Bushcraft for families with older children: a range of outdoor projects and activities including foraging for wild food, building fires and making shelters.

Alfred Wainwright dedicated his life to exploring Lakeland mountains, and creating the hand-drawn pages of his Pictorial Guides to Lakeland Fells. This collection features the following fells: Blencathra; Bowfell; Carrock; Crinkle Crags; Great Gable; Harrison Stickle; Haystacks; Pike o' Stickle; Pillar; Place Fell; Scafell; and Scafell Pike.

The story of Mary Anning, probably the world's best known fossil-hunter.

An authoritative and superbly illustrated celebration of the great gardens of the United States and Canada.

The National Railway Museum Diary 2010 features nostalgic images from the golden age of foreign travel. Cruises to the West Indies, jaunts across the Channel to the continent, the first commercial air flights - the colour posters and black-and-white images conjure up the nostalgia of holidays taken in days gone by. The emphasis is on travel beyond the British Isles - to the far flung corners of ..

A stroll through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited, with photos and period drawings, excerpts from the letters and novels, touring information and planting plans.

Polly and Nisha are the only girls who want to play in the school football match. But how will they perform on the day of the big game?

A fantasy lift-the-flap book for children awaiting the arrival of a new baby brother or sister.

A perfect introduction to the sounds and rhythms of another language, featuring 25 simple French rhymes and songs. Plus an audio CD.

Against the background of Laura Ashley's life, Martin Wood tells the story of the iconic brand she and her husband, Bernard, created.

Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists is a delicious combination of biographical anecdote and art history, and an elegant celebration of the powerful relationships between sons, daughters and their mothers.

An entertaining celebration of the elegant spa town of Cheltenham.

A compilation of photographs from Sandra Lousada's fifty-year career, capturing insider views of figures such as Lawrence Olivier and Joan Plowright, Julie Christie, Helen Mirren and David Hockney.

A tale of pride coming before a fall from an award-winning author and a rising star of picture-book illustration.

This delightful illustrated book is a guide to introducing children to the great outdoors through fun activities in nature. Designed for use by families, carers, play workers and teachers, the book sets out guidelines for safe and engaging play outdoors, with useful tips on how to hold children's attention on longer excursions. The book is divided into seasons, with activities appropriate to ...

A wealth of authentic folk stories from Iran retold by an author who has spent a lot of time there.

An Arabian orphan boy is forced to work as a camel jockey, but makes a new friend and escapes into the desert.

A celebration of British geology - the most varied of any country in the world - from the perspective of a climber and hillwalker.

Offers practical gardening advice on month by month basis with places for your own notes and plans. This ringbound book with a waterproof cover includes topics such as garden tasks and tools, and is presented with pockets for storage of extra notes and seed packets, and an elastic closer.

An introduction to Vincent van Gogh, as seen through the eyes of a small boy. There are reproductions of van Gogh's work.