your toddler in Little Hide and Seek Playtime. Your child will want to return to the book again and again as they try to find the toy cat and help his friends with their lost things. Help your child to turn the pages as they solve riddles and spot fun surprises. With five themed hide-and-seek scenes and the cat hiding on each one, your toddler will love learning about what their dolls, teddies and toy trucks get up to. The final page has one big, extra-detailed i-spy scene. Look, learn and play together. |
|
New series to help toddlers and children learn to count using fun counting games for kids. Follow the clues and guess the number, then lift the flap to check the answer! Make learning fun with Animals Counting a brand new lift-the-flap early learning book from DK. Let your toddler have fun with numbers and learn all about animals too. With lots of animal themed counting games inside kids will learn lots of amazing animals facts while they learn to count. Play counting games alongside your toddler and watch them delight in lifting the flaps and discovering the answers underneath. A perfect combination of animal facts and counting games which help your toddler's early learning and toddler development. Help your child learn to count with Animals Counting. |
|
An inspirational guide to drawing plants An intimate understanding of botany will help any artist create vibrant and realistic art. Sarah Simblet's masterclass provides you with an awareness and appreciation of plants and flowers and shows how to apply that knowledge to your art. Covering every type of plant, from the tiniest mosses and lichens to sumptuous flowers and trees, Sarah shows how to evoke their beauty on your canvas or page. Drawing on the rich history of botanic art and combined with Sarah's practical drawing classes, over 350 beautiful illustrations and vivid photographs, provide an in-depth look at roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits and explain how to create life-like drawings. For anyone wishing to master the art of drawing plants or for all those passionate about plants and how they are portrayed in art. |
|
Definite visual history and glorious celebration of all things train and track. The Train Book traces the history and role of trains from the first steam engines to diesel engines and then to today's high-speed bullet trains. You'll take a journey through the most important trains of each period and see iconic trains such as the Orient Express, the Fairy Queen, the Mallard and the Javelin in incredible detail, discovering the anatomy of these legendary engines. The Train Book gives you a truly international view of trains, exploring some of the world's most impressive rail routes from South Africa to Siberia, including the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the high-speed Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen line. You'll discover the stories of key innovators, designers and engineers who advanced rail travel, the challenges they faced and the cultural backdrop against which the railways were built. The Train Book is the perfect gift for train enthusiasts of all ages. |
|
Have all the football facts at your fingertips ready for the 2014 World Cup. Learn to shoot like Suarez and dribble like Messi with The Football Book, the ultimate visual guide to planet football — revised and updated to include details of all the stats, goal tallies and cup wins. You can also follow the excitement of the Brazil 2014 World Cup with a brand new wallchart profiling all the qualifying countries. You'll relive the finest moments of the players, coaches and teams who have created football history and learn everything from match highlights to the inside stories on the players, managers and fans. Use The Football Book (previous ISBN 9781405360586) to find out about the laws, the tactics, the science, and the art of the beautiful game. With a fantastic cover that feels just like a football, it's a great gift for football lovers and sports enthusiasts alike. |
|
Stick a snake on a suitcase, paste a pig on your pillow and whack a whale on your bedroom wall with the Ultimate Animal Sticker Book. Learn about animals with this fun and informative sticker book. This sticker book, from the best selling Ultimate Sticker Book Series has over 60 easy-to-peel, reusable photographic stickers; plus an informative booklet to put them in. Go sticker mad! |
|
Sticker fun for kids who love baby animals From cute kittens and perfect puppies to lovable tiger cubs — discover the delightful world of baby animals and have fun creating your own stories with the reusable stickers. The Ultimate Baby Animals Sticker Book is the perfect companion for any young animal lover, containing over 60 easy-to-peel, reusable stickers. |
|
«This superb collection of photographs brings to life the beauty, variety, and intricacy of birds' feathers, wings skeletons, beaks, nests, and eggs. In addition, unique time-lapse sequences show a chick hatching from its egg and how nestlings develop over their first few days of life. Starting with the evolution and anatomy of birds, and explaining how their bodies work, how they are built specially for flight, and how their beaks, wings, tails, feathers, and feet are designed for specific purposes, the book goes on to cover the food they eat, the way they camouflage themselves, the nests they build, and the eggs they lay. Produced in association with the Natural History Museum, London, Bird is a unique and compelling introduction to the secret life of birds. — Here is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating world of bird life. — Superb colour photographs of feathers, wings, skeletons, eggs, nests, and newly-hatched chicks only days old, offer a unique «eyewitness» view of the natural history, behaviour, and life-cycle of birds. — See how new-born chicks hatch from eggs, how nestlings grow in their first few days, how birds camouflage themselves against predators, what birds eat and how they catch their prey — Learn how birds' bodies are designed for flight, why wings are different shapes and sizes, how birds evolved from their prehistoric ancestors, which are the world's biggest, smallest, slowest, and fastest birds — Discover how and where birds make their nests, why eggs are different colours, how many feathers birds have and what each one is for, how to watch birds and attract them to your garden» |
|
Features castles and knights, this photographic sticker book is one of a series which combines stickers with informative labels to stimulate children's interest in non-fiction subjects. |
|
Contains all the best loved stories of the Old and New Testaments, retold specially for younger readers. A beautifully illustrated edition of the Bible, created especially for children. From the peak of Mount Sinai to the shores of the Sea of Galilee — Old and New Testament stories are brought to life with photographs and maps to put the stories in context. Perfect for sharing with your child or grandchild or for them to read and discover the Bible on their own. |
|
An eight-page booklet in which to place stickers, including a double-page spread of a reconstructured prehistoric environment. |
|
Did you know that birds inhabit every corner of the Earth and are brilliant strategists? They can even pretend to be injured and make decoy nests to escape their predators! Fly-high and discover the complex nature of a bird's life. From the award-winning DK Guide series, DK Guide to Birds takes a close-up look at this amazing winged species. |
|
Create your own picture book with over 60 superb full-colour stickers These activity books make learning fun — children create their own picture book as they find out about Kings and Queens. Read the captions in the eight-page booklet and, using the labels beside each sticker, choose the image that best fits in the space available. Don't forget that your stickers can be stuck down and peeled off again. You can also use the kings and queens stickers to decorate your own books, or for project work at school. Hours of fun! — The ultimate collection of kings and queens stickers, ideal for home projects and schoolwork — Choose the stickers to create your own book of kings and queens — Easy-peel stickers can be used more than once — Fact-packed labels accompany every sticker — This series will appeal to reluctant readers |
|
Discover what Captain Jack Sparrow and his unlikely allies are up to in this treasure chest of a guide! Ahoy there! Meet Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan, in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide. This visual guide to the two movies, Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest, is packed with movie stills and images of numerous props — from cutlasses to canons! — Includes artworks of ships, weapons and costumes — Features fascinating facts about the characters — Contains a spectacular fold-out of Jack's ship The Black Pearl |
|
Discover fish, birds and all kinds of amazing wildlife on an extraordinary river and lake journey! Whether you want to meet mountain bears waiting to pounce on a leaping salmon, discover fearsome river reptiles or see incredible diving birds, everything you need to know about rivers and lakes is covered here. — New in paperback format — See captivating photography, fun fact boxes and a handy glossary — Discover a valuable Geography Key Stage 2 teaching aid for parents and teachers — perfect for first projects Eyewonder Rivers and Lakes is great for homework, particularly for reluctant readers. In a vibrant and accessible form, it is ideal for the age-range – with the meanings of new, subject-related words clearly explained. Fantastic facts and dramatic, atmospheric photography show this topic from a completely original angle and bring the amazing world of rivers and lakes to life. |
|
«Discover the fascinating world of the seashore — its strange and beautiful creatures and their secret lives This fascinating book reveals how the anatomy and behaviour of seashore animals and plants enable them to live in and out of salt water, and to survive being pounded by surf, buffeted by the wind, and dried by the sun.The seashore, stretching in a narrow ribbon around every portion of the world's land masses, is one of the most exciting and exacting of our planet's habitats. Twice each day the sea rises up the shore and then retreats, creating a demanding cycle of conditions for the plants and animals that live there. Their adaptations to this harsh world, their beauty and their complexity are revealed in this dazzling collection of specially commissioned photographs. Many of the animals featured are alive, while the fossil and mineral specimens come from specialist museum collections; all are reproduced with such clarity that you can almost feel their textures on the page. Produced in association with the Natural History Museum, London, and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Seashore is an exceptionally beautiful and informative visual guide to the strange and fascinating creatures that live between land and sea. — Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating natural world of the seashore — Stunning, real-life photographs of crabs, lobsters, rock pools, fish, seals, seabirds and more, offer a unique «eyewitness» view of life on the seashore — See a starfish on the move; how a sea-urchin disguises itself; a sea-anemone catch a prawn; the inhabitants of a rock pool; fish that change colour — Learn how a limpet grips the rock, how a crab grows a new leg; how a prawn becomes invisible; how seabirds catch fish; how a sea otter sleeps at sea — Discover how long seaweed can grow; why hermit crabs live in second-hand shells; which shells bore holes in solid rock; where a puffin lays its eggs» |
|
Bring the ocean into your home with the Ultimate Sharks and Whales Sticker Book. Learn about sharks and whales with this fun and informative sticker book. You can create your own dramatic stories about Hammerhead Sharks and Sperm Whales. This sticker book, from the best selling Ultimate Sticker Book Series has over 60 easy-to-peel, reusable photographic stickers; plus an informative booklet to put them in. Go sticker mad! |
|
Explore the wonders of the universe with Eyewonder Space, the perfect guide for any budding space traveller Enter a world of discovery with DK Eyewonder Space. This inspiring first guide will captivate young minds with its blend of fascinating facts and dramatic photography. — Guaranteed to stimulate interest and imagination — Eyewonder Space is great for reluctant readers — Answers subject-related questions commonly asked by children — A valuable teaching aid for parents and teachers, and perfect for first projects. |
|
Sticker fun for the budding astronaut in your home For anyone who dreams of blasting off into space! Go out of this world and discover the spaceships, suits and satellites that astronauts use or create your own stories with over 60 reusable, easy-to-peel stickers. 5-4-3-2-1. count down to sticker fun! |
|
