Vendor: Wide Eyed Editions
Type: Books
Price:
16.99
Vendor: Magic Cat
Type: Books
Price:
16.99
This gorgeous book (the follow-up to Grow), is a wonderfully illustrated children's guide to the night sky.
Understand the phases of the moon, learn to navigate by the North Star and discover how to travel through space and time from your own window. This lovely book uncovers how humankind has its history woven into the constellations that light up our skies.
Written by NASA science writer Noelia González and fully illustrated by Sara Boccaccini Meadows, this is the perfect introduction to the night sky for families everywhere.
Vendor: Frances Lincoln
Type: Books
Price:
9.99
This little biography tells the inspirational story of Brazilian football icon, Pelé. With a sock full of rags for a ball, Pelé honed his skills in a poor neighbourhood in Brazil. He believed he would lead his country to World Cup victory… And he was right, with Pelé on the team, Brazil lifted the trophy three times. Today, he is widely regarded as the greatest footballer who ever lived – and a hero off the pitch as he uses his voice to help the people who need it most.
Vendor: Smith Street Books
Type: Books
Price:
12.99
Vendor: Magic Cat
Type: Books
Price:
17.99
This lovely anthology encourages kids and families to slow down and read 50 real-life nature stories that command calm and foster mindfulness.
All around us, nature is turning, growing and working. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it's not always easy to see them. You'll find 50 nature stories in this beautifully illustrated book, paused just long enough for you to watch them unfold. Moments include: a tadpole turning into a frog, a duck teaching her ducklings how to swim, the moon waxing and waning, and dew collecting on a leaf. Then go outside and explore and see what you find when you take the time to slow down.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
20.00
Mini Stories by Scout Editions invites readers to delve into the hidden histories and enchanting tales behind the everyday objects and wonders that surround us. A super gift for creative adults and families - it's great to dip into and for starting conversations.
This small art book is a collection of the cute illustrations and stories about the objects that feature on Scout Editions' lovely cards. It’s usually an interesting fact about how that object was invented or an insight you may be unaware of.
A collaboration with Counter-Print, Mini Stories came about from Scout Editions's love of history and story-telling. Inspired by the everyday, they delve into the back stories of what surrounds us - from the wonderful natural world to innovative manmade objects we know and love. Everything comes from something and has a story.
This book has eight different cover designs, each with a unique illustration from the book. They fold out to reveal a black and white poster showcasing a collection of icons, specially crafted by Scout Editions.
Please note, you will receive one of the eight covers, chosen at random.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
Featuring 22 easy craft projects using natural and recycled materials, The Big Book of Nature Art is a fun and eco way for young children to connect creatively with nature.
Each of the activities can be achieved in four simple steps using natural materials combined with recycled or found materials from around the home. Drawing on Zommer’s years of experience running art workshops for children, The Big Book of Nature Art includes his tips for stress-free ways to get creative with kids.
Each nature art activity requires no more than five minutes set-up and five minutes clean-up, making them easy to achieve and fun for everyone involved. The book also encourages children to see the creative potential in the natural and everyday treasures all around us – from twigs, seed pods, petals and leaves through to loo rolls, pencil shavings, takeaway cutlery and kitchen string.
Little nature artists will enjoy making paper-plate birds; leaf bugs; coffee-cup owls; tree bark bats; and seed pod creepy crawlies, as well as scenes for their creatures to dwell in, from watery worlds to underground tunnels.
Check out Yuval Zommer's The Big Book Of The Blue, The Big Book Of Blooms, The Big Book Of Beasts and The Big Book of Bugs, too.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
19.99
From The Ilustrators series, this book is an appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson, creator of the much-loved Moomin books.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
Herbarium is a stylishly illustrated compendium of 100 herbs, designed to enrich our understanding of all their uses. It celebrates all facets of herbs and all their life-enhancing properties. This isn’t just a book for the kitchen – it’s for the greenhouse, the medicine cabinet, the coffee table...
Award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand’s Herbarium is a 21st-century reboot of the traditional herbal compendium. The visual genius behind the international bestseller The Geometry of Pasta, she has created abstract forms and vibrant colours to illustrate 100 essential herbs and to reveal their hidden properties.
From bergamot, comfrey and dill to sassafras, vervain and wasabi, all types of herbs are covered; each is explained through the fascinating history of their uses and symbolism. There are tips on how to use them as seasonings and how to create healing potions, as well as advice on when and how to grow them.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
35.00
A guide to slowing down, enjoying more and being happy.
Monocle has always been a champion of taking it slow. It has encouraged readers to dive into a lake and go for a run. To sleep well. To eat food whose makers are proud of its provenance. In a shouty, jabbing-finger moment in history, it has done its bit to argue for a new modern etiquette to be generous with our time, hospitality and forgiveness. Now its editors and correspondents have brought all of this together in The Monocle Manifesto for a Gentler Life, a book that urges us all to slow down, reconnect, make good things and see nice places. And it also knows when to wear a cheeky smile.
Chapters include:
• An illustrated guide to being nice, respecting your neighbour and controlling your social media rants.
• Profiles of the happiest nations – and the least lonely too.
• How to build a house that’s good for you and your family.
• Essays from leading thinkers and great writers on what we can gain if we shift gear.
• The businesses charting a better course – from management to pride in production.
• Food – a celebration of the locally made, the chefs that bring people together and a recipe or two.
• The objects to own that will give pleasure for years.
• The people who changed direction, slowed down and made it work.
• The compact cities where you can run a company, be inspired, have a good social life – and be hiking in a forest at 5pm.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
12.99
Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their associations with a happy time and place?
In this book – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles, and considers how the way we see them today has been influenced over the years by artists, authors and even archaeologists.
Printmaker Angie Lewin is widely admired for her alluringly stylish images of the natural world. She celebrates the experience of walking and sketching along the British coastline, often incorporating pebbles in her limited edition prints and paintings. Many of these feature in the book alongside a series of new images.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
35.00
In Monocle’s latest book, Swim & Sun, you’ll find their pick of the places in which to cool off when the mercury rises and plenty to get you dreaming about your next dip.
Monocle celebrate the joys of diving into the ocean, leaping into a river and allowing your limbs to stretch – and your mind to clear – as you simply swim. In its visually stunning pages, the guide celebrates the sunny pleasures on offer at their favourite beach clubs, urban pools and lakeside bathing spots. Pick up a copy and jump in. The water’s perfect.
Vendor: Wide Eyed Editions
Type: Books
Price:
20.00
Why do we dream? How come more people are right-than left-handed? What’s inside a black hole?
Science is pretty amazing, but even though we know more about our universe than ever before, there still remain lots of unanswered questions that fascinate and perplex even the greatest scientific minds. These are the unknowns, the paradoxes and the things not fully explained or understood. This book is a compendium of these riveting unsolved mysteries, that still have us wondering... How? What? Why?
Whisking readers through some of these holes in our scientific knowledge, this accessible book turns to the unanswered questions, what we do know, and some of the best current theories, as well as some of the most far out suggestions! From the personal (Why do we have fingerprints? Why do we yawn?) to the fundamental (How did life begin? Is anybody out there?) to the downright funny (Why do cats sit in circles?)
Divided into chapters on People, Earth, Nature, Space and Miscellaneous Mysteries, this visually stunning compendium breaks down even the most complex topics and theories so everyone can puzzle over unanswered questions. It will capture the imagination of curious minds young and old. Maybe they can solve some of these riddles. Or maybe, some things will remain in the Mysteryverse ...
Vendor: Wide Eyed Editions
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
Nature's secret stories are hidden in every part of the globe, in every pocket of the sea, in ancient ground beneath your feet, up tall mountains you can’t see, in stones, in plants, in birds and beasts. This beautiful field-guide explores the histories and mysteries hidden in the wild, just waiting to be shared.
Readers are invited on a journey around our wonderful world, through wild forests, over mountains high, to the bottom of our oceans and the earth beneath us. Each chapter investigates a different environment and the secret stories of the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of these habitats. Some secrets tell us of links between species, or unusual adaptations and features, others tell us how nature has evolved, and many hold the keys to understanding our planet’s past.
Readers will come away with a wealth of knowledge and discover how looking at nature today can help us understand and unlock mysteries from long ago, from bygone weather to the dinosaurs.
Learn how resin and rock can preserve long-lost plants and creatures, how the rings inside coral skeletons can reveal weather patterns from the distant past, how layers of the seabed can indicate a previous mass extinction occurred, how ice can trap gases and tell us the make-up of our ancient atmosphere, and much more.
The text also touches on how these secrets are often uncovered through scientific research, observation, fossil records, as well as using modern inventions and techniques like carbon dating.
Readers are encouraged search for secrets in nature close to home and explore how we can all help protect the animals, plants and natural features of today so we can continue to enjoy and learn from them.
The fascinating information is brought to life with meticulously detailed, vintage-style artwork from Vasilisa Romanenko, making this book a true treasure trove for the whole family to enjoy.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
16.99
This is the ultimate guide on how to create a graphic novel, packed with professional tips and interviews with leading graphic novelists.
Written by graphic novel producer Balthazar Pagani, the book is structured as a series of short art courses that combine technical advice with creative inspiration. There are lessons in how to construct a narrative, develop characters, design settings, as well as the basics of printing, binding and digital file set-up.
Each lesson has striking illustrations by graphic novel artist Marco Maraggi, and professional artworking tips in the style of a graphic novel by renowned Italian cartoonist and comics lecturer Otto Gabos. The book also includes biographies of and interviews with cult creators who share insights into their working process as well as work from their sketchbooks.
Featuring reproductions and a recommended reading list of famous graphic novels and comic books past and present, this is the ideal workbook for all aspiring graphic novelists.
Vendor: Frances Lincoln
Type: Books
Price:
9.99
This little biography tells the inspiring story of Mozart, world-renowned classical musician and composer.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first started playing the keyboard at just three years old. Little Wolfgang soon mastered several instruments and was even writing his own musical compositions. As a young boy, he travelled from city to city with his father and sister, playing for Europe’s royal families and delighting them with his talents. When his father fell ill, and Wolfgang had to keep quiet in their home, he wrote a whole symphony from just hearing the instruments in his head!
A prodigious talent, Mozart wrote over 600 pieces during his short life, creating exciting masterpieces from dances and masses to symphonies and operas across a wide variety of styles. His music still delights audiences across the world, from the smallest school hall to the biggest opera house
Little People Big Dreams series portrays the inspiring lives of artists, designers, activists and scientists in a super-accessible way with sweet illustrations and by focusing on when they started out as children with a dream. Each book has a biographical timeline with historical photographs and extra facts, too.
Vendor: Frances Lincoln
Type: Books
Price:
9.99
This little biography tells the inspiring story of David Hockney, the inspirational British artist.
Little David loved to draw and looked at the world in his own unique way. He always knew what his path in life would be… he would be an artist!
He went to art school and worked day and night to hone his drawing skills. He sold his first painting as a student, and in just five years he had a sell-out solo show of his work. When he moved from the UK to sunny California, he became known for creating bright, bold paintings.
From the Grand Canyon to the Yorkshire hills of home, David painted fantastic landscapes, including one made of 50 canvases all stitched together. An artist who delights in constantly reinventing himself, to this day David is eager to share his colourful work, and himself, with the whole world.
Little People Big Dreams series portrays the inspiring lives of artists, designers, activists and scientists in a super-accessible way with sweet illustrations and by focusing on when they started out as children with a dream. Each book has a biographical timeline with historical photographs and extra facts, too.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
How slow does a snail go? Are bugs afraid of the dark? Why do ants march in a line? Find out all this and more in The Big Book Of Bugs, a gloriously illustrated book about creepy crawlies. Meet all kinds of flying, stinging, wriggling bugs from around the world, play search and find in the pictures, and learn all sorts of fascinating facts about how bugs eat, hunt and have babies in the wild.
Check out the accompanying Big Sticker Book Of Bugs, too
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
Why do wolves howl at the moon? Do hyenas really laugh? Why do hippos love the mud? Find out all this and more in The Big Book Of Beasts, a wonderfully illustrated book about animals.
Meet all kinds of grizzly, hairy, wild and wonderful beasts from around the world, play search and find in the pictures and learn all sorts of fascinating facts about how wild animals eat, hunt and survive.
Check out the accompanying The Big Sticker Book Of Beasts, too.
Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price:
14.99
Why do octopuses have eight arms? Why do crabs run sideways? Are jellyfish made of jelly? Find out all this and plenty more in The Big Book Of The Blue, a wonderfully illustrated book about sea creatures.
It starts by explaining how different types of animals can breathe and live underwater, and the different families to which they belong. Then, meet all sorts of slippery, shimmery, strange and monstrous species, from sea turtles and whales to sharks, rays and seahorses. Learn about different habitats, endangered animals, how to spot creatures on the beach and help save marine life.
Check out Yuval Zommer's The Big Book Of Beasts and The Big Book of Bugs, too.
Vendor: Smith Street Books
Type: Books
Price:
15.00
Vendor: Magic Cat
Type: Books
Price:
12.99
We look out of our window at the dark and twinkling sky.
It's full of stars and planets and there's comets whooshing by.
We want to go and see them, there's so much to explore.
So let's count down and blast off - then we can find out more!
Read this book and journey through space with 15 of the most iconic real-life space missions of all time, including the moon landing, Voyager 1's journey into interstellar space and Perseverance's exploration of Mars.
Vendor: Wide Eyed Editions
Type: Books
Price:
20.00
This wonderfully illustrated book introduces children to the magic of nature, through the stories of 48 fascinating life cycles. Every story has a beginning, middle and end and so does everything in our world. From a frog, to a cloud in the sky to a twinkling star at night, discover the stories of the most amazing of life cycles between you and outer space.
This is a book to show children that the world is always turning, and change is happening all the time, it's in the turning of the season, sometimes it's as fast as a hatching egg and sometimes it's a slow as a growing mountain.
This captivating book will transport children across the globe, teaching them about just how Mother Nature keeps everything in our world turning round, and round.
Vendor: Laurence King
Type: Books
Price:
20.00
An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.
In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore.
From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the eerie mandrake and Spanish 'moss' of Louisiana, each of these stories is full of surprises. Some have a troubling past, while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilizations to flourish. With a colourful cast of characters all brought to life by illustrator Lucille Clerc, this is a botanical journey of beauty and brilliance.
Vendor: Laurence King
Type: Books
Price:
20.00