Most Popular Books by DK PUBLISHING

Books and building bricks come together like never before! Dynamic full-color photos combine with clearly labeled instructions, trivia, and a compelling story to make the Brickmaster kits perfect for all LEGO fans!

With this kit, kids can create incredible spacecraft from the world of Star Wars, or build their own unique warp-speed ships.

LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2010 The LEGO Group. ©2010 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Production by Dorling Kindersley under license from the LEGO Group.

Pop-Up Peekaboo: Christmas!

The latest additions to DK's Peekaboo series, these books feature big, bold pop-ups that jump from the pages when babies and toddlers lift the flaps. As young children explore the spreads, they'll learn to recognize, name, and describe different objects, providing a perfect early learning opportunity and fun way to build book-handling skills.

What will pop out of the Christmas stocking? Who will come out of the chimney? What's hiding behind the Christmas tree? Babies and toddlers will delight in the surprises in this Christmas-themed pop-up book.

Litter to Glitter: Cub Scout Activity Series

Book by DK Publishing

Farm Animals Press-Out Book

Watch Me Grow, a groundbreaking series from DK, brings readers ages 5 and up into the fascinating world of animal development. Close-up photographs give children an animal's eye-view of growing up, while simple, first-person text and fact boxes explain what is happening at each stage in the lives of different kinds of animals. Watch Me Grow introduces beginners to the cycle of life with gorgeous photography and accessible information. It's the next big thing in first natural history books.

Baby: Hide and Seek!

Perfect for reading aloud and encouraging early word recognition, these chunky board books are just right for babies who love to explore shape and texture.

Fun flaps, bright colors, and simple, bold designs will grab baby's attention
Easy-grip tabs make it accessible for baby to hold and explore
Simple, playful text makes it easy for reading aloud

Baby: Hide and Seek!

Perfect for reading aloud and encouraging early word recognition, these books are just right for babies who love to explore shape and color.

Bright colors, and simple, bold designs will grab baby's attention. Simple, playful text makes it easy for reading aloud.

Ultimate Sticker Collection: Spider-Man

Marvel fans young and old will have hours of web-slinging fun with the hundreds of reusable vibrant stickers featured in DK's Spider-Man Ultimate Sticker Collection. Use your imagination and Spidey powers to create adventure-packed scenes featuring Spider-Man, Mary Jane, the Green Goblin, Sandman and more!

Touch and Feel: Farm (Touch & Feel)

DK's beloved bestselling series gets a fresh new look!

With a sparkling new look, these bestselling DK classics are sure to become classics for a whole new generation of young readers. Babies and toddlers will be drawn to the captivating, tactile pages, and will want to touch, feel, and explore every one.

Hide and Seek: Things That Go

Filled with pictures to explore and study, Hide and Seek: Things That Go covers the exciting world of vehicles on the road, in the air, on water, and on tracks. Children will delight in hunting through the pages for cars, trucks, tractors, diggers, plains, trains, and more - returning to the book time and again as they try to spot all the different images.

My First Learning Library (Box Set)

Perfect for birthdays and baby shower gifts, this beautifully packaged box set includes three My First classics: the My First Word, My First ABC, and My First Number Board Books. Giving kids a head start on a lifetime of reading, the best-selling My First series has been highly acclaimed by parents and educators alike since it was first published. With the My First Learning Library Box Set, kids learn the basic skills of reading and recognition while having fun with a sturdy and attractive little book that's just their size. A world of knowledge awaits!

Baby Touch and Feel: Wild Animals (BABY TOUCH & FEEL)

Baby Touch and Feel: Wild Animals (BABY TOUCH

All About me (DK Lift-the-Flap)

DK Lift-the-Flap: All About Me identifies everything from noses to emotions in this first body book for children. An exciting series that introduces key subjects to children, DK's Lift-the-Flap books encourage language development, improve pre-reading skills, and teach familiarity with everyday things. Each book is created to engage young minds and provide a platform for discussion between parent and child --all in a fresh and fun novelty format so exciting kids won't realize they're learning!

Ultimate Sticker Book: Winnie the Pooh (Ultimate Sticker Books)

Includes 60 full-color stickers starring the Bear of Little Brain, Christopher Robin, and all their friends from the Hundred Acre Wood.

The Ultimate Looney Tunes Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Books)

The Ultimate Looney Tunes Sticker Book will thrill young fans of these timeless cartoon characters. Stick Bugs, Sylvester, Roadrunner, and the other stars of the zany Warner Bros. cartoons onto full-color backgrounds to create your own stories and scenes.

Finding Nemo Sticker Book

The Ultimate Finding Nemo Sticker Book will thrill young fans of the film. Stick Nemo and other images from his magical ocean world onto full color backgrounds from the movie to create your own stories and scenes.

Glow in the Dark: Superman (Ultimate Sticker Books)

Kids will love creating their own action scenes with these glow in the dark stickers, pitting the Man of Steel against some of the most devious villains in the universe. Full color backgrounds set the stage for battle in the city, in the air, or beyond these powerful adversaries can fight anywhere! More than 60 stickers can be used to fill in each scene or to decorate books, bags, and almost anything else.

Shrek

This colorful sticker book includes more than 60 self-adhesive stickers from Shrek and Shrek 2. Kids can use them to fill the book's colorful scenes as they read fun facts about the movies or use them to decorate their books and toys. These durable stickers can be peeled up and used again and again.

Batman (Ultimate Sticker Books: Glow-in-the-Dark)

Enter the world of the Dark Knight as he fights crime in Gotham City! The Ultimate Batman Glow in the Dark Sticker Book contains more than 60 reusable stickers to create exciting Batman adventures. All of the famous Batman characters are here, represented in images from the DC comic archive: Joker, Batgirl, Penguin, Riddler, Harley Quinn, and Robin, as well as Batman logos, comic action words, and Batman's most popular accessory the Batmobile.

My First Christmas Board Book (My 1st Board Books)

The complete preschool learning series to develop your child's vocabulary and early literacy skills. Here's an exciting new introduction to learning for preschool children. Carefully chosen elements focus on the first words critical to early language development. My First Christmas Board Book features dozens of objects associated with Christmas. This photographically illustrated 36-page board book is one that children and their families will cherish.

Christmas Peekaboo

Babies love playing peekaboo from about six months onward-and once they latch on to this simple game, they can't get enough of it! DK's Peekaboo books make the most of this fun interactive activity with flaps that open to reveal appealing babies and toys.

Ultimate Sticker Book: Marvel Heroes (Ultimate Sticker Books)

Featuring all the favorite Marvel characters from Captain America to Spider-Man, these fun and informative sticker books bring together the most powerful and popular heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe

Ultimate Sticker Book: Glow-in-the-Dark: Marvel Heroes (Ultimate Sticker Books)

Batman Sticker Book

More than 60 full-color stickers featuring Batman, Robin, and a gallery of Gotham's most notorious rogues. Create your own action-packed Batman scenes. Easy-peel stickers can be used more than once.

Disney: Ultimate Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Books)

Building on the success of such titles as Toy Story: The Essential Guide and Dinosaur: The Essential Guide, the DK creative team has been given unlimited access to Disney's considerable archives to chart the development of the Disney Company, from its early days in the 1920s to the present. Kids and collectors will treasure this sticker book filled with Disney facts and lovable characters. The more than 60 stickers include images of film cells, sketches, theme parks, and more.

Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

With padded covers, simple images, and an amazing range of novelty textures, Baby Touch and Feel books immediately capture the attention of the very youngest children to create an experience they'll want to repeat over and over again.

Baby Touch and Feel: Bedtime features blankets, stars, sleepy stuffed animals, and lots of soothing bedtime textures.

My First Touch & Feel Picture Cards: Animals (MY 1ST T&F PICTURE CARDS)

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

LEGO DUPLO: Rescue (Lego Ville)

What better way to involve younger readers in story time than by incorporating their favorite toys and characters! Together with LEGO® Duplo® hugely popular building bricks, DK brings stories, pictures, and sticker fun to our young readers.
Fire! All of LEGO®Ville comes out to support the local fire department and first responders as they keep the town and its chunky-block people and pets safe in Rescue.

LEGO, the LEGO logo and DUPLO are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ®2009 The LEGO Group. Produced by Dorling Kindersley under license from the LEGO Group.

Baby Touch and Feel: Cuddly Animals (Baby Touch & Feel)

Meet adorable cuddly and fuzzy animals in this tactile padded board book that encourages tiny fingers to explore and develop fine motor skills while building an early language foundation.

Filled with real-life animal photographs featuring touch-and-feel textures that babies can stroke, tickle, and pat, Baby Touch and Feel: Cuddly Animals is the perfect size for small hands. Its padded cover can withstand biting and throwing while its thick sturdy board pages won't tear. Your baby can practice animal recognition and perfect animal noises while touching the novelty textures on the pages.

With over a 200,000 copies sold, Baby Touch and Feel: Cuddly Animals is the perfect book for your child's bookshelf.

About the series:

Baby Touch and Feel books are the ideal series for the very youngest readers. These small, padded books excite babies and toddlers with their foil and touch-and-feel covers. Each book in this affordable series contains twelve vibrant interior pages with bold, engaging images. Containing large word labels, each page has foil or glitter to behold or a tantalizing texture to touch. These safe novelty textures immediately intrigue babies and are perfect for little fingers to feel. The Baby Touch and Feel series encourages sensory development, language skills, and early reading skills while teaching colors, shapes, patterns, and opposites.

DK Games: Silly Sentences

The perfect game to practice grammar skills learned in the first three years of school, and developed in association with early learning consultants, DK Games: Silly Sentences uses fun puzzle pieces to help children construct sentences—no matter how silly their meaning.

An exciting game for 1-4 players, children and adults can enjoy it together as the younger players learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more with the help of 124 color-coded cards, and construct an almost endless possibility of sentences. An illustrated instruction sheet helps parents and teachers guide children through the game step by step.

It's time to get silly while practicing grammar with the little ones in your life with DK Games: Silly Sentences.

Tabbed Board Books: My First Trucks and Diggers: Let's Get Driving! (Tab Board Books)

Explore the exciting world of trucks and diggers in this tabbed picture book that leads children to 13 fun activity spreads.

Filled with clear photography and simple text, Tabbed Board Books: My First Trucks and Diggers has all the classic kid favorites, from excavators to dump trucks to bulldozers. Look around the construction site to see tankers, logging trucks, and other commercial vehicles carrying freight on the road.

Perfect for learning the names of the different trucks and diggers and durable enough for toddlers to handle, Tabbed Board Books: My First Trucks and Diggers promotes early reading, listening, and writing skills.

The toddler-tough tabbed pages of the books in this series are filled with little ones' favorite topics waiting to be discovered. Thirteen inviting picture tabs lead children to fun-filled, activity-themed spreads, and each page offers a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities that promote early reading and writing skills.

A Big Cheese for The White House: The True Tale of A Tremendous Cheddar

What weighs 1,235 pounds, stands four feet high, and is made from the milk of nine hundred and thirty-four cows? Why, a giant cheese, of course! In 1801, the proud citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts, boasted that their cheese was the very best. But then they heard the shocking news: President Jefferson was serving Norton cheese at the White House! What to do? Elder John Leland had an idea. A very large idea. If everyone worked together, they could make a cheese so large that President Jefferson would be serving Cheshire cheese at the White House for years to come. How the villagers of Cheshire create a true cheese-making miracle and transport it to the nation's capitol makes a spirited, rollicking tale. Based on a true moment in American history, this funny picture book celebrates the ingenuity and community spirit of one small New England town as it attempts to make the country's biggest cheese for the nation's greatest man.

Make Your Own Skeleton (Smithsonian)

Includes Book and Gigantic 100-Piece Model!

Learning takes on an extra dimension with this Make Your Own Skeleton kit.

Assemble the model skeleton while learning about different parts of the human body — feet and legs, hips, spine, ribs, arms, head, and jaws — in the accompanying book. Following easy step-by-step instructions, Make Your Own Skeleton blends model-making with anatomy and behavior, teaching children about the human body in a whole new way.

Everything You Need to Know About Snakes (Everything You Need Know)

From speedy slithering creatures and living dragons to snakes that fly and shed skin, Everything You Need to Know About Snakes explores the fascinating world of reptiles.

Readers will discover how far a cobra can spit, a gallery of fangs, how to survive a snake attack, the life cycle of a snake, and the Titanoboa — a 50-foot-long prehistoric snake — while also learning about lizards, crocodiles, tortoises, and turtles. Packed with incredible images, fun games and quizzes, plus shocking facts on anatomy, diet, and behavior, kids will want to dip into this guide time and again.

DK Readers: George Washington -- Soldier, Hero, President (Level 3: Reading Alone)

This biography of one of the most famous and recognizable American presidents mark DK's commitment to bringing US history-based biographies to the DK Readers series. In George Washington, the young reader will learn about our first president's childhood, his life as a farmer, statesman, general, and his days as president. The 48-page Level 3 books, designed for children who can read on their own, contain more complex sentence structure and more detail. Young readers will devour these kid-friendly titles, which cover high-interest topics such as sharks, and the Bermuda Triangle, as well as classics like Aladdin. Information boxes highlight historical references, trivia, pronunciation, and other facts about words and names mentioned. Averaging 2,400 to 2,800 words, these books offer a 50/50 picture-to-text ratio. The Dorling Kindersley Readers combine an enticing visual layout with high-interest, easy-to-read stories to captivate and delight young bookworms who are just getting started. Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with literacy experts, these engaging books build reader confidence along with a lifelong appreciation for nonfiction, classic stories, and biographies. There is a DK Reader to interest every child at every level, from preschool to grade 4.

DK Readers: Boys' Life Series: Let's Go Fishing

Boys' Life is the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America and is published 12 times a year with 5.8 million readers an issue. An important initiative for Boys' Life and the Boy Scouts of America is Reading Partners, a literacy program that pairs poor readers with a better reader as a mentor. Open to everyone, not just Scouts, Reading Partners focuses on children from preschool to third grade. Boys' Life Readers cover boys' favorite topics in the visual, informative style of DK Readers.

Picturepedia

Ten thousand stunning photographs and illustrations catalog the wonders of history, space, the natural world, and more in this ultimate resource for kids ages 9–12. Bringing together an amazing array of images to explain every topic under the sun—and beyond—this book has a mini-encyclopedia on every page.

Picturepedia contains chapters on science and technology, nature, geography, culture, sports and hobbies, history, insects, musical instruments, spacecraft, world maps, famous discoveries, prehistoric life, and more. Every double-page spread contains a wealth of information on a given topic, with galleries, lists, sequences, facts, timelines, and much more, while every topic is illustrated with up to 100 photos, graphics, and illustrations.

Perfect for gift giving, or adding to any home or school library, Picturepedia is a stimulating quick-reference that kids will come back to time and time again.

Mommy and Me Start Cooking

Cook and learn together with Mommy and Me Start Cooking.

Full of fun activities such as experiencing food with all five senses, designing dishes, and performing kitchen experiments, plus an introduction to measurements associated with cooking, this is the perfect cookbook for children who want to join their parents in the kitchen.

Readers will learn about staple ingredients such as eggs, flour, and chocolate. They will find out what is inside an egg, where vegetables grow, how flour is made, and more.

Mommy and Me Start Cooking will educate and entertain, and is a fun way for families to spend time together.

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