Children's Non-Fiction : Geography and Social Studies

Hong is the color of explosive firecrackers! Jin is the hue of lucky coins. Zong is the shade of sweet peanut puffs. Welcome to the festivities of the Chinese New Year, where symbolic gifts, foods, and objects come together in a celebration of beautiful colors.

This vibrant, simple, and highly graphic bilingual book is the perfect introduction to Chinese and English words for colors as it honors one of the biggest holidays around the world. Includes informative back matter.

ISBN: 9780823443710
Publication date: 02/12/2019
Price: $37.00
Author: Lo, Richard
Format: Hardback

Explore over 60 of the world's most amazing cities with this activity book for urban explorers. Fill in New York's famous skyline, design a Mexican wrestling mask, spot the difference between Viennese dancing horses, and add your own mural to a Melbourne graffiti wall. Start your tour by decorating a totem pole in Vancouver, Canada, and then travel around the world before finding and drawing the world's fastest fish - the black marlin - found near Apia, the capital of Samoa. With a mix of colourful illustrations, photos and facts about each destination, plus over 250 stickers, The Cities Activity Book introduces you to our world's amazing diversity of people, places and cultures. Activities include: Counting the number of windows on the White House in Washington DC Creating the famous Hollywood sign on the hills overlooking Los Angeles Striking up a conversation with a local in Jamaica Completing the colourful costumes of Carnival goers in Rio de Janeiro Spotting the difference between llamas in Cuzco Adding pirate ships and hoards of gold to Cartagena's old port Drawing a puffin from Iceland Filling in the famous sights along London's River Thames Joining the dots to complete the enormous Eiffel Tower in Paris Matching the aardvark to its yummy termite nest in Timbuktu Creating your own colourful matatu minibus in Nairobi Building the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai Finding your way through the maze of Beijing's ancient Forbidden City Counting the commuters in Tokyo's super-busy metro system Completing the outfits of Maoris doing a traditional dance Also available: The Travel Activity Book About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!



ISBN: 9781788684767
Publication date: 01/06/2019
Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback

Fully revised and updated for 2020, this is an ideal world reference atlas for young primary school geographers aged 9-11 years (Key stage 2). Published in association with the Geographical Association, it enables children to learn about the world today and understand how maps and atlases work.

* The atlas is organised into sections covering the UK, Europe, the world and continents with more detailed larger scale maps of countries and regions popular for focus studies.

* It includes topics such as climate, population, migration, trade and environmental issues, such as global warming.

* Topographical based mapping helps the young geographer understand the processes which take place during the formation of the earth's landscapes.

* The reference mapping is designed for maximum clarity and accessibility, and is supported by photographs and data boxes, with detailed map keys and scale information on each map.

* Specially selected topic maps give additional information linking to knowledge and understanding of distant places.

* Tables of key world country data include an Ecological Footprint figure for each country.

ISBN: 9780008381516
Publication date: 24/02/2020
Edition: 5
Price: $22.99
Format: Paperback

The CHILDREN IN OUR WORLD picture book series helps children make sense of the larger issues and crises that dominate the news in a sensitive and appropriate manner. With relatable comparisons, carefully researched text and striking illustrations, children can begin to understand why people have different cultures, what are customs and traditions and why understanding people from other cultures is important.



Where issues aren't appropriate to describe in words, Hanane Kai's striking and sensitive illustrations help children visualise the issues with images that are suited to their age and disposition.

ISBN: 9781526310958
Publication date: 10/03/2020
Price: $34.99
Author: Children In Our World
Format: Hardback

Hazard hunters Eddie and Junko are exploring some of the most extreme environments on Earth - places no-one should really venture! But don't worry, they have their danger-mobile bristling with gadgets to tackle any eventuality. Kids will discover the fires of erupting Stromboli, the fastest winds on Earth at Mt Washington, Brazil's venomous Snake Island, and much more. * A tongue-in-cheek and fascinating adventure * Amazing facts about each nerve-racking place

ISBN: 9781787016941
Publication date: 14/09/2018
Price: $10.00
Author: Jacobsen, Mike
Format: Paperback

A fabulous gift box containing a 300-piece dinosaur jigsaw and a fold-out dinosaur timeline.

Discover the amazing age of dinosaurs with this 300-piece jigsaw and fold-out dinosaur timeline. A sturdy gift box contains a stylishly-illustrated jigsaw showing a selection of dinosaurs - all with their names and when they lived. The richly detailed, fold-out timeline charts dinosaurs from the Triassic to the Cretaceous period. On the reverse, the dinosaurs are shown with more information about where each one lived, how big they were, what they ate and other fascinating facts.

ISBN: 9781474986908
Publication date: 04/02/2021
Price: $22.99
Format: Boxed Set

Earth is big! (compared to a frog)

Earth is small! (when it's hiding in a galaxy)

And that's not all. Earth is wet and dry, hot and cold, round and jagged, fast and slow. You get the idea. It depends how you look at it!

Get to know our planet in a whole new way by comparing it to a huge variety of other incredible things - from tiny particles to giant star clusters. Did you know soap bubbles are some of the roundest objects in the universe? Or that we humans are totally outnumbered by chickens? Or that the driest desert on Earth isn't scorching but freezing? Tour some of the most extreme places on the planet and beyond it, take a look at life forms from bacteria to elephants to redwood trees and explore what makes our planet the perfect home for us.

You'll never see Earth the same way again!

ISBN: 9781912920334
Publication date: 02/09/2021
Price: $36.99
Author: Tomecek, Steve
Format: Hardback

Mount Everest is undoubtedly the most famous mountain on Earth. Hundreds of people clamber to its summit every year, following in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's footsteps, hoping to experience Earth's highest peak. But there is so
much more to this mountain than the people who climb it. Travel back to its ancient origins, learn about the flowers and plants that grow upon its great flanks, and discover the rich history of religions, myths, and legends that surround this great Sagarmatha, the Goddess of the Sky.

ISBN: 9781911171430
Publication date: 01/10/2018
Price: $15.00
Author: Francis, Sangma
Format: Hardback