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Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about h...
Introduce kids to Europe and help them plan their next family trip with this giant fold-out continental map. Bright and colourful, it unfolds into a detailed poster ready for kids to personalise by adding stickers to mark their family's travels and favourite places. But that's not all! Flipping the map over reveals lots of fun facts to learn along the way.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Children's Travel Book of the Year Illustrated by R. Fresson You are about to embark on a dangerous adventure. With this game in a book, use the pop-out Survival Spinner to learn your fate as you face peril after peril in a wild, rugged landscape. You become lost in the mountains after an emergency landing. Among the snowy peaks,...
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award's Children's Travel Book of the Year A wonderful celebration of history's most remarkable journey; published to celebrate 160 years of Charles Darwin's ground-breaking text on evolution: 'On The Origin of Species' Step on-board The Beagle and follow the remarkable journey that inspired almost all modern-day knowledge of the...
Spark your imagination, forge your own adventures and unearth long-lost skills. In this long-awaited follow-up to his much-loved bestseller, written with his sons Cameron and Arthur, Conn Iggulden presents a brand-new compendium of cunning schemes, projects, tricks, games and tales of extraordinary courage.
Whether it’s building a flying machine (keep your temper with this one) or learning how to pick...
Winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award's Ordnance Survey Children's Travel Book of the Year Hand-picked by adventurer Alastair Humphreys, this compilation retells the extraordinary journeys undertaken by his personal heroes. These men and women have ventured into space, oceans, deserts and jungles and inspired Alastair's own adventures. They may do the same for you too.
Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!
From sarcophaguses to scarab beetles and canopic jars to crocodiles, this book features 20 unique, intricately foiled designs that can be slotted together to create 3D ornaments or threaded together to make an amazing amulet garland. These press-out pieces are stunning in white and gold foil, but look even better as a colourful collection of ancient Egyptian decorations.
Calling all adventurers! Are you ready to explore America's 60 amazing national parks? From Acadia's seaside cliffs and coves to Zion's enchanting red valleys, take a journey through the United States' most spectacular and exciting landscapes with America's National Parks from Lonely Planet Kids. With awesome facts, photos and illustrations on every page, you'll discover erupting geysers, exploding volc...
...So go and play and live and learn. It's your world now, this is your turn to think and ask and make and do. The world is magic, just like you!
This pocket-sized adventure guide teaches young adventurers about all the fun you can have at the seaside: what to pack, how to spot sea creatures and wildlife, how to catch a fish and much, much more! Children will also learn exactly what not to do, from getting stung by a jellyfish to getting caught in a rip current. With fun games to play, interesting information about protecting the coastline, and a use...
A fact-packed fun book of puzzles Test your knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of animal themed puzzles.
Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as number games, crosswords and word searches, with fascinating facts along the way.
Meet the bacteria, viruses, and other germs and microbes that are all around, but too small for us to see. Learn how they keep us and our world running. What do a squid that glows, fungus that grows, and tiny creatures in the soil under your toes all have in common? They're all part of the world of microbiology!
Jack loves all sorts of outdoor activities - but he just can't stand getting wet. Can an adventure with Bear Grylls in a Chinese river gorge, rafting down the rapids, change his mind?
Conn Iggulden’s Dangerous Book for Boys is destined to become a publishing classic. Writing for Harper Collins in his first non-fiction work, Iggulden writes with the verve and passion that his readers have come to expect. This book has been written with his brother as a celebration of the long summers of their youth and as a compendium of information so vital to men of all ages.
Lavishly designed and full...
Take a unique tour of Planet Earth and find out what goes where in the world. What's Where in the World is a unique visual encyclopaedia of what's where in this world of ours.
When a famous explorer goes missing in the North Pole, his son, Tom, decides he must find him. And so a daring adventure begins across the treacherous icy terrain of the North Pole. Will Tom be able overcome the many challenges ahead and find his father?
The Boy who Biked the World – Part One: On the Road to Africa is a children’s book telling the story of Tom overcoming his fears and setting off on an epic adventure to become the boy who biked the world!
Everything young explorers needs to know to travel in space, covering what life in zero gravity is like, how to find your way around the solar system, and the all-important question of how to pee in a spacesuit! Unique illustrations take kids to the heart of the action and amazing photos show what the universe is really like.
Incredible stories of real-life space exploration for kids aged 8 and up, by autho...
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From the earliest inhabitants of North America to the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century, students will explore America’s rich history as they encounter the American Revolution, Westward Expansion, the Great Depression, and so much more.
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6 children's books that I don't read to my children
Quite recently, we published a wonderful column in Mela by the writer Irina Lukyanova and criticism by Ksenia Moldavskaya about children's literature and the attitude of parents towards it. If you missed it, read it, the context will be clear.
And here's the response - our blogger Lyudmila Chirkova discusses what kind of children's books she doesn't like and doesn't read with children.
Reading with children is the most beautiful thing for me in parenting. You can just lie down, read aloud, hugging all the children at once, and enjoy being transported to the amazing worlds created by the fantasy of children's writers. But there are children's books that I honestly tried to read, but couldn't. But all of them are classics of children's literature...
1. "Prostokvashino", Eduard Uspensky
Once, at the dacha, the middle daughter dug up a thick book about Prostokvashino somewhere from her grandmother and proudly brought it to me to read. It is clear that we read stories about moving to Prostokvashino and about winter holidays. But here was a completely different wonderful world. And I didn't like this world at all. Merchants, stalls, jokes of a very low level. There was a feeling that the author simply took and decided to exploit the characters loved by everyone in an inept attempt to put satire on modernity into children's stories.
It didn't work out. It was unpleasant for me to read this, and the children simply do not understand what it is all about.
2. "Dunno", Nikolai Nosov
It's scary to say, but in my childhood they didn't read this book to me - I don't know how it happened. But they read to my husband, so we tried - with our first child. Spoiler: I didn't even try with the rest of the kids. This task will be perfectly done in kindergarten - as part of the compulsory reading program in the middle group. Perhaps this is a professional deformation, but I just physically could not read this text. A wonderful and funny story about Dunno, Syrupchik and other shorties, but I had to redo every sentence, rearrange the words to make it sound. No thanks - I prefer to enjoy reading. At the same time, there is not the slightest claim to "Dreamers" and other school stories of the classic. Funny, ironic and beautiful.
3. “Baby and Carlson, who lives on the roof”, Astrid Lindgren
As much as I love Pippi, Ronja and Emil from Lenneberga, I hate Carlson just as much.
Let the cartoon remain a cartoon, but the book introduces us to a completely different Carlson. This character is not at all the most charming and attractive man in his prime, but a real dirty trick, a bully and a swindler, which the world has never seen. And constantly very sorry for the Kid. Of course, one can speculate that this book provides topics for discussion with the child, stimulates to talk about responsibility, etc., etc. But no.
4. "Order of the Yellow Woodpecker", Monteiro Lobato
I must admit that I adore Latin American writers. I did not part with the volume of Borges for two years, Cortazar read avidly, like Marquez. So when, at the end of the first grade of my eldest daughter, I found The Order in the list of literature, I was even delighted. My joy ended ten pages later. I struggled through the dreaming method worse than Kafka and Remizov put together, fell asleep through the line, tried to read with intonation and delight, but I couldn’t! The children also fell asleep and did not show the slightest interest in what was happening on the pages of the book.
This is one of the few books that I just closed at some point and didn't open again. Perhaps she hasn't grown up.
5. The Wizard of Oz, A. Volkov
As a child, this was my favorite series of books. I still remember how my mother gave me either in the first or in the second grade the last part in hardcover, it was a delight. Then Baum happened to me and The Wizard of Oz in some correct translation. With the eldest daughter of four years old, we read a huge story in three or four evenings, and later repeated this experience with the middle one. After that I tried to open Volkov and start reading, but I couldn't. The translation was better than the text in the native language at times.
6. “Sister”, Nina Gernet
God, how we laughed when we read “Katya and the Crocodile”. This was spectacular. A sea of pleasure. So, when I picked up "Sister", I was looking forward to even more pleasure, moreover, extended in time - the book is much thicker and more impressive.
But something went wrong. A burdensome frightening and absolutely incomprehensible story for children. “Why does the kindergarten go to dangerous places?”, “Why are the children unattended?” I understand that the time was different, all this was the norm, I am also aware of the independence of children. But not in such quantities. I am sure that this is a really worthwhile book, at least as an example of childhood of that time, but alas, no reading it to your children.
I don’t remake the ending at Kolobok, I read Russian folk tales to children about hares driven out of huts and girls who came to visit a bear, we read poems by Chukovsky and Agnia Barto despite torn off paws and playing with matches. But the list of books that I veto is regularly updated. I don't see anything terrible in this. You have every right not to read or not to finish the book, but only on condition that you can reasonably explain it.
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