Best Selling Books by James MACLAINE

A fantastically festive write-in activity book, packed with puzzles, codes to crack, games to play, doodles to draw and lots more. Activities include helping Santa fill his sack with presents, decorating a Christmas tree, making snowflake decorations, and an advent calendar to colour in day-by-day.

Simple text and photographs provide an introduction to tigers, covering physical characteristics, behaviors, diet, life cycle, and conservation.

You''ll never guess how tiny robots are helping bees, where giant robots are stopping traffic, what kinds of intrepid robots are exploring outer space and how clever robots learn to beat chess champions. Discover all this and lots more things to know about what robots can do, how they are designed and programmed and the part they will play in our future.

What do bees and wasps eat? What type of nests do they make? How do bees make honey? Find out the answers and lots more in this intriguing introduction to bees and wasps. Easy-to-read text is accompanied by full-colour photographs and step-by-step visual explanations. Includes internet links to exciting websites to find out more about bees and wasps.

Combining a comprehensive dictionary with nearly 6,000 straightforward definitions and over 370 illustrations and a wonderful theasurus which contains words and their synonyms organised by type (colours, characteristics, etc) or by topic (under the sea, pirates, etc).

Christmas markets are festive places full of hustle, bustle and -- of course - lots of things for children to look at and talk about. This book is packed with lots of busy scenes and more than 150 stickers to add to them.

You''ll never guess where Tyrannosaurus rexes lived, what a Spinosaurus could do with its nose, why the head of a Parasaurolophus was like a trombone or how very heavy dinosaurs sat on their eggs without crushing them! All is revealed in this delightful information book, filled with quirky and surprising things to know about all kinds of dinosaurs.

Marvel at amazing mobs of meerkats in this engaging, easy-to-read book. How do meerkats hunt deadly scorpions? Why do they have dark patches around their eyes? What sounds do meerkats make and what do they mean? How does a meerkat show others it''s in charge? This book has all the answers, with clear photographs, detailed illustrations, simple text and links to websites with more information and fun activities.Chapters in this book include:- Curious creatures- Furry bodies- Living together- Burrow homes- Hungry diggers- Eating habits- Keeping watch- Action stations- Keep back!- Baby meerkats- Babysitters- In training- Angry mobs- Meerkat messages

You''ll never guess how monkeys clean their teeth, why penguins steal stones, which baby animal is bigger than its parents or just how high bumblebees can fly! All is revealed in this delightful information book, filled with friendly, humorous pictures and quirky, surprising facts about all kinds of animals. You''ll want to share this book with everyone you know!

Everything you want to know about whales in an easy-to-read book. How do whales sleep? Why do they blow bubbles? What can narwhals do with their tusks? This book has the answers to these questions and many more, along with photographs, step-by-step illustrations and links to websites with video clips and activities.

This lively activity book is packed with things to do during school breaks. There are travel-themed puzzles to solve, things to draw, games to play, facts, stickers and lots, lots more. You''ll have lots of fun even if you''re not traveling anywhere!

Where do otters sleep? When can baby otters start to swim? Why do some sea otters have purple teeth? Beginner readers can discover the answers to these questions and lots of other fascinating facts in this engaging information book. With simple text and stunning photographs and illustrations, plus links to websites with video clips and activities. An exciting addition to the Usborne Beginners series, which is now more than 80 titles strong. Written with expert advice from David Macdonald (Oxford University''s first Professor of Wildlife Conservation), the book includes information about the 13 different types of otters, including Eurasian otters, Asian small-clawed otters, hairy-nosed otters, sea otters and giant otters. With beautiful and clear step-by-step and full scene illustrations from artist Maribel Lechuga, as well as humorous ''factbox'' illustrations too.

Sail past the Statue of Liberty, take a stroll in Central Park and cross the Brooklyn Bridge as you sticker your way through New York''s most famous sights. There are over 200 stickers to bring the bustling scenes to life with yellow cabs, ice skaters, hot dog vendors and much more, plus links to websites to find out more about New York City.

Where do elephants live? What do they like to eat and how do they sleep? In this book you''ll find out the answers and lots more about the fascinating lives of elephants.

A fantastic resource to help children boost their word power, both when writing and talking. Words and their synonyms are grouped in over 90 topics, including for example, animal words, noisy words, fairytale words, jobs, sports, monsters, weather and lots more. Children can choose a topic relevant for their story, or look for a word in the Word Finder index. Colourful pictures illustrate many of the word meanings, and there are writing tips, word games and internet links to other carefully chosen writing resources online.

A simple introduction to the lives of pandas where they live, what they eat, how they behave, why they have come so close to extinction, and what humans are doing to save these gentle animals.

"Make boredom a thing of the past by cutting, folding and sticking your way through all the ideas in this book."--Back cover.