Printed on stiff card, this book contains templates to cut out and construct a superb model of a 14th century castle crammed with authentic detail. The model includes miniature characters for re-creating castle life, including market stalls and jousting knights as well as a portcullis that lifts and falls. The base of the model measures 59 x 46cm.
Paint a world of spooky fun with stickers Step 1: Find the stickerStep 2: Peel the stickerStep 3: Place the sticker ...and watch your Halloween painting come to life Inclu
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 24, Publishers: Pan Macmillan, Author: Axel Scheffler, ISBN-13: 9781529054293, Date of issue: 2023
Children can create their own busy airport scenes showing people and planes arriving at the airport, getting ready to fly, taking off and up in the air. With over 100 stickers depicting holidaymakers with their luggage, pilots and cabin crew, the runway staff who bring planes in safely to land, and of course a selection of different aeroplanes.
From penguin chicks and seal pups to tiger cubs and baby rhinos, there are all kinds of little animals making cute sounds in this charming book. With ten buttons on the pages to press, there's a visit to Australia to hear what noises baby kangaroos a
The first ever Harry Potter pop-up book, based on the creative work of the most successful film franchise in history. The paper engineering recreates the most memorable locations of the Wizarding World, such as the Triwizard Tournament, Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Castle.
They're bright, they're lifelike, and they're reusable Kids love the EyeLike Stickers series--to the tune of over 3 million copies in print. And kids love trains and other things that go--EyeLike Stickers: Trucks ships over 1,000 copies each month
Eyelike Stickers: Horses will bring unbridled joy to every horse lover, crafter and scrap booker with high quality, photographic images that are amazingly life like in colour and details. The durable stickers are designed to be stuck on and peeled off over and over again without losing adhesive.
Adapted by master pop-up artist Robert Sabuda, this timeless, classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen comes to life. With magical, intricate pop-ups, readers dive under the sea into the three-dimensional fantastical kingdom where the drama unfolds. From the sea to the ship to the castle, we follow this tale of true love, adventure and sacrifice. As the little mermaid opens her heart, she will captivate reader's, making this a sure favourite in every family's library.
Young readers will love creating 10 bright and playful low-poly artworks featuring wonders of the sea from the shallows to the deep, one sticker at a time. The boredom-busting fun of coloring meets the joy of paint by number and the fun of a sticker book.
Paint by Sticker Kids just gets stronger and stronger, with the last three titles--Unicorns & Magic, Halloween, and Christmas--on fire. With over 1.7 million copies in print, and with sales increasing every season, it is the phenomenal
It's no wonder the Paint by Sticker Kids series has skyrocketed in sales and now has over 3 million copies in print. What better fun, creative, screen-free, and mess-free activity is there - especially when families are spending more time at home? Introducing the newest interstellar addition to the series:Paint by Sticker Kids: Outer Space goes where no Paint by Sticker book has gone before. Kids will love stickering a Mars rover, a space shuttle, an astronaut, iconic celestial bodies like Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun, and more! Plus, the back of each image includes a fascinating scientific fact about each galactic subject.The stickers are easy for little hands to handle. And because there's no paint involved, there's no splatter, drips, or hassle of cleanup. Just peel off the stickers, place them on the corresponding numbered spaces, and watch a vibrant image emerge.And, in the spirit of outer space exploration, some images will include awesome glow-in-the-dark stickers.
Paint by Sticker Kids: Love Is Everywhere! includes everything kids need to create ten colourful images, including a smiling glitter rainbow, a cute otter holding a heart-shaped shell, a kitten wearing glitter sunglasses, a pair of nuzzling bunnies, and more! All you need to do is follow three easy steps:Step 1: Find the sticker. Step 2: Peel the sticker. Step 3: Place the sticker.And watch your paintings come to life!Painting by sticker is easy, mess-free, and portable (plus, all the pages are perforated so multiple kids can create at the same time!). The stickers are designed to be easy for small hands to manoeuvre, and no actual paint means no splatter, drips, or messy clean-up.
Search for your favourite mobs in this official Minecraft Search and Find book! Meet five intrepid explorers as they set out in search of an explosive creeper, a mysterious enderman and more elusive mobs. But these blocky beasts are harder to track down than expected and now the explorers need your help to hunt them all down. Do you have what it takes to find these sneaky mobs? Explore the world of Minecraft and its biomes as you journey across the Overworld, through the fiery Nether and even into the terrifying End dimension, as you join the chase to track down Minecraft's most popular mobs.Illustrated by Mr Misang, each scene is packed full of weird and wonderful details to pore over. There are also bonus items to find on each page, ensuring hours of fun. Collect all of the official Minecraft books to become the best Minecrafter you can be: Minecraft Maps: 9781405294546 Minecraft Let's Build! Land of Zombies: 9781405294539 Minecraft Let's Build! Theme Park Adventure: 9781405293075 Minecraft Guide to Creative: 9781405285988 Minecraft Guide to Redstone: 9781405286008 Minecraft Guide to the Nether and the End: 9781405285995 Minecraft Guide to Enchantments and Potions: 9781405288958 Minecraft Guide to Farming: 9781405290104 Minecraft Blockopedia: 9781405273534 Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress: 9781405284172 Minecraft The Survivors' Book of Secrets: 9781405283335 Minecraft Survival Tin: 9781405288200 Minecraft Mobestiary: 9781405286022 Minecraft: The Ultimate Construction Collection: 9781405291927 Minecraft is a multi-platform block-based gaming sensation available on Xbox, PlayStation, PC and mobile devices.Whether you're in Creative, Survival or Hardcore Mode, the official Mojang-approved Minecraft books contain all the advice you need to survive and thrive.
Move over, coloring books! Paint by Sticker Kids is back with a second book of amazing art for kids to make, one sticker at a time.Paint by Sticker Kids: Zoo Animals includes everything you need to create 10 bright, playful, full-color illustrations of zoo animals--illustrated templates printed on perforated card stock, and 10 pages of stickers to fill in and create the artwork. The fun, vibrant images are rendered in "low-poly," a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3-D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into hundreds of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next and voila! Animals include a koala, frog, elephant, red panda, puffin, peacock, snake, girafe, tiger, and gorilla. Kids will love watching these pictures come to life. Plus each is suitable for framing or the fridge.
A full update of the ultimate guide to the LEGO NINJAGO world, Secret World of the Ninja (new edition) is a fun introduction to all the ninja, villains, mechs, and dragons Step into the action-packed world of LEGO® NINJAGO™ and discover everything t
We see them twinkle in the night sky, but what ARE stars? Are they really star-shaped? What patterns do they make and which star is the nearest? This charming book zooms in on the answers.
This is a fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about cars, from how the first automobiles were invented, to how speedy racing cars get around tracks. Each of the seven double-page spreads have several flaps to lift, many with double flaps, and several of them also have fun paper technology such as sliding a race car or moving a car along a production line in a factory. Other spreads look inside a busy car repair shop, and a scrap yard where old cars get crushed.
Stop summer slide Stay summer smart For kids who just finished pre-K, this Common Core-aligned workbook will get you back-to-school ready for kindergarten, with hundreds of fun activities, exercises, and games. From Brain Quest, America's #1 education
Sticker lovers, rejoice! There is a new addition to the successful EyeLike Stickers series, and it's a perfect gift for every little girl or boy. EyeLike Stickers: Baby Animals is packed with 400 full-colour and photo-real stickers that can be peeled and placed again and again. Plus, the inside cover is glossy and illustrated - a perfect background on which kids can place their stickers to create unique and changeable scenes. Plus, it's a perfect place to store your stickers year after year. Little lambs, snuggly puppies, and lovable lion cubs peer out adorably from the pages in Baby Animals. Use the stickers to decorate notebooks, lockers, classrooms, cards, scrapbooks, binders, party invitations - you name it! And for older kids, here are perfect books for anyone who loves scrapbooking and arts and crafts!
Every sky’s an inspiration, Every cloud floats free, Unlock your imagination, Draw what you see! Hirameki – 'brainwave’ or 'flash of inspiration’ in Japanese – is where doodling and imagination come together. Simply put, it’s the art of turning a random blot into something amazing, just by adding a few dots and lines. If it’s true that you can find happiness in little things, this book should keep your eyes, hand and brain entertained for hours.
A London Bus, with a wind-up model of a red, double-decker London bus and four tracks take you on a tour of the famous city. Find out about London's most famous landmarks and attractions as your bus stops on its way. The four tracks can also be taken out of the book and joined together to make one huge track for the bus to travel around.
Paint a magical world with stickers (including glitter stickers) Paint by Sticker Kids: Unicorns & Magic includes everything kids need to create ten vibrant images, including unicorns, a dragon, a princess, and more.
A very simple non-fiction, lift-the-flap book for small children. packed with holes to peep through, flaps to look beneath and snippets of factual information. Beautifully illustrated, this is an engaging, interactive introduction to life on a farm and where food comes from.
Look Inside a Hospital is a fabulous addition to the Look Inside series, a fascinating insight into what really goes on in a hospital and an important book for any child who might be visiting ill relatives or need to go into hospital themselves. Find out what it's like to stay overnight, how operations happen and where babies are born.
An out-of-this-world colouring book featuring alien creatures on distant planets. Explore the spectacular wonders of Other Worlds, the brand-new colouring book by New York Times-bestselling illustrator, Kerby Rosanes.
Climb aboard the sailboat Oceano and get ready to depart on an expedition around the world! This beautiful pop-up book, by award-winning illustrators Boisrobert and Rigaud,lets you explore the hidden depths that lie beneath you as you go.
Discover the magical world of nature in this information book for young children, with over 80 flaps to lift. There are woods, rivers and ponds to explore, and animals to discover under the ground, hiding in trees and rustling in the bushes. There's information on how plants grow, habitats and nature spotting and links to websites to find out more.
This amazing picture book uses a patented technology called Scanimation, which makes the figures actually move on the page. It brings to life the movement of animals from a galloping horse to a fluttering butterfly, so children can see the motion verb they are learning before their very eyes. This is the first time that Scanimation has been published in book form.
No creature is more fascinating and terrifying to an adventurer than a dragon! This illustrated guide takes a deeper look at the abilities, personalities, and treasure collections of every major dragon type in Dungeons & Dragons.Dragons & Treasures transports new players to the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons and presents a one-of-a-kind course on the unique characteristics, fabled treasures, and wondrous artifacts of the most legendary of creatures: dragons! The book profiles all main dragon classes, and features easy-to-follow and entertaining explanations of how to identify and interact with these legendary beasts during your adventures. Advice, encouragement, and storytelling tips provide strategies for dealing with dragon encounters, hoards of treasure, and draconic artifacts, along with action-packed illustrations that will ignite your imagination.Dragons & Treasures is the perfect way for young fans to learn how to incorporate dragons into their stories, whether as foes, allies, or something in between.
'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' This title features three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay. It includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.
It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant's works available in Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean.
Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover - includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending. 'Beware! Peril to the detective who says: "It is so small - it does not matter..." Everything matters.' After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement ...The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran.
'One of his masterpieces ...without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of spiritual denial. An superb feat of imagination, Narcissus and Goldmund can only be compared to such films set in medieval Europe as Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev. It is a gripping, profound reading experience - as startling, in its different way, as Hesse's Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
It’s hard to overstate just how influential The King of Elfland’s Daughter has been to modern fantasy; particularly high fantasy, sword and sorcery, and high fantasy.Lyrical and dream like it takes us on a search for a fairy princess and the magic that man has always secretly craved.Masterfully written, poignant, and yet still full of exciting action and adventure.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 1060, Publishers: Rock Point, Author: Lori M. Campbell,John Tenniel, ISBN-13: 9781631069291, Date of issue: 2023
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Poe's works available in Penguin Classics are The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe and The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
First in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 1 contains special editions of THE SILMARILLION and UNFINISHED TALES reproducing the first edition text, together with the two volumes of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES.
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out
Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West" tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his four supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canon is by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy. With one hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, "The Journey to the West" has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added much new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions.He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.' Still considered one of the most important and groundbreaking works of science ever written, Darwin's eminently readable exploration of the evolutionary process challenged most of the strong beliefs of the Western world. Forced to question the idea of the Creator, mid-nineteenth century readers were faced with Darwin's theories on the laws of natural selection and the randomness of evolution, causing massive controversy at the time. However, Darwin's theories remain instrumental in providing the backbone to modern biology today.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories" is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo Tolstoy believed that he had encountered death itself. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Anthony Briggs, David McDuff and Ronald Wilks. These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, Tolstoy's preoccupation with mortality. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is a devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? In "Polikushka", a light-fingered drunk's chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions, while "Three Deaths" depicts the last moments of an aristocrat, a peasant and a tree, and "The Forged Coupon" shows a seemingly minor offence that leads inexorably to ever more horrific crimes. And in three tales about soldiers, "After the Ball", "The Wood-felling" and "The Raid", Tolstoy portrays the brutality that all too often accompanies military life. The translations by Anthony Briggs, David McDuff and Ronald Wilks capture Tolstoy's powerful, vivid prose.This edition also includes a new introduction by Anthony Briggs discussing Tolstoy's breakdown and the effect this had on his writing, as well as a chronology, further reading and notes. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, in central Russia. He led a life of wasteful idleness until 1851, when he travelled to the Caucasus and joined the army with his older brother, fighting in the Crimean war. After marrying Sofya Behrs in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, "War and Peace" (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1878). In 1884 Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis, becoming an extreme moralist, rejecting the state, the church and private property. His last novel, "Resurrection" (1900), was written to raise money for the Doukhobor sect of Christian spiritualists. If you enjoyed "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", you might like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", also available in "Penguin Classics".
