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Use your reading superpowers to learn all about great white sharks - their environment, their special senses and powers, and their prey - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Great White Sharks is a beautifully designed reader all about sharks. We might be scared of their special senses, sharp teeth and super-speed swimming, but humans are a risk to sharks too. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the life of this powerful predator, bringing up shark pups, how sharks hunt and their super senses.

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Let's have fun learning colours, as well as counting, finding shapes and patterns, and saying lots of words!Point to the red fruits. How many orange animals can you see? What's pink and goes oink, oink? From the primary colours red, blue, and yellow, and the secondary colours green, orange, and purple, to pink, brown, black, white, silver, gold, and multicoloured, babies and toddlers will love learning all the different colours in this engaging photographic board book.Inviting and educational, the coloured-themed pages are filled with all sorts of delightful objects. Clear labels accompany the objects so your little one can sound out the words with you, while questions encourage children to find and count things, name colours, spot patterns, and to play! Little ones will enjoy the entertaining challenges, such as standing on one leg like a pink flamingo, pretending to have a dance under the silver disco ball, and counting and naming the colours of the rainbow. This interactive book delivers a rounded early learning experience, and helps children develop speaking, listening, and observation skills.The book's sturdy board pages are ideal for young children, while the picture tabs along the top and side are easy to grip, helping your child's early motor control. Preschoolers will quickly recognize the picture on each tab, which will take them straight to the page showing that colour.

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Use your reading superpowers to learn all about spaceships and rockets, and their missions in space - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Spaceships and Rockets is a beautifully designed reader all about travel in space, from early missions to the future of space exploration.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about how rockets launch, some famous missions and astronauts, and the future of life in space.

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The ultimate guide to more than 100 top sports from around the world, from basketball to blade running.Are you a team player? Do you have a steady aim? Maybe you are super fast or strong? Whatever your size or skill, there is a sport out there for you. The Illustrated Sports Encyclopedia is the ultimate guide to the diverse world of sport, from the best known ball-sports, athletics, and water sports to the most obscure racket sports and races (anyone for a game of pickleball?). The book showcases different sports by grouping them into categories including team sports, target sports, winter sports, wheels and motors, horse sports, and extreme sports. Dynamic photography brings the sports to life, and complements the clear explanations and artworks that describe the rules, equipment, competitions, and common terms. A special section on the Olympic and Paralympic Games looks at their history, from the early Greek games right up to the present day. All Summer and Winter Olympic sports are clearly identified and explained, making the Illustrated Sports `Encyclopedia the must-have title for all young sports enthusiasts, particularly in the run up to the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.Discover poems in all their many guises, from the epics of the ancient world through Renaissance sonnets to modernist masterpieces such as The Waste Land, and the key works of the last 50 years, including And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou and Derek Walcott's Omeros.Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of clear explanation, witty infographics, and inspirational quotes, The Poetry Book unlocks the key ideas, themes, imagery, and structural techniques behind even the most complex of poems, in clear and simple terms, setting each work in its historical, social, cultural, and literary context. Dive into the passionate world of poetry to discover:COMPREHENSIVE: Brings together a curated selection of the most celebrated and important poems ever written, majoring on English-language poetryANALYTICAL: Provides critical analysis of form, structure, and style, exploring the trademark themes and subjects of the poets who wrote them, and using each poem as a route into wider literary trends, poetic movements and schools, and related poetsGRAPHIC APPROACH: Combines creative typography, graphics, and clear text to explore the world's most famous and important poems, and the people behind them, in a unique wayEYE-CATCHING: Thought-provoking graphics and flow-charts explore form and structure, and the central concepts behind each work QUOTATIONS: Features insightful and inspiring quotes from the featured poems, the poets behind them, and leading writers and criticsREFERENCE: Features a glossary section of poetic termsDelve into the works of Dante, Baudelaire, Rumi, Dickinson, Eliot, and Li Bai with in-depth literary analysis and fascinating biographies. Find out what odes, ballads, and allegories are. Trace recurring motifs, explore imagery, and discover how rhyme and rhythm work. From Homer's Odyssey to Seamus Heaney's Casualty, The Poetry Book is essential reading for lovers of poetry and aspiring poets alike.

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Beautifully designed maps, flags and country profile data make this atlas an ideal source of information about our ever changing world.If you're interested in finding out more about the geography of the world we live in, then this world atlas book is perfect for you. Compact World Atlas provides an excellent source of accurate and informative geographical information in an attractive, affordable, user-friendly package.Journey all over the world as you explore:- New fully revised 8th Edition incorporating hundreds of updates to maps and statistics.- Over 60 regional maps, 196 country fact files, flags and statistics.- 25 larger scale inset maps of cities and smaller countries- Fully cross-referenced index/gazetteer.Arranged in three main sections, the Compact World Atlas proves ideal for family reference, encompassing crosswords and quizzes, whilst presenting an intriguing and absorbing journey around the world in which we live.Divided into three sections, the first section gives a global overview with political, physical and time-zone maps. This is followed by 120 pages of crisp, clear regional mapping, arranged by continent, covering all of the world's 196 nations. Each map is rich in topographical information including cities, physical features, rivers, lakes, roads and railways. The second section features a comprehensive set of country fact files, packed with up-to-date reference data including total area, population, languages, religions, and currency as well as each country's national flag. There is also an exhaustive cross-referenced index and gazetteer that enables you to quickly identify and locate places in the atlas.The whole wide world is at your fingertips!

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Discover the history of precious, semi-precious, and organic gemstones, their scientific properties, their mythical powers, and their traditional uses.Humans have been beguiled and fascinated by gemstones and crystals since prehistory, and made use of them for everything from currency and ceremonial decoration to tokens of love or power. But why have some been considered more significant than others - rare or otherwise?Learn all about the key characteristics of precious and semi-precious stones, and discover the science behind some of their more unusual and mysterious properties, and the various ways in which they have taken on powerful symbolic meanings. How did the Vikings use iolite to help them steer their ships, for example? And why did the Ancient Greeks and Romans believe that sardonyx could protect them in battle? Encounter the fascinating stories of some of the most famous or celebrated gemstones and jewels along the way - from a turquoise-studded pectoral worn during Aztec ceremonies, to the diamond necklace that helped to bring about the French Revolution - in this glorious celebration of precious, semi-precious, and organic stones in all their beauty and variety.

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