Full of fascinating information and colorful graphics the pages reveal the science behind how many of today's machines work.

The Everyday Workings of Machines

Teen & Young Adult

Martin,Steve

Education & Reference

Ivy Kids

<div>How does a train stay on the tracks? What's going on inside a pogo stick? How do cranes work? And what happens when you flush a toilet? &nbsp; These and many more important questions are answered in this fascinating book. From toasters and telephones to hovercrafts and robots - the inner workings of machines big and small are brought to light using a stunning mix of cross-sections, close-ups and cutaways.&nbsp;</div>

The Everyday Workings of Machines: How machines work, from toasters and trains to hovercrafts and robots - Includes close-ups, cutaways, and cross sections!

Do you love the outdoors and dream of working outside when you grow up? If the answer is yes, then this book is for you!\nIn this entertaining and informative book, children who love the great outdoors can find out all about the future careers they can choose from.\nFrom a travel writer to a marine biologist, a surf instructor to a firefighter, a construction manager to palaeontologist, this book takes you through a day in the life of 25 outdoor workers, showing you how each job unfolds on a typical working day. You’ll learn what it takes to get the job, what duties and tasks are involved, and discover a world of opportunities. Turn the pages and find out the best part of a geologist's day and what really bugs a ski instructor… HINT: it involves freezing cold snow!\nWith a variety of careers covered, from jobs on construction sites, cliff-faces, icy oceans and many more, this book is sure to inspire children’s ambitions and get them excited for their futures. Aimed at outdoorsy readers aged 7 and older the illustrated narrative approach tells the story of each career and helps introduce children to the world of work in a playful, engaging way.\nWhen they’ve finished reading, children will have gained an overview of each of the featured jobs and will have discovered that you can turn a passion, an interest or a hobby into a rewarding career.\nIf readers want to know more about the opportunities ahead they can check out That's a Job? I Like Sport, or That's a Job? I Like Animals and discover even more of the world's coolest jobs.

I Like The Outdoors ... what jobs are there? (That’s A Job?)

Business & Money

Carron Brown

Job Hunting & Careers

Yoga Animals: At the Seashore

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kerr, Christiane

Exercise & Fitness

‘A charming inoculation of pure wild life – just what Dr. Earth ordered.’ CHRIS PACKHAM 
‘This book would sit brilliantly on any nature-loving child’s bookshelf’ BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE 
‘Charms young readers with the power of rewilding’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER\nFrom the bestselling author and rewilding pioneer Isabella Tree, When We Went Wild is a heartwarming, sustainably printed picture book about the benefits of letting nature take the lead, inspired by real-life rewilding projects.\n‘I love this book. It actually made me cry’ PAM AYRES, Sunday Times best-selling author & presenter. 
‘A gorgeous and true fable that will delight and inspire the next generation of young rewilders.’ PATRICK BARKHAM, Author & Guardian journalist.\nNancy and Jake are farmers. They raise their cows and pigs, and grow their crops. They use a lot of big machines to help them, and spray a lot of chemicals to get rid of the weeds and the pests. That’s what all good farmers do, isn’t it? And yet, there is no wildlife living on their farm. The animals look sad. Even the trees look sad! One day, Nancy has an idea... what if they stopped using all the machines, and all the chemicals, and instead they went wild?\nThe author’s own experience of rewilding her estate at Knepp has influenced conservation techniques around the world that are bringing nature back to the countryside and bringing threatened species back from the brink.\nIvy Kids brings you beautiful, sustainably printed books to rewild your child. They are hopeful, joyful stories and nonfiction about nature and the environment that are charmingly illustrated and printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, locally in the UK, and using renewable energy.\nPraise for Wilding, the author’s bestselling memoir:\n‘This must be the most inspirational nature book of the year…a narrative of conservation, courage, vision and miracles… The story of what happened is thrilling… the Knepp Conservation Project is world-famous: a beacon of hope… Read this book and marvel.’ – Bel Mooney, ‘The Year’s Best Books on Nature’, Daily Mail

When We Went Wild

Tree, Isabella

Science & Math

Walking in the country, by the sea or in the town, so many wonderful things to see if you stop and look around! Go on your very own walk guided by CBeebies' Ranger Hamza from the hit TV show 'Let's Go For a Walk' with this book that can be used again and again.\nTake this book with you on any ramble, wherever you live, with suggestions from Ranger Hamza for things to look out for. Can you see a red thing? A tall thing? Can you find something smooth, and something rough? What can you smell, and what can you hear? As well as things to spot on the walk, each spread contains fascinating Hamza facts. Turn every walk, long or short, into an interactive, playful learning adventure. Can be used on any kind of walk, in any location, and any duration, over and over again. Will help young ramblers look at the world around them in a new way. Can also be read at home, with young readers spotting the details in the beautiful illustrations. Perfect for fans of CBeebies' 'Let's Go For a Walk', or for families looking to make their regular outings more fun. Let's Go For a Walk!

Let's Go For a Walk

Hamza, Ranger

This charmingly illustrated seasonal treasury of nature-based crafts, bakes and gardening projects for autumn celebrates the country cottage lifestyle with self-sufficient and eco-friendly fun.\nLocally printed on 100% recycled paper, Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom offers: Easy yet delicious autumn recipes and treats that introduce young readers to local and seasonal eating. From pumpkin muffins to home-made apple chips, the easy-to-make recipes will inspire kids to get into the kitchen. Suggestions for using up unloved parts of produce, such as ways to make use of apple cores and peel, demonstrate a naturally zero-waste way of living. Accessible and fun crafts, such as making a gratitude tree and a woven basket, have instructions broken down into clear steps illustrated in AnneliesDraws’ cute and wholesome style. The seasonal gardening and growing projects, such as planting herbs, can be done in a big back yard or on a windowsill, making this eco-friendly activity book a fun resource, whether readers are based in towns or the country. Woven alongside the cooking, crafting and planting projects are little snippets of seasonal information and self-sufficient wisdom from homesteading teacher Angela Fanning of Axe and Root Homestead, with a focus on enjoying and celebrating the best of what autumn has to offer.\nFind even more nature-centered seasonal fun in: Little Country Cottage: A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom.\nIvy Kids brings you beautiful, sustainably printed books to rewild your child, nurture creativity, and foster a deep connection with the living world. Winner of the Sustainability Award at the Independent Publishers Awards 2022, Ivy Kids books are planet-friendly, printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, locally to where they will be sold.

Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom

Children's Books

Ferraro-Fanning, Angela

Arts, Music & Photography

This charmingly illustrated seasonal treasury of nature-based crafts, baking recipes and gardening projects for the winter celebrates the country cottage lifestyle with self-sufficient and eco-friendly fun.\nLocally printed on 100% recycled paper, Little Country Cottage: A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom offers: Easy yet delicious winter recipes and treats that introduce young readers to local and seasonal eating. From berry cookies, to hot cocoa recipes to warm up after a winter walk, the easy-to-make recipes will inspire kids to get into the kitchen. Suggestions for using up unloved parts of produce, such as carrot tops to make a kitchen windowsill garden, demonstrate a naturally zero-waste way of living. Accessible and fun crafts, such as making salt-dough ornaments and foraged foliage wreaths, have instructions broken down into clear steps illustrated in AnneliesDraws’ cute and wholesome style. The seasonal gardening and growing projects, such as planting bare root berry bushes in the ground or in containers, can be done in a big back yard or on a balcony, making this eco-friendly activity book a fun resource, whether readers are based in town or country. 
Woven alongside the cooking, crafting and planting projects are little snippets of seasonal information and self-sufficient wisdom from homesteading teacher Angela Fanning of Axe and Root Homestead, with a focus on enjoying and celebrating the best of what the winter season has to offer.\nFind even more nature-centered seasonal fun in: Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom.\nIvy Kids brings you beautiful, sustainably printed books to rewild your child, nurture creativity, and foster a deep connection with the living world. Winner of the Sustainability Award at the Independent Publishers Awards 2022, Ivy Kids books are planet-friendly, printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, locally to where they will be sold.

Little Country Cottage: A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom

Follow the enchanting, beautifully illustrated story of Mimi, a young girl who longs to see fairies in her garden.\nMimi was a perfectly ordinary girl who lived in a perfectly ordinary house. She had toys to play with, a little brother who wasn’t too annoying, and cakes on her birthdays. Mimi didn’t want many things. But there was one thing she wanted so very much, so very much indeed… to see a fairy in her garden.\nPoor Mimi spends hours and hours making her fairy garden completely perfect, but the fairies never come. Whatever could she be doing wrong?\nJust when she has given up all hope, some twinkling lights appear. They’re here! And they are bringing an important message…\nWith captivating artwork from Isabella Mazzanti, and activity spreads at the back which tell readers how to create their own, perfect fairy garden this beautiful story will capture readers’ imaginations.\nAnd, just maybe, it will help them attract fairies to their own gardens!\nAs with all new Ivy Kids titles, this book is printed on

The Fairy Garden

Buckthorn, Georgia

Animals

Families looking for nature-based fun away from phones and screens will adore this wholesome children’s collection of cooking, crafting and gardening projects, locally printed on 100% recycled paper.\nIn the Little Country Cottage: A Spring Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom, young readers can try their hand at various spring themed projects as well as learn interesting seasonal wisdom and nature-related facts along the way.\nPacked with fun ideas to keep kids occupied during holidays or at weekends, readers can discover the joy of sowing seedlings, learn how to care for baby chicks, brew dandelion tea and craft windchimes from foraged materials.\nThe activities from author and homesteading teacher Angela Fanning include eco-friendly practices, such as recycling or reusing materials, and encourage readers to respect nature.\nAll the activities are broken down into steps, clearly explained and accompanied by AnneliesDraws’ adorably wholesome illustrations, and will suit any space, as they will work equally well on windowsills as in gardens.\nThe latest from theLittle Country Cottage series, with these books readers can get creative, practice handy self-sufficiency skills, handcraft items for themselves or as gifts for loved ones, learn about nature and celebrate the best of each season.\nFind even more nature-centred seasonal fun in: Little Country Cottage: A Summer Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom.\nIvy Kids brings you beautiful, sustainably printed books to rewild your child, nurture creativity, and foster a deep connection with the living world. Winner of the Sustainability Award at the Independent Publishers Awards 2022, Ivy Kids books are planet-friendly, printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, locally to where they will be sold.

Little Country Cottage: A Spring Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom

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