Best Selling Books by James MacLaine

Step outdoors with this book and wave goodbye to boredom! Open a bug hotel, read the night sky and go bird spotting, then learn to draw animals, write a nature poem, and do an outdoor quiz. With specially selected links to websites for even more fun outdoor activities. Wherever you are, wherever you go, there''ll never be a dull moment again!

Where do wolves live? What do they eat and how do they catch their food? Why do wolves howl? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this fascinating book with easy to read text. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet. "No Key Stage 1 classroom should be without the whole set." - The Bookseller

Why do snakes hiss? What do they eat? How do they shed their skin? Find out the answers to these questions and lots more in this easy reading guide to snakes. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet. "No Key Stage 1 classroom should be without the whole set." - The Bookseller

A colourful, informative and extremely cute book about pandas, full of photographs and colourful illustrations. With clear and simple text, this book is perfect for beginner readers who prefer real life stories to fiction. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet. "No Key Stage 1 classroom should be without the whole set." - The Bookseller

Join Algernon the raccoon at Miss Molly''s School of Manners and take lessons in the Careful Listening Laboratory and the Art of Sharing Studio, learn table manners in the Dining Hall of Decorum, visit Sorry Sickbay, and shine at Good Sports Day.

An imaginative compendium of ideas to delight readers and dispel boredom. Discover how to doodle a sloth, turn pencil shavings into pictures and draw in ways you never imagined. Then try printing, spattering paints and painting with dots. There are ideas for portraits, patterns, optical illusions and more, so you''ll soon have enough artworks for your own exhibition -- and this book will show you how to stage one too.

Channel children''s excitement with a festive activity for every day in December. Packed with simple craft and cooking activities with a Christmassy theme, using things you''ll easily find to hand about the house. Make everything from garlands and gift tags to reindeer snacks and wrapping paper. Bright, festive illustrations and straightforward step-by-step instructions make this the perfect companion for the Christmas holidays.

A write-in activity book for young children, full of mazes, dot-to-dot, drawing, colouring, stickering, spot-the-difference, counting, spotting and matching activities - all themed around christmas.

A comprehensive thesaurus with colourful illustrations and helpful suggestions for alternative words to inspire creative writing.

Journeys need never be boring again with this vibrant activity book for young children. A collection of write-in activities including puzzles, word searches, dot-to-dot, spot-the-difference, mazes and more.

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

This brilliant reference book reveals the world''s many varieties of lizards, from tiny geckos that could fit on your fingertips to fearsome Komodo dragons. Discover which lizards swim in the sea, why some lizards change the colour of their skin and how one type of lizard uses its extraordinary blue tongue to stay safe. Illustrations: Full colour throughout

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.

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.

Spectacular designs for supersonic planes to tear out, fold and fly. Fold and fly 100 fully coloured paper jet planes - each one its own unique design. This book contains 100 tear-out sheets with guidelines to help you fold, clear, step-by-step instructions for making each type of plane and lots of flying tips.

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.

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!

A big picture book with giant fold-out pages to satisfy the curiosity of every young child. This book will teach children fun facts about general knowledge, which is all displayed on a huge double-gate fold. Makes a perfect gift which children will pore over for hours.

Fill an icy landscape with penguins. See how long a line you can doodle without stopping. Complete a crowd of monsters marching across the page or transform shapes into a gallery of faces. This eclectic activity book has lots of exciting ideas for you to explore with your pencils, crayons or felt-tip pens. There''s even a herd of giraffes who need you to color in their patches!

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 lively introduction to the fascinating lives of meerkats, replete with beautiful photographs, illustrations and diagrams and weird and wonderful facts. Usborne''s Beginners series contains the perfect balance of descriptive facts and fascinating illustrations and photography, providing appealing reading practice for children who prefer factual information and an excellent resource for school projects.

Bright and fun illustrations make a delightul introduction to one of the world''s most exciting cities - New York. Sail past the Statue of Liberty, take a stroll in Central Park and cross the Brooklyn Bridge as you sticker your way through the city''s sights. Eight carefully designed sticker pages boast over 250 stickers that will provide hours of entertainment without being too fiddly for young children to handle. Information is gently smuggled into the illustrations and simple text, so children will learn about the city as they read and play. New York is the fourth city to get the First Sticker Book treatment, making an appealing collection alongside First Sticker Books London, Paris and Venice.

This book is filled with mixed activities to keep little children happy and occupied on holiday, on journeys and at home. Contains lots of puzzles, drawing, colouring, dot-to-dots, mazes, spot the difference and so on.

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).

Contains over 135 flaps and hundreds of facts. This title shows you how many seeds a pomegranate has, how fast a woodpecker pecks, how many plays Shakespeare wrote, which is the warmest sea in the world, when the Eiffel Tower was built, what type of snack is the heaviest, and more.

You''ll find lots to draw, doodle and color in this exciting drawing, doodling and coloring book.