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The book follows Columbus’s first voyage through some of the difficulties he faced and what he found at the end. Its focus is exploration and the journey’s destination.

A tactile puppy book with rhymes and small activities: children can explore different-feeling areas, think of a name for the last puppy and search for a hidden ladybird.

Peter explores fresh snow through play: he makes snow angels, builds a snowman and slides down slopes. The story also returns to his discovery of new snow the following morning.

A young rabbit ventures through a wide world, chooses a path and explores the unknown. The journey brings joy, sorrow and wonder, before the rabbit returns home braver and more confident.

The book offers a structured way to explore caring for the earth together, combining stories with practical activities and suggestions for extending them.

Expect a sensory read-aloud rather than a sustained story: bold, contrasting images, sea-creature pictures, touchable surfaces and playful sound prompts make up its appeal.

Expect science-led reading rather than a continuous story: the book moves among species and examples to examine learning, memory and problem-solving, including possible applications of animal abilities in engineering and materials science.

This illustrated history ranges from early Viking voyages to present-day aircraft carriers. Flaps and pull-out cross-sections offer a hands-on way to explore ships, while the subject matter also includes famous sailors, engineering and global travel.

Explore ordinary outings through words, familiar objects and touch. Flaps, textures and finger trails make the book something to handle together, as well as look at.

An eerie survival adventure built around reader choices, with a shipwreck, a haunted island and a quest for a legendary bird. Its branching decisions invite readers to steer the expedition rather than follow one fixed route.

A science expedition becomes an adventure when the team loses half its equipment down a crevasse. The book also brings in ice-core research and the history of South Pole exploration.

A biography of Bell covers his inventions, teaching and work concerning education for people with hearing impairments. It combines historical material with practical activities involving sound, communication and flight.

A hands-on animal reference combines braille and large print with tactile pictures. Entries range from bears and big cats to birds and bugs, with material on predators, prey, skeletons and organs, plus a quiz.

This is an animal adventure in which a curious young monkey faces predators, with her father nearby. It also introduces readers to pygmy marmosets.

A narrative account of a real spaceflight emergency, following the astronauts’ effort to return and events at Mission Control.

A family adventure centred on four siblings, moving from a lively home scene towards travel and new places. Early chapters mix playful banter with an unexpected accident.

This fairy-tale adventure follows a mysterious moonlit route to a magical garden, with a flying horse adding another fantastical element. The premise may suit readers drawn to imaginative journeys and traditional story patterns.

The book offers a brisk, news-style route through an expedition: its aims, shipboard life, exploration of the Pacific and later completion of the voyage.

This is a history-focused account of exploration, navigation and the pursuit of a trade route, as well as a record of an expedition marked by hardship and conflict.

A historical account of balloon flight before airplanes, told through episodes involving pioneers, daring journeys and the changing uses of balloons.

A broad introduction to both poles, combining natural features and wildlife with human communities, exploration and research. The book also offers activities, including making a snowflake and a penguin mask.

Expect a hands-on animal book: children are invited to explore textures and recognise or name pictured animals, with their young and simple visual concepts.

A historically grounded adventure that also asks who receives credit for exploration and what costs expeditions impose on the people they encounter.

A bored wolf follows a travel dream, carrying a simple bag to destinations around the world.

This is a participant’s account of a long raft voyage, combining travel narrative with sketches. Its firsthand viewpoint may be a distinctive way into the expedition, though the extent of the sketching is unclear.

A treasure hunt, a friendship disagreement and an unexpected return of help shape this undersea adventure.

This is an outdoor adventure centred on Raffi's pride in being able to go camping, with puffins, exploration and unexpected discoveries in the mix.

This is a comic fantasy adventure built around a treasure-seeking expedition, with Borgon and friends needing help to enter a ruined temple and facing hazards along the way.

This is an adventure built around a shift from exploration to an urgent rescue mission, with climate change and Greenlandic culture among the expedition’s stated interests.

This is a short adventure about exploring an eerie tree, with the bears’ route through it foregrounded. Their changing willingness to continue is part of the premise, but the encounters remain unspecified.

A science-focused account of Curiosity’s exploration, with attention to how its cameras and instruments gather information about Mars.

This is a Star Wars adventure centred on Luke Skywalker and a lost Jedi temple, adapted from an earlier story by the same author.

Virena's question—what is it like to be a fish? —sparks Papa's next invention.

A broad introduction to small Solar System bodies and stars, with coverage including formation, features, exploration, and the movement of stars.

A frontier adventure about three companions pressing on towards home, with new encounters and a secret they carry.

This is a gentle-sounding adventure about wanting to explore beyond a familiar view and accepting help from friends. The story centres on Tiny Narwhal’s growing readiness to venture out.

This is a wide-ranging factfile for readers who enjoy dipping into questions rather than following one continuous story. Its subjects move from space and Earth to history, inventions and transport.

An imaginative prequel built around two brothers’ discoveries and journeys, with identity and the history of their land among its mysteries.

Expect a voyage-by-voyage account centred on exploration, charting coastlines and searching for routes, rather than a book focused only on Cook’s personal life.

This offers a playful meeting of nonsense verse and collage art, with an animal’s wish to explore at its centre. It may suit shared reading where words and pictures both invite attention.

Expect a fast-moving adventure built around invention, exploration and competing deadlines, with a second challenge involving an aquarium and rare deep-sea species.

A light, episodic collection built around SpongeBob and his friends, with comic, sea-themed situations ranging from neighbours and school-like monitoring to valentines, fame and a rocket.

Expect invention-led space adventure, with a striking premise involving matter being broken apart, transported and reassembled.

This offers a broad, story-led route through United States history, connecting people, political decisions, social change, exploration, war and international affairs across multiple volumes. The focus is informational rather than fictional.