This essential title provides children with all the information they need to know how the world works! Lavish, eye-catching design and illustration are paired with succint, to-the-point text to explain how a vast range of stuff happens. Encyclopedic in scope but fresh and exciting in presentation, this is a great-value, information-packed book about a comprehensive range of topics.

A gorgeous children's activity series that explores a wide range of artists’ work while encouraging children to develop their own skills and techniques, Get into Art! is perfect for active young artists of all abilities. Art projects are varied, intriguing and clearly explained and will act as a springboard for plenty of artistic experiments. Readers can combine their practical activity and creativity with discovering a wealth of fine art and finding out about a range of artists and art styles.

Ever wondered how many animals there are in the world? Or which fish can fly? And why aren’t plants animals? This book answers a wide range of questions that children ask about animals, and provides supporting, fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge in a fun and gentle way.

Ever wondered how far away space is? Or why stars twinkle? And if the Earth is spinning, why don’t we fall off? This book answers a wide range of questions that children ask about space, and provides supporting, fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge in a fun and gentle way.

Numbers and maths are all around us. They can explain where electricity comes from, why we look like our parents, why moons revolve around planets, and why it’s so hard to win the lottery. We’ve Got Your Number investigates all aspects of mathematics and numbers and is arranged in a number of thematic chapters. Within each chapter is a series of self-contained spreads, each of which investigates all aspects of a specific subject, such as the different counting bases or the evolution of money. Each spread comprises concise and accessible running text with boxes, which belong to four main types: Good at Sums provides brief biographies of great mathematicians; Try This at Home is a series of entertaining number games and puzzles; What’s Your Problem? presents real-life challenges such as calculating the size of the Earth and shows how maths has solved them; while What’s In a Number? provides a fact-file ‘biography’ of iconic numbers, such as zero, 1, 3, ‘unlucky’ 13 and 1 million.

With its lively, distinctive approach, this is a unique one-stop guide to the basics of creative writing. Meet Plot, who keeps a story running and its events moving in the right order; Atmosphere, who can fill a scene with suspense; a cast of Heroes and Villains including Protagonist and Narrator; and chatty, talkative Dialogue. Plus tonnes of detail on the building blocks of narrative and what makes creative writing work.

From Basher, the illustrator who showed the periodic table in a whole new light and gave us his fresh spin on physics, astronomy, planet Earth, chemistry and more, comes a book that shines its light upon quarks, neutrinos and Schrödinger’s cat with a brand new take on physics. Learn about the amazing research that is revolutionizing physics, from the pioneering experiments taking place in the hunt for the Higgs Boson to antiparticles and teleportation. Extreme Physics is a compelling guide to developments at the very forefront of science – a must-read for anyone wishing to understand, and engage with, modern physics.

Rainforests is an adventure to discover rainforest habitats around the world, unlocking the secrets of their wonderful plants and amazing animals, and finding out why rainforests are so important.

Things That Go is an exciting ride through all types of transport, from trucks and tractors to a city network of trains, trams and buses, to fast cars and aeroplanes and record-breaking vehicles.