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Amazing Animals: Everything You Never Knew About the Animal Kingdom by David Burnie
Category: Children's
Take a walk on the wild side and find out everything you ever wanted to know about the natural world. Why do glow worms glow? What's the fastest thing on six legs? Which greedy guzzler munches 30,000 insects a day? Whatever your question: the answer is here. From lizards that can run on water to bugs th ...Show more
Animal (Compact Edition) by David Burnie (editor-in-chief)_
Category: Science & Natural History
First published in November 2001, Animal was groundbreaking in its visual style. No other guide to the animal kingdom, before or since, has offered such a range and depth of coverage combined with the extraordinary visual impact of thousands of colour illustrations and maps. It has profiles of over 2000 ...Show more
Animal (DK) by David Burnie
Category: Animals & Nature
The definitive visual guide to the world's wildlife Go on an amazing visual journey through the animal kingdom with Animal and find out all about over 2,000 species from tiny elephant shrews to great baleen whales. Written by a team of over 70 zoologists and naturalists from around the globe the boo ...Show more
Animal Kingdom - A Thrilling Adventure with Nature's Creatures by David Burnie; Miranda Smith; Claire Llewellyn
Category: Children's Reference
Come face to face with the amazing variety of creatures that make up the animal kingdom. Discover the strangest facts, read incredible information, and get up-close to animals in every habitat on Earth, from scorching deserts and tropical rainforests to vast grasslands and frozen tundra. Internet links ...Show more
Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife by David Burnie
Category: Photography
Packed with colour photographs, this guide sets out to illustrate, describe and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up the animal kingdom.
Bird by David Burnie
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Learn how birds' bodies are designed for flight, why wings are different shapes and sizes, how birds evolved from their prehistoric ancestors and which are the world's biggest, smallest, slowest and fastest birds. Discover how and where birds make their nests, why eggs are different colors, how many fea ...Show more
Bug Hunter by David Burnie
Category: Children's
This title helps you explore the world of bugs and other creepy crawlies with more than 30 fun, hands-on activities. You can enter the kingdom of creepy crawlies, from beetles and bees to spiders and scorpions. You can learn how to identify the bugs lurking in your garden or even raise your own caterpil ...Show more
Countdown to Extinction by David Burnie
Category: Children's
Today, there are over 6.5 billion people in the world. Together, we take up more space, eat more food and create more waste than any other form of life. Human dominance may be good news for us, but it's bad news for many other animals that share the planet with us. David Burnie looks at extinction fro ...Show more
DK Eyewitness Books: Tree by David Burnie
Category: Education | Series: DK Eyewitness Bks.
In this updated and revised edition of Tree, readers can follow a seed grow into a sapling, the changing colors of fall leaves, and the tiny insects that live in rotting leaves on the forest floor, plus learn why deciduous trees lose their leaves in the fall, how a tree breathes, how bark defends trees ...Show more
Dinosaurs (Navigators) by David Burnie
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Navigators Ser.
Navigators: Dinosaurs by David Burnie journeys around the world, delving through layers of fossil evidence to uncover the secrets of prehistoric life. Step back in time and unearth some of the most awesome dinosaur specimens yet discovered. Find out about fierce fighting dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs, ...Show more
Disasters (Discover More) by David Burnie
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Discover More
DISCOVER MORE: DISASTERS is a guide to natural disasters, bursting with photographs and fascinating facts. Children can follow a tornado chaser into the heart of a storm, track the path taken by a hurricane as it sweeps the ocean, or find out which natural disaster is the world's worst killer. Easy-to-f ...Show more
Dorling Kindersley's e.explore : Plant by David Burnie
Category: unmapped | Series: E. Explore
Discover the extraordinary world of plants and then visit the constantly updated website to access links to the best sites on the Internet. Over 1,000 links plus fantastic free images to download. All the websites are secure, age-appropriate and actively monitored to give you all the latest and most exc ...Show more