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Dorling Kindersley
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The Rough Guide to Rome is the ultimate travel guide to one of the greatest cities on earth. Now in full colour throughout, with dozens of photos to illustrate the finest of Rome's beautiful, ancient buildings, iconic landmarks and distinctive neighbourhoods, this guide will show you the best the city has to offer. Unearth the hidden side of Rome — ancient, little-visited churches, quirky museums, the best out-of-the-way restaurants and authentic markets, and the hippest, most up-and-coming neighbourhoods. It also has a number of suggestions of things to do with kids, where to indulge in a spot of shopping, how to get to the best out-of-town beaches, with everything located on a number of clear and easy-to-use maps. You'd be lost without it. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about your favourite classic Star Wars characters! If your child loves Star Wars then let them meet the characters from their favourite TV series. From heroes like Luke Skywalker and C-3PO, to villains like Darth Vader. They'll learn the ins and outs, ups and downs and secret info on all their favourite characters. Focused entirely on the characters from the classic Star Wars series, this chunky encyclopedia will take them from A to Z in the Star Wars empire. And don't forget, there's a galaxy full of other DK Star Wars books to collect. |
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Introduce your baby to fluffy animals with touch and feel textures. Tickle and touch the fluffiest animals with Baby Touch and Feel Fluffy Animals. Encourage your baby to learn early concepts such as colours, shapes and patterns as they turn each page. Let them touch and learn about the squirrel with his bushy tail, two purring kittens and one very fluffy puppy. The softest animals are fun to touch, and in this chunky package they are perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and young minds to develop. Sturdy pages with rounded corners mean Baby Touch and Feel Fluffy Animals will provide years of enjoyment. |
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Play i-spy with your toddler as they learn first words. Hunt for first word objects with your toddler in Little Hide and Seek Words. Your child will want to return to the book again and again, as they try to spot all the different things from around the home, garden and bathtime. Help your child to turn the pages as they solve riddles and spot fun surprises. With five themed hide-and-seek scenes and a teddy hiding on each one, your toddler will love learning about first words. The final page brings all the first words together on one big, extra-detailed pop-out i-spy scene. Look, learn and play together. |
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More from this successful series — touch and feel outdoor adventures at the park. Tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover the animals they'll see at the park. Let their little hands roam and feel how furry the squirrel is and how velvety the butterfly feels. They'll even spot a shiny pushchair just like theirs. Help them to learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop. |
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Get fast facts at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Horses, packed with bite-sized chunks of information on horses and ponies that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant students. Saddle up and learn about the many different colours and markings horses can have, discover how the equine family has developed from a small deer like creature, how horse-riding has evolved as sport and how the horse has been used as a mode of transport throughout history and around the world. Packed with amazing encyclopedic stats and genius gem facts DK Pocket Eyewitness Horses will take you on an adventure around the world of the horse. Know your trot from your canter, test yourself on markings and learn about the many different breeds, from the Falabella to the Shire. |
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Make learning early number games fun with Touch and Feel 123. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package will help your child discover and enjoy early number games. Help them learn to count 1-2-3 and let their little hands roam and feel the numbers as well as read them. Read it together — they'll learn as you play. Touch and Feel 123 is a new Touch and Feel chunky padded board book that will help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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This title helps you learn all about the alphabet with touch and feel textures in this chunky board book. You can learn your ABC with the twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package that will help your child discover all about the alphabet. A is for apple — but how does it feel? Touch the skin on C (for crocodile) — it's bumpy! Let their little hands roam, read it together — they'll learn as they play. These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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This title helps you learn all about animal colours with touch and feel textures in this chunky padded board book. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package will help your child discover all about animals and their many different colours. From an orange goldfish and a ginger kitten to the bluest butterflies and fish. Let their little hands roam as they feel the hard shell of the crafty crab. Read it together — they'll learn as they play. These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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Teach your child all about farms with touch and feel textures in this chunky board book. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package will help your child discover all about farms. Oink oink! Quack quack! Let their little hands roam and feel how velvety the pigs nose is and how fluffy the chicks feel. Read it together — they'll learn as you play. These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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Teach your child all about objects from around the house with Touch and Feel. Home Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package will help your child discover and enjoy toys and items from around their house. Help them learn to spot the difference between common household items and let their little hands roam and feel as well as read about them. Read it together — they'll learn as you play. Touch and Feel Home is one of the Touch and Feel chunky padded board books that help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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Teach your child all about animal families in Touch and Feel Jungle Animals. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky book will help your child discover all about jungle animals. This title includes coverage that ranges from a delightfully, dotty jaguar, an iridescent tree frog to a hairy orang-utan and a tough-billed toucan. Read it together — they'll learn as you play. DK's Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning and language. This title is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development. |
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From Batman to Wonder Woman, the DC Comics Character Guide tells you everything you need to know about all your favourite heroes and villains. Written with young comic-book fans in mind, the book packs the whole of the sprawling DC Universe into one compact, portable volume and the A-Z format makes it easy to find your heroes in a flash. Discover each character's individual talents with fact-filled pages featuring stat boxes, power rankings and information on their allies and foes. Exciting full-colour comic-book art makes the DC Comics Character Guide a book that all young comic enthusiasts will look through again and again. |
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All the big ideas, simply explained — an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where does language come from? With the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, quotations from all the major thinkers, and explanations that are easily understandable, this book demystifies hard-to-grasp concepts and shows how these have shaped our knowledge of the human mind. All the schools of psychology are covered from cognitive to behavioral psychology making this ideal for students or for anyone with a general interest in this popular area. If you're fascinated by the human mind then The Psychology Book will get you thinking. |
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This Doctor Who Official Sticker Book contains over 1000 stickers of over 200 of the scariest monsters and aliens from the last 50 years! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who by using the stickers inside to complete your guide to the Doctor's greatest enemies, including Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Ice Warriors and many more! |
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Where is the Doctor? The time travelling Time Lord could be anywhere in time and space in these incredibly detailed intergalactic images. Search through the Cybermen, dig through the Daleks and ogle the Ood to find the Doctor and his friends! Doctor Who returns to BBC One with a new series in Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013, building up to the show's 50th anniversary in November 2013. |
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The DK Eyewitness Italy Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Italy effortlessly. |
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The DK Eyewitness Russia Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Russia effortlessly. |
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What will life on Earth be like in one hundred years? Which species will be extinct and what new species will we discover? Could Jurassic Park really be created? Animals Alive has the answers to these questions and more as it takes you on a journey through the animal kingdom. Explore some of the most exciting and diverse habitats, from rainforests to coral reefs and see amazing animal events like the monarch butterfly migration. Uncover stories of survival & tales of extinction: from the woolly mammoth to the sabre-toothed tiger. Animals Alive explains the science of animal survival. You'll come face to face with some incredible species that have been saved through successful conservation efforts. From the Giant Panda to the Black Rhionocerous and the Albatross. |
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Get all the facts! First Facts is a early learning series that explains to young readers everything they want to know about exciting topics like the natural world, history, science, and machines. Fitting perfectly between preschool and elementary school levels, this series boasts visually exciting spreads that encourage children to flip through regardless of whether they can read yet. The text offers a basic foundation on the subject and is full of fascinating facts and figures — perfect for reading aloud, or for kids to decipher on their own when they're learning to read. |
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