This exciting and fact-filled title comprises all the best bits from the popular Question Time series, giving lively, informative answers to many of the WHAT, HOW, WHY and WHICH questions that young children ask about the world around them. What? Where? Why? Questions and Answers about Nature asks a variety of questions such as 'How do caterpillars grow up?', 'Why are whales such whoppers?', 'How does the frilled lizard trick its enemies?', 'Why do peacocks show off?', 'How can a shark drown?' and 'What is a rainforest?' plus hundreds more. Containing information taken from the Question Time titles Creepy-Crawlies, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Sharks, Seashore and Rainforest, with brand-new pages on fish, this bumper volume is sure to delight the inquisitive reader. Carefully researched and created to fulfil early-learning needs, the book covers a wealth of popular natural history subjects that will stimulate children's curiosity. The topics are explored in great detail with engaging text, and supported by colourful and inviting illustrations that bring the natural world vividly to life.;Further information is supplied alongside photographs, amazing facts appear with eye-catching cart
CONTRIBUTORS: Jim Bruce, Claire Llewellyn, Stephen Savage, Angela Wilkes
EAN: 9780753412046
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 721 g
HEIGHT: 281 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: NATURE / General
WIDTH: 231 cm
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For primary education, For National Curriculum Key Stage 1 (England and Wales), Interest age: from c 5 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize. Stephen Savage worked in the Brighton Sealife Centre for thirteen years as an aquarist and later as the Education Development Officer. He is currently studying and monitoring whales and dolphins around the UK. Stephen has published over twenty titles about wildlife including Explorers: Oceans and Seas. Angela Wilkes, an award-winning writer and editor, is renowned for her lively, engaging books that children read over and over again, including The Big Book of Dinosaurs and several books in the Question Time series. She excels in presenting information in an original and straightforward way.
