Books with author Camilla de la Bédoyère

Watch extinct animals come back to life through the power of AR! The past meets the future in this amazing high-tech iExplore book about the biggest, most fascinating extinct creatures on earth. Eleven fact-filled profiles present each unique animal—when it lived, what it ate, what its size and habitat were, and other extraordinary features. Then simply open the app on your smartphone or tablet to trigger the AR action and awaken the digital magic! See a woolly mammoth grow to full size, fly a Pteranodon around your bedroom, and come face to face with the huge sea monster—and one of the largest meat eaters ever to have lived—called Predator X! Plus, you can click on the app’s NEW iExplore feature window to access complementary educational content, featuring facts, stats, quizzes, and more.This will work with the following devices:Apple devices running iOS 8 and above, including: the iPhone 5s and above, the iPad 4 and above, iPod Touch 6th Gen. or above.Android devices with both forward- and backward-facing cameras using Android 4.0 and above, and ARMv7 NEON processors.INTEL-based devices are not officially supported.

Unleash the beasts with the magic of AR! Meet some of the most ferocious animals on earth—from the safety of your own home! Just open the app on your smartphone or tablet and digital magic will bring 11 creatures right into your room, including a life-size great white shark, lion, rattlesnake, and grizzly bear. Profiles of each beast give you plenty of information, including how it hunts, what weapons and tactics it uses to defeat its prey, and where it lives. Plus, you can click on the app’s NEW iExplore feature window to access complementary educational content, featuring facts, stats, quizzes, and much more.This will work with the following devices:Apple devices running iOS 8 and above, including: the iPhone 5s and above, the iPad 4 and above, iPod Touch 6th Gen. or above.Android devices with both forward- and backward-facing cameras using Android 4.0 and above, and ARMv7 NEON processors.INTEL-based devices are not officially supported.

Are you a super spotter? Let’s see! Each of these puzzles features two stunning rainforest images to compare. They may look the same—but they’re not! You can find up to 20 differences in the colorful pictures, and the difficulty level increases from easy to medium to hard as you go along. Plus, every colorful puzzle includes an intruder that doesn’t quite fit the environment, adding an educational element to the fun.

What are a spider's silken threads made of? Which spider can weigh more than a newborn kitten? Discover everything you need to know about these eight-legged creatures in this extraordinary fact book. Flip through 100 fascinating facts covering everything from weaving webs to spider senses, then test your knowledge with fun quizzes. Each page is packed with activities, projects and mind-blowing facts for a truly engaging experience. With stunning photographs and beautiful illustrations, this fun-filled book is sure to challenge young readers and prepare them for academic success.

You usually can’t see these micro monsters—but now, with iExplore AR, you can! Take a look at all the amazing tiny creatures that live all around us! These micro monsters are normally invisible to the human eye, but the digital magic in this incredible book gives you a close-up view and 11 brilliant interactive experiences. Breathtaking SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) photos show what these tiny beasts really look like, and fact-filled spreads provide background information on each one: where it's found, what it does, and how it survives on your skin, on pillows, and even in outer space! Trigger the AR action with your smartphone or tablet and awaken creepy, scary fleas, ticks, and tardigrades, all magnified hundreds of times in full 3D!Click on the app’s NEW iExplore feature window to access complementary educational content, featuring facts, stats, quizzes, and much more!

Who was the first chimp to learn sign language? Which primate has two tongues? Discover everything you need to know about monkeys, apes and other primates in this extraordinary fact book. Flip through 100 fascinating facts covering everything from spider monkeys to the threat of extinction, then test your knowledge with fun quizzes. Each page is packed with activities, projects and mind-blowing facts for a truly engaging experience. With stunning photographs and beautiful illustrations, this fun-filled book is sure to challenge young readers and prepare them for academic success.

“Lucid and engaging . . . should take pride of place on the bookshelf of specialists and non-specialists interested in Roman Britain.” ―Minerva This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned.The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius’s advice to the Britons in 410 to fend for themselves. He then tackles the issues facing Britons after the absorption of their culture by an invading army, including the role of government and the military in the province, religion, commerce, technology, and daily life. For this revised edition, the text, illustrations, and bibliography have been updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in recent years. The superb illustrations feature reconstruction drawings, dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery, and sculpture. 285 illustrations, 75 in color

Are corals nocturnal? How do reefs protect people from the effects of violent storms? Discover everything you need to know about coral reefs in this extraordinary fact book. Flip through 100 fascinating facts covering everything from coral fish to reefs at risk, then test your knowledge with fun quizzes. Each page is packed with activities, projects and mind-blowing facts for a truly engaging experience. With stunning photographs and beautiful illustrations, this fun-filled book is sure to challenge young readers and prepare them for academic success.

Exciting facts and thrilling illustrations await you on every page of Ripley's Twists: Pirates!, as well as unbelievable, weird and wonderful stories from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Every one of this non-fiction book's 48 full-color pages is filled with historical information presented in an entertaining, easy-to-read style kids love. Learn how the adventures of real-life renegades like Captain Kidd and Henry Morgan led to the creation of such fictional pirates as Captain Jack Sparrow—and the inspiration for modern-day pirates in Somalia!

Discover snow leopards on mountain slopes, clownfish swimming among colorful coral reefs, and more on this amazing pop-up journey through five habitats. Open the fantastic pop-ups in this interactive book and they’ll whisk you away to five different habitats and introduce you to the animals that live there. Meet giant pandas, vicuñas, and pumas on the cold and snowy mountaintops; tigers, orangutans, and toucans in the warm, wet tropical rainforest; zebras, elephants, and kangaroos in the grasslands of Africa and Australia; angelfish, hammerhead sharks, and turtles swimming in magnificent coral reefs; and Pacific viperfish, narwhals, and giant tube worms in the ocean’s depths. Kids will love this fascinating, vivid, animal-filled trip around the world.

What is a worker bee? How do bees collect pollen? Where do bees live?Packed with fascinating facts about life cycles, amazing photographs of every stage, and labelled diagrams to explain growth and development.Discover the amazing stages of different life cycles and learn all about your favorite species with this stunning series. From plants and birds to garden animals, readers will soon learn how different species are born, grow up, and reproduce. Each book has amazing photographs, easy-to-understand text, and discussion points for further learning.

How do the Embera people use poisonous frogs? Which plant smells like a rotting fish? Discover everything you need to know about rainforests in this extraordinary fact book. Flip through 100 fascinating facts covering everything from the people of the Amazon to deforestation, then test your knowledge with fun quizzes. Each page is packed with activities, projects and mind-blowing facts for a truly engaging experience. With stunning photographs and beautiful illustrations, this fun-filled book is sure to challenge young readers and prepare them for academic success.