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Spark S: 50 Amazing Facts About Science
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50 Amazing Facts About Science for Kids

Fun and Fascinating Trivia to Spark Curiosity About Science!

Penguin Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.The Thursday Murder Club, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.Meet Richard Osman's famous group of pensioner-detectives: Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce and Ron. In The Thursday Murder Club, the group must try to connect the murders of two men they know and an extra body discovered in an old grave!Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Abridged Edition

Penguin Readers Level 6: The Thursday Murder Club (ELT Graded Reader)

DK Super Simple

Packed with all the core curriculum topics, this physics book for kids 12+ is the perfect support for home and school learning. Breaking down the information into easy, manageable chunks, Super Simple Physics covers everything from atoms to astronomy and forces to flotation. Each topic is fully illustrated, to support the information, make the facts crystal clear, and bring the science to life. For key ideas, a "How it works" panel explains the theory with the help of bright, simple graphics. And for revision, a handy "Key facts" box provides a simple summary you can check back on later. With clear, concise coverage of all the core physics topics, Super Simple Physics is the perfect accessible guide to science for children, will support classwork, and make studying for exams the easiest it's ever been.

Packed with all the core curriculum topics, this physics book for kids 12+ is the perfect support for home and school learning. Breaking down the information into easy, manageable chunks, Super Simple Physics covers everything from atoms to astronomy and forces to flotation. Each topic is fully illustrated, to support the information, make the facts crystal clear, and bring the science to life. For key ideas, a "How it works" panel explains the theory with the help of bright, simple graphics. And for revision, a handy "Key facts" box provides a simple summary you can check back on later. With clear, concise coverage of all the core physics topics, Super Simple Physics is the perfect accessible guide to science for children, will support classwork, and make studying for exams the easiest it's ever been.

The Ultimate Bitesize Study Guide

Super Simple Physics

Explore

This book of maps helps you navigate the big topics that explain the world: science, history, nature, and space.Maps can help you find your way around more than just places, and knowledge can be shared using more than just words. Using maps, children aged 7-9 will be introduced to need-to-know topics in an inviting and visual way.Explore is a new and exciting style of reference that's packed with diagrams and information to explain each map to inquisitive children. Inside, you'll find a whole collection of maps to pore over on subjects you'd never expect, from cells and our planet to amphibians and microscopic life.This all-encompassing maps book for children offers: <ul><li>An all-new visual approach to learning core subjects, as part of a brand new exciting reference series.</li><li>A combination of maps and other diagrams that break down important topics, combined with stats, facts, figures, and explanations.</li><li>Bright and stand-out illustrations from the award-winning Studio Muti that explore each topic.</li></ul> Follow the routes of animals as they embark on migrations and of seeds as they leave their parent plants. Discover maps to guide you around hidden spaces, like the inside of a beehive, and places as distant as the outer reaches of the solar system. Explore the depths of the ocean, a single cell, a car engine, the human brain, a medieval castle, and much more. This unique book features an encyclopedic range of subjects for children who want to find out everything there is to know about the world.

This book of maps helps you navigate the big topics that explain the world: science, history, nature, and space. Maps can help you find your way around more than just places, and knowledge can be shared using more than just words. Using maps, children aged 7-9 will be introduced to need-to-know topics in an inviting and visual way. Explore is a new and exciting style of reference that’s packed with diagrams and information to explain each map to inquisitive children. Inside, you’ll find a whole collection of maps to pore over on subjects you’d never expect, from cells and our planet to amphibians and microscopic life. This all-encompassing maps book for children offers: <ul><li>An all-new visual approach to learning core subjects, as part of a brand new exciting reference series.</li><li>A combination of maps and other diagrams that break down important topics, combined with stats, facts, figures, and explanations.</li><li>Bright and stand-out illustrations from the award-winning Studio Muti that explore each topic.</li></ul> Follow the routes of animals as they embark on migrations and of seeds as they leave their parent plants. Discover maps to guide you around hidden spaces, like the inside of a beehive, and places as distant as the outer reaches of the solar system. Explore the depths of the ocean, a single cell, a car engine, the human brain, a medieval castle, and much more. This unique book features an encyclopedic range of subjects for children who want to find out everything there is to know about the world.

A Collection of Maps and Diagrams That Explain the World

Don’t Disturb the…

Somewhere near, a huge beast lies, with giant claws and great big eyes . . . DO NOT DISTURB THE DRAGON! A brilliantly interactive rhyming read-aloud adventure before bedtime from the bestselling author of the Ten Minutes to Bed series - now available as a board book! Tiptoe over, under, round and through the book, just . . . don't disturb the DRAGON! Fans of Ten Minutes to Bed, Little Unicorn will love helping the Princess on her quest in this immersive, interactive adventure with a wind-down-to-bedtime ending!

Don't Disturb the Dragon

Who Am I?

Take a walk on the wild side with mega-fun bear riddles! Get ready for a bear-y cool adventure! Who Am I? Pandas and Other Bears is packed with playful, fact-filled riddles about adorable giant pandas, strong polar bears, acrobatic black bears and more. Each riddle is a fun guessing game that challenges kids to figure out which amazing animal is being described. Plus, all the fascinating facts are vetted by an expert, ensuring accuracy and credibility for young learners. This 32-page bear book is a must-have for curious kids and aspiring zoologists. They’ll enjoy: - jaw-dropping fun facts for kids - mind-bending visual puzzles - stunning artwork - fascinating information all about bears! As kids dig into the pages, this animal picture book will spark their imaginations and sharpen their thinking skills. A handy glossary in the back of the book will boost future scientists’ vocabulary, too. Who Am I? Pandas and Other Bears delivers endless fun and learning for young animal lovers! For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.

Take a walk on the wild side with mega-fun bear riddles! Get ready for a bear-y cool adventure! Who Am I? Pandas and Other Bears is packed with playful, fact-filled riddles about adorable giant pandas, strong polar bears, acrobatic black bears and more. Each riddle is a fun guessing game that challenges kids to figure out which amazing animal is being described. Plus, all the fascinating facts are vetted by an expert, ensuring accuracy and credibility for young learners. This 32-page bear book is a must-have for curious kids and aspiring zoologists. They’ll enjoy: - jaw-dropping fun facts for kids - mind-bending visual puzzles - stunning artwork - fascinating information all about bears! As kids dig into the pages, this animal picture book will spark their imaginations and sharpen their thinking skills. A handy glossary in the back of the book will boost future scientists’ vocabulary, too. Who Am I? Pandas and Other Bears delivers endless fun and learning for young animal lovers! For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.

Bear Riddle and Picture Book for Kids with Fun Animal Facts, Visual Puzzles and Guessing Games Made for Young Readers 4-8

Who Am I? Pandas and Other Bears

Express your splendiferous self! Feeling argy or whoopsy-splunkers? Don't be biffsquiggled by your emotions.It can be hard to understand feelings - which ones you're experiencing, what they mean, and how to deal with them! This book is full of activities to help you navigate difficult emotions and celebrate positive ones. Grab a pen and get ready to doodle, scribble and journal your way through exploring your thoughts and learning about fantastic you!<ul><li>Written by child psychologist, Mina Minozzi-Goffin</li><li>Contains mindfulness and self-reflection techniques</li><li>Uses engaging examples with favourite Roald Dahl characters</li><li>Find out what's under your anger</li><li>Remember what makes you smile</li></ul>

Phizz-whizzing Feelings

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.Sherlock Holmes is an intelligent detective who works with his friend Dr Watson. In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Watson and Holmes find the answer to three different and exciting mysteries. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Penguin Readers Level 4: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ELT Graded Reader)

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.We'll Always Have Summer, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.We'll Always Have Summer is the last of three famous books about Belly and her feelings for Conrad and his brother, Jeremiah. Belly is now dating Jeremiah and their relationship is serious. Belly has known Jeremiah since she was a child. But she has known Conrad, too. Which of the brothers does she really love?Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Penguin Readers Level 5: We'll Always Have Summer (ELT Graded Reader)

Why? Series

This exciting reference book uncovers everything you need to know about weather in an engaging question-and-answer format.Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about weather and learn all about the real-time impacts of the climate crisis in this absorbing encyclopedia for kids aged 7-9.What happens inside a thundercloud? Why is the sky not always blue? Why is climate change dangerous? This children's book helps inquisitive minds find answers to all the questions they may have about weather and climate, and some they hadn't thought of!This exciting weather encyclopedia for kids offers:<ul><li>More than 200 questions about the weather and climate in an interactive format.</li><li>A question-and-answer format that combines detailed diagrams and illustrations with photography.</li><li>6 sections for each topic: how weather works, weather around the world, weather patterns, extreme weather, living with weather, and weather in crisis.</li></ul> Featuring detailed explanations on weather wonders, extreme weather, the science of weather forecasting, and climate change, Why? Weather helps children become experts in no time. Each page answers a different question and features a quick quiz designed to cement new knowledge, with information presented in bite-sized chunks for easy understanding.More in the seriesBecome an expert across a range of different topics with the Why? series and find the answers to the most baffling questions. If you enjoyed Why? Weather, then why not try Why? Encyclopedia to impress family and friends with the answers to the world's biggest questions.

This exciting reference book uncovers everything you need to know about weather in an engaging question-and-answer format. Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about weather and learn all about the real-time impacts of the climate crisis in this absorbing encyclopedia for kids aged 7-9. What happens inside a thundercloud? Why is the sky not always blue? Why is climate change dangerous? This children's book helps inquisitive minds find answers to all the questions they may have about weather and climate, and some they hadn't thought of! This exciting weather encyclopedia for kids offers:<ul><li>More than 200 questions about the weather and climate in an interactive format.</li><li>A question-and-answer format that combines detailed diagrams and illustrations with photography.</li><li>6 sections for each topic: how weather works, weather around the world, weather patterns, extreme weather, living with weather, and weather in crisis.</li></ul> Featuring detailed explanations on weather wonders, extreme weather, the science of weather forecasting, and climate change, Why? Weather helps children become experts in no time. Each page answers a different question and features a quick quiz designed to cement new knowledge, with information presented in bite-sized chunks for easy understanding. More in the series Become an expert across a range of different topics with the Why? series and find the answers to the most baffling questions. If you enjoyed Why? Weather, then why not try Why? Encyclopedia to impress family and friends with the answers to the world’s biggest questions.

Brilliant Answers to Baffling Questions

Why? Weather

DK Amazing Earth

A thrilling guide to the most incredible objects, weirdest discoveries, and most surprising science in our Universe. Go on an outer space adventure to discover amazing stories of objects, matter, and mysteries that make up the universe. This fascinating space book will take you above the clouds and beyond the Earth's atmosphere to show you the vast expanse of space that stretches above us. This fascinating space book for kids offers:- The fourth title in DK's Amazing Earth series, with over 100,000 copies sold globally. - Surprising stories that go beyond the normal facts and figures of typical children's space books. - Out of this world photography and artwork that jumps out of the pages and explains each concept. Have you ever wondered why some planets have rings? Or whether galaxies can collide? Or how humans are able to explore the vastness of space? Amazing Space allows kids aged 7+ to step on to the surface of other planets in our Solar System, discover the distant but exciting exoplanets, and learn the dramatic lifecycle of a star. This is the ultimate space book for kids with a passion for space, physics and science.

A thrilling guide to the most incredible objects, weirdest discoveries, and most surprising science in our Universe. Have you ever wondered why some planets have rings? Or whether galaxies can collide? Or how humans are able to explore the vastness of space? This fascinating book will take you above the clouds and beyond the Earth's atmosphere to show you the vast expanse of space that stretches above us. Step on to the surface of other planets in our Solar System, discover the distant but exciting exoplanets, and learn the dramatic lifecycle of a star. Amazing Space is the perfect book for inquisitive kids aged 7 and above, and especially those with a passion for space, physics, or science. With astounding information, and stunning photographs and illustrations, this is the ultimate guide to the most incredible places in our Universe.

The Most Incredible Features of the Known Universe

Amazing Space

eyewonder

Spark the love of learning with this picture-packed guide to space for children.DK's best-selling Eyewonder series is back and has been refreshed for the next generation of young readers aged 5-7.This picture-led reference guide will take you on a visual tour of what goes on in outer space. Stay-at-home explorers will feel inspired by the dramatic photographs, up-to-date information, fact-packed pages and a brand-new "eyewonder" feature where knowledge meets real-world application.Throughout the pages of this newly revised book on space, you can find: <ul><li>Fully updated and revised content for children starting to develop a passion for science.</li><li>Eye-catching photographs that grab the attention of young readers and keep them coming back for more.</li><li>Engaging facts, simple explanations and fun activities throughout the book.</li></ul> Find out about the vast universe and beyond with Eyewonder Stars &amp; Planets, from blue giants to black holes. Learn about how we fit into our galaxy and how big the Universe really is. Plus, with fun and interactive activities to reinforce learning, your child will be entertained time and time again.Explore the series!The Eyewonder series is back and better than ever, with a fresh new look and the latest information. If you liked Eyewonder Stars and Planets, why not dig into Eyewonder Rocks and Minerals, investigate with Human Body or explore Eyewonder Oceans?

Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery

Eyewonder Stars and Planets

DK Children's Timelines

Discover the fascinating history of our planet with this unique collection of visual timelines. Full of exciting visual timelines covering minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Timelines of Nature reveals our planet's natural history and its life cycles in an entirely new way. Beginning at our world's existence; children aged 9+ will learn how many years it took the Moon to form and witness Earth's continents collide. Discover the history of Earth's most spectacular features - from the Grand Canyon to the Sahara desert. See how life evolved, from the first single-celled organisms to the extraordinary variety of creatures living today. Then we look at life on Earth today. Every species on Earth has its own unique story - Timelines of Nature reveals these weird and wonderful life cycles through fascinating visual timelines. It tells you what's really happening on Earth each minute of every day. This beautiful nature book for children features: - Beautiful timelines teach young readers all about geology, plants, and animals. - Each timeline is unique and depicts a different topic, such as the story of how whales evolved, how the Moon was formed, or how a tiger spends its day. - Feature pages highlight climactic moments in nature, for example, the butterfly finally emerging from its chrysalis. - Supporting educational boxes on each page explain key points about nature, helping kids to discover more about the world around them. Children can marvel at a variety of different timeframes in nature, like geological timelines spanning thousands of years; a year in the life of a habitat, a day in the life of an animal, and complete plant life cycles. Ever wondered what the mayfly does with its short life? In this book, you'll find out how it lives as a nymph for two weeks, before flying out of the water for just a day in the sky as a mayfly. If you've ever thought about how a chimpanzee spends its day, how the rainforest changes over 24 hours, or how long a kangaroo's pregnancy lasts, then this is the book for you!

Discover the fascinating history of our planet with this unique collection of visual timelines. Full of exciting visual timelines covering minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Timelines of Nature reveals our planet's natural history and its life cycles in an entirely new way. Beginning at our world's existence; children aged 9+ will learn how many years it took the Moon to form and witness Earth's continents collide. Discover the history of Earth's most spectacular features - from the Grand Canyon to the Sahara desert. See how life evolved, from the first single-celled organisms to the extraordinary variety of creatures living today. Then we look at life on Earth today. Every species on Earth has its own unique story - Timelines of Nature reveals these weird and wonderful life cycles through fascinating visual timelines. It tells you what's really happening on Earth each minute of every day. This beautiful nature book for children features: - Beautiful timelines teach young readers all about geology, plants, and animals. - Each timeline is unique and depicts a different topic, such as the story of how whales evolved, how the Moon was formed, or how a tiger spends its day. - Feature pages highlight climactic moments in nature, for example, the butterfly finally emerging from its chrysalis. - Supporting educational boxes on each page explain key points about nature, helping kids to discover more about the world around them. Children can marvel at a variety of different timeframes in nature, like geological timelines spanning thousands of years; a year in the life of a habitat, a day in the life of an animal, and complete plant life cycles. Ever wondered what the mayfly does with its short life? In this book, you'll find out how it lives as a nymph for two weeks, before flying out of the water for just a day in the sky as a mayfly. If you've ever thought about how a chimpanzee spends its day, how the rainforest changes over 24 hours, or how long a kangaroo's pregnancy lasts, then this is the book for you! Explore the series! If you like Timelines of Nature, why not check out other our exciting titles in the Timelines series? Explore the unique collection of visual timelines which bring big topics to life. Discover leaders, legends and legacies in Timelines of Black History, uncover the past from woolly mammoths to World Wars in Timelines of Everything and explore key milestones and breakthroughs with Timelines of Science.

Discover the Secret Stories of Our Ever-Changing Natural World

Timelines of Nature

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