One thousand things
Anna Kövecses
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Expect a browse-and-name experience rather than a continuous story: themed spreads pair pictures with labels, and Little Mouse appears as a find-and-search detail.
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Anna Kövecses
Expect a browse-and-name experience rather than a continuous story: themed spreads pair pictures with labels, and Little Mouse appears as a find-and-search detail.
Sarah Dennis
Readers search intricate pictures for animals concealed in habitats, then encounter brief facts about the animals. The scenes span Africa, Asia, Europe, the Polar Regions, North America, South America and Australia.
William Potter
This guide combines drawing practice with comic-making: readers are invited to design characters, choreograph action and create city settings. It also covers dialogue and visual storytelling, with the aim of helping readers find their own style.
Kelly Calhoun
This is an interactive animal introduction: readers use pictures and short clues to work out what the mystery animal is, alongside factual information about its life.
Richard Evan Schwartz
This is an inviting mathematical exploration that starts with familiar counting and progressively stretches the idea of quantity. Its illustrations and everyday comparisons may spark curiosity, but some later concepts are unlikely to become clear in one sitting.
Claude Delafosse
A hands-on introduction to discovering the world, with the identified related content focusing on the sky, space and the solar system. Its illustrations and revealing features invite shared looking and questioning rather than sustained narrative reading.
Sven Völker
This is a visual, mathematical exploration rather than a conventional story. Children watch quantities grow through repeated doubling, then can revisit the sequence through halving, patterns, pictures and imagined real-world examples.
Sarah Dellow
A hands-on rainforest introduction: children look through die-cut openings, guess what is appearing, and connect bold colours and silhouettes with simple animal names.
Christine Berrie
A hands-on game for learning and recognising bug names, colours and appearances, with opportunities to encounter both familiar insects and less familiar species from around the world.
Clive Gifford
A lively, visually supported introduction to what AI is, how it can be used and where it appears—from games and art to homes, space and the human body.
National Geographic Kids
A visually rich geology reference covering rock and mineral types, formation, gems, fossils, uses and related activities, with information arranged through photographs, diagrams, maps, comparisons and glossary features.
Devin Dennie
Expect a visually led introduction to geological specimens rather than a continuous story. The book’s appeal lies in comparing appearances and learning brief facts about a broad selection of rocks, minerals and gems.
Mac Barnett
A playful, visually driven friendship story that uses repeated shapes, deadpan humour and reciprocal pranks. It offers opportunities to notice triangles and squares while inviting discussion about teasing, fear and unintended consequences.
Felicia Macheske
This is a focused, interactive introduction to praying mantises: readers examine photographs and clues, make a guess, and then learn factual information about the insect’s life.
David Okum
A hands-on art guide for practising manga fantasy drawing, moving from basic forms and figures towards clothing, props, perspective, settings and manga panels. Its examples provide subjects and ideas to develop.
Maree Coote
Readers search animal pictures for letters, including letters shown back-to-front or upside-down, and spell each creature’s name. The experience combines visual puzzles with a repeated alphabetical game.
Theodore Buchanan
A focused introduction to circuits, linking basic scientific information with everyday relevance. Its visual presentation and end activity suggest a learn-and-apply structure, while the glossary, contents and index support finding and revisiting information.