Books published by publisher Laurence King Publishing

In this imaginative new activity book, Marion Deuchars makes learning about art fun. Young readers are introduced to more than thirty great artists, then encouraged to try out the techniques that lie behind their greatest works.Short and accessible facts about each artist's life and works are followed by creative projects that Marion has devised based on the artist's particular techniques.Take your pencil for a walk in the spirit of Paul Klee, experiment with color like Joan Miró, or create your own surrealist-inspired artwork.

What would you like to collect? A collection could be a group of old pots in a museum, or oak leaves picked up on a woodland walk. Some collections are put together over a lifetime, while others last for a single afternoon. You might be a sucrologist, collecting packets of sugar, or perhaps you'd rather collect stamps, matchboxes, or even memories.Nina Chakrabarti, author of Hello Nature and My Wonderful World of Fashion, invites you to explore different kinds of collection in this new, beautifully illustrated book. As you go through the pages you can complete and personalize the collections with beautiful stickers, spaces to write or draw, and even a special envelope for you to start a collection of your very own.

A cool selection of classic skateboard stickers from five key skateboard brands.This new book of fully peelable stickers, compiled by the Stickerbomb team, brings together the best skateboard stickers – both classic and new – from the 1970s to today.From Jim Philip's legendary drawings for Santa Cruz, to the innovative, graphic–led creations from Girl and Alien Workshop, Stickerbomb Skate illustrates the central role that stickers have played in skate culture.Including five legendary skate brands –Alien WorkshopREALToy MachineGirlSanta CruzAlso features interviews with key illustrators and artists; including Philips, Ed Templeton and Mike Hill; this is an indispensable collection for any skate obsessive.

This fascinating book tells the story of the soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog memorabilia. In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was for both a matter of pride and propaganda. But before man ventured into the cosmos, his four-legged friends would pave the way for space exploration. The first canine cosmonaut was Laika, meaning 'barker'. The little stray could never have anticipated that she would one day float 200 miles above the Moscow streets. She would be canonized as a proletarian hero, appearing on stamps, postcards and souvenirs. Her successors were Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to successfully return safely to Earth, and with them, the cult of the space dog was born.In a regime that eschewed celebrating individual achievement, the space dogs became Soviet superstars, with a vast array of merchandise, books and films in their honor.A must for read for fans of Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina and Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989 by Moscow Design Museum..

Learn how to make mischief with this hilarious, fully illustrated handbook. Clear step-by-step activities and annotated diagrams will transform you into the mischief-maker that you've always wanted to be. From turning your body into an orchestra, to making invisible ink and rubber band catapults, it's all covered in this comprehensive guide.The book includes top-secret DIY hacks to make your own practical jokes, exasperating questions to ask adults, and top tips on how to get away with (almost) anything!Written by Mike Barfield, the barmy brains behind The Ultimate Wisecrack Generator, The Element in the Room, and many more, who has over 25 years' experience of working in TV, radio, books, newspapers and magazines, and also enjoys performing in schools, libraries, bookshops, and festivals, often dressed as a giant housefly.The Mischief Maker's Handbook is expertly illustrated by Frankfurt-based illustrator Jan Buchczik, whose clients include The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vanity Fair.This book is sure to make grown-ups groan, teachers tremble, siblings sigh and family and friends freak out as it's packed-full with instructions and hilarious tips throughout. Its chapters include: Make a Fake, Flying Things and Flinging Things, Sneaky Science, Noisy Toys, Busy Bodies, Mad Magic, and Champion Challenges.

Can you identify a tree from its seed? How is a frog different from a toad? And where can you find the Big Dipper?Explore the natural world around you using these new activity cards based on the book Hello Nature by Nina Chakrabarti. Take them with you while walking in the woods, holidaying on the beach, or just poking around your own back yard. With thirty fun activities to try, from stone skimming and pond dipping to making feather quill pens and boats from nutshells, there is fun for all the family.

If you look up at the sky on a dark night, what do you see? There's a whole universe staring back at you. In the company of Felicity the cat, discover the phases of the moon, the constellations, and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way.This beautiful, fun book will introduce you to the beauty of the night sky and show you the stars like you've never seen them before.

Climb up to the moon with this amazing fold-out coloring book, the longest in the world!Color an amazing tower, all the way from your house down on the ground, past dragons, witches, space ports, and flying elephants, to reach the moon at the very top!Grab your pens and let's get going! Can you climb all the way to the moon? Hours of fun for coloring enthusiasts of all ages.

Jon Burgerman shows you how to doodle a dragon, scribble a sausage, and color a chameleon in this hilarious how-to guide! Inspired by Jon's popular Snapchat Daily Doodle, this book is packed with instructions, hints, and tips to create your own scribbletastic doodles, from dogs, donuts, and dinosaurs to whales, wigs, and wizards.This crazy collection contains over 100 silly ideas to scribble, funny things to spot along the way, and more than 40 stickers!

You Smell! is a hilarious, surprising and scientific look at your sense of smell. A great read for kids aged 7 to 11.Everyone smells! The sense of smell plays a crucial part in survival, communication, and taste, and is the basis of a multi–billion–dollar industry. But, despite all this, it's the sense we often know least about.This hilarious and fact–packed book puts that right. Find out everything you could ever want to know about stinks, whiffs and pongs, from the fruit so pungent it's banned from public transport to the top–secret military programme developing the stinkiest stink bomb.You'll get up close and personal with the world's biggest stinkers, from peeing pandas to toxic–breathed kings. You'll learn how smells have helped to build empires and bring down entire cities, and how super–stinky inventions are still changing our world.•A surprising, scientific and very silly look at your smelliest sense, packed with pungent facts!• Find out about flowers that smell like rotting flesh, meet professional armpit sniffers, and discover how space smells (like rotten eggs and almonds)!•Written by Clive Gifford, winner of the Blue Peter Award for the Best Book with Facts and the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.

Pierre has a new picture wall and he needs your help to fill it! Revisit five of the best-loved scenes from The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone to find the pictures he needs, and discover secret stickers on your way!This book contains over 800 stickers from Pierre the Maze Detective: The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone, including five full scenes, ten pages full of stickers, and search-and-find activities.A brilliant new sticker adventure for every Maze Detective!