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Books in Little Giant Books series

  • Little Panda

    Kimberly Ainsworth, Michelle Berg

    Rag Book (Little Simon, Sept. 9, 2008)
    Meet Little Panda and his friend Little Monkey as they spend their day eating their favorite foods and playing together. Little ones will love to cuddle with this supersoft fleece cloth book that's made out of cotton and recycled Polartec® fleece. This book is machine-washable and comes packaged in a chipboard box that's made from 100% recycled material. It's the perfect gift for a baby!A new “green” series!: Little Green Books will educate children on what they can do to be more eco-friendly. The books in this line will be made from recycled materials, and the storylines will cover subjects such as improving the environment, learning about endangered animals, recycling, and much more. Cloth book is made from 50% recycled material. The covers are Polartec® fleece made from recycled material. The fabric is machine-washable and the covers are embroidered. Packaged in a chipboard box made from 100% recycled material. Safe for all ages.
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  • A Little Giant Book: Optical Illusions

    Keith Kay

    Paperback (Sterling, Aug. 1, 2007)
    Bats and birds that look like faces, skulls that pop up on anything white, three donkeys with three ears between them, and, walls that disappear - relax, they're only optical illusions. Examine thousand-year-old drawings, find out about closure, perspective, "the Rubin vase" and how these tools can untangle the tricks found in this volume. This book is a fascinating, visually arresting title, which will keep the kids quiet for hours.
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  • Blue Tortoise

    Alan Rogers

    Hardcover (Cooper Square Publishing Llc, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Young children find out all about colors, shapes, weather, travel, and motion while they enjoy hearing the adventures of a cast of funny animal characters. Bright, colorful pictures with only one sentence to a page. Surprise lift-the-flap endings let kids help tell the story. Original artwork from leading animator Alan Rogers.
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  • A Little Giant Book: Visual Tricks

    The Diagram Group

    Paperback (Sterling, Aug. 1, 2007)
    Presents a selection of visual trick puzzles and oddities. This book includes hidden objects and lost people to find, mazes to unravel, double meanings to decode, and impossible objects to comprehend - as well as spatial confusions, optical distortions, and "warped" pictures.
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  • The Little Giant Book of Amazing Mazes

    The Diagram Group

    Paperback (Sterling, June 30, 2001)
    It's a little book with hundreds of pages of big a-mazing fun--in fact, some of the most incredible and detailed mazes you'll ever see! Will you go astray in the middle of the "serpents' circle"--or will you work your way out? Look into the swirling black-and-white funnel and find the lines that lead from top to bottom. Help a butterfly escape from a leafy bush. Draw a continuous line from A to B that passes through every diamond in a pattern--but none of the circles. Navigate through a cluster of open-mouth masked faces (make sure you don't get swallowed up here!). Help the prince locate the right road to the queen so he can present her with a rose. Fortunately, if you get a little lost along the way, the answers are your map out!
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  • Lucy Mouse Keeps a Secret

    Jane Pilgrim, F.Stocks May

    Paperback (Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division, April 15, 1993)
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  • A Little Giant Book: Weird & Wacky Facts

    K. R. Hobbie, Arkady Leokum, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, Robert Obojski, Michael J. Pellowski, Joseph Rosenbloom, Doug Storer, The Diagram Group, William Tichy

    Paperback (Sterling, Aug. 1, 2007)
    Kids will go crazy over this brand-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs, animals to history, nature to sports. For example, in Marostica, Italy, an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns and all the pieces are human beings, and the knights sit on real horses. This book shows weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks as well as 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems!
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  • Super Little Giant Book® of Magic Tricks

    The Diagram Group

    Paperback (Sterling, Nov. 1, 2007)
    Abracadabra! This colorful super book is like a magic wand that makes fun things happen. With nearly 300 pages worth of tricks, it will have budding magicians grabbing their coins, handkerchiefs, and other paraphernalia and showing off dazzling feats of illusion. Easy-to-follow instructions and generously sized illustrations make it a snap to present such impressive stunts as “Color Mystery”—where the performer correctly guesses the color off a crayon placed behind her back. Every trick comes with guidance on preparation, a list of equipment, detailed how-tos for each step, and ideas for making an awesome presentation.
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  • The Little Giant Book of Science Facts

    Glen Vecchione, Joel Harris, Sharon Harris

    Paperback (Sterling, March 1, 2004)
    Hundreds of fascinating, flabbergasting, and sometimes freaky facts are at your disposal in this fun-sized compendium. Uncover animal oddities, including the fact that certain species of frogs can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Find out how strange people really are: Did you know that the average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime—enough to fill two swimming pools? And there are botanical surprises, such as that bananas are actually herbs, plus science tidbits about the Earth, inventions, computers, and more.
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  • Super Little Giant Book® of Dragons

    The Diagram Group, Michael Robertson

    Paperback (Sterling, July 1, 2007)
    Delve deep into the fascinating world of these imaginary creatures. The fantastic journey begins with a look at real animals that have a lot in common with dragons—including the 140-million-year-old tuatara, the frilled lizard, and a host of dinosaurs. Then, children are welcomed into a dragon’s home; introduced to the wonderful variety of dragons that once existed (and some that still do); given the latest in dragon research; and beguiled with dragon lore from around the world. All the secrets of dragon flight are revealed, and bountiful color illustrations capture everything from dragon footprints to a baby hatching from an egg.
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  • The Little Giant Book of Football Facts

    Michael J. Pellowski

    Paperback (Sterling, Aug. 1, 2005)
    This big-as-a-linebacker collection will win over every football fan—even reluctant readers. Featuring such cool categories as On the Gridiron, Super Feats, and Catch Phrases, it contains thousands of football facts and fun trivia, as well as great stories, amazing plays and players, and lots more.
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  • Rain, Rain Go Away

    Russell Punter, Katya Longhi

    Board book (Usborne Publishing Ltd, Oct. 3, 2019)
    The classic nursery rhyme is retold in this beautifully illustrated little board book, which provides a talking point for very young children about why we need rain.