A Ladybird Book: Electricity

A Ladybird Book: Electricity
Author: Elizabeth Jenner
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241416965

Almost everything we do each day relies on electricity, but what is it and where does it come from? Electricity explores how electric currents appear in nature, from static to lightning bolts, and how these natural marvels inspired scientists to conduct experiments and find ways to harness power. It looks at how we create electricity and the many ways it is used every day. You can build your own encyclopedia with Ladybird Books. Other titles available in the series: Animal Habitats Insects and Minibeasts Baby Animals Trees Sea Creatures The Human Body Weather Trains The Solar System

A Ladybird Book: Trains

A Ladybird Book: Trains
Author: Elizabeth Jenner
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241417198

Trains are used across the world to transport goods and passengers. They can ride rails underground, move at high-speeds and travel between countries and can be powered by coal, diesel or electricity. Trains takes readers on a journey through history and across the world as they discover the wonder of the railway. You can see how train travel has developed through history - from simple mining wagons to high-speed machines and beyond. You can build your own encyclopedia with Ladybird Books. Other titles available in the series: Animal Habitats Insects and Minibeasts Baby Animals Trees Sea Creatures Electricity Weather The Solar System The Human Body

What to Look For in Summer

What to Look For in Summer
Author: Elizabeth Jenner
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241416213

Explore the beauty of summer in this new edition of What to Look For in Summer. The increased warmth and long sunny days of summertime in the UK helps crops to grow, insects to thrive and animals to hunt. This book takes a closer look at ripening fruits, buzzing bees, summer storms and the solstice as the secrets of summer begin to appear in the world around us. Follow the changing seasons with the other titles in the What to Look For... series: What to Look For in Autumn What to Look For in Winter What to Look For in Spring

The Ladybird Book of the Hipster

The Ladybird Book of the Hipster
Author: Joel Morris
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1405925760

The Ladybird book of the Hipster is your guide to the terminally cool. _________________________________________________ This is a hipster. He is childless, unaccountably wealthy, and always well turned out. He likes art, porridge,s carves, and anything reclaimed from French factories . . . _________________________________________________ Hipsters like to collect old things that are unfashionable, because that makes them fashionable. Vintage washing-up bowls are highly prized, because they look neither retro nor valuable, and therefore both. _________________________________________________ This delightful book is part of a Ladybird series specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. Also available: How it Works: The Husband How it Works: The Wife How it Works: The Mum The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis The Ladybird Book of the Hangover The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness The Ladybird Book of the Shed The Ladybird Book of Dating The Ladybird Book of the Hipster

A Ladybird Book: The Human Body

A Ladybird Book: The Human Body
Author: Elizabeth Jenner
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241417007

Every human being is different and yet we are made from the same building blocks. Beneath the skin's surface are bones, tissues, muscles and cells that work together to help us live, breathe, move and feel. The Human Body is an accessible introduction to the human body, from the tiny cells to the intricate organ systems. It looks at how everything works together to help us live, breathe, move and feel. You can build your own encyclopedia with Ladybird Books. Other titles available in the series: Animal Habitats Insects and Minibeasts Baby Animals Trees Sea Creatures Electricity Weather Trains The Solar System

Concretopia

Concretopia
Author: John Grindrod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781906964900

Was Britain's postwar rebuilding the height of mid-century chic or the concrete embodiment of crap towns? John Grindrod decided to find out how blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling austerity Britain became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass. What he finds is a story of dazzling space-age optimism, ingenuity and helipads - so many helipads - tempered by protests, deadly collapses and scandals that shook the government.

Chicken Licken

Chicken Licken
Author: Donna R. Parnell
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780721450292

When an acorn hits him on the head, Chicken Licken alarms the other barnyard birds by telling them the sky is falling.

Sunkissed

Sunkissed
Author: Jenny McLachlan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250061504

Kat's family sends her to Sweden to spend the summer with her aunt, where she must learn to embrace who she really is--especially if she's going to win the heart of cute Swede Leo.

The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse

The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse
Author: Jason Hazeley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0718184459

Discover what the end of the world really looks like . . . 'Lara has constructed her own home-made flame-thrower. The flame-thrower has turned the walking corpses into burning walking corpses. Now everything they touch catches fire. 'This did not happen with the cricket bat,' thinks Lara' __________ 'Some people say civilisation after a zombie apocalypse will go back to The Stone Age. Nobody tidies up or collects the bins. The electricity keeps going off. There are dead bodies piled up in the streets. It is actually more like the 1970s.' __________ This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. 'Hilarious' Stylist Explore other essential life companions in the Ladybird Books of Mindfulness, The New You, The Meeting, and more.