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Benjamin and the Super Spectacles by Rachel Bright
$16.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: The Wonderful World of Walter and Winnie
The second fantastic tale from the Wonderful World of Walter and Winnie - an enchanting new picture book series from Rachel Bright. At the top of a very tall hill in a very small place called Woollybottom, is a horseshoe of houses. Walter lives in one house and Winnie lives next door, which is lucky, be ...Show more
Christmas Fun Sticker Activities by Simon Abbott
$19.99 NZD
Category: Christmas Books | Series: The Wonderful World of Simon Abbott
Colour, sticker, puzzle and play all the way through the holidays and beyond with this brilliantly silly Christmas sticker activity book! Includes: make-your-own Christmas decorations, cut-out-and-keep elf mask, odd-one-out snowmen, how to draw Santa, Christmas tree maze, hide-and-seek reindeer, jokes, ...Show more
Dinosaurs by David Stewart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: World of Wonder
Presents an introduction to dinosaurs. This work describes what is known of the life of the dinosaurs - how they gave birth, how they looked after their young - and how fossil evidence is gathered. It also describes the other great families of reptiles that lived at the same time: the marine plesiosaurs ...Show more
Earth and the Universe by Ian Graham
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: World of Wonder
What are the highest and deepest places on earth? What causes earthquakes? How thick is the atmosphere? What is the largest planet in the solar system? This book addresses the questions that children are likely to ask about our own planet and the universe of which it is a part. This book: contains marve ...Show more
Machines and Inventions (World of Wonder) by Ian Graham
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: World of Wonder
What were the first ever inventions? When was the wheel first around? What's the fastest machine on Earth? This fascinating book answers all the questions children love to ask about the world's oldest and newest machines and inventions. This book: lets you learn about some of the people and ideas that h ...Show more
Ocean Life by Franklin, Carolyn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: World of Wonder
Highly visual introductions to exciting topics and concepts packed with clear information and colourful pictures helping children to become an expert on a whole range of subjects. What lives in the sand and mud? What lives on the rocks? What lives in the deep? The ocean is one of the most diverse wildl ...Show more
Ocean Life (World Of Wonder) by Carolyn Franklin
$19.95 NZD
Category: Children | Series: World of Wonder
Dive into the depths of the world's oceans. See mighty whales and fierce fish. Lift the special acetate pages and come face to face with some of the strangest creatures on earth.
Piazza San Marco by Iain Fenlon
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically connected to the buildings which frame it. It shows how much is lost if the ensemble is divided into the individual structures of Doges' Palace, Basilica of San Marco, Campanile and so on, each 'marvellous' in their own right but functionally separate ...Show more
St Peter's by Keith Miller
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wonders of the World
The story of St Peter's begins in the 1st century CE with the Hippodrome of Nero, one of two places where the Apostle Peter may have been crucified. 250 years later Constantine the Great marked the supposed site of Peter's tomb in an ancient cemetery with a great basilica. That in turn was replaced over ...Show more
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
$27.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wonders of the World Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about "The Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)". The Alhambra has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure. The Alhambra is the only Muslim ...Show more
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Wonders of the World
Imperial Rome was a warrior state. The Colosseum (opened in A.D. 80) was Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among th ...Show more
Wonders of the World by Francesco Boccia (ed)
$99.99 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Wonders of the World
Man has never stopped to feel the need to demonstrate his creativity and genius, building throughout the world structures which seem of having become higher and higher, bigger and bigger through the ages. Following a detailed chronological order, this book goes from the Pyramids of Giza to the Parthenon ...Show more