Synopsis: This book provides children, and adults, a whole new perspective on art. It encourages one to look up and down, turn pictures upside down and reflect on the different viewpoints.

Review: From the front cover featuring ‘Hunters in the Snow’ with a shiny cameo circle to the back with ‘Rachel and Jacob at the Well’ in a similar mode this book is a de ...

Learn about unusual and inspiring crafts from around the world in Toy and Models! An excellent new book for children, parents and teachers!

Six original toys and models are presented across double page spreads, with step by step instructions, full colour pictures and facts. Example ideas range from a moving wooden cowboy from Mexico, a carved wooden car from India, a painted lea ...

Bread and Pizza is an exciting new recipe book for children, designed to inject passion into bread making! Each recipe has a double page spread and range from soda bread to cottage loaf, fruit buns to calzone.

Full step by step numbered instructions, coloured pictures and varied font ensure that this book is accessible for all levels of cooking ability. A glossary and equipment ...

Synopsis: Another volume in the excellent "Artventure" series, looking at famous works in new ways.

Review: This very fine little book sets out to try to explain why so many artists have depicted themsleves. An introduction to the theme - "What is a Self-portrait?" - leads in to a series of double-page spreads, each considering a different aspect of sel ...

If every known species on Earth were a leaf on a tree, the tree would have almost 2 million leaves. Humans are just one leaf on this tree of life. "Tree of Life" is a dazzling introduction to the incredible variety of life on Earth, from the team behind the bestselling "If The World Were a Village". It shows how living things are classified and interconnected, and how a prob ...

When Rashid was eight, he was sold to a camel trainer so that he could become a jockey. He lost everything. He lost his home. He lost his brother. He lost his freedom. He even lost his name, just like all the other boys in the stables. Starved to keep down their weight, and beaten to force them to race, there were those who lost even more. This is a very powerful book, about a form of slavery ...

Synopsis: Fresh from her close encounter with a vampire on the school trip to Whitby, Fliss Morgan is not keen to take part in Bottomtop Middle’s celebration of the local legend of the Elsworth Worm. Once more, her dreams warn of evil, and as her friends fashion their worm costume she sees that they are being caught up in something far darker than a mere play. Soon she finds hersel ...

This book is most appropriate for primary age students. It covers some complex ideas (e. g. plate tectonics and the structure of the earth), but the text, photographs and diagrams are appropriate to the age group. A couple of the diagrams look a little old, but the photographs are good. The glossary and index at the back would be useful for independent research.

Synopsis: Be an eyewitness to the story of an extraordinary painter, scientist, sculptor, and inventor, and the remarkable times in which he lived – the age of the renaissance.

Review. The hardback edition of this book was published in 1999 and this paperback was published in 2006. It is part of a large series of books and as such follows the format laid out for all ...

Geena, Amber and Jazz are the Bindi Babes. These girls have been through some tough times but they have managed to get their perfect world totally sorted. The one fashion accessory they don’t need however has just arrived - the interfering auntie. Bring on the collective brain power of the Bindi Babes! Nothing in life, not even a formidable Auntie-ji, can stop these sisters ... can it? < ...