Dorling Kindersley

Teach your baby all about trucks with touch and feel textures. Stroke and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about trucks. Broom broom! Let their little hands roam and feel how chunky the truck's big wheels are. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about farms with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about farms. Oink oink! Quack quack! Let their little hands roam and feel how feathery the ducklings are and how soft the piglets feel. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about playtime with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about playtime. Let their little hands roam and feel how cuddly the teddies are but how shiny and smooth the toy train feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about animals with touch and feel textures Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about animals. Let their little hands roam and feel how soft and cuddly kittens are but how scaly the lizard feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

With over 31,500 terms and more than 5000 colour photographs, this is both an encyclopaedia and a dictionary. Packed full of visual cutaways and exploded views from the prehistoric earth to the digital camera, it brings the world to life. Now fully revised, it is a useful family reference and should enable you to see everything through new eyes.

Your child will spend hours of fun composing silly rhymes and you can rest assured that they are learning while they play. Word games improve grammar skills and the colour coded cards help your child to recognize nouns, verbs, adjectives and full stops. Encourage your child's early learning and curiosity while they giggle with glee at the rhymes they create.

This is a beautiful first Bible in an appealing padded format, perfect for tiny hands. From Noah's Ark to the story of Easter, 25 of the Bible's best-loved stories from the Old and New Testaments are re-told with stunning watercolours from acclaimed illustrator Diana Mayo. Read them together with your toddler and enjoy lots of fun activities encouraging even the youngest child to join in with the stories. It is a first Bible to cherish and revisit again and again.

This work includes nine classic stories that are retold with beautiful illustrations and a sprinkle of story magic. Listen to the 60-minute CD with your child and have great fun following the words on the page together. All the best-loved characters are here, from Little Red Hen, The Lion and the Mouse to The Three Little Pigs. Make bedtime every child's favourite time.

Perfect for helping children develop early language skills, this exciting range of interactive flash cards reinforces learning through touch.

Perfect for helping children develop early language skills, this exciting range of interactive flash cards reinforces learning through touch.

Get singing. Listen to the 60-minute CD that contains all fifty rhymes from the book, and have great fun singing along with your child as you follow the words on the page together. Beautifully illustrated with a sprinkle of magic so you can enjoy all your favourite rhymes from Little Miss Muffet, Hickory Dickory Dock to Ring Around the Rosy and Old Mother Hubbard. It is great for sharing at any time of day.

Get closer to the Dark Side. Want to know more about the evil Darth Sidious, Darth Maul and Vader? Or how the conflict first began between the Jedi and Sith? Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the Dark Side and more in this action-packed Reader. Filled with pictures of your favourite bad guys from all six movies, it's an out-of-this-world read. And don't forget, there's a galaxy-full of DK Star Wars books to collect.

This work features best of Budapest in your pocket. From Buda's Royal Palace to finding your way back to your hotel — find everything you need in this great value, map and guidebook that slips easily into your pocket or bag. Perfect for on-the-go navigation, discover Budapest's must-sees, top restaurants, bars and shops, plus useful phrases, opening times and transport information. You can use the guide to decide your itinerary then plot your route using the fold-out map. It contains everything you need to make the most of your city break. You can also use it alongside DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide to Budapest.

Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide... The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information. — Reader review. Capture the essence of these two fascinating cities, from Beijing's Great Wall and Forbidden City to Shanghai's Bund and the French Concession. This title features photos, illustrations, unique 3D models and birds-eye-view maps of all the major sites to ensure you don't miss a thing. Clue up on the basics, from the most comfortable places to stay (whatever your budget) to the best bars and restaurants. Discover where the locals go, enjoy relaxing entertainment, amazing sites and retail therapy, exciting sports, scenic walks, colourful festivals and more. It presents all that you need for an unforgettable trip. It is the winner of the Guardian & Observer 'Best Guide Books' and Wanderlust Magazine Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'.

Take a giant leap into the animal kingdom, turn and learn with every page. Did you know... that a polar bear's skin is black? That the Arctic tern flies around the world each year? Or that a silky anteater can eat 8,000 ants a day? Meet a bird that can fly backwards, a butterfly that feeds on an alligator's tears and turtles that can live up to 100 years. There's an amazing world of animals to discover and explore. Small enough to pop in your schoolbag, it's perfect for projects or just for fun!

You can be an eyewitness to dinosaurs, roar and meet the prehistoric masters of the earth, and discover how ancient fossils and footprints reveal their awesome world. You can see a dinosaur's skin and examine evidence that proves some species were cannibals — yuck! You can get the picture using the clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download. Then use the giant pull-out wallchart to decorate your room. Great for projects or just for fun, this fact-packed guide and CD shows and tells you everything you need to know about dinosaurs. I am a big fan of these...They are brilliantly visual, There isn't a child that would be able to resist picking that up — Reader Reviews.

Indulge your passion for style and sparkle with collectables expert, Judith Miller. Peruse and choose from 400 stunning objects of desire, whether you want elegant haute couture pieces of the 1940s or daring new styles from cutting-edge designers. Includes iconic pieces from Chanel, Christian Dior, Josef of Hollywood and Miriam Haskell with a star rating system indicating the value of every stunning jewel. The perfect guide if you desire the ultimate accessories.

Packed with movie stills and shots of your favourite characters from Captain Jack to Davy Jones and the fearsome Pirate Lord of Singapore: Sao Feng, with the tribe of ravenous cannibals in between! Contains spectacular Disney illustrations including all-new artworks of a Chinese junk and Shipwreck Island, plus a fantastic double-sided pull-out poster showing every detail of Jack’s ship ‘The Black Pearl’ and Sao Feng with The Empress, perfect for pirateer bedroom walls.

From where to find the bargains in the souks and malls, to the best natural beauty spots, spas and golf courses — this guide features the insider knowledge that every visitor needs. Discover the liveliest bars and nightlife, amazing modern architecture, historical palaces and mosques, most impressive parks and skylines, and best restaurants to suit every budget and much more. This is your guide to the 10 best of everything.

Whatever you plan to do – whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget – make sure you experience the best. With this easy to use, quick reference guide that slips into your bag, you can instantly find the top 10 leading attractions. Discover the most haunted sites in the medieval city, the greatest Czech writers and composers, unmissable museums and galleries, most fun places for kids, top restaurants and cafes, best hotels on every budget and much more.

Takes a journey to the world of pirates. This book presents the classic pirate stories from the beginning of pirate time such as «Treasure Island», «Kidnapped», and others.

Use the 3D models and cutaways to party your way around Rio and explore colonial architecture in the Northeast cities of Salvador, Sao Luis and Olinda and party. Clue-up on the basics, from the capital of the Amazonas — Manaus to incomparable natural wonders including the inland semi-arid area of the sertao and the huge swampland of the Pantanal, full of alligators, birds and the occasional anaconda. And don't forget a visit to the futuristic city of Brasilia, a marvel of 1950s design. Enjoy the diverse flavours of Brazil with scenic walks and thematic festivals, with sights, beaches, markets and festivals listed town by town. This guide includes a comprehensive selection of hotels and restaurants and full-colour detailed maps that will ensure that your visit to this exotic country is one you’ll never forget.

Japanese cookery guru The Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto, combines European and Western cooking techniques and ingredients with Japanese roots creating mouth-watering results. Chef Morimoto's cooking has distinctive Japanese roots, yet it's actually, «global cooking for the 21st century.» His unique cuisine is characterized by beautiful Japanese colour and aromas, while the preparation infuses multicultural influences such as Chinese spices and Italian ingredients, presented in a refined French style. Bring all of these elements home following his step-by-step instructions and cook up over 125 recipes; from Tuna Pizza and mouth-watering Bouillabaisse to sinfully rich Chocolate Tart with White Chocolate Sorbet. Discover how to slice and cure fish, properly eat sushi and learn about the origins and significance of rice, soy sauce, tofu, blowfish and other hard-to-find ingredients.This book is useful for taste-bud travellers and anyone interested in learning more about Japanese cooking and traditions.

This title provides hours of spell-binding fun to help your child become a maths wizard! Learning the basic maths to give children a head start as they begin school is as easy as 1,2,3 with this magical game. It includes nine new card games for all the family to play and reward stickers to inspire children to become a maths wizard. Wave your wand and let the magic begin.