Untie the patterns to the coolest shoes around with 20 unique styles in Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes!
Express your creativity through your laces with 20 unique styles in Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes! Learn these simple but impressive techniques and become a shoe tying pro using the shoelaces that come with this book. This easy-to-follow visual guide walks you through stylish and unique patterns with pictures for every twist of a lace. Try out countless new designs and take your shoes from so-so to fantastic with funky designs kids will love and unique patterns even teenagers will enjoy, including:
- Lattice Lacing - Double X Lacing - Loop Back Lacing - Super Star - Bar Lacing - Beautiful Bows - Diamond Laces - Ladder Laces - Basket Weave Laces - Sunburst Laces - Zipper Laces
This unique book design will stand out on the shelf, and is the perfect gift for kids learning to tie their shoes, adolescents looking for creative new ways to style their laces, and Sneakerheads alike! Make your shoes stand out in a crowd. With Cool Ways to Tie Your Shoes you’ll never have boring laces again.
Stats to Blow Your Mind, Junior Edition
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Did you know that the average person will walk about 110,000 miles in their lifetime, meaning you could walk around the Earth 4.5 times? Or that all the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans? Learn more totally crazy facts with Stats to Blow Your Mind, Junior Edition.
Did you know that the average person will walk about 110,000 miles in their lifetime, meaning you could walk around the Earth 4.5 times? Or that all the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans? Learn more totally crazy facts with Stats to Blow Your Mind, Junior Edition. This book has 75 shocking stats and facts across a wide variety of topics, including the environment, the animal kingdom, cultures, languages, nature, science, people, poverty, media, technology, and more, such as:
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater. - Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world, with the average adult measuring in at around 5 feet, 1.8 inches. - Four babies are born every second. - McDonald’s sells 75 burgers per second - Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.
Prepare to be amazed, and impress your friends while you’re at it! This highly visual book presents knowledge in an exciting way, and is perfect for curious minds that love to learn. Make learning engaging and fun with this graphic collection of some of the world’s craziest, kid-friendly statistics.
Speedy Knots
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Little climbers, campers, sailors, and adventurers alike will become knot-tying pros with Speedy Knots.
This visual guide answers all of your knot-tying questions. Simple, straightforward language makes it easy to master the basics without getting tied up. Knot tying is a fundamental skill that will help your child through life’s adventures. Use these practical knots both indoors and out. Whether you’re going camping, fishing, or helping tie down a canoe, you’ll be able to choose the right knot for the job. This manual uses detailed, step-by-step illustrations and diagrams that make it easy to follow along. The unique format includes rope and offers a hands-on approach to learning so readers can practice each knot as they read the diagrams. Readers will master 24 essential knots, including the:
With this guide, you will learn: how to choose, care for, and store your rope; when to use each knot; and how to tie knots safely and securely. Never get in a tangle again with Speedy Knots.
Discovering Mars
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Blast off into outer space and explore the mysteries of the red planet with Discovering Mars.
Did you know that Mars is twice the size of Earth’s moon? Or that it is home to the Valles Marineris—the largest canyon in our solar system? Blast off and explore the surface of the fourth planet from the Sun with Discovering Mars. This book is a complete scientific guide to Mars, including information on geography, atmosphere, unique landscape features, and more. Discover Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos, learn all about unique polar spiders, and investigate past, present, and future life on Mars. Incredible illustrations and NASA imagery of Mars’s surface, craters, and volcanoes bring outer space right to your fingertips and let you explore the red planet like never before. Learn all about past missions to Mars, and take a sneak peek into future projects from NASA and beyond.
An avid traveler, Alexandra Lefort has lived in France, Scotland, Switzerland, and the U.S., and has now made her home in Vancouver, B.C. Passionate about exploration, she completed a PhD in planetary sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland, focusing her academic research on the investigations of Martian water, with a particular interest for the question of habitability and extraterrestrial life. This interest in the origin and development of life also translates into artistic representation of terrestrial lifeforms and environments. A self-taught artist, her favorite media are photography, with a portfolio which includes wildlife portraits, macro photography, landscapes, and traditional drawing and painting, including graphite, pastels, acrylics, and digital art. She has designed several coins for the Royal Canadian Mint and has collaborated with paleoartist Julius Csotonyi on realistic depictions of prehistoric wildlife, including a mural for the 2015-2018 exhibit “Ice Age Bison Discovery: Our Frozen Past and Thawing Future” at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, and collaborative paintings in The paleoart of Julius Csotonyi, Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms?: And Other Questions about Dinosaurs, and Discovering Sharks.
Moby Dick - Kid Classics
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Now the classic novel by Herman Melville is an illustrated storybook perfect for kids! Kid Classics: Moby Dick is full of adventure and excitement!
Herman Melville was a sailor before he was a famous author, and he pulled from his seafaring experience when he wrote Moby Dick; Or, the Whale in 1851. Now, here is the fun new just-for-kids version of Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, abridged and retold while remaining true to Melville’s original text. It’s a story that you can’t put down: The sailor Ishmael tells the tale of whaling ship Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to get revenge on Moby Dick, the legendary giant white sperm whale who bit off his leg! With page after page of captivating illustrations, this magical hardcover will be the fought over favorite in your home and schoolroom!
Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. He also worked as a schoolteacher, clerk, and sailor, and his writing was not well known at the time of his death; however, in years since Moby Dick has become known as one of the greatest novels of all time.
Sherlock (The Hound of the Baskervilles) - Kid Classics
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Now the classic novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an illustrated storybook perfect for kids! Kid Classics Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervillesis an irresistible mystery—just the right amount of thrilling!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this classic tale about Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson more than one hundred years ago. Now, here is the fun new just-for-kids version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles, abridged and retold for a young modern audience while remaining true to Doyle’s original text.
It’s a story that you can’t put down: When the Baskervilles are haunted by a giant, ghostly hound that glows eerily and howls outside their estate at night, no one can crack the case but Sherlock Holmes! Holmes and Watson track the fearsome hound through the Grimpen Mire and solve the mystery, along the way learning lessons about greed, truth, and illusion. With page after page of captivating illustrations, this magical hardcover will be the fought over favorite in your home and schoolroom!
