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The beloved Mythographic series brings you a new collection of sophisticated and stunning art to colour. Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of sleight-of-hand, optical illusions, and mysterious characters, ready to be brought to life by your creative colouring.

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Discover it Yourself: Plants and Flowers is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities linked to the world of plants. It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical STEM experiments.Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home, and the materials and instructions are simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by Sally Morgan, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to take a leaf rubbing, calculate a tree's age, grow their own pumpkin and much more. Kids will learn, explore and discover STEM in the world around them with the Discover It Yourself series.

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Discover it Yourself: Animals In Action is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities linked to the world of animals.It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical experiments. Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home, and the materials and instructions are simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by Sally Morgan, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to test a hamster’s IQ with a home-made maze, observe nocturnal animals, keep a diary of the changing seasons and much more.Kids will learn, explore and discover STEM in the world around them with the Discover It Yourself series.

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This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Robots on the Farm is a non-fiction text reporting on how robots are used in farming. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.This early non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.

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Discover it Yourself: Minibeasts is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities linked to the world of bugs and insects. It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical STEM experiments.Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home, and the materials and instructions are simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by Sally Morgan, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to be a worm-charmer, go pond dipping, build a minibeast house, and much more.Kids will learn, explore and discover STEM in the world around them with the Discover It Yourself series.

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Join us on our mission to discover how people have explored space in the past, what they are doing today and what's next for space travel! Read about the very first satellite launched into space; astronauts walking on the Moon; space stations where people live for months at a time; and constructing homes on Mars! This book is packed full of facts about how people find out about different planets, the hunt for alien life and plans to make exploring space easy for everyone! Maybe you would like to explore space one day? That day could be sooner than you think!Exploring Space is part of the Astro range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Astro books are ideal for struggling and reluctant readers aged 7-11. Each book is dual-banded so that children can improve their fluency whilst enjoying exciting fiction and non-fiction relevant to their age. Astro books for Mercury/Purple band are also highly-decodable so ideal for extra phonics practice. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills.Interest age: 7-8 Reading age: 6-7 years

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A vibrant and hands-on approach to practical science experiments. Discover it Yourself: Sound and Light is packed with scientific facts, experiments, and activities linked to sound and light. Keen scientists can discover why thunder and lightning occur, how vibrations are made and who can see in the dark. After learning the essential key facts, children can find almost everything they need for the corresponding experiments around the home, with the materials and instructions simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by David Glover, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to make a sound amplifier, a rainbow, a periscope, musical instruments and much more.

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A mysterious disc appears in your house one day. As you start to play you are sucked inside the video game! Can you make your way through the levels and escape? Use the contents of this pack to help you find your way through six fiendish game levels: along the way you'll make your way through an enormous maze, explore the futuristic city while fending off an android assault, mine and craft your way through a blocky world, try to survive the temple of terror, puzzle your way through a super-cute platform level, and attempt to defeat the gigantic dragon.This pack lets you create your very own escape room experience at home. Create objects from the diecut card sheets you'll find in the envelope, then use them to solve a series of video-game-inspired levels inside the book. Your job is to work out which items are needed to solve which puzzle and gather information from multiple sources, as you crack secret codes and tackle tricky problems to escape the video game. It provides hours of entertainment for avid escape room and gaming fans, and can be enjoyed individually or in teams.

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Meet all kinds of dinosaurs as enormous as the magnificent T. Rex, or even bigger! From gentle giants such as the Brachiosaurus to the scary stalking Giganotosaurus. With plenty of big stickers to bring the exciting scenes to life.

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This series explores alternative energy resources, how they are produced, the technology necessary and what the future holds.With global warming and climate crisis and the rise in energy prices, looking at more sustainable types of energy resources, how well they can meet our power needs and how they work has never felt so relevant.Water power comes in many different forms. We can harness the tides, the waves or the flow of a river. How do we harness the energy made by water? What's needed and can it fulfill our energy needs? And what are the risks and benefits?While new technologies are being developed, each energy resource comes at a cost. This series looks at each energy resource, the technology and cost of how it is used to meet power needs and how it impacts the environment and humans.Each book explains how that power is generated and where it is used through clear diagrams and beautiful illustrations.Suitable for readers aged 9+.

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This series explores alternative energy resources, how they are produced, the technology necessary and what the future holds.With global warming and climate crisis and the rise in energy prices, looking at more sustainable types of energy resources, how well they can meet our power needs and how they work has never felt so relevant.Solar power is one of the major sustainable power sources. But how does harnessing the Sun's energy work? What's needed and can it fulfil our energy needs?While new technologies are being developed, each energy resource comes at a cost. This series looks at each energy resource, the technology and cost of how it is used to meet power needs and how it impacts the environment and humans. Each book explains how that power is generated and where it is used.Suitable for reader aged 9+.

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Dinosaurs are really famous. We see them in movies. We read about them in books and magazines. There are even dinosaur action figures and cuddly toys. This is pretty impressive, especially when you think that the last land-living dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago! This book will take you on a visit to the dinosaur museum, where you'll discover:- the ways that dinosaurs are classified and what their names mean- how people identify dinosaurs from their fossils- the mistakes people have made about dinosaurs- what happened to the dinosaurs and whether they still exist today.... Discovering Dinosaurs is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years.

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Discover it Yourself: Inside the Body is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities linked to the human body. It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical science experiments.Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home, and the materials and instructions are simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by Sally Morgan, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to test their fitness and reflexes, find out how much air they can expel from their lungs, measure their heart rate, and much more.Kids will learn, explore and discover STEM in the world around them with the Discover It Yourself series.

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This series explores alternative energy resources, how they are produced, the technology necessary and what the future holds.With global warming and climate crisis and the rise in energy prices, looking at more sustainable types of energy resources, how well they can meet our power needs and how they work has never felt so relevant.Wind power is one of the major ustainable power sources. But how does harnessing the wind's energy work? What's needed and can it fulfill our energy needs?While new technologies are being developed, each energy resource comes at a cost. This series looks at each energy resource, the technology and cost of how it is used to meet power needs and how it impacts the environment and humans. Each book explains how that power is generated and where it is used.Suitable for reader aged 9+.

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A vibrant and hands-on approach to practical science experiments. Discover it Yourself: Batteries, Bulbs and Wires is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities.Keen scientists can discover how magnets work, what makes a conductor or insulator and how electricity is helping environment. After learning the essential key facts, children can find almost everything they need for the corresponding experiments around the home, with the materials and instructions simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by David Glover, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to levitate a paperclip, a buzzer game, an electric circuit a compass and much more.

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This series explores alternative energy resources, how they are produced, the technology necessary and what the future holds.With global warming and climate crisis and the rise in energy prices, looking at more sustainable types of energy resources, how well they can meet our power needs and how they work has never felt so relevant.Nuclear power has always been quite contraversial. It isn't totally sustainable, so how is it better than fossil fuel? How does nuclear energy work? And what are the risks and benefits?While new technologies are being developed, each energy resource comes at a cost. This series looks at each energy resource, the technology and cost of how it is used to meet power needs and how it impacts the environment and humans. Each book explains how that power is generated and where it is used through clear diagrams and beautiful illustrations.Suitable for reader aged 9+.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. They have age-appropriate content, more mature images, and are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 3–5. We put lots of our rubbish into recycling bins – but what happens next? Find out what happens to our recycling once it's collected in this illustrated information book, narrated by a friendly rat! Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. The focus sounds in this book are: /ch/ /sh/ /th/, and adjacent consonants. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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