Best Selling Books by DK Publishing

"DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Phuket" will lead you straight to the very best that Thailand's largest island and its surroundings have to offer. Whether you're looking for a beautiful beach, to experience Phuket's vibrant nightlife, or to explore the exotic mangrove forests and jungles, this guide is your perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists -- from the Top 10 beaches and Top 10 areas of natural beauty, to the Top 10 temples and shrines and the Top 10 island day trips from Phuket. The guide is divided by area, covering all of Phuket's highlights and packed with reviews for restaurants, bars, and hotels. "DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Phuket" also includes a full-color pull-out map and guide with sixty great ideas for how to spend your day.

Covers significant landmarks, museums, public buildings, and historic sites as well as hotels, restaurants, and major stores.

From dump trucks to stunt-defying monster trucks, DK Readers: Big Trucks introduces young children to the world of trucks. With simple sentences and an emphasis on frequently used words, this Pre-Level 1 DK Reader will encourage an interest in reading in three to five-year-olds. Pre-level 1 Readers are delightful narratives for young children to encourage an interest and desire to learn to read using strong visual clues, picture word strips, and labels introduce and reinforce vocabulary. DK Readers are packed with full-color photographs, lively illustrations, and engaging, age-appropriate stories to introduce young children to the natural world and encourage a life-long love of reading. The amazing stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge.

Describes the inner workings of various parts of the human body, including the heart, lungs, and skeleton.

Discusses lodging, dining, and entertainment in Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque, along with information on trip planning, security, and shopping.

Discusses lodging, dining, and entertainment in Seattle, along with information on trip planning, security, and shopping.

Maps, illustrations, and text describe various aspects of countries of the world including physical features, population, standards of living, natural resources, industries, environmental issues, and climate.

Covers the processes and life forms of the natural world from A to Z.

"10,000 stunning photographs and illustrations catalog the wonders of history, space, the natural world, and more in Picturepedia. Bringing together an amazing array of images to explain every topic under the sun - and beyond, Picturepedia is the ultimate resource for kids ages 9- 12. Chapters on science and technology, nature, geography, culture, sports and hobbies, and history cover insects, musical instruments, spacecraft, world maps, famous discoveries, prehistoric life, and more."--Publisher's website.

Meet swashbuckling pirates in DK findout! Pirates and see how they really lived out on the high seas. Discover the truth behind the myths, and tease out the facts from the fiction. DK findout! Pirates takes you on board a pirate ship and shows you what they ate, the rules they followed, and the treasure they searched for. Learn what offense would make someone walk the plank, see what it took to become a pirate, and pick up a few vocabulary terms to talk like a pirate all day. Make sure to memorize the types of pirates flags that will fly from the mast, and learn how to read a treasure map to lead the way to Tortuga, the Caribbean island that was a piracy hotspot. Read about the many different types of pirates, including Vikings, 17th century pirates, and modern pirates. Meet Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Ching Shih, the tough and infamous women pirates who ruled the seas. DK findout! Pirates looks at every kind of pirate, including the modern day pirates who capture and take over ships on the seas today.