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  • 5000 Awesome Facts (About Everything) Buy Now Quick View

    5000 Awesome Facts (About Everything)

    R350.00 Buy Now

    Presenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True, 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts.

    Lively and information-packed, this book is literally busting its covers with fascinating, fun-tastic facts on super, sensational topics that kids love. Who knew that there were so many sweet things to learn about chocolate or that a dozen delicious details about peanut butter would show up on a page with a few splotches of jelly to whet our appetites?

    Keep turning and a terrifyingly toothy shark tells you all about himself, while other spreads lay out tons of tips on toys and games, mysteries of history, robots and reptiles, sports and spies, wacky words, and so much more! A visual feast of colourful photographs surrounded by swirling, tipping, expanding, and climbing bits of information in a high-energy design, this book will satisfy both the casual browser and the truly fact obsessed.

  • Active Learning: Volcanoes and Earthquakes - Over 100 Brain-Boosting Activities that Make Learning Easy and Fun Buy Now Quick View

    Active Learning: Volcanoes and Earthquakes – Over 100 Brain-Boosting Activities that Make Learning Easy and Fun

    R275.00 Buy Now

    Learn all the essential facts about volcanoes and earthquakes in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids.

    What happens when a volcano erupts? Why do earthquakes hit particular places? How do tsunamis occur? Active Learning: Volcanoes & Earthquakes covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore geology.

    Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this natural science book 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.

    This exciting volcanoes and earthquakes book for children includes:

    – Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and engage with geology.
    – Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge.
    – Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography, alongside engaging text.
    – In-depth information on earthquakes, volanoes and how earth science works.

    This book on geology for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding volcanologists busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with natural science.

    Active Learning is a brand new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Active Learning books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home.

  • African Elephant (Young Zoologist) Buy Now Quick View

    African Elephant (Young Zoologist)

    R80.00 Buy Now

    You might know that African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, but there’s so much more to learn about these tusked creatures. Turn the pages to find out why the grandmother is in charge of an elephant family, and why big ears help elephants cool down! Meet a baby elephant as it takes its first steps, and discover how to tell the difference between an African elephant and an Asian elephant. The book also looks at the conservation challenges these iconic animals face due to climate change and ivory poaching.

  • Afrikaans +: Everything you need to obtain top marks Buy Now Quick View

    Afrikaans +: Everything you need to obtain top marks

    R250.00 Buy Now

    A learner-friendly guidebook for Afrikaans Additional Language learners, with the explanations in English, filled to the brim with examples and with lots of free online support for both the DBE and IEB classroom, up to date with the latest AWS. Afrikaans+ is a learner-friendly guidebook which caters for additional language learners who want to achieve better marks in Afrikaans. This practical guide contains explanations in English and is filled to the brim with examples. It explains tests and exams used for both the DBE and IEB and was written by a panel of educational experts who understand the needs of additional language learners.

    This book is completely up to date. The Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS) has just been re-issued, blindsiding many a teacher with the changes in Afrikaans grammar rules. While the AWS is seen as the touchstone for Afrikaans language practitioners, it could be a daunting book to use in the classroom. Afrikaans+ was written with the most recent changes to the AWS in mind, and presents these grammar rules in a clear, practical manner.

    Every chapter in the book also offers free online support – exercises, answers and examples – which will be kept up to date by the panel.

  • An Anthology of Intriguing Animals Buy Now Quick View

    An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

    R430.00 Buy Now
    Shortlisted for the Smallish Design Awards 2018
    This stunning collection of more than 100 animals lets children discover the facts, stories, and myths behind their favourite animals. Whether it’s where the slow-motion sloth lives, how the plodding pangolin protects itself from predators, or which animal the Ancient Egyptians thought rolled the Sun across the sky, children can learn all sorts of fun animal facts from the storybook descriptions. Each type of animal is shown both photographically and illustrated, and children will love poring over the detailed close-up images.
    This beautiful modern bestiary lets you find the animals that interest you and uncover new favourites along the way. Arranged from big to small, the wildlife of the world is revealed in fantastic detail with amazing photography and gorgeous illustrations. From tigers and chameleons to wolves and owls there’s an animal for everyone in this compendium of creatures.
    An attractive gift for children who can’t get enough of wildlife and nature, An Anthology of Intriguing Animals covers all different types of animals. With easy-to-read text and large images, this book is perfect for children to explore by themselves or for bedtime stories.
  • An Anthology of Rock & Minerals Buy Now Quick View

    An Anthology of Rock & Minerals

    R380.00 Buy Now

    Find out how to identify, where to spot, and what to know about rocks, gems, and minerals with this beautiful field guide.

    Transportable in size and crammed with profiles of different specimens, An Anthology of Rocks and Minerals covers minerals that no collection would be complete without, including quartz, pyrite, amethyst, lapis lazuli, and much more, as well as rock types that children will love spotting when they are out and about.

    Featuring photographs of striking specimens and illustrations in the style of DK’s bestselling Anthology series, as well as plenty of intriguing information, this book will be one to treasure for young rock and mineral enthusiasts.

  • Balloon to the Moon Buy Now Quick View

    Balloon to the Moon

    R130.00 Buy Now

    THE STORY OF THE HUMAN JOURNEY TO SPACE

    Long before anyone had designed a rocket, the Montgolfier brothers were making hot air balloons. In October 1783, they became the first people to experience controlled flight. Balloon to the Moon starts there and leads to Neil Armstrong’s ‘small step’ and beyond. But why stop there?

    Learn about the great innovations of the past, then get ready for BLAST OFF into an unknown but exciting future.

  • Basher STEM Junior: Engineering Buy Now Quick View

    Basher STEM Junior: Engineering

    R150.00 Buy Now

    Meet STEM Junior, a little character with some big ideas and a bunch of supersmart engineering friends. Have you ever wondered how a bridge stays up, or how your texts get from one end of town to the other, or how your raincoat keeps you dry? Well, you’re in the right place. Basher’s STEM Junior: Engineering is packed with 40 vibrant personalities who are just itching to spill the beans. Let them tell you all about themselves and you’ll be a top engineer yourself in no time.

    And that’s not all: “Top Engineer” boxes bring characters from the history of technology to life; “Great Inventions” panels reveal some of the world’s greatest engineering breakthroughs; “Applying Science” boxes explain key practical uses; and “Say What?” boxes put key vocabulary right where you need it.

    With over 100 of Simon Basher’s unique illustrations, Basher’s Stem Junior: Engineering will help give 7- to 9-year olds a solid foundation in the key topics that make up the core STEM subject of engineering.