Create beautiful, layered paper dioramas with this clever art activity book. With a combination of drawing, colouring & craft skills, children are taken page-by-page through creating four seasonal landscape scenes. The front of the pages contain line illustrations, created by Anouck Boisrobert, to which children can colour in & add detail. On turning the page to view the reverse side, cut lines will become visible, with instructions on which area of the page to cut away. As each page is finished in turn, a layered landscape is slowly created. Flipping back to the first page will reveal the completed seasonal scene in all its glory! The activities will help children develop scissor skills, as well as offering a magical new twist on colouring books. ...

This delightful activity book contains four press-out dolls & lots of mix-&-match clothes, shoes & accessories to dress them for rainy days, summer holidays, a fairytale ball & much more. There are also outlines of clothes that children can draw on to design outfits of their own. ...

This is a book to make your own. Embrace your style & use pattern, colour & shape to reflect your personal taste. Become the designer of your world as you create inspired ideas of your own. Collage, design & play, cut, paste & create. Cut, Paste, Create is a visual journal where the reader is encouraged to fill the pages with design ideas using collage & to explore & reflect on their own creative concepts & personal taste. Whilst some pages seek a more personal engagement, for example relating to moods or feelings, others simply provide a space to ` design a range of coats for your dog` or ` create a welcome mat` to invite people in to your home. Including helpful tips & basic principles of collage, the reader is guided to source materials from their everyday world & to look for what is beautiful, inspiring or unusual to them. * If you could change your hairstyle every day, what would it look like? * Collage designs for your own fashion collection * Create your own wallpaper * Design your own bookends * Collage some cheery umbrella designs for when you` re under the weather * Create your own set of stamps * Design a range of eyewear to suit your mood ...

” Cats of Instagram” meets National Geographic in this hilarious picture book about nature`s cutest weirdos from the author of Pink Is for Blobfish! The Internet pretty much runs on cute animal photos, but ”cute” is so much more than clickbait kittens & insta-pups. Cute is for feathery-gilled axolotls (pronounced: ax-uh-LOT-ulz), shy pygmy hippos, poisonous blue dragons, & armored pangolins. All of these animals are cute, but they`ve also adapted remarkable ways to survive in their unique environments. With her signature blend of humor & zoological know-how, Pink Is for Blobfish author Jess Keating shows how cute animals can be more than just a pretty face in this latest installment of the World of Weird Animals. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, & professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most storied landscaping companies in Kyoto. Cutting Back recounts Buck`s bold journey & the revelations she has along the way. During her apprenticeship in Japan, she learns that the best Kyoto gardens look so natural they appear untouched by human hands, even though her crew spends hours meticulously cleaning every pebble in the streams. She is taught how to bring nature`s essence into a garden scene, how to design with native plants, & how to subtly direct a visitor through a landscape. But she learns the most important lessons from her fellow gardeners: how to balance strength with grace, seriousness with humour, & technique with heart. Cutting Back is an insightful debut memoir & story of personal growth that will appeal to gardeners & non-gardeners alike. ...

` As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin`s voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that` In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer`s wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so that she can ride her bicycle, her golden hair flying out behind her. She butchers pigs. She drinks & eats with relish. & when the garrulous ranconteur Uncle Pepin comes to visit the locals are scandalized even further, in Bohumil Hrabal`s affecting, exuberant portrayal of a small central European community between the wars. ` One of the greatest European prose writers` Philip Roth` Hrabal combines good humour & hilarity with tenderness` Observer ...

* The greatest of the tea clippers, & an iconic British institution, unveiled in her restored splendour & photographed as never before * The first history of this square-rigged survivor for over a generation presenting numerous new findings & insights following the catastrophic fire that drew global headlines in 2007 *

Includes:: rare & previously unpublished historical images from the ship`s collections & those of the National Maritime Museum A brand new volume describing the eventful history of one of the world`s most famous & celebrated ships from her construction at Dumbarton in 1869, her famous tea voyages as well as those with other cargoes, through to a career under a Portuguese flag & subsequent return to the Thames, Greenwich, the dramatic fire, painstaking restoration & glorious reopening in April 2012. The book has been developed from the outset with the Cutty Sark Trust & takes the form of a chronological career narrative but also presents detailed features on crew accounts, log entries, pieces on seamanship, ports & cargoes & broader tall ship culture as well as an opportunity to focus on artifacts & the fittings of the ship. This unique opportunity allows the first publication of specially commissioned photography created as part of, & subsequent to, the clipper`s restoration as well as the findings of resulting research.

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Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 130 x 87 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Falk, one of Germany`s leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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