Lonely Planet Kids – The Bell Bookshop

Let’s play sports

Emma — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Embark on a fun-filled sporting journey with this lift-the-flap book for young readers. Find famous and lesser-known games and sports from across the continents and learn how children around the world play. From ice hockey in Canada, baseball in the USA to kabbadi in India – discover interactive surprises and beautiful illustrations on every page.

Packed with super-cool artwork and fascinating insights, curious kids aged 3-5+ can explore 8 vibrant sporty scenarios, each set in a different country, with flaps that lift to reveal hidden team uniforms, behind-the-scenes imagery of stadiums and more. This one-of-a-kind book is a brilliant introduction to the world of sports for children who love to play.

Inside Let’s Play Sports:

– Interactive lift-the-flap feature that reveals the inside of stadiums, sports equipment and uniforms

– 8 scenes of people playing sports from all over the globe, providing a fun glimpse into the awesome ways kids, grown-ups and teams compete in friendly games

– Famous and lesser-known games and sports that show how other cultures play together and spend time with one another

– Easy-to-understand insights into the history of particular sports and games

– Beautifully illustrated to keep curious minds entertained and engaged

– Covers: Canada (winter sports like ice hockey and snowboarding), USA (adventures at a baseball game), Brazil (beach sports like volleyball and beasal), UK (seaside games, crazy golf and skateboarding), Cameroon (soccer and ‘stockings’), India (cricket and kabaddi), Australia (water sports like surfing and paddleboarding), New Zealand (touch-rugby and a haka performance)

Let’s Play Sports is the latest book in the Lonely Planet Kids’ lift-the-flap series following on from A Place Called Home and A Time to Celebrate. Written by Kate Baker and illustrated by Hannar Riordan, this is the perfect book to gift to young minds, showing them how sports and games can bring joy and happiness to life – anywhere in the world.

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids – an imprint of the world’s leading travel authority Lonely Planet – published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

Ocean Animal Atlas

Emma — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Take a deep dive into the aquatic world to see sealife as you’ve never seen it before. Ocean by ocean and sea by sea, readers will discover all the amazing animals that inhabit this watery landscape, from ferocious sharks and giant whales to multicoloured tropical fish, long-legged squid and strange bioluminescent creatures that glow eerily in the ocean depths. Beautiful illustrations, dynamic photos and fact-packed text will reveal the lives, habitats and behaviours of these incredible marine creatures. Maps and diagrams will show where the animals live – both horizontally across the oceans (including migration routes), and vertically from the surface down to the seabed. It’s an underwater adventure in a book.

Content includes:

History of Ocean Life
Types of ocean creatures
Marine habitats
Ocean topography
Oceans at risk
Ocean exploration
Currents and gyres
Ocean food chains
Ocean water
Ocean winds and storms
Seas vs Oceans
Atlantic Ocean
Major Seas (Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea)
Arctic Ocean
Indian ocean (plus Red Sea and Bay of Bengal)
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean – Depth Zones, including Mariana Trench
Southern Ocean

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids – an imprint of the world’s leading travel authority Lonely Planet – published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

Explorapedia

Emma — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Get ready to travel across the world and back into history, to meet some of the world’s greatest explorers in this big fun, fully illustrated reference book. Readers will learn about both famous – and these days sometimes controversial – names, such as Columbus, Magellan and Roald Amundsen, plus little-known ones, from a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. These include Jeanne Bare, the first woman to circumnavigate the Earth (which she did in the 18th century, disguised as a man), and Matthew Henson, an African American explorer who may have been the first person to reach the North Pole in the early 20th century. Individual biographies will also be interspersed with themed spreads that focus on wider topics – such as First Journeys out of Africa, Aboriginal Songlines, the Space Race, the future of human exploration, and much more.

Contents includes:

Ocean Explorers
Overland Explorers
Ice and Snow Explorers
Exploring the Skies

A Time to Celebrate

Emma — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A follow-up to A Place Called Home, this beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap book explores and celebrates different people, places, cultures and traditions from across the world. Featuring eight festivals – at least one from each of the inhabited continents – this title provides a glimpse into diverse traditions, customs and beliefs. By lifting the flaps and reading the gentle, educational text, readers can find out about New Year in China, Christmas in Germany, Carnival in Rio, the Day of the Dead in Mexico and much more.

Celebrations include:

The Garma Festival, Arnhem Land region, Australia
Chinese New Year, Beijing, China
Rio Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ramadan in Morocco, Africa
Day of the Dead, Oaxaca, Mexico
Diwali, Mumbai or Jaipur, India
Tu Bi’Shivat Festival, New York, USA
Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids – an imprint of the world’s leading travel authority Lonely Planet – published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!