Didier Balicevic – illustratör

Where does the Express bus take you? How many swans are in the lake at the park?What replaces the shoe repair store?The Ultimate Book of Cities reveals the answers to these questions and much, much more in an oversized fact- and action-packed look at life in the big city! Featuring 59 flaps, pop-ups, pull tabs and movable parts, this all-you-need-to-know guide provides detailed information about what makes a city tick: from the different ways of getting around and what goes on in all the big buildings, to what traffic signs mean and who are all the people who keep the city in tip-top shape! It is a must-have volume to add to a young reader's library of The Ultimate Book series.

What type of animals live in the cold regions? How do they survive in extreme temperatures? The Do You Know?TM series provides in-depth looks at a wide range of popular subjects. Appealing to children who want to know everything, each thought-provoking book features: • 96 pages of engaging and educational answers to many popular questions • Hundreds of labeled full-color illustrations • Educational content reviewed by experts Fans of this book will also enjoy others in the same series, including Boats, Music, Jobs, Trains, Dinosaurs, Oceans, Space, Vehicles, Earth, and Animals. • Great family and classroom read-aloud book • Books for 5 and up • Books for kindergarten and early elementary school students

Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles-nearly 100 of them-in all shapes and sizes! A giant crane hovers over a construction site, a space ship roars into space. . . . Supersized spreads feature marvelously detailed illustrations that just beg to be pored over again and again. Best of all, lots of flaps, popups, pull-tabs, and rotating wheels bring the various vehicles to life. Readers will poke into a ship's hold, explore the innards of a garbage truck, and help demolish a house. Any child who'sever been intrigued by the roar of an engine will adore this extraordinary collection of things on the go, from the everyday to the nearly outrageous-yes, there's even a pooper-scooper scooter!

The sounds, sights, and activity of a construction site provide for endless fascination. Packed with more than 60 tabbed moving parts to pull, lift, and explore; crammed with meticulous detail of vehicles, buildings, and techniques; here's a book that will satisfy even the most curious of kids. Whether it's building a bridge or a skyscraper, a giant ship or a tunnel, there's a wealth of color, action, and knowledge to be gleaned on each of the ten spreads of this oversized book. A wonderful companion to The Ultimate Book of Vehicles on the Spring 2014 Twirl launch list.

The internationally successful Ultimate Book series expands its scope to embrace-very appropriately-the whole world! The Ultimate Book of Planet Earth offers lots of opportunity for hands-on interaction using flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! Pull a tab to see how magma erupts from a volcano, turn a page for a giant pop-up of a mountain range, or rotate a wheel to move the blades of a wind turbine! This book explores not only the geology of the Earth-oceans, continents, and the formation of mountains and volcanoes-but also its geography, atmosphere, and weather. A valuable reference book for any child!

Brick by brick, a house gets built! Lift the flaps to lay the foundation, pull the tab to install a window, and turn the wheel to lay the floor tiles. Moveable parts on every spread and age-appropriate text provide an interactive and engaging introduction to building a new home. •Flaps! Pull-tabs! Pop-ups! Lots of interactive and moveable parts •Detailed illustrations that beg to be pored over again and again •Educational content reviewed by an expert Fans of Ultimate Spotlight Home Construction will also enjoy the interactive learning of other books in the Ultimate Spotlight series, including Cars, Caring for Earth, Extraordinary Animals, Volcanoes, Polar Animals, Rain Forest Animals, Savanna Animals, Dinosaurs, Firefighters, Trains, and Astronauts. •Great family and classroom read-aloud book •Books for 5 and up •Books for kindergarten and early elementary school students