Whether you want to garden at a more accessible height, improve soil fertility, nurture plants with particular needs, or simply enjoy a closer sensory experience, growing in raised beds will help you reach new heights in the garden. Raised beds are possible in any sized garden, even on balconies, but it needs expert advice to create the optimum growing conditions, achieve the most practical use of space tailored to your individual needs, and ensure longevity of the raised bed structure. Featuring clear diagrams, inspired planting plans, and step-by-step photography of beds built from scratch, this book will be the ultimate guide on your raised bed journey.In addition, 10 international gardeners, all sharing a love of raised beds, will explain their "take" and provide planting designs that will open your eyes to the variety of shapes, sizes, materials, and planting displays that are possible with a raised bed. From siting and designing, choosing materials and growing media, to ongoing maintenance and how best to care for your plants, The Raised Bed Book is the final word on growing above ground.
Create the ideal lawn for your space and know how to look after it. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Lawns contains everything you need to know to choose and maintain the perfect lawn - whether that means formal straight lines, a playful space, or a hub for wildlife. Understand different grass types, whether to sow seed or lay turf, and maintenance techniques including mowing, aerating, and scarifying. Discover alternatives too such as bulbs to add colour in spring or wildflower meadows to attract pollinators.Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to know to help your garden Grow.
Stomp through the prehistoric world, munch with the plant-eaters, ROAR with the mighty giants, and meet all of your favourite dinosaurs in this colourful and interactive board book.From T.rex to Diplodocus, little ones will discover a different dinosaur on each page. Watch the smiles on their faces grow, as they turn the page to find out who of the animals that once roamed our planet they will uncover next.The charming, rhyming text makes this the ideal book for helping toddlers identify names and find their first words. With raised elements on the page for curious fingers to follow, and plenty of bright colours and fun patterns to point to, this is the perfect hands-on introduction to the prehistoric world that children and adults alike will enjoy!A book to treasure, Little Chunkies: Dinosaur will make the perfect addition to any little dino-lovers bookshelf.
Let's have fun learning about busy trucks, as well as counting, matching, naming colours, and saying lots of words!Babies and toddlers will love talking about the trucks and diggers in this first-word board book. There are entertaining questions and challenges throughout that encourage little ones to play and learn, such as counting the yellow diggers, pretending to start a truck's engine, matching the workers to their trucks, and making brrrm brrrm and honk honk noises!Inviting and educational, the engaging photographic pages are packed with all sorts of favourite trucks and diggers, including tough excavators, chugging tractors, huge delivery trucks, shiny fire engines, big dump trucks, and whirring concrete mixers. Clear labels accompany the vehicles so that babies and toddlers can learn the names of all the trucks and diggers. This interactive book delivers a rounded early learning experience, and helps children develop speaking, listening, and observation skills. The sturdy board pages are ideal for young children, while the picture tabs along the top and side are easy to grip, helping children's early motor control. Preschoolers will quickly recognize the picture on each tab, which will take them straight to the page showing their favourite truck or digger.
Learn essential facts about bugs through interactive, educational activities, puzzles, and exercises.How do some insects glow in the dark? Why do spiders spin webs? How do bees make honey? Active Learning: Bugs covers all these questions and more. Filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles, this is the perfect book to keep budding entomologists busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with the world of minibeasts. Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages and tackle the wide range of puzzles and activities - including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd-one-out, drawing, and colouring.Active Learning is a brand new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Children learn through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore a topic. Designed to support teachers and educators around the world, these books are ideal for supplementing your child's education at home.
Burrow down into the world's most amazing underground habitats, from warm Arctic warrens to sandy desert dens.Illustrated in incredible detail, Life Underground explores the different communities of animals and plants that live under the Earth. From the succulent soil of an Australian forest to the hard ground at the icy poles, find out how animals and plants are adapted to their environment and how they interact with their surroundings and each other.Teeming with animal life, this book shows how life on Earth is interconnected and thriving in more places than you might think! Perfect for children and parents to read together and discover the incredible diversity of life on planet Earth.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different kinds of light - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. All About Light is a beautifully designed reader all about light, from the Sun to a tiny firefly.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed.A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills.Children will love to find out about different sources of light and why we need it.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about life at the Polar Regions - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. North Pole, South Pole is a beautifully designed reader all about these icy environments at the ends of the Earth. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the animals and plants that survive at the freezing poles of our planet.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different rocks and minerals - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Rocks and Minerals is a beautifully designed reader all about Earth's geology - the different kinds of rocks and minerals, their properties and uses, and how to protect our natural resources.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about rocks and minerals, from floating pumice to valuable gold and gemstones.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about beautiful gems, how they are made and used - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Sparkly Gems is a beautifully designed reader all about gems, and how some are naturally beautiful and others are grown in labs - but they all make fabulous jewellery! The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about some beautiful gemstones, including rubies, emeralds, pearls and diamonds.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about pandas, everyone's favourite black-and-white bears - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Save the Pandas is a beautifully designed reader all about these amazing bears - where they live, what they eat, how they grow - and how we can all help to keep them safe. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the pandas and their cute cubs.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about tigers, including how to help protect these beautiful big cats - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Save the Tigers is a beautifully designed reader all about tigers - where they live, how they use their senses, what they hunt and eat and how you can help to protect them. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the lives of these amazing stripy big cats.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the coolest caves all over the world - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Cool Caves is a beautifully designed reader all about caves - the biggest, the most beautiful and even one that plays melodies!The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the science, history and future of electricity - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. The Shocking Story of Electricity is a beautifully designed reader all about electricity, from the ground breaking discoveries of early scientists to future challenges around global warming - and all the lightning bolts, circuits and power sources along the way.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the history and future of electricity.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how people become astronauts and what it is like to live and work in space - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Astronauts in Space is a beautifully designed reader all about life on the International Space Station and how astronauts work, play, eat and sleep before returning to Earth.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed.A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills.Children will love to find out about the astronauts who live far above us in space.
Learn to count at the museum! Little ones can discover numbers through artI went to the museum and I saw... Featuring fascinating objects from the last 6,000 years, young readers can learn to count while discovering Nepalese crowns, Chinese teapots, and Greek gods. Developed in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met 123 is guaranteed to spark a lifelong love of learning and art appreciation.Each page features a famous object from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection and a number, and the fun memory game at the end reinforces learning. It's the baby art book series that grown-ups will love, too.© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Discover your ABCs at the museum! Little ones can learn the alphabet through artI went to the museum and I saw... Featuring artists from Gustav Klimt to Vincent van Gogh, young readers can learn the alphabet while discovering some of the world's most well-known paintings and intricate textiles. Developed in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met ABC is guaranteed to spark a lifelong love of learning and art appreciation. Each page features a famous artwork from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, a letter, and a headword. A memory game at the end of the book reinforces learning. Children can discover apples with Cézanne, dance lessons with Degas, and waves with Hokusai. It's the baby art book series that grown-ups will love, too.© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Join Owl and Otter as they have fun selling homemade treats, teaching children maths skills and money.Mini mathematicians aged 3-5 will love following this funny, sweet-filled adventure that gently introduces them to simple addition and money skills.Owl, Otter, and their friends are so excited to start selling their delicious cookies and bottles of lemonade. Everything is off to a great start until the friends begin muddling up how much customers need to pay. With more and more customers waiting and lots of numbers to add up, one disaster leads to another! But never fear - teamwork and Otter's wiggly toes save the day...This exciting early learning book for kids offers:- A humorous, action-packed storyline combined with early-learning information about addition and counting money.- An introduction for kids to earning and saving money from an early age.- Illustrated characters that bring a playful element to learning about the topic of maths and basic addition.With a helpful glossary covering everything from what terms such as supply and demand mean, to earning and saving money, Owl and Otter Earn and Learn shows that you're never too young or furry to learn about money.So, what are you waiting for? Let's go and sell some lemonade and cookies!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about great white sharks - their environment, their special senses and powers, and their prey - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Great White Sharks is a beautifully designed reader all about sharks. We might be scared of their special senses, sharp teeth and super-speed swimming, but humans are a risk to sharks too. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the life of this powerful predator, bringing up shark pups, how sharks hunt and their super senses.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different robots and artificial intelligence - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Robots and AI is a beautifully designed reader all about robots that work, explore, help and rescue humans, and some of the amazing scientists who have created them. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about microbots, mega bots and everything in between!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the life of a baby lemon shark - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Life Of A Baby Lemon Shark is a beautifully designed reader all about the life of a baby lemon shark, its ocean habitat, its appearance and how it hunts for food.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about a baby shark as it grows and learns to keep safe, hide and hunt.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the four seasons - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Seasons is a beautifully designed reader all about each season in turn - the weather, the wildlife and the activities for each. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about when baby animals are born and when we pick pumpkins in this book of the seasons.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about animals that can run, fly and swim faster than all the others - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Fast Animals is a beautifully designed reader all about the world's fastest animals - from the sprinting cheetah to a shrimp making a speedy catch of its dinner! The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about different speedy animals, from birds to turtles, snakes to dragonflies, and bats to kangaroos!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about states of matter - liquids, gases and solids - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. States of Matter is a beautifully designed reader explaining the states of matter that the world is made of, and how they can change.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about what they and other things are made of!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the water covering 70 percent of our planet, from tiny raindrops to vast lakes - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Rivers, Lakes and Marshes is a beautifully designed reader all about water - from the single drop travelling round the water cycle to life in and around the world's rivers, lakes and marshes.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the water they use, which could once have fallen as rain on a dinosaur!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how and why wild animals live in groups- a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Wild Animal Groups is a beautifully designed reader all about packs, swarms, herds, towers and prides of animals living together in groups. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the unusual words for animal groups, and how living together in groups helps animals to survive in the wild.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about inventions that change how we live - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Which Inventions Changed the World? is a beautifully designed reader all about inventions that changed people's lives - from helping us to navigate or communicate to keeping us healthy and safe. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about inventions from the wheel to VR, from the printing press to vaccines and X-rays.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how we might live in the future - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. The Future is a beautifully designed reader all about how futurists imagine we might live, with exciting new technology changing travel, fun, houses and cities. The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about space tourism, future food, and farms for algae!
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about different animals that sleep all day and hunt at night - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Nighttime Animals is a beautifully designed reader all about different nighttime animals, from tiny moths to fierce leopards.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed.A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills.Children will love to find out about the animals that are awake while they are asleep, and their special powers for living in the dark.
Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the five senses - a high-quality, fun, non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Five Senses is a beautifully designed reader all about seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling to discover the world around us.The engaging text has been carefully levelled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential non-fiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the different human senses.
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