Books published by publisher DK CHILDREN, 2009

Perfect for early childhood development, happy babies, laughing babies, silly babies and crying babies are found on the pages of this padded board book.Look at all the sweet baby faces showing that they are happy, sad, sleepy, and more. Your baby can make the same expressions to help recognize common expressions. This durable little book is sure to pique baby's interest.With bright colorful photos and simple word labels that capture the expressions and moods of babies throughout their busy days, Baby Faces will mesmerize little ones when they see other children just like them.

Experience 13 billion years of history on planet Earth, starting with the Big Bang before time-travelling right up to the present day. History comes alive as more than 130 different timelines are presented in glorious illustrative and photographic detail, together with accessible and informative text. Covering the rise and fall of empires, major scientific breakthroughs, groundbreaking inventions, and monumental moments in art, this is the go-to guide for just about everything that has ever happened. This comprehensive visual encyclopedia for children is an unprecedented collection of timelines and a wealth of knowledge about the world. From the most bloodthirsty pirate of all time to the first crime to be solved by studying fingerprints, you'll find it in Timelines of Everything. Find your own place in the world and understand where you fit in with this exciting, entertaining, and educational tour through time.

Dress your favorite American Girl® characters in pretty outfits with this exciting new Ultimate Sticker Collection: American Girl Dress-Up.Packed full of colorful stickers and fascinating facts about a host of American Girl characters, the sticker book features full-color spreads that showcases the dolls. Dress your favorite American Girl characters in their signature outfits, create fun new outfits, and complete the exciting sticker scenes using more than 1,000 stickers.© 2016 American Girl. All rights reserved. American Girl and associated trademarks are owned by and used under license from American Girl.

Perfect for preschoolers, this workbook contains exercises that focus on the most basic concepts of geography, including humans and the natural world, Earth and the solar system, globes, types of maps, directions, landforms, and bodies of water.Level by level, the write-in DK Workbooks: Geography series offers at-home practice that kids actually enjoy, making them ideal supplements to schoolwork. Designed to support curriculum standards, this series is developed with leading educational experts to build confidence and understanding.For children ages 3–9, each leveled workbook is packed with activities and challenges, offering the beneficial repetition and cumulative learning that lead to mastery. Fact boxes on each page give a simple overview of the topics being covered, review the basics, and often offer an example of the task at hand. The exercises themselves reinforce key geography topics, including: map reading, compass directions, continents, countries and states, borders, bodies of water, and more.

Perfect for children ages 7 and 8, this workbook builds the confidence of second graders in their growing understanding of geography and contains curriculum-aligned exercises on topics including familiarity with the compass, map grids, physical and political maps, and the concept of hemispheres.Level by level, the write-in DK Workbooks: Geography series offers at-home practice that kids actually enjoy—making them ideal supplements to schoolwork. Designed to support curriculum standards, this series is developed with leading educational experts to build confidence and understanding.Each leveled workbook, for children ages 3–9, is packed with activities and challenges, offering the beneficial repetition and cumulative learning that lead to mastery. Fact boxes on each page give a simple overview of the topics being covered, review the basics, and often offer an example of the task at hand. The exercises themselves reinforce key geography topics including map reading, compass directions, continents, countries and states, borders, bodies of water, and more.

Discover history’s significant events since 3000 BCE through a detailed and dynamic, book-long, timeline! Perfect for history buffs and trivia enthusiasts alike.See history's most decisive moments, as and when they happened, and where they all took place. Taking a chronological approach, History Year by Year explores the world's most momentous discoveries, ingenious inventions, and important events in the context of their time, wherever they occurred. Along the way you'll meet charismatic leaders, brutal dictators, influential thinkers, and innovative scientists from every corner of the globe.Follow in the steps of your human ancestors as they colonize the planet, develop tools, harness fire, and paint cave walls. Learn how their descendants established great civilizations, founded huge empires, domesticated animals, built pyramids, produced great art, authored epic poems, and ultimately even travelled into space. There are wars and rebellions, voyages of adventure and discovery, extraordinary developments in technology, and incredible sporting feats.Accessible to everyone, History Year by Year's combination of bite-sized information, eye-catching images, clear maps, and memorable stats will delight history lovers, and make an ideal gift for trivia buffs wanting facts at their fingertips.

A pop-up surprise under every flap!Turn the pages and lift the flaps of this delightful baby book to meet adorable dinosaurs. With the help of parents or caregivers, toddlers will have fun turning the pages and lifting the flaps to play peekaboo. Each surprise character is certain to make toddlers smile! The text is written in simple rhymes to support children's language development. Ideal for preschool play, this sturdy baby book will appeal to both parents and children. This exciting read-aloud baby book will keep little ones entertained time and time again!

From the first locomotive built in 1804 to the high-speed bullet train, The Big Book of Trains is the perfect book for kids who love trains.Packed with amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. Different types of trains are featured on their own spreads, and each page features multiple images to give a close-up view as well as informative text about each train. See the differences among monorails, passenger trains, and TGVs. Learn about pistons, fireboxes, boilers, and coupling rods, and find out exactly what they do to help the train travel down on the tracks.See key features of each train model and discover the difference between steam trains and diesels. Find out how trains are designed for certain jobs and tasks, including mountain trains, snow trains, and freight trains. Look at the biggest and fastest trains in the world.With incredible pictures and informative text, The Big Book of Trains is the essential book for young readers who want to know everything about trains.

All the excitement of birthday parties in one touch and feel book, full of sparkles, sprinkles, and shiny birthday goodies.For a happy birthday, don’t forget lots of cake, balloons and presents. This baby touchand feel book helps young children recognize objects and expand their vocabulary.The tactile elements will keep them coming back for another look, helping theirreading practice.If there’s a birthday coming up, this sturdy little book is a fantastic way to preparesmall children for parties and candle-blowing so they know what to expect. It helpsthe enthusiasm last a little bit longer! With 12 board pages and a squishy, paddedcover, this book has been made to withstand all the excitement that birthdays bring,even if it’s thrown around or chewed a little.There are 12 bright and colorful pages of birthday goodies to engross your child withreal-life photography to teach them about birthday cakes, opening presents, balloonsand party hats. Look out for the glitter and foil that makes this book sparkly andattractive to toddlers.Encourage your baby to touch the pages and feel the different bumps and dips on theparty objects. Turning pages and using fingers to trace shapes is good fordevelopment of fine motor skills. Find the special soft and furry textures in the bookfor added sensation and fun while reading. The words are written with easy-to-readletters so your baby’s early language development is a piece of birthday cake.Touch and LearnFilled to the brim with shiny objects, bumps, grooves and special textures, thiseducational book sparks early childhood development by using lots of senses! Touch,feel and see as your little one learns all about birthday parties. This Happy Birthday book, with its pretty sparkly jacket, also makes an ideal birthday gift for your baby’sfriends.This adorable baby book includes:● Shiny ribbons, sparkly cupcakes and a soft-to-touch puppy● Easy-to-read text and sounds to encourage vocabulary building● Various birthday party objects so they know what to expect at their first one!This delightful book is part of the Baby Touch and Feel range of children's books, andincludes titles like Baby Touch and Feel Halloween, Baby Touch and Feel Bedtime, Baby Touch and Feel Mermaid and more for your little one to enjoy!

Get set to blast off into space and explore the wonders of our Solar System and beyond. The ultimate space encyclopedia for children is designed to blow your mind with incredible CGI images, from the deep darkness of black holes to the spectacular sparkle of supernovas. The many mysteries of the Universe are explored in breathtaking detail, including in-depth cross-sections and lifelike cutaways to showcase the planets, stars, moons, and space stations. Featuring absolutely everything under the Sun, this exciting visual reference guide is your guaranteed one-stop shop for space. Filled with the latest facts, infographics, and NASA images, Space! takes you on a journey that is truly out of this world before bringing you back seriously starry-eyed!

A colorful sticker book with more than 250 reusable stickers filled with fun activities and amazing facts for eager and creative young readers.Travel through the continents and discover the colorful and symbolic flags that represent the countries of our world in Ultimate Sticker Book: Flags Around the World.This sticker book is packed with more than 250 reusable stickers that kids can use to create their own flag, complete a picture jigsaw puzzle, test their knowledge with a fun sticker quiz, and much more.Ultimate Sticker Book: Flags Around the World is perfect for curious young learners and is sure to keep them busy for hours.Series Overview: Taking subjects that kids love, from dinosaurs to baby animals to transportation, DK's Ultimate Sticker Book series is refreshed and updated and now features more than 250 fun, reusable stickers. Packed with activities that allow children to create scenes, match pairs, and complete jigsaws, the activities throughout each book are simple enough for the child to do independently but engaging enough to keep their interest and help develop dexterity, making these books products that parents can trust, and ones that kids will want to keep picking up to learn more about their favorite subjects.

This updated DK classic includes sixteen colorful flashcards with tactile elements that are perfect for giving toddlers a head start in developing early language skills.Each 17-card pack contains 16 touch-and-feel picture cards and 1 card of parent guidance notes to help both parents and little ones get the most from the collection. My First Touch and Feel Picture Cards: Animals features children's favorite animals, including puppies, kittens, rabbits, cows, turtles, horses, and more! On the reverse of most cards, there are a series of engaging questions, in addition to word translations for Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and phonetic spellings to help develop early language skills. Sturdy cards and fun tactile images make these packs ideal for preschool play.