Technology & applied sciences Books

This "Moshling Collector's Guide" introduces all the cute little Moshlings roaming wild in the world of MoshiMonsters, with hints and tips on planting the right seeds to attract them, and how to keep them entertained once you've adopted them! With notes and diary extracts from Monstro-City's top Mos...

This updated ultimate guide includes more hints and how-tos on the Club Penguin essentials - from caring for your puffle to scoring higher on your favourite mini-game, as well as loads of the latest features new to the website. The book also contains codes that unlock online items! Whether you're ju...

From Joseph Banks to Ernest Rutherford and Beatrice Tinsley to Ingrid Visser, Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA profiles 68 of New Zealand's most remarkable scientists. Among them are some of the earliest explorers and collectors, the first professional scientists, twentieth-century pioneers in emergin...

This fangtastic activity book is packed with Puzzle Palace challenges, awesome activities and monstrous fun! With a free virtual gift to download for your monster's room, plus over 40 stickers of all your favourite Moshi monsters and Moshlings! Adopt your own Moshi Monster now at www.moshimonster...

Keep your monster smiling with crazy themes, super stuff for decorating its home, puzzles and loads of cook stickers! With top tips from home fashion expert, Tyra Fangs, your house could be a contender for monster room of the week! Adopt your own Moshi Monster now at www.moshimonsters.com

Set the controls for hyperdrive and go on a space-hopping, out-of-this-world ride around the Universe with the Brainwaves. Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief-makers who will be your child's astro-guides to the mind-boggling magnificence of the Universe. They'll take your child on a ...

Be a part of the action and excitement of Hot Wheels with this fantasic new range of publishing featuring all the favourite cars from the Hot Wheels ranges. Exciting posters of your favourite Hot Wheels cars with fun facts and figures.

Master the real science behind electricity and have a blast doing it. Includes a genuine Klutz alkaline battery, a buzzer, a propeller, a light bulb, a motor, and other useful doodads - everything you need for all eight projects. Toss in a little history and you've got an activity book so good...

Look up at the night sky, away from city lights, and watch as the stars appear. These pinpricks of light are giant balls of burning gas, millions and millions and millions of kilometres away. So far away that it takes the light thousands of years to reach us. This book, published in collaboration wi...

Send your child on a spectacular pop-up, pull-out, cool and cosmic journey through our incredible universe. They'll start things off with an almighty bang by pressing the novelty sound button to begin their explosive journey into space. Watch as their imagination is captured by sensational t...

This book leads readers on an in-depth tour of Club Penguin, letting them in on tricks and shortcuts. Readers will get tips on how to play games on the site, how to adopt a puffle, decorate their igloo, and much more!

Make science accessible with this essential series that will capture children's imagination while laying the foundation for future learning. With age-appropriate language and an eye-catching design, "Discover Science" gives young readers the answers to fundamental questions about the human body, ani...

An exciting sticker-book-to-keep – for all truck-mad youngsters! With over 100 photographs of the biggest, heaviest, most impressive trucks around, children will enjoy adding all the stickers to create their own truck book to keep. • Includes over 100 easy-to-peel stickers of trucks &...

This book tells the story behind Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from the fun and fabulous Robert Winston. Join Robert Winston for an amazing look at the story of evolutionary science and the way Charles Darwin's revolutionary theories changed the world. Explore lands of fire, meet curious crea...

This is an introduction to science activities, showing how to set up and carry out dozens of investigations, using everyday things. The book is split into themed sections which show a range of activities, including chemical reactions, nature projects and tests on the senses. All the activities are a...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Poptropica. Poptropica is a virtual world where kids can play games, learn amazing facts and meet new friends. Learn how to make the most of your Poptropica experience with this complete official guide. Meet the characters, explore the islands and find out all you n...

Filled with funnies and jam-packed with jokes, this hilarious Moshi Monsters joke book will tickle you and your monster and have you splitting your sides with laughter! It is presented with over 230 monster-tickling jokes submitted by you.

Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife and carefully removed a...

Crammed full of comic strips, features, activities and games, this title is the annual with the squishy bits left in.

Pokemon Visual Guide is the essential companion to the animated world of Pokemon. From Ash to Team Rocket, from Kanto to Pokemon's effect in our world, we catch it all. The Visual Guide is the requisite book for every Pokemon fan. Discover the CHARACTERS, BATTLES, and important PLACES Get to kno...

This title is crammed full of comic strips, features, activities and games. It's the annual with the squishy bits left in!

Taking a journey from the very small, to the very big, this work takes the reader on a tour of everything in science from the smallest thing ever to the horribly huge universe. And it's all in full colour and in new flexi-bound paperback format.

This is a reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index.

A Ducati motorcycle wins the Battle of the Twins race but the second placing is a surprise - an almost unknown motorcycle called a Britten. Little is known about the bike. Then rumour spreads that the sleek machine was hand-built by some fellow in his home workshop, in a remote place called New Zeal...

Each page in this book features a different animal, carefully camouflaged in its natural habitat. A rhyme tells readers what to look for, with animals such as a lion, seal, frog and chick to spot. Slinky Malinki, the black cat, also makes an appearance in the book. Review "Play hide-and-s...

This astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams display all the major organs of the human body and are accompanied by witty, clear and informati...

Science is vital for every inhabitant of today's world, and being scientifically informed and literate is a crucial part of any child's education. Science can seem daunting especially as scientific knowledge advances so quickly and this volume is the perfect purchase for any family. It will bear rep...

HOW TO MAKE A UNIVERSE FROM 92 INGREDIENTS takes on the impossible and triumphs - it makes chemistry fun! A unique and imaginative take on chemistry for children, with 'experiments' that show ho all things are made from just 92 chemical elements - from tree to mobile phones, to humans and the Sun - ...

This title offers everything you never knew about space. Was the Big Bang loud or will the Sun last forever? Packed with amazing photography and fascinating facts, "Amazing Space" guarantees hours of fun through space exploration. The handy question-and-answer format along with the latest ...

Winner of the Junior Aventis Prize for Science Books in 2007, "Can You Feel the Force?" is the ultimate fun-filled science book that puts the fizz back into Physics, now in paperback. Physics doesn't just happen in a lab - it happens in the kitchen, in your bath, in a car! Join a thrilling...

This is an exciting title in this informative series of books, containing over 100 full-colour stickers, which children can match to the illustrations. This beautifully illustrated sticker book doubles as a spotters' guide, with accurate and simple descriptions that allow children to seek out and fi...

Can you believe what the amazing Ripley world of machines has to tell you? How do airships work? How long is the longest stretch limo? Meet Robosaurus, the 12-metre-tall car-crushing giant! Which ship can flip? Do brick boats float? From micro-cars and monster trucks to jet engines and pedal power, ...

From the pumping power of your heart, to the awesome ability of the brain, the Human Body Encyclopedia is packed with answers. Discover how the body manages to stay upright, what happens to your food after you have eaten and why we hiccup and cough. Major body systems such as digestion and the skele...

Preschoolers can touch chunky tractor tires, spiky grass, shiny headlights, and much more, in this fun board book that encourages readers to explore and use their eyes and hands to recognize and name objects. Full color.

Discover how things are made and work with this first reference for young readers and writers. Help your child take an incredible look at the way things are made and how they work with this fantastic fact-packed encyclopedia which shows and explains everything. In this title, they'll discover how th...

*Epidemics & Plagues explores killer diseases past and present, explaining how they spread rapidly to affect huge numbers of people worldwide. Read the appalling story of the Black Death that swept through medieval Europe, learn about a devastating smallpox epidemic in the Americas and find out ...

These two horrible books deliver twice the squishy bits, with fantastic fact files and quirky quizzes on what goes on in our heads, and in our innards. What does a fresh brain smell like? Why can't astronauts eat beans before a space flight?

Science with even more squishy bits left in! What makes your guts a brilliant home for bacteria? Which creature lays its eggs between your toes? Why is your toothbrush covered in germs? Get the awful answers in "Microscopic Monsters". Features an extra 16 pages of material, including...