Books published by publisher B. T. Batsford Ltd.

Connect the dots . . . and see 45 iconic buildings from around the world! From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, these dot-to-dots present the world’s most stunning architectural marvels. Each drawing has over 300 dots, and you can color in the completed picture. The images include: the Guggenheim Museum, Battersea Power Station, Habitat 67, and the Chrysler Building as well as works by Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Alvar Aalto, Zaha Hadid, and Le Corbusier. Solving these puzzles is the perfect mindful activity!

Meet Trudi Treble and Barry Bass: they’re here to take kids on a musical journey! With their help, children aged 5 to 9 will begin to learn the language of music and understand clefs, staves, notes, and rhythm. In addition to great games, such as making an edible stave and notes with candy, budding musicians will start to play some of the most popular instruments, including the piano, guitar, and recorder. Appealing, comics-style illustrations make the experience thoroughly enjoyable.

This book shows the main qualities or features of everyday life in Ancient Rome, as it developed from the rustic simplicity of the farmer-soldiers of the early republic down to the sophistication which flourished as never before, in a heyday of glory under the Antonine Emperors in the second century of our era. Illustrated from drawings by D. Stredder Bist.

A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners—no prior experience required! So you want to think like a coder? Surprise—you probably already do. You don’t need experience to learn how to code; you just need a little common sense. This accessible, fun book provides puzzles and exercises, suitable for all ages, to help you think logically, work within constants, and deconstruct problems. It turns everyday situations into opportunities to develop coding skills and become comfortable with the basics—from learning the language and different types of data to algorithms, loops, conditional statements, functions, variables, and debugging. And you won’t even have to turn on the computer!