Young Explorers Guide Living Treasures

This exciting guide for young explorers combines scientific facts, fascinating titbits, brilliant full-colour photography and sensitive illustrations to bring a wonderful variety of ocean creatures vibrantly to life. Children will enjoy poring over the colourful pages as they read about marine habitats such as sandy beaches, rocky shores, estuaries, coral reefs and kelp forests. Discover plant and animal groups, including molluscs, crustaceans, coastal birds, mammals and reptiles, among others. Learn to identify important species from each group, using picture field guides. Study the helpful holiday guides to find out what sea life to look out for along the shore - all the way from Walvis Bay to Mozambique. Find out why the ocean is vital to us, how it may be harmed by human activities and some of the ways in which we can help. Learn about the valuable work that marine scientists do. This introduction to the habitats, plants and creatures of the southern African seashores is a captivating celebration of ocean life and is sure to become a firm favourite with beachcombers of all ages.

"Adventures Across the Realm: Tales for Brave Young Explorers" is a captivating collection of fantastical stories designed to ignite the imaginations of young readers. Within its pages lie tales of courage, friendship, and discovery as characters embark on thrilling adventures through mysterious lands, ancient ruins, and enchanted forests. Each story is crafted to transport readers to a realm where anything is possible, where bravery is rewarded, and where the spirit of adventure knows no bounds. With richly drawn characters and vivid descriptions, this book invites readers to join the journey and embrace the wonders of exploration.

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

Learn how archaeologists discover treasures in the ground and preserve them in the lab.

Harriet, Jack, and Toby are treasure hunters, searching the Minecraft world for its most valuable hidden secrets. In an abandoned mineshaft, they discovered a lost journal that once belonged to William, a legendary explorer who has gone missing. The first journal took them on a daring adventure to a secret temple deep in the desert. Now they have the second journal, and they’re more determined than ever to find the missing explorer. The treasure hunters build a portal and travel to the Nether. Even with the help of the second journal detailing survival strategies for the dangerous biome, the gang is in trouble when they realize two sinister treasure hunters, Valentino and Veronica, are trailing them. Will they make it out alive, or are they in over their heads this time? This is the second book in the new Lost Minecraft Journals series. The chapters of each book alternate between the journal entries (William’s story) and the story of the treasure hunters. Fans of Minecraft won’t want to miss this wild new adventure. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.