Welcome to the Bug Hotel, a homemade habitat where creepy crawlies of all shapes & sizes can find a place to stay! Discover how a bug hotel can create a sustainable, safe environment for insects & mini-beasts by exploring each section, lifting the flaps & finding out facts about your favourite garden insects. ...

Become a nature explorer with this hands-on kit! From keeping caterpillars to learning how honeybees actually communicate, read the handy spotter`s guide to get expert tips on where bugs lurk or try any of the 30 fun projects. Get outside & catch bugs in the field with the trusty bug catcher provided & have fun decorating your books or projects with stickers. Makes bug identification totally Bug-tastic! ...

Each of these fun, interactive bumper-sized sticker books feature intricate images of bugs from the ever-popular artist Maurice Pledger. Read about all of the different types of creatures, then turn to the back of the book where you`ll find lots of stickers to complete the activities by filling in the animal shapes. You can even have fun making up your own habitat scenes. ...

The silky wings of a butterfly, the smooth back of a flower beetle, & the squishy skin of an earthworm--there`s so much to discover in this Touch & Explore (TM) book about little creatures who fly, wriggle, & crawl! Touch & Explore (TM) is a multisensory series created to encourage hands-on play & learning. Children will enjoy vehicle fun & facts at the tip of their fingers! ...

As with ” Flora & Birds”, ” Bugs” is not a biological guide but a richly-illustrated cultural one, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists & naturalists
- from the great Tudor naturalist, Thomas Muffet (father of Little Miss Muffet) to Irvine Welsh`s talking tapeworm in Filth
- as well as contributions by ordinary men & women who are fascinated by creepy-crawlies of all kinds. The book is structured along a roughly evolving path, from simple cell life-forms
- amoeba, worms, crustaceans (proof, say the authors, of `just how far you can go on very little`)
- to bugs we all might recognise
- spiders, butterflies, bees
- & back into the water to meet molluscs & `almost-fish`. The book works so triumphantly because author Peter Marren has examined bugs in the dusty corners of our houses & gardens as well as traversing mountains, lakes & fields. In addition to the fascinating habits of the bug world, he also

Includes:: the eccentric behaviour of the bug obsessives themselves. But of course, the true heroes of the book are the bugs themselves: the nimble-dicks, clock ladies & coffin-cutters. From the Boring Sponge (its official name!) to the Mermaid`s Glove & Penis Worm, via the glamourous Dark Crimson Underwing & Ruby-Tailed Wasp
- this rich compendium of bugs is a must not only for naturalists but for anyone who cares about the crawling, buzzing swarms at our feet.








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Beatrice Alemanga returns with a follow up to the charming Bugs in a Blanket. What happens when the bugs venture out into the big, wide garden to find some new friends? This sturdy board book introduces children to lovable bugs who learn how to accept creatures they are initially afraid of. Author Beatrice Alemagna invented a whole new technique of illustration for this book using a felted wool technique & an amalgam of applique, fabrics & stitching. Ever since Little Fat Bug`s birthday, the bugs in the blanket have been great friends. They are such great friends, & have spent so many hours playing together, in fact, that they are beginning to get bored of playing `hug-a-bug` with each other. & so, at Little Fat Bug`s suggestion, the bugs venture out into the garden to find new friends to play with. But will these bugs dare to make friends with creatures they have never seen before? ...

Kids will be bug-eyed over this pop up! All sorts of creepy, crawly creatures assume larger-than-life proportions when it comes to capturing the fascination of children. In this oversized volume, giant scorpions, a praying mantis, & more pop right off the pages, jiggling & wiggling their way to life zrandishing claws, stingers, pincers, & more. Bold illustrations & accompanying rhyming text will intrigue budding young naturalists, who may find that the most natural thing about this book is how it makes them squeal with delight! ...

This is a beautifully illustrated look inside the fascinating world of creepy-crawlies, with stunning three-dimensional pop-ups. ...

This super-charged book will give you a unique, interactive guide to the world of robots. Combining a fact-filled book (did you know there are robot explorers & even robot doctors?) with a slide-out box containing three motors & pre-cut card pieces. You will become an expert robot-inventor in no time. ...

An interactive non-fiction title. One element is a book full of facts on space & space exploration. The other is a set of pre-cut cardboard pieces in a slide-out box. These slot together to create a replica of the Saturn V rocket, one of the largest & most powerful rockets ever invented. ...