This latest title in the delightful Lift-the-flap Questions & Answers series is packed with questions inquisitive young children love to ask & grown-ups sometimes struggle to answer. Find out where foxes go in the day, why we need worms & how to feed a butterfly. ...

Create your own colourful habitats with the Natural History Museum`s new colouring in series for young animal enthusiasts. In African Animals, lift the flaps to reveal animals in their natural habitat, from the flat grasslands of the African savannah. Then read the accompanying rhyming text to learn about their environment. ...

Create your own colourful habitats with the Natural History Museum`s new colouring in series for young animal enthusiasts. In Forest, lift the flaps to reveal animals in their natural habitat, from the forest floor to the treetops. Then read the accompanying rhyming text to learn about their environment. ...

Create your own colourful habitats with the Natural History Museum`s new colouring in series for young animal enthusiasts. In Jungle, lift the flaps to reveal animals in their natural habitat, from the depths of the jungle to the tree canopy. Then read the accompanying rhyming text to learn about their environment. ...

Create your own colourful habitats with the Natural History Museum`s new colouring in series for young animal enthusiasts. In Ocean, lift the flaps to reveal animals in their natural habitat, from shallow waters to the sea bed. Then read the accompanying rhyming text to learn about their environment. ...

What makes it rain? How do rainbows appear? How hot is the sun? Why does lightning flash? Where does wind come from? Young children can find out the answers to these questions & more by lifting the flaps in this friendly, illustrated introduction to the science of weather. ...

A colourful lift-the-flap board book to help children learn about numbers in a fun way. Each page has lots to spot & talk about, even for pre-readers, as children are asked to count, spot & match different numbers. The answers can be found by lifting the 80+ flaps. ...

An atlas full of flaps to lift, revealing beautiful buildings, exotic animals & fabulous sights. Divided into the separate continents, each double page is crammed with information on sights & cultures to be seen all over the world as well as country borders & capital cities. Pull-out map approximate

Size: A1.

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An interactive board book with over 60 flaps, exploring all kinds of questions that young children ask about the world around them. Lift the flaps to discover the answers to lots of `what?`, `why?`, `how?`, `when?` & `who?` questions. Provides friendly, simple answers to challenging questions, with entertaining & informative illustrations. ...

The Scottish traveller James Bruce, who reached Cairo in 1768, explained that he was on his way up the Nile merely to see what was there. In his footsteps there followed a multi-national crowd of traders & tourists, soldiers & fortune-seekers, scholars & empire-builders, lured by Egypt`s rich & ancient history, her compelling landscapes, the elusive ruins of once-magnificent civilisations or her increasingly strategic importance in world politics. Spanning two centuries of Western fascination
- from Bruce`s intrepid journey up the Nile to the departure of the last British troops from Suez
- ” Lifting the Veil” portrays the shifting interests, dreams & failures, passions & intrigues of an extraordinary cast of characters. From Napoleon Bonaparte with his schemes to control the overland route to India, to tomb-raiders such as Giovanni Belzoni; from scholars like hieroglyph-decoder Champollion to Thomas Cook & his wide-eyed tourists & Cromer & his bureaucrats, this fast-paced & richly-described narrative illuminates a bygone world & charts the end of imperialism & the advent of Egyptian Independence.

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