A time-tunnel trip that shows how some of history's greatest makers, creators, and ideas helped to shape the world of today. Who invented the car, different types of vaccinations, the light bulb or the microwave? The things we are surrounded by didn't just appear out of nowhere, they were conceived by talented inventors, scientists, and engineers. While some inventions were the result of teamwork and a long time in the lab, some inventions just happened to be made by accident or by looking for something else. Unravel how classic inventions and creators paved the way for the modern tools and technology we have today. Heureka! is a visual journey for children that shows how the groundbreaking masters from the past connect with the technology, culture, and medicine of today.

Who Invented This?: Smart People and Their Bright Ideas

Children's Books

Ameri-Siemens, Anne

History

Little Gestalten

Imagine a tower of fluffy pancakes topped with fresh fruit, or ice cream melting on your tongue, tasting unbaked chocolate balls, and many other treats to excite a sweet tooth. Alongside savory recipes for simple sandwiches, rainbow-colored salads, a refreshing zesty lemonade, and classic childhood favorites, Piece of Cake offers a fun way to prepare and present food and become the head chef - with just a little help from the adults. As a follow-up to the successful Little Gestalten titles Easy Peasy and Let's Play Outdoors, this book shows simple and fun ways for children to use their time creatively.

Tasty Treats: Easy Cooking for Children

Chitu, Adina

Arts, Music & Photography

Have you ever dreamed of being a secret agent or a gardener, soccer player or singer, astronaut or pirate? Do you know what clothes they wear and what equipment they always carry with them? All these people and many more are in The Who’s Who of Grown-Ups just waiting to be discovered. Bold illustrations show in detail the professions, hobbies, and pastimes that keep grown-ups busy throughout the day.

The Who's Who of Grown-Ups: Jobs, Hobbies and the Tools It Takes

Davey, Owen

The whimsical illustrations that made Christoph Niemann's Petting Zoo app an international sensation are now featured in this colorful game. Christoph Niemann's Petting Zoo quickly became an international sensation. Now the hand-drawn animals are featured in this colorful game. The whole family will enjoy finding matches among the charmingly funny collection of characters.

Petting Zoo Memo Game

Humor & Entertainment

Niemann, Christoph

Puzzles & Games

The human body is astounding. This book explains how our body works in images and texts that are created for children but are also fascinating for adults. Children are curious about their bodies. They not only want to know how they breathe and where their food goes after they swallow it, but are also generally interested in how their bodies look on the inside and everything that happens there. The children's book My Body takes its readers on a fun and compelling journey though the human body. Exploring our skeleton, how we breathe, where our blood flows, how we digest, our senses, our muscles, our nerves, and our brain, its chapters impart fundamental knowledge in a way that is understandable for children while also answering classic questions such as "what are hiccups?" and "why do baby teeth fall out?" My Body's vivid images and engaging texts make the book wonderfully suitable for children. It takes them on an intertaining anatomical adventure that responds to and further stimulates their own natural curiosity--the key to learning.

My Body: Explained and Illustrated

Science, Nature & How It Works

Children love animals, letters, and games involving numbers. With this book, even the youngest children can playfully learn their ABCs, the names of animals, and how to count. This fun animal book tells the exciting story of a zoo preparing for its opening day. The head zookeeper, who guides young readers through its pages, is waiting anxiously for the animals to get there. Will they all be in their cages by the time the first visitors arrive? Illustrated with loving attention to detail, The Zoo's Grand Opening is ideal for pre-school children. The book opens on an empty zoo and then follows the arrival of the animals, starting with an anaconda (representing the letter "A" and the number one), followed by a bear ("B" and two) and so on all the way to "Z" and 26. While they enjoy the story, children will playfully be introduced to the letters of the alphabet and how to count. At its end, they have not only been introduced to a variety of creatures, but they also know how many animals can be seen at the grand opening.

The Zoo's Grand Opening: An ABC and Counting Book

Drews, Judith

Animals

In a very poetic way, Elsa and the Night tells the story of an extraordinary friendship. Can one make friends with the night? In this story, Elsa can! How, may you ask, could someone even meet the night? Well, one day Elsa is sitting at her kitchen table and, because she is bored, counting the raisins in her cereal. She then suddenly hears a sound coming from under the sofa. When she investigates and catches the thing making the noise, she realizes that it's neither an animal nor a ghost. It's the night. Because Elsa winds up hiding the night in her cookie jar--and giving it a few of her raisins--the day outside doesn't end. When she takes the night out of its hiding place, it has the chance to hear her talk about her adventures with her friend, an elephant named Olaf. Elsa tells the night that she is very sad because Olaf got sick and no medicine was able to help him. The night not only listens to Elsa, but also accompanies her on a heartwarming and moving journey where it cares for her, protects her, and finally carries her through the town in its arms.

Elsa and the Night

Mellgren, Jons

Growing Up & Facts of Life

This classic Japanese fairy tale tells the story of Issun Boshi, the tiny son of an old, long childless couple. Tiny and brave--these are the two most striking characteristics of Issun Boshi. His mother had longed to have a child for so many years that she finally added "even if it is a very small one" to her wish. When the elderly couple did in fact bear a son, he turned out to be only one inch high. He was thus called Issun Boshi, Japanese for one-inch boy. Although his parents raised him very lovingly, Issun Boshi realized one day that he would not grow any taller. He then left his home to set off on a journey to find his place in the world. Because he saw himself as a swordfighter, a samurai, he made sure to take along the right equipment: a needle was his sword, a soup bowl was his boat, and a chopstick was its rudder. As in any proper fairy tale, Issun Boshi is tested in several adventures. He handles himself so bravely that, in the end, he is rewarded with just the right princess.

Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy

ICINORI

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

The traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood is given new dimensions in this striking play between light and shadow. Little Red Riding Hood is a fair tale loved the world over. Almost every child knows the story by the Brothers Grimm of the girl who was lured from the forest path by the evil wolf. Now, everyone can rediscover it with this enchanting little book by French illustrator Clementine Sourdais, who gives a contemporary look to this traditional tale. Created with loving attention to detail, Sourdais's cut-out images give the book an extraordinary khaptic quality that make it a pleasure to feel and behold. Her unique settings not only make the woods, the big bad wolf, and grandmother's house come alive on the page, but they can also be transformed into a dancing play of shadows on a wall. Held in front of a light and unfolded, this book becomes a true adventure, inviting its young readers to marvel at and experience Little Red Riding Hood's journey in a whole new way.

Little Red Riding Hood

GRIMM, JACOB

GRIMM, WILHELM

This book provides insightful, easy-to-follow answers to children's questions about the brain accompanied by fun, enlightening photographs. We use our brains every day, but how do they actually control our thoughts, our movements, and our feelings? Does the brain turn itself off at night? Can people who research the brain read minds? In That's What You Think!, experts respond to 80 questions posed by children about the brain. Their answers explore how our brains develop, what they are made of, and how they work. They reveal astounding information and facts not only about the human brain, but also about the gray matter of earthworms, ants, and sperm whales. The images created by Jan von Holleben capture our personal control rooms in action--as we taste, get scared, study, juggle, and sleepwalk. These fun, enlightening photographs clearly demonstrate that even when we do nothing at all, our brains are hard at work.

That's What You Think!: A Mind-Boggling Guide to the Brain

Von Holleben, Jan

Madeja, Michael

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