Flowers
by René Mettler, René Mettler
See how bees and butterflies settle on spring flowers, how buds blossom and flower into fruit, and how sunflowers turn to face the sun.
See how bees and butterflies settle on spring flowers, how buds blossom and flower into fruit, and how sunflowers turn to face the sun.
Cut up a piece of fruit and find its seeds. Plant them and watch them grow. See the fruit trees blossom in spring and ripen in autumn into the fruit you can eat. Learn about apples, pears, kiwi fruit, figs, bananas, watermelon, oranges and lemons, peaches, cherries apricots, plums and strawberries.
Homes may be big or small, made of brick, wood or ice, but they are always special. Readers can be a guest inside the homes of people from all over the world and throughout history, including Indonesian houses on stilts, tents put up by nomads, an Inuit igloo, astronauts who live in space, native American wigwams and prehistoric caves.
It’s as dark as night inside a beehive, an anthill or a termite mound. You can’t usually see what’s going on in there. But in this book you can use a press-out paper flashlight to look at insects inside their homes as if you’d been invited in. As you move the flashlight around, you’ll soon discover all the details hidden in each darkened picture. Find out which jobs the queen, worker and male ants do. Watch a bee develop from egg to larva to pupa to adult. Learn how bees organize their lives and see the beekeeper at work.
You can’t look inside your body, but there is a lot going on in there. Using a press-out flashlight made of card, you can explore the darkened transparent pages of this book. As you move it around you'll soon discover all the details hidden in each picture. You'll see through your body and discover what happens inside. Learn about our five senses. Watch a baby grow inside its mother. Find out what happens to the food we eat. Explore your body through X-rays and under the microscope.
The Amazon rainforest hides many secrets. We explore the jungle with its giant trees, its exotic plants and its colourful animal life, including jaguars, snakes and parrots. Find out what it is like to live in a rainforest. Discover the beautiful animals, birds, frogs, insects, flowers, and trees that can be found there. Learn about the threat posed by the most dangerous animal of all, humans. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
Below the city it’s dark. You can’t see anything, but there’s lots going on! Thanks to a press-out flashlight made of card, you will be able to light up the dark pages of this book, one detail at a time. It's like magic! Explore the hidden world below the city streets. Pipes and cables bring us gas, water and electricity. A man-made river takes all our waste away. There are carparks and underground trains and hidden treasures to uncover. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
Find out how people first learned to fly hot air balloons and small planes. Visit the cockpit of a large passenger airliner. Parachute out of a plane and ride in a helicopter and a glider. Learn about about all the different types of aircraft that we use today. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
The tide is out; let's explore! Look for colorful shells, dig in the sand, and peep under stones. Discover where crabs and shrimps hide. Find oysters, mussels, and starfish. Learn about the fish that live on the sea bed, why they are flat and how they hide from their predators. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
Embark on a visual journey through time following the development of an early prehistoric settlement into a village, a town and then a city. Watch how the landscape changes constantly as houses replace huts, stone replaces wood, bridges span rivers, wars are wages, castles are built and then abandoned and finally cranes tower over city streets. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
Find out about the oldest, the strangest, the biggest, and the fastest steam trains. Discover how railways cross mountains, rivers, and stretches of sea, and see high-speed trains from many countries.
Watch a little seed grow into a mighty tree. It flowers every year and new seeds fall to grow slowly into more trees. Discover the shapes and leaves and fruit of different trees.