Visits to see Grandma are not something that the two children in this book look forward to. Her house is boring, her stories are dull, and as for her cooking … Urgh! But when Grandma goes missing during a stay at her house, her grandchildren discover that there’s more to this pickle-loving lady than they first imagined.
Professor Astro Cat is back for another exciting adventure. This time he is embarking on a tour of the solar system with his friends. The reader is invited too, and Professor Astro Cat speaks directly to the child in big speech bubbles. Through advice and encouragement offered along the way, the reader is easily engaged.
Emotions can be big things for little children, and this gentle book seeks to make sense of them through a simple tale about Pod. This little creature finds that unlike the others around her she can’t quite grasp what would make her happy. What follows is a search for the ‘hard-to-find thing’ called joy. Pod’s big lesson is that happiness is not substantial but relational, and that the journey itself brings satisfaction in its wake via the friends made along the way.
Hazel has been raised in San Francisco, Marlene, in the English countryside and Lilya spent her childhood in a small town in Russia. Separated by thousands of kilometers, those three young women have a passion in common: planes, and the sense of freedom that flying allows. Not easy if you were born at a time when the sky was reserved to male pilots and explorers! But none of the female protagonists in this empowering and informative work of creative non-fiction give up on their dreams.
How are mountains made? Does the Yeti exist? Who is the world’s most famous mountaineer? Get ready for the answers to these and many more questions in Dieter Braun’s stylish celebration of the world’s mountains. From the Alps to the Andes, Everest to Uluru, this comprehensive exploration of some of the highest places on Earth, the animals who inhabit them and the people impacted by them, is a real treasure.
No one knows who decided on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But centuries of historians, poets and philosophers have written thrilling accounts of their magnificence which have left us yearning to know more about their great mysteries. How was the Great Pyramid at Giza constructed? Did the mystical Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually exist? What became of the enormous Colossus of Rhodes? Learn the stories behind these and many more amazing structures in Ancient Wonders.
Julian is what you could call a creature of habits, or be precise, a mouse of habits! From his little crawl spot, far from the dangerous outside world and away from all the other underground inhabitants, he lives a peaceful and well-ordered life. That is, until a fox decides to have Julian for dinner… Yet, when the fox’s plans go awry, an unlikely friendship is struck between the hunter and his prey.
Having brought his readers through autumn, winter and spring in the Hidden Valley, illustrator and writer Carles Porta now presents us with a story about summer, as all our old friends return for another instalment in this inventive and charming series of modern-day folktales. Told with a distinctive style that resonates within the idea of oral performance and reading aloud, Porta delights again with a midsummer mystery of heady proportions as the excitement of the annual Dragon’s Day festivities approaches.
Anja Sušanj takes us on a very special journey in The Secret Lives of Mermaids through the narrative voice of Professor Anuk Tola, a merologist at the School of Merology. The book explores the biological evolution and social experiences of Merpeople in an informative and vibrant way. Sušanj frames the story as an encyclopaedia which introduces the history of Merpeople to young readers; we learn about the varying tribes of Merpeople including the Rozali of the Atlantic, the Nayarad of the Pacific, the Ambara of the Arctic Ocean, the Kinman of the Indian Ocean and Freshwater Merpeople.
There’s always an expectation of a visual treat in store whenever you open a new book from Flying Eye and this beautiful and informative work of art is no exception. Pairing marine biologist Dr Helen Scales with the award-winning illustrator Lisk Feng, this book examines and highlights the world’s most famous reef in style and exhaustive detail.
