Alice Harman

Discover incredible artworks and find your inspiration in The Metropolitan Museum of Art! Cut, stick, paint and draw with these awesomely arty activities inspired by real masterpieces. An artistic cheetah leads you through the museum as you explore and discover amazing pieces from The Met. Follow the prompts to create your own works of art! Turn your hand to artistic techniques like pointillism and sgraffito and have a go at making clay sculptures and relief prints. With space for you to try out each idea and amazing facts to read, you'll find all the inspiration you need to make art and have fun.

Ignite Your Imagination with Creative Prompts Inspired by Real Masterpieces

The Met Art Sparks

Find out what makes you tick in 20 psychological quizzes. Written by award-winning children’s author Alice Harman and illustrated with the bold, geometric artwork of Blok Magnaye, Who Do You Think You Are? takes you on an interactive tour of the history and study of psychology through its most prominent tests. After a science-based exploration to establish what exactly personality is and the different ways it can be measured, test yourself to discover your personality types and traits, intelligence, creativity, unconscious, and most importantly, whether you are more like a pizza or a salad. Each chapter begins with a discussion based on modern psychology that sorts out the fact and fiction behind the different tests. Find out: Which of the four ancient Greek humours is most dominant in your personality (If you’re a great listener and avoid arguments, you might be Phlegmatic.) How you prefer to think and learn with the Left Brain–Right Brain Quiz How impulsive you are with the Barratt Impulsiveness Test How much you enjoy new objects and experiences with the Neophilia Quiz How your abstract reasoning skills measure up with the Culture Fair IQ Test (You’ll have a chance to test yourself in a few different areas of intelligence to find out where your strengths lie!) After taking all these intriguing tests, you might just want to become a psychologist! A section at the back describes the different jobs psychologists do and provides resources for more information on the field. Have a blast learning more about yourself and the field of psychology with this brightly illustrated quiz book!

20 psychology tests to explore your growing mind

Who Do You Think You Are?

Featuring a diverse range of modern artists and their works, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous works. Witty and brilliantly illustrated, Modern Art Explorer is an approachable introduction to modern art for children. Featuring Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and many more, this book brings readers the stories behind thirty famous artworks. Young readers will see art as something real, something born out of ideas, inspiration, human lives, world events, and the materials artists use. Modern Art Explorer goes undercover and turns each work of art inside out, providing children with an ability to understand what each piece is all about. Buoyed by award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch’s cheeky and energetic illustrations, this book prompts children to think about how art comes into being and to take a deeper look at the ideas within each work. Written with a fresh and current voice, this book is a fun and illuminating guide to modern art for children.

Discover the Stories Behind Famous Artworks

Modern Art Explorer

Did you know that our entire solar system sits within the sun's atmosphere? Or that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside Jupiter? Readers will be wowed by these facts and more with this exciting look at the solar system. Packed with fun, informative data about the planets, scientific discoveries through history, and memorable statistics, this book is a must-read for burgeoning scientists. Facts are conveyed through accessible language and enhanced by vibrant, full-color photographs.

Our Solar System

Stand Against: Animal Cruelty

With this fun and informative volume, young would-be astronauts can find out more about space without setting foot on a rocket or space station. From history about humankind's dreams of space travel to weird facts about what space does to the human body, this out-of-this-world book will draw in developing readers with unusual information and bright photographs.

Astronaut Life

This inspirational, optimistic activity book is packed with imaginative suggestions and fun projects that show how small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference to the environment. This charming, vibrantly illustrated book contains a mixture of write-in activities and step-by-step projects, including a bee-themed wildflower maze, instructions for making seed bombs for pollinators and a search-and-find puzzle featuring rainforest species. Perfect for kids aged 6+.

You Can Make a Difference!

Go Green! Activity Book

This book cuts through the politics and misconceptions of climate change, and shows us how we can work together to build a cleaner, fairer, better world.

Climate Change (And How We'll Fix It)

Find out what makes you tick in this stylish book of 20 illustrated psychological tests based on key psychology methods.

20 Psychology Tests to Explore Your Growing Mind

We know what we need to do - so why don't we just sort out climate change? Many kids (and quite a few adults) have asked the question; this book will answer it with a positive but realistic vision of what the solution to our global crisis looks like. After a recap of the science behind climate change, the book delves deeper, with a look at the social and political factors standing in the way of a solution. Finally, we see how all parts of society must come together to meet the challenge, with fairness, thoughtfulness and compassion.

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