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WOW Price: $30 per set 

Have you ever wondered why birds can fly and humans can't? Why some animals care for their young and others leave them to fend for themselves? The six books in Science Secrets unlock these and many other basic secrets of life in simple, easy-to-read text and fascinating photographs. Each book includes experiments that kids can do to further their understanding of basic science and how it relates to their world, and boxes with interesting tidbits of information. These books are a must for students who are curious about our world! 

6 Titles included in the set: 
- Secrets of Animal Life Cycles 
- Secrets of Flight 
- Secrets of Habitats 
- Secrets of Heat and Cold 
- Secrets of Light 
- Secrets of Pollution and Conservation






Format: 6 Books in a setAge: 5+


WOW Price: $30 per set (6 Books)


Close-up photos throughout the book show readers parts of an animal's body until the final spread in which children will see a photo of the full animal-revealed. Each page contains a helpful clue in the text along with a corresponding photo. Each clue will help readers figure out which animal will be revealed at the end of the book. 

6 Titles included in the set: 
- Guess Who Bites 
- Guess Who Changes 
- Guess Who Grabs 
- Guess Who Hops 
- Guess Who Soars 
- Guess Who Sniffs






Format: 6 Books in a set
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $30 per set (6 Books) 


Mighty Minibeasts provides students with insight into the fascinating and diverse world of those insects known as "minibeasts." Each book focuses on a different minibeast, ranging from ants to butterflies to spiders, and gives students scientific evidence of each insect's size, diet, habitat, communication skills, and life cycle in easy-to-read language. 



The series also discusses safety tips for "minibeast watching" and teaches the student what exactly makes a minibeast mighty. 



6 Titles included in the set: 

- Ants 
- Bees 
- Butterflies 
- Flies 
- Ladybugs 
- Spiders






Format: 6 Books in a set
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $30 per set (6 Books)

Discovering Dinosaurs introduces young readers to the exciting world of paleontology. Each book focuses on a different dinosaur and provides scientific evidence of its probable physical features, diet, habitat, life cycle, and scientific hypotheses as to how and why the dinosaur became extinct. 

Each book tells the tale by using simple, easy-to-understand language, as well as illustrations and photographs of fossil remains. Students will learn how paleontologists use fossils to classify dinosaurs and how they are able to "read" the fossils to find out how prehistoric species used to live. Each book also includes a quick quiz to test the reader's knowledge. 

6 Titles included in the set: 
- Ankylosaurus 
- Diplodocus 
- Muttaburrasaurus 
- Protoceratops 
- Tyrannosaurus Rex 
- Velociraptor






Format: 6 Books in a set
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $6 each (More than 50% Off Retail Price!)
 

The "Tell Me Why, Tell Me How" series addresses the often mysterious phenomena of the natural world and the amazing behaviors and abilities of plants and animals. 


11 Titles Available:

(1) How Do Bats Fly in the Dark? 
(2) How Do Bees Make Honey? 
(3) How Do Caterpillars Become Butterflies? 
(4) How Do Chameleons Change Color? 
(5) How Do Spiders Make Web? 
(6) Why Do Bears Hibernate? 
(7) How Do Mountains Form? 
(8) Why Do Valconoes Erupt? 
(9) Why Do the Seasons Change? 
(10) Why Does It Rain? 
(11) Why Does the Sun Set?








Sample page from "Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?":




Sample page from "Why Do the Seasons Change?":




Sample page of Activity and Glossary found in every book:





Format: Hardback
Pages: 32
Size: 20cm x 20cm
Age: 4+


WOW Price: $4.50 each
 
5 Titles Available:


(1) Ladybird Mad About Bugs 
(2) Ladybird Mad About Dinosaurs 
(3) Ladybird Mad About Ponies 
(4) Ladybird Mad About Sharks 
(5) Ladybird Mad About Space






Format: Hardback
Pages: 32
Size: 18cm x 13cm
Age: 4+


WOW Price: $20
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This is a new edition (Jan 2012) of this bumper activity book, introducing children to the world of science in a practical and interactive way. It contains 57 activities including bubbling wizard's brew, magic flowers, panpipe straws, a spinning paper helicopter and a light catcher. Each activity uses simple and safe materials and is described by step-by-step instructions and illustrations. The activities are also accompanied by simple explanations of the science involved, including density, air pressure, streamlining and wind power. It is presented with over 800 colourful stickers to decorate the projects with.


 

Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
Size: 27cm x 21cm
Age: 6+


WOW Price: $21
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Newest Edition in Jan 2013!


A must-have encyclopedia with over 1,500 amazing photographs, illustrations and diagrams, and appealingly simple text. Packed full of knowledge just waiting to be absorbed by fact-hungry children, including information about our world, animals and plants, how the human body works, history, different cultures, science, technology and space - plus a complete set of maps of the world. Fully internet-linked, children can access over 150 recommended websites via Usborne Quicklinks, reinforcing their learning with additional information, activities, quizzes, games, video clips and virtual tours.





Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 20cm x 16cm
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $21 each (30% Off Retail Price $30!) 


(1) Usborne Look Inside Your Body 

This is a wonderful flap book introducing children to the way their own bodies work in a fun and informative way. It is full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps and a cheeky peek inside a toilet cubicle. Young readers' minds will boggle as they learn about how their brains work, what happens when they eat, how their lungs use oxygen and much more.






(2) Usborne Look Inside Science 


A flap book that introduces the world of science in a simple way for younger readers. It is full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps. It features basic science topics from how plants grow to astronomy and forces. Each double-page includes simple practical experiments for children to try themselves. 



(3) Usborne Look Inside Space 


This is a great fun flap book packed with interesting information about space, and the amazing things that float through it - stars, moons, comets, and the planets of our solar system. Each double-page spread has a stunning colour illustration, and several flaps to lift to find out more about what's going on in the scene - such as what goes inside the International Space Station, how astronauts visited the Moon and what they did there, as well as the history of astronomy, from Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope. 




(4) Usborne Look Inside Sports 


This is a great, fun flap book packed with interesting information about popular sports, particularly those taking place at the 2012 Olympics. Each scene has several flaps to lift to find out even more about the sport - such as what goes on behind the scenes at a busy stadium, how athletes train, interesting bits of sports kit, or what lies underneath a football pitch or ice rink. Scenes include an Olympic swimming pool, an athletics stadium, a ski slope, and a cycling velodrome. 






(5) Usborne Look Inside Cars 


This is a fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about cars, from how the first automobiles were invented, to how speedy racing cars get around tracks. Each of the double-page spreads have several flaps to lift, many with double flaps, and several of them also have fun paper technology such as sliding a race car or moving a car along a production line in a factory. Other spreads look inside a busy car repair shop, and a scrap yard where old cars get crushed. 





(6) Usborne Look Inside Pirate Ships (New release in Jan 2013) 


Lift the flaps to discover what life is like aboard bloodthirsty Black Dan's fearsome pirate ship. Watch the pirates capture a merchant ship and follow them to a desert island in search of buried treasure. With over 50 flaps to lift.




Format: Board Book with flaps
Pages: 14
Size: 220mm x 200mm
Age: 4+

WOW Price: $6.50 each

New release in Aug 2012!

(1) i Explore Earth
(2) i Explore Space
(3) i Explore Dinosaurs
(4) i Explore Extreme Animals
(5) i Explore Sharks
(6) i Explore Bugs
 


"i Explore" is a new series of fact books, perfect for children who want to learn more about the world around them. Discover everything you need to know about "Earth, Space, Dinosaurs, Extreme Animals, Sharks and Bugs". With vivid photography and design inspired by the world of technology, these books offer a new approach to first reference books. Each book also includes a 3-D image on each spread and glasses to view them with. Young children will love reading the cool facts and learning more about the wonders of our planet in these fun fact books.







  








Format: Paperback
Pages: 20
Size: 20cm x 20cm
Age: 4+

WOW Price: $10 only!


This super chunky book lists down hundreds of strange and interesting stories on topics such as Human Body, Inventions, Dinosaurs - most of these are true but some are tall tales. Readers can test themselves if these are fact or fiction, and check your answers. Great fun for both children and adults!





Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 15cm x 12cm
Age: 5+

WOW Price: $21 only!
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This is a beautiful board book, with over 60 flaps. It provides friendly, charming answers to challenging questions that young children love to ask. Bold, question word headings (Who? Why? Where? etc.) bring together an eclectic mix of subject areas, making it the perfect book to dip into. The illustrations are both entertaining and informative, and the text is written simply and clearly, with an added touch of humour.





Format: Hardback
Pages: 14
Size: 27cm x 21cm
Age: 4+

WOW Price: $10

 

Format: Paperback
Pages: 16
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $22 only!
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There's a whole world of amazing animals to meet inside this incredible pop-up and pull-out atlas! Take your child on an interactive trip around the world with the help of a spectacular 3D pop-up animal scene, amazing pictures, fantastic pull-out pages, fun quizzes and masses of fascinating facts. They'll find out more about the animals on each continent, what kind of habitats they live in and much more.










Format: Hardback
Pages: 32
Size: 
28cm x 26cm
Age: 5+


WOW Price: $6 each 

I Wonder Why is a highly popular and long-running series that explores the questions that young readers ask about the world around them in an unrivalled child-friendly style. 


(1) I Wonder Why Caterpillars Eat So Much and Other Questions About Life Cycle




(2) I Wonder Why Lemons Taste Sour and Other Questions About Senses




Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
Size: 28cm x 23cm
Age: 5+

WOW Price: $10 each
 
Usborne Beginners Books are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own. The books contains vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text.

(1) Usborne Beginners Book: Your Body
(2) Usborne Beginners Book: Trash and Recycling
(3) Usborne Beginners Book: Planet Earth
(4) Usborne Beginners Book: Under the Sea
(5) Usborne Beginners Book: Weather
(6) Usborne Beginners Book: Sun, Moon and Stars
 












Format: Hardback
Pages: 32
Size: 20cm x 15cm
Age: 5+

WOW Price: $21
 
Discover the inside view of the amazing human body with the help of fantastic fold-out flaps. Organized in three sections: What happens to your food? How do your senses work? and How are babies made?, this book covers the fascinating working of our bodies in detail but with easy-to-follow and understand text and bold, colourful illustrations for young children.


 

Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
Size: 21cm x 21cm
Age: 4+

WOW Price: $21 per book (Retail price up to $29!)


21 Popular Titles to Choose From:
(1) Usborne See Inside Planet Earth
(2) Usborne See Inside Space
(3) Usborne See Under the Sea

(4) Usborne See Under the Ground
(5) Usborne See Inside Famous Buildings
(6) Usborne See Inside Castles

(7) Usborne See Inside Houses Long Ago
(8) Usborne See Inside Recycling and Rubbish
(9) Usborne See Inside Your Body
(10) Usborne See Inside Your Head
(11) Usborne See Inside the World of Dinosaurs

(12) Usborne See Inside Science
(13) Usborne See Inside Maths
(14) Usborne See Inside Inventions
(15) Usborne See Inside How Things Work
(16) Usborne See Inside Fairyland
(17) Usborne See Inside Ancient Rome

(18) Usborne See Inside Ancient Egypt
(19) Usborne See Inside London
(20) Usborne See Inside Ships
(21) Usborne See Inside the Second World War (New release in Jun 11!)






WOW Price: $14 each 

(1) Animal Sticker Atlas








(2) Dinosaur Sticker Atlas



Format: Sticker Book
Size: 27cm x 21cm
Pages: 32 (Animal) / 24 (Dinosaur)
Age: 4+

WOW Promotional Price: $22.50
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Readers are invited on a novelty-packed journey of discovery to find out how the earth works which covers topics such as Earth's history and structure, the origins of life, plate tectonics, the water cycle, weather, ocean currents, the carbon cycle, greenhouse effect, plants, and food chains.

Special features:
- Amazing pop-up
- Flaps to lift
- Tabs to pull
- Wheels to turn
- Action packed



Format: Hardback
Pages: 18
Size: 28omm x 260mm
Age: 6+