Helena Harastova

This fully illustrated career guide helps kids find out what their future profession might be based on their hobbies. Let them find their dream job! After answering questions provided on the content page that offers a variety of different interests, kids can skip to pages with the most suitable jobs for them. For example: if a kid loves drawing and making things, they can become a painter, of course, but also a tattoo artist, a make-up artist, a restorer, or even a scenographer! Is the kid interested in animals? Then a veterinarian is not the only option. What about a wildlife photographer, a zookeeper, an animal trainer for people with disabilities, or a wildlife rehabilitator? Fourteen chapters provide over 150 possibilities on what to do from classic well-known jobs to the most recent and modern professions.

Wood Wide Web: Understand how plants communicate! Plants—nice but boring? This book will change your mind! Open it and see how they talk without tongue, listen without ears, see without eyes, breathe without lungs, and behave intelligently without brain. Recent scientific findings will make you treat the plants with respect and admiration. Do plants have superpowers we have overlooked? Recent scientific findings have shaken our traditional view of plants. Now we know that plants not only take an interest in the world around them, but they react to it too. Explore with us the depths of the plant soul, and learn how plants converse, help one another, fight together, what they remember, and how plant mail works.

This cute little book with flaps tells a story of a group of plants that are being moved to a new flower shop. In this brightly illustrated book the basics of plant communication are being introduced to little kids using a simple narrative. As the story goes, kids will learn how plants communicate without words, what they do when they are under stress, how they defend themselves when in danger, and also how they help each other. By opening a window on each double-page spread, the kids will find out what the plants are talking about. Kids of very young age will learn that people and animals are not the only ones capable of interactions, and that plants, trees, and fungi all around us can communicate in their own way as well.

"To everyone who can see the world as a big adventure.“Planet Earth is a place of extreme temperatures, poisonous creatures, impassable vegetation, mysterious caves, bottomless abysses, and loads more complications . . . If this doesn’t make you close your eyes in fear, but instead makes you dream of a total adventure, open up this book and allow this group of four brave children, with cameras, lenses, and diaries in hand, to invite you on fascinating travels at the limits of human possibility. You will get to know places that ordinary tourists never reach and also learn how to photograph and record your own adventures best. Freezing cold, unbearable heat, cage diving, bungee jumping, forest fire, kayaking with whales, archaeological excavations, motorcycle rally, astronomical observation, sandboarding . . . No, this is not an action movie, this is an illustrated diary and guide for all adventure lovers packed with plenty of interesting and useful information on extreme activities as well as tips on how to document everything on camera. Follow a group of four kids on their expedition to 9 extreme places on Earth to discover the local attractions as well as local cuisine (such as fried giant Amazon Ants, snake soup or stinky durian) and learn how to take photos of extremes sports, the night sky, underwater and how to protect your equipment from various weather conditions. This book with very graphic illustrations resembling comic books will captivate the readers from the first page until the last. Includes information about travel preparations and packing checklist.

Proud holder of the California Reading Association Eureka Silver Award for 2022. How many cat breeds are there? Let's find out! This book belongs to all cat lovers! Did you know that some cats don't have five fingers, but six? We're not pulling your whiskers—it's true! Whether you have your own pet at home or whether you just like these adorable little rascals—read our illustrated cat atlas, which will introduce you to the most interesting, lazy, cuddly, and wild cat breeds in the world, from the common European tabby to the silky-haired Persian cat and the unusual Lykoi. And don't worry, that one over there isn’t a tiny werewolf—it just looks like one. And if you enjoy bedtime stories, don't forget to cuddle up in bed and immerse yourself in the Meow News, a newspaper that comes with the atlas. It contains many stories, interviews, and news from around the world of renowned feline celebrities, as well as lesser-known cat heroes and heroines.

Come abroad, young readers, as we discover holiday traditions and different cultures from around the world! Good company, great food and drink, and most importantly, lots of fun—we all like celebrating holidays! But have you ever wondered how people spend holidays across the world? In How Kids Celebrate Holidays Around the World, readers will travel the world, experiencing many celebrations and cultures. In this festively illustrated guide that’s perfect for ages four and up, children will discover and learn: What Halloween is like in Ireland? Why Ethiopia celebrates Timkat? How Brazil celebrates Ash WednesdayThe significance of Eid Al-AdhaThe importance of tolerance for other cultures and religionAnd more!

From a skyscraper to a houseboat, kids live in all kinds of places. Peek inside their dwellings across the globe and see their amazing cultures! Have you ever wondered how kids live in other countries? This book gives you a great opportunity to look inside homes on all continents and discover how different kids’ lives can be. People build their homes for comfort and to suit local conditions. Do you know how children live in Mongolia? Or what life’s like in an icy igloo? How about in a rainforest? Come with us to take a look at homes in all parts of the world, and to make new friends who’ll tell you all about their culture.