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  • Not For Parents South America: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Paperback (Lonely Planet Kids, Oct. 15, 2013)
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* This is not a guidebook. And it's definitely 'not-for-parents'. It is the real inside story about one of the world's most colorful continents - South America. In this book you'll hear fascinating tales about wrestling ladies and man-eating fish, lost cities, intrepid explorers, and remarkable survivals. Check out cool stories about the real Robinson Crusoe, a navy without an ocean, rivers that shimmer with colors, and floating islands. You'll find dirty dancing, fowl play, daring prison escapes, and history galore. This book shows you a South America your parents probably don't even know about. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Margaret Hynes About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children's books, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
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  • First Words - French

    Lonely Planet Kids

    eBook (Lonely Planet Kids, March 1, 2017)
    Bring the French language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. Perfect for the whole family, First Words French features 100 words to use while travelling, from food and transport, to animals and weather. Each word is accompanied with a bold illustration and a simple pronunciation guide to make the vocabulary fun and easy to learn. Plus, its small size means it's a handy addition to any trip to France or a French-speaking country. Also included is a free audio pronunciation guide. Scan the QR code on the back cover or visit our First Words website to hear each word spoken by a native child. Also available: First Words Spanish First Words English About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
  • World's Strangest Creepy-Crawlies

    Lonely Planet Kids

    eBook (Lonely Planet Kids, Aug. 1, 2018)
    Enter the weird and wonderful world of creepy-crawlies. Our animal experts have unearthed 40 of the planet's most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature's seriously strange characteristics and the unusual ways they hunt, eat or defend themselves. They're sometimes hard to spot, but there are a mind-boggling 10 billion billion bugs on the planet. Inside World's Strangest Creepy-Crawlies, kids will discover the tiny terror that blows itself up to save its friends, a creature so well disguised even its own species can't see it, and a giant spider the size of a dinner plate. And with our 'strange-o-meter', they can compare each animal based on its creepiness, fight factor and superpowers! Creepy-crawlies include: Elephant beetle Hickory horned devil Happy-face spider Zombie snail Leafcutter ant Froghopper Spiny devil katydid Goliath birdeater spider Giant weta Asian giant hornet Scorpion Death's-head hawkmoth Bird-dung crab spider Exploding ant Other titles in the series include: - World's Strangest Predators - World's Strangest Places - World's Strangest Ocean Beasts About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
  • Not For Parents Europe: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Paperback (Lonely Planet, Oct. 15, 2013)
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* This is not a guidebook. And it's definitely 'not-for-parents'. It is the real inside story about one of the world's most colorful continents - Europe. In this book you'll read about bizarre pastimes from wok racing and mobile phone hurling to grown-up food fights and rotten shark chomping. You'll learn the gruesome facts about some of history's most bloodthirsty rulers and can check out sculptures made of human bones, the world's biggest pizza, ultracool ice hotels, and a metal-munching Frenchman. This book shows you a Europe your parents probably don't even know about. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Clive Gifford About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children's books, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013
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  • World's Strangest Ocean Beasts

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Paperback (Lonely Planet, Aug. 21, 2018)
    Enter the weird and wonderful world of ocean beasts. Our animal experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each sea creature's seriously strange characteristics and the unusual ways they hunt, eat or defend themselves. More than 70% of our planet is covered in water and our oceans contain millions of living things. Inside World's Strangest Ocean Beasts, kids will discover the biggest creature the world's ever known, worms that look like Christmas trees, ferocious predators and masters of disguise. And with our 'strange-o-meter', they can compare each animal based on its appearance, weird abilities, rarity and strangeness! Ocean Beasts include: Trumpetfish Sea cucumber Ocean sunfish Red lionfish Sea pig Striped pyjama squid Longhorn cowfish Blue whale Flamingo tongue snail Narwhal Portuguese man-of-war Pistol shrimp Immortal jellyfish Red-lipped batfish Other titles in the series include: - World's Strangest Predators - World's Strangest Places - World's Strangest Creepy-Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.
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  • You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in all of us

    Lonely Planet

    Paperback (Lonely Planet, June 21, 2016)
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. We've all heard about Venice and, yes, it is probably worth going to Italy to see its waterways, but hopefully you'll take away something more from this book: a resolve to live life to the fullest--to add a dash of joie de vivre to every day. You Only Live Once will inspire readers of all ages to seize the moment, channel their inner hero, explore the world, create moments they will celebrate for years to come, and share their incredible stories. Providing suggestions for life's essential experiences for every stage of life, this eclectic gift book is the perfect manual for a life well-lived. Anyone can sleep in a castle, sail a ship, make a music pilgrimage, and so much more. What all the book's ideas have in common is that they're starting points. They will reignite long-forgotten desires - to learn an instrument or a language - or spark new and unexpected ambitions: why shouldn't you move to Provence for a year? When you know what's stopping you, you can start working on a solution. Perhaps this book will be as useful in helping you identify obstacles as will be for refining your month's or your year's travel experiences. Then it's time to turn to Lonely Planet's extensive travel resources and begin planning the rest of your life. Combining stunning photography with illustrations and infographics, it will surprise and entertain with a quirky mix of experiences everyone should try at some point in their life. 'You only live once; but if you do it right, once is enough.' - Mae West About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, and 2014 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
  • You Rule!: Create Your Own Country

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Hardcover (Lonely Planet, Oct. 1, 2015)
    Tired of following other people's rules? Think you can do better? Now's your chance! This innovative and fun new title from Lonely Planet Kids shows you how to design a completely new nation from scratch. Decide on the laws, choose your borders, make your flag, attract loyal citizens and lots more. You'll get to create, organise, govern and judge. You can be king, queen, big chief, emperor, president, dictator or whatever you decree. Includes fun projects to complete, bold full-colour illustrations and fascinating facts about the world's micronations. Get ready to claim your throne, because right here, right now, you rule! For rulers aged 8 years and up. Authors: Lonely Planet Kids About Lonely Planet Kids: From the world's leading travel publisher comes Lonely Planet Kids, a children's imprint that brings the world to life for young explorers everywhere. We're kick-starting the travel bug and showing kids just how amazing our planet is. Our mission is to inspire and delight curious kids, showing them the rich diversity of people, places and cultures that surrounds us. We pledge to share our enthusiasm and continual fascination for what it is that makes the world we live in the magnificent place it is. A big adventure awaits! Come explore. Award-winning children's titles from Lonely Planet include The Amazing World Atlas (Independent Publisher Award, Gold for Juvenile Multicultural Non-fiction, 2015), How to Be a Space Explorer (Independent Publisher Award, Silver for Juvenile Non-fiction, 2015), Not For Parents The Travel Book, Not For Parents Paris, Not For Parents London, Not For Parents New York City, and Not For Parents Rome (all Parent Tested Parent Approved winners, 2012).
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  • Secret Marvels of the World: 360 extraordinary places you never knew existed and where to find them

    Lonely Planet

    eBook (Lonely Planet, Aug. 1, 2017)
    Featuring communist bunkers, burning gas craters and at least one sponge-rock fluorescent grotto built by Polish monks, this book reveals weird and wonderful sights the crowds don't reach. We've all heard of India's Taj Mahal, but what about Karna Mata Temple? It's a building teeming with rats so revered they enjoy A-list treatment with daily offerings of milk and fruit. It's no secret that visitors to Berlin can see parts of its infamous Wall still standing in the city. Not so many people know that segments of the wall have travelled all around the world and can be found in places including Los Angeles, Japan and Iceland. Stonehenge is one of the UK's most popular tourist sites. So why not beat the crowds and head to Nebraska instead, where you can marvel at a Carhenge - a replica of the great monolith site constructed entirely from vintage cars. This packed and fascinating title takes its readers on a journey through the world's lesser known marvels. Dive into an underworld of the planet's most surprising, fun, perplexing, kitsch and downright bizarre sights - and explore human stories and mysterious happenings that you won't find inside a regular guidebook. From eerie natural wonders to historical oddities and bizarre architecture, this is a travel companion for the incurably curious. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
  • World's Strangest Predators

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Paperback (Lonely Planet, Aug. 21, 2018)
    Discover the planet's weirdest and scariest predators. Our animal experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature's ferocity, beastly behaviour and cunning methods to catch their prey. Every creature needs to eat to survive, and for many that means tucking into other animals! To do this, they've created clever ways to hunt and gobble up their unsuspecting 'lunch'. Inside World's Strangest Predators, kids will discover plants that feast on insects, a real-life dragon that can tackle a buffalo and the snake with a unique disguise for catching birds. And with our 'strange-o-meter', they can compare each creature's danger, cunning, ferocity and strangeness! Predators include: Venus flytrap Piranha Arctic Fox Box jellyfish Trapdoor spider Komodo dragon Giant Amazon centipede Polar bear Great white shark African crowned eagle Anaconda Great grey shrike Tarantula hawk wasp Honey badger Other titles in the series include: - World's Strangest Places - World's Strangest Ocean Beasts - World's Strangest Creepy-Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.
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  • Brick City - Paris

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Hardcover (Lonely Planet, Nov. 20, 2018)
    It's Paris--but not as you know it. This unofficial guide helps LEGO® fans of all ages discover the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Centre Pompidou, and 17 more landmarks recreated in amazing detail by top brick artists from around the world. Then make your own with 20 quick-build projects that include Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, and a Tour de France cyclist. For adults and children aged 8 and up, Brick City - Paris is a fun and colorful introduction to the French capital, packed with secrets, stories and insights that bring the City of Light to life in an exciting and brick-tastic way. Model reconstructions include: L'Aquarium de Paris Pont Neuf bridge Mona Lisa Street artists of Montmartre Fashion show Bottle of champagne Buildable projects include: Montmartre lamp post with performer Espresso machine Metro station entrance Croissant Bells of Notre Dame Paint palette with brush Also available: Brick City - London, Brick City - New York About Lonely Planet Kids: Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids â?? an imprint of the world's leading travel authority â?? published its first book in 2011. Our global team of experts combine astonishing facts, engaging visuals, and just the right touch of fun to create books that ignite curiosity about topics including culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space, and more. We want to encourage the next generation of global citizens to make every day an adventure, whether they're at home, in school, or on their travels. Come explore!
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  • Brick City - New York

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Hardcover (Lonely Planet, Nov. 20, 2018)
    It's New York--but not as you know it. This unofficial guide helps LEGO® fans of all ages discover Central Park, the Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge, and 17 more landmarks recreated in amazing detail by top brick artists from around the world. Then make your own with 20 quick-build projects that include a hot dog cart, yellow taxi cab, and subway train. For adults and children aged 8 and up, Brick City - New York is a fun and colorful introduction to the Big Apple, packed with secrets, stories and insights that bring The City That Never Sleeps to life in an exciting and brick-tastic way. Model reconstructions include: One World Trade Center Wall Street Central Library Reading Room Coney Island The High Line Times Square Buildable projects include: I heart NY icon Staten Island Ferry Empire State Building telescope Grand Central Terminal clock Statue of Liberty torch Graffiti spray can and wall Also available: Brick City - London, Brick City - Paris About Lonely Planet Kids: Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids â?? an imprint of the world's leading travel authority â?? published its first book in 2011. Our global team of experts combine astonishing facts, engaging visuals, and just the right touch of fun to create books that ignite curiosity about topics including culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space, and more. We want to encourage the next generation of global citizens to make every day an adventure, whether they're at home, in school, or on their travels. Come explore!
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  • Adventures in Busy Places, Activities and Sticker Books

    Lonely Planet Kids

    Paperback (Lonely Planet Kids, Nov. 1, 2014)
    This new sticker activity series for kids aged 3 and up shows kids the incredible sights and diverse environments of planet earth. Keep little hands busy on long journeys with these bumper books of stickers that mix amazing facts about the world's coolest places with great photos and illustrations, plus a small dose of humour. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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