Aimed at 7-9 year olds this most snappy and exhilarating introduction to the Ancient Egyptians provides bite-sized views into a range of topics in Davies' bold and distinctive illustrated style, coupled with his naturally dry humour. The book includes a double-sided poster in a distinctive bright yellow with black and white and red line art. Themes include the Nile and life on the river, family, clothes, hair and make-up, food and drink, peculiar pets, great royal wives and fabulous pharaohs, gods and goddesses, magic and medicine, temples and priests, mummification, animal mummies, the pyramids and the great Sphinx, graverobbers and discovering Tutankhamun and Egypt today. Big, bold, we love the way the Emperor Constantine slept with his teddy and we meet the horses at the chariot races. Playful artwork, vibrant and maximum fun. 64 pages, approximately 21cm square.

A mega-monstertorium packed with 10 pencils in different colours from green and blue, bright florescent orange, red, purple, grey and taupe, two of which are in glittering metallic hues and two vivid neon. Use the tear-out cards to customise and play the Epic Beasts Slam card game. The ultimate guide to colouring and drawing awesome monsters, here are tips from experts on how to create fur, spikes, scales, add cool steampunk parts and other accessories and instructions for making and playing with your own monster cards. It is a modern fantasy-themed colouring and activity kit where some of the creatures are fantasy ogres and giants, other more dragon like, others more weirdly imaginary whether the fur is rich or shiny, mangy or matted from battle, the choice is yours. With techniques including hatching, stippling, cross hatching and scumbling, ideal for creating scales. Tear off sketchpad softback, hardback cover.

Each title in the Stickmen series features cut-away friendly illustrations, diagrams and fascinating nuggets of information as our accident-prone stickmen add a touch of humour to these important facts about trains, cars, aircraft, watercraft, and gigantic machines. They take you right inside the workings of Formula One cars, jet engines, helicopters, container ships, bucket-wheel excavators, semi-submersible rigs, construction cranes, hovercraft, submarines, aircraft carriers, passenger ships, rockets, motorcycles, right up to the armour-plated and very dangerous Abrams tank and the Large Hadron Collider which hurls tiny particles up to the speed of light. With big fold out poster included, designed for ages 9-11 years. 96pp, 21.6 x 28cm.

With over 200 colourful stickers and packed with games, colouring, posters and things to make and do, the first is making faces on the front of Thomas the Tank Engine himself using your stickers. Press out the big card pages and make a door hanger which you can colour in, your own Thomas hat, play the memory game, press out two pages and slot them together to make your own 3D Thomas in blue and with the number 1 down the side. Press out the useful stencils to trace and colour in buffer-busting pictures of a steam engine, top hat, bell, SODOR etc. and slot the many characters into their stands to create your own scene. After the stickers there are eight pull-out pages, some already coloured, others to colour in, and spread these out from the folded pages to make your play scenes/posters. 22 x 27.7cm large softback, colour.