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Kids will learn how to master the basics of the classic board game in this fun beginner’s guide from professional chess player James Canty III.The book is structured like a chess course, with knowledge carefully introduced as readers turn the pages – assisted by hilarious chess pieces illustrated by Brian Lambert. The emphasis is on fun: James Canty III uses mini games and chess puzzles to teach important concepts and avoid overwhelming beginners. Kids will learn key skills like how to play the perfect opening and trick their opponents to bring about checkmate. By the end of the book readers should be able to confidently take on their parents, guardians or grandparents in a competitive game of chess!Become a Chess Champion also introduces kids to the wonderful world of chess. They’ll meet the chess player who didn’t lose a game for 30 years, the priest who invented the folding chess board, and the astronauts on the International Space station who had a chess match with people back on Earth!As well as being great fun, chess also helps kids develop key skills such as strategising, patience, and logic, and helps them excel in school subjects such as maths.Check it out!

Discover amazing true stories and breathtaking myths from ancient Egypt in this book by TikTok Egyptologist Hugo D. Cook, featuring stunning illustrations from Sona Avedikian.Everyone knows the story of Tutankhamun, but the ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for more than 3,000 years – which means there are loads more amazing tales to be told! Egyptologist and TikTok star Hugo D. Cook (aka Hugo the Egyptologist) has scoured ancient texts and translated hieroglyphs to bring readers stories of love, betrayal, and royal scandal featuring pharaohs, priests, gods, and goddesses.The book combines historical stories, including the time Cleopatra hid in a sack to be smuggled into a palace to meet Julius Caesar, with rip-roaring myths, like the Cinderella story of a peasant girl who married the pharaoh when he found her slipper. Readers will also be awed by incredible lesser-known stories such as: How Ramses the Great dealt with a horde of mysterious piratesThe real story of a queen's cunning plot to assassinate the kingThe shapeshifting wizard-king who defended Egypt with magic boatsTold with great fun and impeccably researched, readers will slip into a tomb at night with a band of mischievous tomb robbers and witness epic battles featuring elephants and ostriches. Interspersed through the stories are pages explaining the history of ancient Egypt on the banks of the Nile, from how pyramids were built to a step-by-step guide to wrapping a mummy.With a beautiful cloth-textured cover featuring shiny foil, Tales of Ancient Egypt is the perfect gift for kids interested in ancient Egypt.

This Let's Pretend set is a fantastic creative play pack for budding chefs, with a story board book and 15 sturdy play pieces in a plastic clamshell. The pieces can be used to fit into the spaces in the book or for imaginative play.With a saucepan, spatula, pizza base and toppings, children will have fun rustling up a pretend meal, while the illustrated board book shows chefs in the kitchen using utensils and making meals, with fun things to find. There's information, too, about what each utensil or food stuff can be used for.

Young children will love visiting the vibrant shops around the town in Let's Pretend Shop by Priddy Books!Toddlers can join Eva and her mum for a busy day in the town as they buy different items from their shopping list. There is the farmer’s market to buy meat and dairy products, the greengrocers to buy fresh fruit and vegetables and even a cute bakery to buy delicious cakes and bread. There are also lots of fun things to find on every page, too!This engaging set comes with 15 puzzle pieces which can be used both for independent play and to place into the die-cut pages. The sturdy board book is embedded into a play case and includes a plastic clamshell which allows the pieces to be safely stored away.Interactive, educational and fun, Let's Pretend Shop is ideal for children aged 3+, helping to stimulate imagination and develop hand-eye coordination.

Young children will love meeting the adorable animals around the farmyard in Let's Pretend Farm by Priddy Books!Toddlers can join Farmer Bob and his helpers for a busy day on the farm. There are lots of animals to feed, horses to groom, fields to plough, food to harvest for market day and much more. There are also lots of fun things to find on every page, too!This engaging set comes with 15 puzzle pieces which can be used both for independent play and to place into the die-cut pages. The sturdy board book is embedded into a play case and includes a plastic clamshell which allows the pieces to be safely stored away.

Roger Priddy's Let's Pretend: Firefighter Set has everything your little firefighter needs to save the day! The alarm bell goes off, there's a fire to put out – time for the firefighters to spring into action!Inside this creative play set, the big board book has three busy scenes as firefighters Ben and Lucy gather their equipment, zoom off in their truck, and fight a fire at the bakery, keeping everyone safe.The set comes with 15 sturdy fire fighting puzzle pieces which can be used both to match to the spaces on the book pages and for independent play. A fabulous set for little firefighters which will provide them with hours of creative, imaginative play.All pieces can be stored back inside the book for easy storage and taking on the go.

With refreshed imagery and design, My First 100 Words is an exciting new addition to the First 100 series.Young children will learn essential first words and pictures with this bright board book. There are 100 colour photographs to look at and talk about, and 100 simple first words to read and learn, too. The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading, and now in a new size that will be a great display on any child's bookshelf.

There's lots for baby to explore in See, Touch, Feel: A First Sensory Book. This sturdy board book, with bright photographs of happy babies, is specially designed to stimulate curiosity through sensory play. Each page has a colourful picture activity that invites baby to touch and explore. There are raised textures to feel, finger trails to follow, and a shiny mirror to look in to. Can they follow the swirl on the snail's shell? Can they tap the drum?As your baby grows, See, Touch, Feel will help your child develop language recognition and motor skills, as they learn to interact with the book in new ways. With lots to explore together, See, Touch, Feel is an ideal first book to share with your baby.Continue to encourage their curiosity with See, Touch, Feel: ABC and See, Touch, Feel: Tummy Time.

Roger Priddy's Sliding Pictures: Spooky Halloween is a wonderful, new way to introduce young children to their favourite spook-tacular holiday. Peek through the die-cut holes to see the Halloween pictures, then as you turn the page, the pictures magically change.Bright, engaging artwork featuring all kinds of fun, spooky characters make this an exciting addition to the new Sliding Pictures series. With text that encourages readers to guess which characters are on the next page, this book is perfect for children to read as they get ready for Halloween.

Discover a world of words with My First 1000 Words, a photographic book with bright, colourful images and a wide range of themes that young children will easily recognise.Combining visually stimulating images and large, simple first words, this engrossing title has everything you need to introduce toddlers and preschoolers to new concepts. With themes like Food, Animals, Home, School, Family, Jobs and Around the World, My First 1000 Words is packed with words to develop a child's vocabulary.Enjoy more learning together with Priddy Learning: My First Clock Book and Priddy Learning: My First Encyclopedia

First Learning: First Words from Roger Priddy is an early-learning play set with a board book featuring bright photographs of familiar things and chunky press-out pieces in a plastic pocket.Help your child develop their vocabulary with this engaging early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy matching the puzzles pieces to the images on the page, while learning core vocabulary and developing fine motor skills.The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.

Your little one will love to discover the incredible trucks and things that go inside this bright padded board book from Roger Priddy.There are 100 different truck photographs to look at and talk about, and 100 truck names to read and learn too.The automobiles are organised into different types such as cars, rescue vehicles and more. This is an ideal first book for babies and toddlers to help build vocabulary and develop word and picture association.The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading, and the cover is softly padded for little hands to hold.

A fun, illustrated guide to the true stories behind the world's most daring art heists by America's only art crime professor, Erin L. Thompson.What do Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso have in common? Their artworks have all been stolen in bold heists!Step inside famous museums, including Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Paris Museum of Modern Art, and the Iraq National Museum. Trace the steps of the bold thieves who decided to walk out with some of their most well known and most valuable artworks, including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Young Parisian, and The Scream by Edvard Munch.This book will reveal the true stories behind some of the world's most famous art thefts, blending art history with art mystery! Discover which pieces were taken, how the pilferers got in, and where their loot is now. Readers will also trace the routes that stolen artworks take after they've left a museum and how thieves are caught.The tactile cover features an elaborate foil frame with a hole where its artwork should be to immediately intrigue the reader and gives the book gift and shelf appeal. Author Erin L. Thompson was awarded a PhD in Art History by Columbia University in 2010. For the last decade she's been a professor of Fraud, Forensics, Art Law & Crime at City University of New York. She specialises in the black market for looted antiques, controversial public monuments, and art made by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Art Heist is her first book for children.

The First Learning Animals Play Set includes a board book, featuring bright photography, and 12 chunky pieces neatly packed in a plastic pocket.Help your child learn about farm animals, pets and animals from the wild with this engaging, early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy finding and matching the puzzle pieces with the animals on the pages of the book, while also learning core vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The book is full of recognizable photographic images of animals and big word labels. The chunky play pieces slot neatly into the spaces on the pages and can also be used as first word flash cards. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Also available: Colours, First Words, and Numbers.

What links shipwrecks, Egyptian treasure, and fossilised Viking poo? They’re all things that have been discovered by archaeologists!Pick up your shovel and Indiana Jones hat and dig into the world of archaeology in this non-fiction kids’ book by YouTuber Stefan Milosavljevich. Alongside beautiful illustrations by Sam Caldwell you’ll find incredible tales from history, including:The ancient Egyptian city found at the bottom of the oceanThe terracotta army that hid underground for 2,000 yearsThe mysterious Ice Age temple made from mammoth bonesAlong the way you’ll also find out if you have what it takes to be an archaeologist, unearth (literally) groundbreaking scientific techniques, and meet the pioneering women and men who have brought the past back to life.'This book will delight anyone with a budding interest in archaeology' – NatureDiscover even more with Tales of the Prehistoric World, Tales of World War II and Tales of Pirates.

Celebrate 25 years of Priddy Books! Inspiring a love of learning in over 200 million babies, toddlers and young children.A fantastically fun learning kit from Priddy Books, containing workbooks, flashcards, a wipe-clean pen and much more!This educational and entertaining bumper pack is perfect for encouraging Year 1 children to engage with at-home learning, and provides great value for money.Packaged in a bright and colourful box are two 64-page workbooks, 48 double-sided wipe-clean flashcards, reward sticker sheets, an A3 poster, a wipe-clean pen and a Priddy-branded ruler.Young children can learn sight words, spelling, times tables and how to tell the time in these two fantastic workbooks, as well as complete lots of activities that complement the educational topics, such as mazes, wordsearches, and sudoku puzzles.Kids can continue their learning with the multi-coloured times tables poster and the 48 double-sided wipe-clean flash cards, which can be used again and again to practice addition and subtraction, sentence building, 3D shape recognition and more.The sticker sheets feature both reward stickers and photographic and illustrated stickers which can be used freely within the workbooks, adding extra value and engagement to this awesome early learning kit.

Your baby and you can learn how to understand each other using baby sign language in See, Touch, Feel: Baby Signs from Priddy Books.Baby sign language is a fantastically simple and informal communication style for all babies to use before they start to talk. From as early as six months old, they are able to recognise signs and associate them with words.Developed with baby sign language consultant, Dr Etel Leit, PhD, MS, this board book is an excellent tool to facilitate this understanding between parent and baby as they navigate things like weaning, bedtime, and a flourishing independence.As well as the benefits of being able to understand your baby before they can talk, childhood development experts have said that teaching baby sign language helps to encourage and accelerate all babies' spoken language development too.Each page features a word, a detailed drawing of how to sign it in baby sign language and a written instruction for the parent too, as well as lots of bright See, Touch, Feel artwork and photographs of smiling, happy babies.

Head down under to study koalas in this beautiful non-fiction field guide for kids.You might know that baby koalas spend time in their mother’s pouches, but there’s so much more to learn about these Australian marsupials! Turn the pages to discover why they spend 15 hours a day asleep, and how scientists use drones to monitor koala populations. Filled with simple science and plenty of animal facts, this book also explains why koalas love to munch eucalyptus leaves, and why they are most certainly not bears! It also looks at the conservation challenges these iconic animals face due to climate change and forest fires.Written by Professor Chris Daniels and featuring stunning illustrations by Marianne Lock, Koala (Young Zoologist) is part of an exciting series of animal books from Neon Squid aiming to inspire the next generation of biologists and conservationists.Also available: Humpback Whale, Giant Panda, African Elephant, Emperor Penguin, Honey Bee, Green Sea Turtle

Touch-and-feel board book for babies and toddlers celebrating Easter

Dump trucks are tough machines, lifting and carrying heavy loads, and this dump truck book on wheels has its own load of play-and-learn fun to deliver! Young truck fans will love driving their dump truck book with Jo the driver as she takes her load to the construction site, and will have fun reading the rhymes and learning what their favorite truck does along the way.

Children are fascinated by fire trucks, and they'll love to hop on board and join the crew of this fire truck book on wheels. Budding firefighters will have play-and-learn fun as they rush their fire truck-shaped book to an emergency with firefighter Jack, reading the rhymes and learning about the job the truck does along the way.