Featuring color diagrams, reconstructions, and cutaways, this beautifully illustrated series from internationally acclaimed designer and creator, David Salariya, presents a survey of historical topics from their beginnings to the present. Each book traces the development of a theme over time while examining the historic conditions and the needs, skills, and technology of the people living at each stage of the process. In addition to an illustrated timeline, each book includes a glossary and an index.
This series offers a behind-the-scenes insight into a wide variety of subjects, offering a guide to architecture, technology, history, science, anatomy and nature. The facts are complemented by the illustrations. You Survive? series, created and designed by David Salariya.
Readers will be intrigued with these book's expansive, X-ray vision of the world. Packed with full-color illustrations, magnifications and cutaways, combined with a fascinating text, these books tackle topics from architecture to animals. From the highly acclaimed David Salariya, of Timelines fame. Includes a glossary and an index. Discover the construction techniques, the building materials, and the stories behind the biggest, boldest, and most bizarre buildings in today's world, including the British Royal Pavilion, the Statue of Liberty, and the Kansai Airport in Japan still under construction.
Life in a medieval castle was not as romantic as you might think! See what life was really like for a lowly servant, carrying out all the menial work of the castle & doing her best to survive the horrors of siege warfare. The cartoon-style illustrations & narrative approach encourage readers to get involved with the characters.
As a builder during America's Great Depression, you'll take any job you can get. But you'd better have a good head for heights, because you're about to start work on what will be the nation's pride and joy: the Empire State Building! This book explores the dizzying and sometimes deadly task of building a skyscraper, focusing specifically on the construction of the Empire State Building. The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach encourage readers to get emotionally involved with the characters, aiding their understanding of the dangerous and back-breaking work involved in constructing a skyscraper.
Bright, clearly labelled pictures will help your child to learn about machines and colours. Questions around the edges of the page will prompt discussion."--Back cover.
Helps you follow the adventures of a space rocket as it takes off on its perilous mission. This book features full-colour photographs. Its simple, repetitive text reinforces the learning process.
Get ready... as a young man living in the Roman Empire, you’ve heard many stories about far-away lands and people. It sounds exciting but you’re about to discover how tough life really is for a Roman soldier! This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a Roman soldier. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.
Leonardo Da Vinci was a great inventor, military engineer, scientist, botanist and mathematician, as well as an accomplished painter and sculptor. In this book, learn about the life of the man who painted the most famous picture in the world.
This picture book for children uses original torn-paper illustrations to tell the fun-filled story of the glamorous Lola the Leopard, who is incredibly vain, and her friend Monty the Meerkat, whose clumsy antics don't add up to the purrrrrfection Lola is looking for.
Each title in this series takes a particular aspect of the world in which we live and explores it in great depth. They text is lively and the stunning artworks clear and informative, giving the enthusiastic reader every possible piece of information that he or she would ever need to know about the subject Big Buildings of the Ancient World explores wonders which include the Pyramids and Ziggurats of Egypt and the lost kingdoms of the Middle east, and explores their secrets in minute detail.
This is an entertaining series which investigates the more grisly aspects of natural history. It is packed with facts written in an accessible question-and-answer format with special X-ray pages which enable the reader to see the skeleton of a pinniped.
Take an incredible tour through a Samurai Castle. Explore its relevance to the people who built it and the lives that they led. Stunning cut-away illustrations help lead the reader through the often complex historical period. Informative captions, maps, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal educational text.
Scary Creatures' is an entertaining series investigating the more grisly aspects of natural history. This title looks at animals that live in the city.
Take an incredible tour through an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Step inside an ancient Egyptian building site where one of mankind's most spectacular creations is slowly taking shape. Discover how the Egyptians constructed these vast buildings with such incredible precision, without using wheels, machines or iron tools. Their aim: to preserve their pharaoh not just from tomb robbers, but from death itself. Superb cutaway illustrations and pinpoint enlargements accompany the text. Informative captions, maps, a complete glossary and an index enhance the book's educational value.
A chronological explanation about how owls hatch from eggs and grow to adulthood. The split page format of some of the pages shows the owls growing before the reader's eyes. The text demonstrates how birds move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce.
A chronological explanation about how owls hatch from eggs and grow to adulthood. The split page format of some of the pages shows the owls growing before the reader's eyes. The text demonstrates how birds move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce.
An innovative, informative and amusing introduction to scientific and technological subjects featuring fascinating and bizarre facts, supported by simple explanations and diagrams.
We could not live without water. Almost two-thirds of our body weight is water. We rely on it to keep ourselves clean, to keep our bodies nourished, and to get rid of waste. But water can also carry deadly germs and poisons. One of the greatest challenges for scientists and governments today is to make sure that everyone has access to the clean, safe water that they need. You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Clean Water! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn’t Want to Be series. The clear, engaging text and humorous illustrations bring the subject to life and stimulate young readers' curiosity about the world around them. Specially commissioned cartoon-style illustrations in full colour make these books attractive and accessible even to reluctant readers. Information is conveyed through captions, labels and humorous speech bubbles in addition to the main text. Illustrated sidebars headed ‘How It Works’, ‘Top Tip’ or ‘You Can Do It’ supply more facts, describe simple, safe experiments, or steps that readers can take to help make the world a better place. Each volume includes a timeline and a list of ‘Did You Know?’ facts.
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