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What is art? How does art tell stories? Where do artists get their ideas from? Open this fascinating book to discover explosive ideas, wild colours, unexpected views and amazing works of art by world-famous artists. Includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites where you can take a virtual tour of a gallery, look at famous paintings up close and much more. Published in association with The National Gallery, London.Chapters in this book include:- What is art?- Can anything be art?- How do you look at pictures?- How are paintings made?- Fit for a king- What is an artist?- What makes pictures look 3D?- Shadows and highlights- How's it all arranged?- Varying viewpoints- How do you make a sculpture?- How does colour work?- Wild colours- How can art trick your eyes?- Where can you see art?- What is a still life?- Does art have to be serious?- How do portraits work?- Who's in the picture?- Who's missing?- How does art tell stories?- A hidden story- Should art be beautiful?- Why so big? Why so small?- What's an art movement?- Can a cartoon be a work of art?- What's an installation?- Explosive ideas- Why do artists make self portraits?- Painting your own story- What is abstract art?- How are prints made?- An unexpected view- Can a photograph be art?- Why do artists try and shock you?- Art and politics- An anti-war message- What's it worth?- What do art museums do?- When was it made?

This treasure trove of boredom-busting ideas will keep children entertained for hours on end, whatever the weather. Stage a shadow puppet show, make musical instruments, fly a kite and lots more, then stimulate your brain with riddles, word games and memory puzzles. With specially selected links to websites with even more fun things to do.

Children will enjoy winding up the helicopter and watching it zoom around the tracks time and time again in this exciting interactive book. The colourful scenes with tracks embedded in the pages show the helicopter helping boys stranded on rocks at the beach, rescuing an injured skier on the mountain and arriving at an oil rig.

Explore the microscopic world of bacteria, viruses and other microbes with this fascinating lift-the-flap book. Discover how germs spread, how the immune system works, the amazing vaccines and antibiotics humans have created, and much more. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for activities and videos and up to date information about coronovirus.Chapters in this book include:- What are germs?- Good and bad bacteria- Vicious viruses- Pesky protozoa- Fascinating fungi- Spreading germs- Natural defences- Vaccines- Antibiotics- Superbugs- Microbe heroes

Making magazines is fun and easy – and this marvellous guide offers advice every step of the way. Learn how to write 5-star reviews and intriguing articles, make giggle-inducing comics and zines, showcase your artistic skills and much more. Includes links to specially selected websites for inspiration, hints and tips.

Step outdoors with this book and wave goodbye to boredom! Open a bug hotel, read the night sky and go bird spotting, then learn to draw animals, write a nature poem, and do an outdoor quiz. With specially selected links to websites for even more fun outdoor activities. Wherever you are, wherever you go, there'll never be a dull moment again!

Match famous paintings in this beautifully illustrated card game for young children. There are 52 snap cards (13 matching sets of 4), with labelled pictures showing pictures by artists including Rousseau, Renoir, Monet and Van Gogh. Published in association with The National Gallery, with links to websites for more information about each painting.

Magic and mischief abound in this captivating collection. Meet the cheeky kappa from Japan, a clever duende from the Philippines and the loyal foletto of Florence, all fairy creatures who can help or hinder humans as they please.Chapters in this book include:- The Boy who Drew Cats- The Goblin's Gift- Mabait and the Dwende- The Changeling- The Pixie's Promise- The Kappa of Kawachi River- The Piskie who Lost her Laugh- Ripple the Water Sprite- The Elves and the Shoemakers- About the Stories

You'll never guess what doctors call tummy rumbles or how many smells your nose can recognise, and did you know that you could catch a yawn? This delightful information book is full of fun and surprising things to know about the human body, all brought to life by Susanna Rumiz's warm, humorous illustrations. You'll be amazed by what's inside!Chapters in this book include:- Take a deep breath- Why do you have a belly button?- Babies are WEIRDER than you think...- You'll never guess how much you'll eat- Inside your tummy...- Which muscle is your strongest?- Excuse me!- How much time you'll spend on the toilet- All different shapes and sizes- One-of-a-kind prints- You're electric!- Your tongue only knows five tastes- Why Brussels sprouts are yucky- Your height changes even when you're fully grown- Space travel makes you taller- Why your blood is red- Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump...- Every body needs help with something- Vital organs?- Ahh-choooooooo!- A LOT of snot- Drink up!- You couldn't live without...- Bodies worth MILLIONS!- You'll never guess who's hairier- Around and around the world...- Which is more tiring, standing or walking?- You're a lot like everyone else...- ...and you're quite like a banana- Remember, remember...- How your ears help you balance- Long ago hairdressers cut more than hair- How long a beard can grow- What's eating your lunch- Rumbling tummies- Your bones are alive- Funny bones- What's that smell?- What's the time?- OUCH!- Your brain can't hurt- Have a laugh- The tiniest things can hurt your body the most- How your body fights germs- You're about to yawn...- While you're dreaming

The world we live in is complex and constantly changing. It's battered by weather, shaken by earthquakes, and mined, farmed and polluted by humans. This book helps readers understand these processes, make sense of our relationship with the planet, and find ways to change it for the better. Geography is a HUGE subject area that deals with so much more than map-making, rocks, and town planning. This book unpicks how an awareness of geography helps people think about how important the world around us is, from the landscape we live on to the relationships between entire countries.Part of the award-winning 'for Beginners' series, which explains big subjects to kids in late primary and early secondary education. Each book outlines what those subjects are about, which big questions experts are grappling with, and what jobs people who study them might go on to do.Chapters in this book include:- What is geography?Journey into the EarthWhat the Earth itself is made of, how that all works, and how we find out more about it.Weather and climateWhat goes on in the Earth's atmosphere, the difference between weather and climate, and how they both affect people's lives around the world.Watery worldAll about oceans, rivers and ice - and how people's lives depend on water in all sorts of ways.Homes, towns, citiesWhere people live, why they live there, and how people shape the places around them.How money and power shape the worldHow countries and borders work, and how and why some countries are more powerful than others.Improving livesUsing the tools of geography to find out how people live in different countries and identify ways to improve lives.Big issuesWhat are some of the big questions that geographers ask? What geography mysteries are yet to be solved?Geography is EVERYWHERE!Jobs in geography

This book WON'T test your mental maths or teach you countless ways to find x. It WILL show you just how fascinating maths can be.Can maths make people rich? Can formulas predict which sports teams will win more games? Can equations explain the mysteries of the universe? The short answer to all these is YES. This book explores and explains the ways that the tools of mathematics help people make sense of the world around them, predict the future and, just maybe, how to make life itself better.Chapters in this book include:- What is maths?- What is maths for?- How do you do maths?The beginning of mathsWhat did the first numbers look like, and what did people use them for?NumbersNumber shapes, number patterns, prime numbers and numbers that go on and on and on...to infinity.Shapes and measuringHow and why people use the tools of mathematics to describe the shapes of everything, from everyday objects to the entire universe.How maths is shownMaking graphs, drawing diagrams and using pictures to explain the world better, and to help solve problems.Prove itIn mathematics, you can find an answer to a problem and know for certain that it is correct. But how? With a PROOF.Probability and statisticsMaths can tell you the truth and predict the future - up to a point. How does it do this, and how can you spot when people are (mis)using maths to lie?Maths, computers and the futureNo mathematics, no computers. But what kind of maths do people use to make computers works?Mathematical modelsDescribing real-world problems with maths to give insights into future weather, profits, and even human behavior.What's next?Jobs in maths

Whether diagnosing diseases, performing life-saving surgery or fighting a pandemic, doctors do a huge variety of jobs. Join them in remote research stations, operating theatres, medical laboratories and hospitals to discover what they do and why it's so important. From heart transplants to investigating a crime scene, you'll encounter all kinds of examples of doctors' extraordinary everyday work. And at the back of the book, there's a glossary of medical terms, diagrams of the body's bones and organs, plus information on what to do if you want to become a doctor yourself one day.

People talk a lot about germs, but what actually are they? Open the pages of this friendly book to find out. Discover what bacteria and viruses are, how they can spread and lots of different ways to stop them.

Lift the flaps to discover what light is, where it comes from and how it works, from rainbows and reflections to lightyears and lasers. Then see light in action for yourself by trying out some simple home experiments.Chapters in this book include:- Light- How does light work?- Light and colour- But what is light?- The sun- Seeing light- Powerful light- Light and the universe- Amazing light

You'll never guess how your body fights germs or how dinosaurs fought each other, what kind of animal is named after Sir David Attenborough and what sunsets look like on Mars. All is revealed in this delightful collection of four books. A brilliant addition to any family bookshop, the Big Book of Things to Know contains amazing facts from Lots of things to know about Your Body, Space, Animals and Dinosaurs in a single volume bursting with vibrant illustrations and packed with quirky and surprising things to know.Clear, approachable text will spark young readers' curiosity and is perfect for fact-hungry children to share with family or impress their friends with.Chapters in this book include:Your Body- Take a deep breath- Why do you have a belly button?- Babies are WEIRDER than you think...- You'll never guess how much you'll eat- Inside your tummy...- Which muscle is your strongest?- Excuse me!- How much time you'll spend on the toilet- All different shapes and sizes- One-of-a-kind prints- You're electric!- Your tongue only knows five tastes- Why Brussels sprouts are yucky- Your height changes even when you're fully grown- Space travel makes you taller- Why your blood is red- Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump...- Every body needs help with something- Vital organs?- Ahh-choooooooo!- A LOT of snot- Drink up!- You couldn't live without...- Bodies worth MILLIONS!- You'll never guess who's hairier- Around and around the world...- Which is more tiring, standing or walking?- You're a lot like everyone else...- ...and you're quite like a banana- Remember, remember...- How your ears help you balance- Long ago hairdressers cut more than hair- How long a beard can grow- What's eating your lunch- Rumbling tummies- Your bones are alive- Funny bones- What's that smell?- What's the time?- OUCH!- Your brain can't hurt- Have a laugh- The tiniest things can hurt your body the most- How your body fights germs- You're about to yawn...- While you're dreamingSpace- The Sun is a star- If aliens sent us a postcard...- Numbering the stars- How stars glow- Not all astronauts were human...- How rain falls on other planets- There's a snowman in space- Dirty snowballs with long tails- Snowball fireworks- A story of looking and learning- When is a planet not a planet?- Going up!- It's oh so quiet up here...- Everyday life in outer space- How to use a space toilet- From another star system far, far away...- Don't take a spaceship to Jupiter- The planets that are mushy on the inside- Baby stars make baby planets...- ...and baby stars eat baby planets- Who did it first?- What a mess!- Swerve!- How many people does it take to land on the Moon?- Keeping space germ-free- The universe awards- The Sun's light is a wavy rainbow- Sunsets on Mars- There's a travel network in our solar system...- Planet hunters- Ocean worlds- The secret behind a moon's wobble- Robot space adventurers- How to garden on the Moon- Measuring the universe- Light-distant chatting- Moon trees- Colds are even worse in space- Set sail for the stars!- Our galaxy is bubbly- Telescope time machine- When a star stops shining...- When a star becomes a hole...- Space wordsAnimals- Ocean giants- The baby animal that's LARGER than its parents- How to spot a leopard... ...from a jaguar- Why horses dress up like zebras- Octopuses in disguise- How tiny ants are actually STRONGER than gorillas- How creatures go? HIGH can birds and bumblebees fly?- The secret of hornbills' nests- The great shell swap- Noisy animals you CAN'T hear- The cave of bats that's busier than New York- You'll hardly BELIEVE your eyes!- Which live LONGEST?- Animals from dinosaur times- Why whales blow bubbles- How do prairie dogs say hello?- Why sloths turn green in the rain- What makes flamingos pinkDinosaurs- Long, long, long, long, long, LONG ago- Dinosaur times- What dinosaurs ACTUALLY looked like- Dinosaurs the size of rabbits- What's the point of a dinosaur's tail?- How to tell what dinosaurs ate- Dinosaurs in shining armour- The largest creatures ever to walk on Earth- The island of Tyrannosaurus rex- The secret sounds of dinosaurs- From CHICKEN IMPERSONATOR to WRINKLE FACE- In the footsteps of dinosaurs- A trip to the dinosaur dentist- How ring-shaped nests kept dinosaur eggs safe- See inside dinosaur eggs

Celebrate the extraordinary world of bugs with this collection of amazing facts!You'll never guess where a katydid's ears are, why peacock spiders need to be good dancers or how water skaters walk on water, and did you know that bagworm moth caterpillars build log cabins? With warm, characterful illustrations, this fun and surprising information book will open your eyes to the remarkable bugs all around you.

Have you ever wondered what stars are made of, or how they blaze into life? What about how a black hole works, or whether there's alien life somewhere in the universe?These are the kinds of incredible questions that astronomers spend their days trying to answer. This book won't only give you basic answers, it really digs in to explain some seriously cool and mysterious ideas, from gravity to the origin of the universe to the problem of warping through spacetime.Find out what Astronomers and Cosmologists have discovered so far, how on Earth they figured it all out, and the head-scratching problems they're still puzzling over in this thrilling introduction.Chapters in this book include:- Space rocks- How light works- Studying stars- Black holes- Gravity- Is anybody out there?Exploring complex ideas in easy-to-digest chunks, with expert input from astronomer Dr. Sheila Kanani MBE, Astronomy for Beginners is perfect for space-obsessed children aged 10 and above. Discover more from Usborne's award-winning For Beginners series

The little yellow digger has lots of jobs to do... can you help? There are four tracks in this book for the wind-up digger to drive around, as it shifts rubble from building sites, clears snowy roads, digs a hole for a pond and helps to fix a busy road. With charming scenes for the digger to trundle around and a sprinkling of facts about the different jobs it can do, this is a perfect present for little fans of big machines. Just wind it up and watch it go!- This large, chunky board book comes with a wind-up yellow digger and four embedded tracks.- Children can wind up the digger and place it on the tracks to see it moving rubble on a building site, clearing snow and helping fix roads.- With lots to talk about on every page and detailed illustrations to explore.- Hours of digger fun!

The perfect book for truck-obsessed kids - a book and toy in one!The red truck has lots of jobs to do... Can you help? There are four tracks in this book for the wind-up truck to drive around, as it makes urgent deliveries, helps a family move house, transports an inflatable castle to a funfair and brings buckets of fresh flowers to a market. With lively scenes for the truck to drive around, things to spot and a sprinkling of facts about trucks, this is sure to keep fans of big machines entertained for hours. Just wind it up and watch it go!

Filled with exciting art projects you can do with just the contents of your pencil case, this playful book is sure to entertain for hours. Draw a self-portrait, make slot-together sculptures, create sticker versions of famous paintings, colour by numbers and much, much more. Along the way you can discover fascinating facts about famous artists and try out some of their tricks and techniques.Features Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse - and more.

Join the little red tractor as it works on the farm through the changing seasons. There are four tracks in this book for the wind-up tractor to drive around as it ploughs fields, sows seeds, feeds the animals, helps with the harvest, and clears away snow. The four tracks can also be taken out of the book and joined together to make one huge track for the tractor to trundle around. - Charming farm scenes - Includes facts about the tractors different jobs through the year- A perfect gift for little fans of big machines- Includes wind-up tractor