Ian Chilvers

Caroline Bugler

Iain Zaczek

Jude Welton

Lorrie Mack

Using a visual timeline, tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, by defining each artistic style and putting seminal works of genius in their historical context.

Art that changed the world

Dreaming of becoming a professional ballerina, Lucy aspires to gain acceptance into an exclusive ballet academy where she hopes to work with teachers and fellow dancers before dancing at the side of her idol in a production of The Nutcracker. Simultaneous.

Ballet Academy

Shows how to make the best, most inventive use of living space even when this commodity is at a premium.

Living in Small Spaces

A fascinating �day in the life� look at the coldest place on Earth The Arctic is an amazing place, full of icy wonder and surprises. Come face-to-face with the amazing creatures that live in this frozen world. Discover how in the cold of dawn families stick together for warmth, find out how animals find food at lunchtime, watch a baby seal stick close to mum in the afternoon sun and spot lemmings and polar bears hiding when dusk comes. Great for homework or just for fun. There�s more than just ice and snow in the Arctic!

Arctic

New series from DK designed to help kids learn how to read and learn to love reading Ballet Academy is a 'Reading Alone' reader, perfect for children who are proficient readers, developing the habit of reading widely for both pleasure and information. DK Reads proves that good reads build great readers. Lucy follows her dream as she trains to be a professional dancer at the Academy. Determined to achieve, Lucy overcomes the pressures and disappointments and experiences the magic of performing in The Nutcracker. But will she make it through to Senior School? Ballet Academy is part of the new DK Reads series, a three-level reading scheme that helps children become confident readers, featuring engaging and illustrated topics, plus fun interactive aspects such as diaries, recipes, and games that support the national curriculum. DK Reads is created in consultation with literacy experts and adheres to levelled reading scheme guidelines so the grammar, vocabulary, and content are spot on for each stage. Now available with text that lights up as you read along and playful images and sounds.

Lucy follows her dream to train to become a professional ballerina and is selected as one of a handful of students to go to the Ballet Academy. Throughout the four years, she gets through the tough and pressured training with the support of teachers and fellow students, performs alongside her idol in The Nutcracker, and then faces the final challenge of getting into the Ballet High School. These 128-page books are perfect for elementary and middle grade students who can read alone confidently. The narrative and dialogue are fictional and read like the novels this age group is just beginning to discover, but the books are filled with nonfiction facts and information about the topic at hand. Interspersed throughout are genre spreads that make this a true DK book. Photographs and illustrations throughout the book engage and interest readers as they access information and develop their reading comprehension skills. Presented in chapters, the books in the DK Adventures series are perfect choices for kids who like to read for pleasure and need to read for class.

DK Adventures: Ballet Academy

Shows you how to make the most stylish and effective use of the space you can afford. It looks at inventive storage ideas and appropriate furniture as well as classic "cheats" that help create the illusion of space. The book begins by helping you to equate your needs and what you actually have. Then it turns to specific issues: the allocation of rooms to make the best use of available space; the possibilities offered by small-scale alterations and extensions; and the effects of color, pattern and lighting. It goes on to demonstrate, room by room, the clever ways people have contrived to solve their particular problems. The final section focuses on twenty designs for items of furniture and accessories, such as the coffee table that converts to a dining table or a wall-mounted chopping board and knife rack.--From publisher description.

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