Invented by Animals is dedicated to all budding scientists and inventors of tomorrow. It will doubtlessly create inventors and scientists and encourage them to look to the natural world for inspiration. It is packed with fascinating examples of animals who have inspired new technologies and inventions.
This book explores the painting palette of nature: it takes the reader on an adventure through every colour of the rainbow and details how that colour applies to the animal kingdom. Take pink, for example – did you know that hippos make their own pink sunscreen to protect them from the sun? Or that, when excited, the Amazon river dolphin blushes pink? Of course you didn’t – you haven’t read this book yet!
This very attractive poetry book with a difference from best-selling poet Joseph Coelho opens with his assertion that ‘Poems are made to be performed’. On each of the beautiful double-page spreads is a poem that Coelho has written especially to illustrate a particular way that poems can be read aloud, each with engaging child-centred notes on how to bring it to life. For example, he starts with tongue-twisters, saying it’s ‘a wonderful way to improve your diction (how clearly you can say words)’.
What a welcome return from the team behind Search-and-Find The Alphabet of Alphabets, with this new book focusing on numbers. It is as jam-packed and fun as the original, but instead of finding objects beginning with a specific letter, readers must find different amounts of things. This includes finding thirteen different creepy things in a haunted house, making sure there are two of every animal on Noah’s Ark and matching each of America’s fifty states to their two-letter code.
In a world of increasing walls, isolation and a growing mistrust of strangers, many of us hope to preach the mantra that we are all one people on one planet with more connections between us than differences. But how do you illustrate this simply? How do you show what brings us all together, while respecting that we also enjoy our unique cultural and personal identities?
Do you know your minotaur from your cyclops? Can you tell the difference between Cassandra and Narcissus? If not, this may be the book for you, a lovingly compiled encyclopaedia of Greek mythology, complete with unique illustrations by Victoria Topping.
This is a pleasure to look at. Award-winning poet Joseph Coelho has written an original poem for every month of the year, and illustrator Kelly Louise Judd provides the sumptuous folk art to accompany the words. Frogs frolic, daffodils delight and bluebirds perch on snow-covered trees in this love letter to nature.
For many children, science requires very little packaging to make it attractive and compelling. The urge to know why, and how, and when means that science scratches the unending itch of young and enquiring minds. Capitalising on such natural curiosity and wonder, this book serves as a junior history of science, as well as a primer on the actual theories which underpin much of our understanding of the world.
