Bøker av Alice James

This book brings a world of teeny creatures and tiny details vividly to life. Packed with exciting facts and amazing photographs, it includes practical, hands-on activities, for those with and without a microscope at home.

This write-in activity book explores all sorts of design skills, from how to create stunning lettering and logos to designing costumes, gadgets, games and websites. Aspiring designers will have hours of fun coming up with their own designs, with lots of handy tips and tricks to help them along the way.

Think like a mathematician by scribbling your way through this jam-packed activity book, full of maths puzzles to solve, codes to crack and patterns to draw. Activities include inventing your own currency, designing symmetrical shapes and creating maths magic tricks. Includes links to websites with even more maths facts and activities.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the wildlife, plants, history and magic of woodlands. Children can discover their inner explorer, learning how to identify trees, track animals, build woodland shelters, draw maps and discover legends set in woods. With safety tips and links to websites with virtual tours of woodlands and video clips of wildlife.

This informative book is filled with 100 fascinating facts about food, from how to grow a burger in a laboratory to how many bees it takes to fill an orchard with apples. With bright, infographic-style illustrations, detailed facts on every page, a glossary and index, plus internet links to specially selected websites for more information.

Why does rain make chocolate more expensive? How does music make people spend more? Where does gold grow on trees? Who tried to sell the Eiffel tower? Find these answers to these questions and many more in this book full of money facts from around the world, from ancient coins to cryptocurrency. Each book in this best-selling, award-winning series presents 100 bite-sized topics, with bold, graphic illustrations and clear text. Perfect for dipping in and out of, and for sharing with family and friends.

From teeny biting insects to huge snapping crocodiles, this sticker book is crammed with deadly animals from around the globe. With over a hundred stickers and added did-you-know facts for hours of screen-free fun.

Discover the evolution of home canning over 200 years in this comprehensive guide that brings together the essence of preserving food with modern safety and quality standards. Tailored for both beginners and experienced canners, this book covers the scientific principles underpinning canning techniques, details essential equipment, and provides guidance on jars, lids, ingredients, and procedures for safe and high-quality results.The core part of the book simplifies the canning process by explaining the scientific foundation, equipment usage, and proper jar and lid practices. It guides you through basic canning ingredients and procedures, helping you make informed decisions on whether, and how much, to can. Updated research-based recommendations ensure that you can confidently produce safer and better-quality home-canned foods.This practical and easy-to-follow guide is a one-stop resource for everything you need to know about home canning. With step-by-step directions and tested insights from experts, Complete Guide to Home Canning ensures that every aspect of canning is approachable, making the process simple and enjoyable for all. Don't wait; scroll up and click "Buy Now" to begin your transformative home canning journey today!

Colour in smiling otters and hula-hooping dogs in this book of cheerful drawings. Young children can enjoy filling in the simple outlines, as they develop pen-control skills in over 90 colouring pages of this book.

From hungry hammerheads to super-massive megaladons, this sticker book is bursting with the planet's most famous predators: sharks. With hundreds of stickers to put in exciting scenes, this book will provide hours of entertainment, and lots of information too.

A little time spent in nature - from a forest to a city park - can help you feel calmer and happier. This write-in book is full of things to do both indoors and outdoors, wherever you live, to give you a moment of peace and connection with the natural world. Try growing a seed, pressing flowers, keeping a diary as if you're an ancient tree, and all sorts of other activities.

This child-friendly introduction spans a range of topics, from how your body works and staying healthy, to feelings and growing up. With a cast of comical bugs to guide readers, activities to try at home, and links to further resources online.

Estate agent, necromancer and reluctant sleuth Toni Windsor has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room. She’s trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap – and her love life still isn’t looking great.

Toni Windsor is failing at ‘happily ever after,’ but it really isn't her fault. All she wants is true love and the perfect wardrobe, but instead, there are murders to solve and zombies to raise, and she’s broken her phone again.

Life can be bustly, busy and full of things to do. Sometimes we all need some time to switch off, breathe and unwind. This write-in book is full of activities that allow space for a quiet, relaxing moment - from doodling and writing stories to stretching and night-time sleep tips. With a gentle owl character to guide you through, and links to music to help you feel calm.

This immersive and reassuring book is packed with activities, all designed to help the reader focus and engage in the here and now. Aimed primarily at children, it contains a range of things to do, make, write and draw, so there's something for every mood.

Explore the world in this flap book, discovering all sorts of endangered animals and the ways they are being threatened by people. But it's not all doom and gloom - every page contains things scientists and governments are doing to save them, as well as things YOU can do to help at home.

Follow a cast of curious bugs as they travel the world, finding out what continents and oceans are, what makes a capital city, where people live, and what's happening in the natural world. With interactive questions and activities.

This bright and inviting book contains all sorts of pictures and patterns to colour and get lost in. Aimed primarily at children, it has a cheerful approach and reassuring messages that encourage mindfulness and help calm anxieties. It includes links to music to listen to online, chosen to complement the illustrations to colour, and help the reader focus and unwind.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life. Instead, she's dealing with zombies, vampires and murders. The problem is that she's the one raising all the zombies-and she's dating one of the vampires. Really, what's a girl meant to do?

A book for children to doodle and draw inside to help promote calmness and stress relief. Aimed at primary school children, this simple book offers plenty of empty pages and starter doodles to help children empty their worries onto the page in a calm and safe way. Includes mindfulness tips as well as doodling pages.

Welcome to the bright and exciting world of biology. Dive in and explore the tree of life, ecosystems, the human body, the world of plants and why your planet needs you. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites about biology, from tiny microbes to entire rainforests.

We all worry. This write-in book is an unworry toolkit, full of things to calm you down and places to put your worries. Activities include creating a worry box, making a mood grid and mindfulness activities such as colouring, doodling and mazes. Written with the help of a psychologist, there are links to websites for tips, advice and support too.

Think like a scientist in this innovative activity book, full of science activities to explore, record, discover and invent. Investigate forces, turbines, mirror writing, skeletons, animal migration and lots more, all using only the book and your pencil case. Includes links to websites with even more science activities and downloadable templates.

Did you know there's a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects and that most of the internet is under water? This fascinating book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, a glossary and index and links to specially selected websites to find out more.

Everything in the Universe is made up of just 118 chemical elements, all of which are listed in the Periodic Table. Lift the flaps in this informative book and discover which elements are crucial to life, which are smelly, explosive or radioactive and lots more. An essential introduction to the building blocks of chemistry, with over 125 flaps.