Books in First Discovery: Torchlight series

Explore the jungle and discover how it grows and where to find its unusual birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles.

If you would like to look at fish in the sea, you need to learn to dive, or you could watch the fish swim around in the pages of this book.

Provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of dinosaurs. Includes transparent overlays.

Travel back in time to the dark, distant past. Meet plateosaurus, diplodocus, iguanodon, and the great sea monsters.

Introduces the Antarctic birds, with full-color illustrations showing penguins as they build a nest, protect their young, and dive into the icy waters of their homeland.

Answers a wealth of questions on butterflies, including how a caterpillar transforms itself and how butterflies protect themselves from enemies, in an introduction to the many varieties of butterflies and moths.

Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. Who is inside the sarcophagus? What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies?

"c1997 by Editions Gallimard Jeunesse. English text c2012 by Moonlight Publishing Ltd. First published in the United Kingdom 2000 by Moonlight Publishing Limited." --T.p. verso.

While we sleep nocturnal animals are out and about. See owls hunt and cats prowl, and find out how bats find their way in the dark.

Find out what happens to the food we eat, explore X-rays of bones and teeth, and discover miracles with a microscope.

Find out what mice and hedgehogs do in the dead of night and how bats find their way in the dark.

Introduces turtles and snails and describes how they function in their daily lives.