Books published by publisher First Discovery Paperbacks

Understand how you were made, how your skin protects you, and how your teeth grow for some years but your hair and your nails go on growing all your life.

Smooth, fluffy, black, gray, and tortoiseshell cats creep, leap, and sleep before your eyes. Learn their language and find out about their wild cousins.

Discover how beavers can fell trees, build dams, and create underwater lodges.

See our planets play hide-and-seek with the sun and the moon. Look into volcanoes and caves and under the surface of the sea. Watch night follow day and see the stars begin to come out.

Discover which dinosaur was bigger than a bus and where dinosaurs laid their eggs.

Why does the Moon turn round the Earth? Find out about the different phases of the Moon. Discover how eclipses of the Moon and the Sun happen.

Smooth, fluffy, black, grey, and tortoiseshell cats creep, leap, and sleep before your eyes. Learn their language and find out about their wild cousins.

The cock crows at dawn, ducklings paddle and learn to swim, cows graze, lambs frisk,and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard and share the life of the farm animals.

Dolphins are warm-blooded mammals like us, but are born underwater and live in the sea. They "talk" and help one another when in danger.

Discover the huge range of bright-colored plumage of the many species of parrots and their cousins: macaws, parakeets, lorikeets, and rosellas.

See how these gentle giants live in Africa and Asia. The grandmother leads the herd, the elephant calf takes its first steps, elephants young and old trumpet, splash, and play.

Find out where ladybirds live, what they eat, how they frighten their enemies, and where they lay their eggs.