Review\nIn this continuation of the Neatly Organized Things series, a cat named Ada tells us she’s really interested in the component parts of various things. Would we like to help her deconstruct an array of everyday objects? Once again, we see a large image on the left side of the page paired with its contents, shown on the right side of the page in minute detail. We start with a bowl of fruit salad, which contains grapes, bananas, blueberries, kiwi, and so on. Then we’re on to a sandbox, which has sand (of course) but also toy trucks, children, buckets, and some tongue-in-cheek discoveries, such as ants and “things left behind”. The bright digital art is clear and snappy and young children will enjoy the assortment of objects as well as their realistic proportions. For example, the bowl of alphabet soup has a lot of letters, fewer carrots, and just a few slices of celery. Other highlights include a hockey team (this is a Czech import) including 16 adult men in their underwear, a chamber orchestra, complete with multiethnic and multi-gender musicians and their instruments, and an oak tree made up of leaves, but also birds, bugs, and squirrels. ―Youth Services Book Review\nA cat named Ada invites the reader to sort through the individual parts that make up different items. We look at each part of a fruit salad, a play sandbox, and a Christmas tree. We explore items in a sweet shop, a hockey game, and an oak tree. We even take apart all the little cogs and wheels of a cuckoo clock! The illustrations are so cute! The art work is bright and sunny. I can’t quite explain why, but there is such an atmosphere of cheerfulness in this book. ―Luminous Libro\nPARTS OF A WHOLE is an intriguing picture book that discusses the things that make up a whole. The book begins with Ada the cat who is wondering what makes up different things. She then travels to think about what makes up a Christmas tree, a road intersection, space, a roll of toilet paper, and more. Curious children will enjoy breaking these wholes apart into all their pieces. 
What I loved: This is a clever premise that helps children to start thinking about teamwork and how small things can make up a larger concept. The different wholes that are broken apart into tetris-like images that are also labeled for ease of describing. The things chosen are really interesting, describing a wide swath of different types of things from objects around the house and toys to more abstract concepts like hockey matches and intersections. 
The illustrations are quite clever and will appeal to young readers. The book could also be turned into simple games with children thinking about all the parts they can think of and then finding them in the other illustration or trying to describe how they all come together in the whole. 
Final verdict: PARTS OF A WHOLE is an intriguing book that helps children to consider how small things can add up to something exciting. 
―YA Books Central\nYou may be surprised to learn how many individual parts make up the things around us. Do you know all the things that go into alphabet soup, a sandpit or a clock? Can you imagine how lovely all the parts look when sorted and arranged side by side? You can’t? Then come with us and let an inquisitive cat called Ada show you what makes up lots of ordinary and special things and places.

Parts of a Whole (Neatly Organized Things)

Children's Books

Garguláková, Magda

Education & Reference

Albatros Media

Tetris challenge accepted! Find out what goes inside a fridge, a school gym, or a music band van! There are so many things around us that we cannot see inside. All those cabinets, suitcases, and closed doors--be they small, big, mysterious, or even quite plain, they make you wonder what's inside them. Food goes inside a fridge. Laundry goes inside a washing machine. That's obvious, right? But what about a fire truck? Not to mention a garden shed or a henhouse? What goes inside them? Join Bruno the curious dog and let's find everything out together. You'll have loads of fun!

What Goes Inside? (Neatly Organized Things)

What is hard and what is soft?&nbsp;What is curved and what is straight?&nbsp;What is safe and what is dangerous? Learn these and many other opposites in English and Spanish in the&nbsp;bilingual&nbsp;title Opposites-Opuestos. Can you name something fragile, something fast, andsomething loud? And do you know what opposites are? The world around us isfilled with them! When you look closely at things, you will learn that they canbe cold, light, pointed, or even stinky. Each of these things has anopposite--something hot, heavy, rounded, or fragrant. And there is much, muchmore to discover in this book!

Opposites – Opuestos

Literature & Fiction

The Hand Book: A Complete Guide

Arts, Music & Photography

An original concept where math is explained on real life situations showing the practical usage of numbers in our everyday lives. Math is usually considered a demanding, boring or even a scary subject. But numbers are all around us and we use them and math constantly without even realizing it. Various usage of numbers in different environments is presented in 17 chapters and the book ends with a double-spread where kids can try out their newly gained knowledge. The aim of this book is to show math as a fun and useful subject that can be comprehensible and that helps us in many ways on a daily basis.

Numbers, Numbers Everywhere (Look Around and Learn)

A comprehensive guidebook for kids on proper houseplant care, featuring bold illustrations and engaging infographics.&nbsp; Houseplants can add a touch of green to any living space, and caring for them can be a relaxing and rewarding hobby. For kids interested in learning more about plant care, this comprehensive guidebook covers all the basics and more, teaching kids all about the different types of houseplants, their growth habits, and the best practices to care for them. Divided into three sections, How Not to Kill Your Plant provides all the information kids need to ensure their houseplants thrive:&nbsp; <ul> <li>The Basics of Care: Learn about the essential elements of plant care, including watering, lighting, and soil.</li> <li>Encyclopedia of houseplants: Identify and learn about common houseplants, including their ideal growing conditions and common issues to look out for.</li> <li>Cultivation practice: Discover tips and tricks for repotting, propagation, and other plant care techniques.</li> </ul> Highlights include: <ul> <li>A glossary of basic plant terminology (e.g., substrate, fertilizer, humidity, etc.)</li> <li>Step-by-step instructions for taking care of houseplants</li> <li>Advice on choosing the right plant</li> <li>Various problems you can expect to encounter - and ways to solve them</li> </ul> Images accompany the text in a fun yet logical and orderly fashion, such as this numbered list for repotting: <ul> <li>Water the plant well the day before repotting. This will make it easier to remove it from its pot.</li> <li>Remove the plant from its pot.</li> <li>As you carefully release the roots, remove old, excess soil from the plant.</li> <li>Remove old, rotting roots.</li> <li>Having selected a pot with a drainage hole and of appropriate size, wash this pot in soapy water.</li> <li>Put a drain (e.g., a layer of expanding clay balls or pebbles) in the bottom of the pot. (Plants watered in a tray do not need a drain.)</li> <li>Add a small layer of the new substrate.</li> <li>Place the plant in the new pot.</li> <li>Fill any remaining space in the pot with the new substrate.</li> <li>Tamp the soil down gently with your fingers, ensuring that the plant is well anchored. Don't fill the pot with soil right to the top, but to 1 cm below it - you must leave space for watering.</li> <li>Water the plant well (unless it is a cactus or succulent - in which case wait 2 weeks before watering).</li> <li>Your plant has been potted. Hurray!</li> </ul> Plant care instructions are likewise fun yet clear and actionable, such as this one for the Cactus: <ul> <li>Fertilize max. 1x per month with special fertilizer for cacti.</li> <li>In spring or summer, transplant to a terracotta pot. Do not water for 2 weeks after repotting.</li> <li>Propagate by offsets.</li> <li>It needs an airy, permeable substrate, like one with sand.</li> </ul> Filled with clear and concise advice, this book is much more than just a practical guide. It features fresh, modern illustrations that bring the information to life, as well as engaging infographics that make the information easy to understand and remember.&nbsp; How Not to Kill Your Plant is suitable for children aged 6-9 interested in growing houseplants. Geared toward kids who love plants and want to develop a lifelong hobby of plant care, this guidebook is ideal for any young ones looking to green up their home, as well as adult readers and flower shop patrons.

How Not to Kill Your Plant

Chytilová, Lenka

With detailed illustrations, this conceptual book provides young readers with a playful, geometric adventure in a fun world of shapes. 
Shapes provide space and offer boundaries, allowing kids to let their imagination run wild and watch all the shapes come to life. In this captivating book, children will enter a world of shapes and imagination to learn about geometry. Using the following basic geometric shapes as a foundation… Circle Triangle Square Rectangle Oval Trapezium 
…children will experience an array of colorful and detailed illustrations that feature various structures and locations, such as: Ferris wheel Spiral staircase Roundabout Whirlpool Telescope Velodrome Maze Bed House Soccer field Swimming pool Town square Attic Tent Pyramid Mountain Sailing boat Castle 
A representative example is: 
The tent looks like a triangle 
A triangle in a backpack? That must be a tent! Packed on your back, it travels the world with you. And when you get tired of walking, you just take it off. And there it is . . . A whole home squeezed into a triangle. Small but cozy, you can fit in everything you need! You, your friend, your things, especially your essential map. 
The illustrations are packed with interesting details, entertaining situations, and plenty of things to discover. There is even a little search-and-find game throughout the book where children can look for a hidden teddy bear on each spread. Along the way, children will be able to recognize shapes quickly and easily, while having lots of fun doing so. This unique approach to storytelling stimulates children’s imagination while helping them to uncover new levels of perception. Not only will they learn about basic shapes, but they will also improve their visual perception and attention to detail. 
With this book, children will recognize shapes quickly and easily and have lots of fun along the way. With its whimsical illustrations, Shapescapes is sure to capture the hearts and minds of young readers aged 3–6, making this an ideal book for any child who loves to learn and have fun at the same time. The illustrations are enchanting and will keep children engaged for hours.

Shapescapes (Shake Up Your Knowledge)

Sekaninová, Štepánka

Humor

In this illustrated preposition book, kids will learn English spatial prepositions with visual examples and fun games to test their knowledge. With simple explanations and lots of fun, colorful illustrations, this fully illustrated book uses visual examples to teach children how to use 8 basic prepositions of place in everyday situations: <ul> <li>In</li> <li>On</li> <li>Under</li> <li>Above</li> <li>Next to</li> <li>Between</li> <li>Behind</li> <li>In front of</li> </ul> Having been introduced to these 8 basic prepositions of place, the child reader then remembers them and learns to use them in everyday life. Each preposition contains a visual aid showing a blue box and a red ball (or multiple balls) located somewhere in relation to (i.e., in, on, under, above, next to, between, behind, in front of) the box. Each preposition takes up a page featuring the visual aid plus a large representative image on the left and four additional examples of the use of the preposition on the right. For example, UNDER contains 5 fun images with the following text: <ul> <li>Lucy and Eddie are playing under the umbrella.</li> <li>The bug is under the rock.</li> <li>The presents are under the tree.</li> <li>The ball is under the car.</li> <li>The whale is under the boat.</li> </ul> Through this simple method of repetition, children will learn to commit the prepositions to memory. But this learning process doesn't have to be boring. In addition to the visual examples, this book also includes a little game at the end (titled: WELCOME TO OUR ROOM. CAN YOU TELL WHERE EVERYTHING IS?) to help reinforce the concepts learned. Words about Where is ideal for children aged 3-6 who want to master English spatial prepositions - an excellent resource for kids learning English as a second language, as well as for young native speakers looking to improve their understanding of prepositions. Young readers will enjoy spotting and naming the prepositions in the pictures, and will be able to exercise their new knowledge in an exciting and engaging way. With its fun approach and helpful exercises, this book makes prepositions easy and enjoyable to learn.

Words About Where: Let's Learn Prepositions

Sleeping Beauty (Fairy Tale Shape Books, 3)

Classics

Teeth: You Only Get Two Sets

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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