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ALBATROS MEDIA BOOKS DESIGNED BY B4U PUBLISHING SPRING 2019
B4U PU B LI S H I N G
& ALBATROS M E D IA
present
4
Forthcoming A HOUSE FULL OF
co-editions ANIMALS: FIND
HIDDEN ANIMALS
a new book
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
FOB HK: 11.10.2019
Further details on page 11
LEARNING WHEEL
new books from
a successful series WHERE THE BEAVER
DOES HIS BUSINESS:
Order confirmation: 2.8.2019 WHAT ANIMALS
FOB HK: 15.12.2019 LEAVE BEHIND
a new book
Further details on page 8
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
FOB HK: 11.10.2019
My Day Seasons
Further details on page 31
TAKE ME HOME
a new series
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
FOB HK: 11.10.2019
Further details on page 33
Colours Opposites
Take Me Home: Take Me Home:
Forests of the World Waters of the World
ADVENTURES
OF CRIME AND
PUNISHMENT
a new book
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
EXW CZ: 18.9.2019
Shapes Numbers
Further details on page 40
5
6
URBAN LEGENDS: A WORLD ATLAS
„TRUE“ HORROR OF GHOSTS AND
STORIES FROM FRIENDS
CITY STREETS a new book
a new book
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
Order confirmation: 30.4.2019 FOB HK: 1.11.2019
EXW CZ: 26.8.2019
Further details on page 45
Further details on page 41
BOOK IN A BOOK AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA
a new series OF EXTINCT
ANIMALS
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019 a new book
FOB HK: 8.11.2019
Order confirmation: 31.5.2019
Further details on page 42 EXW Kharkiv: 25.10.2019
Further details on page 55
On the Trail of the Journey to the Treasure
Sacred Scarab Island
REMARKABLE FAIRY TALE
WORKS OF ART ENCYCLOPEDIA
AROUND THE a forthcoming co-edition
WORLD
a new book from Order confirmation: 30.4.2019
a successful series FOB HK: 24.10.2019
Order confirmation: 28.6.2019 Further details on page 25
FOB HK: 18.11.2019 In the Garden with In the Ocean with the
Sleeping Beauty Little Mermaid
Further details on page 43 The Stories of Interesting
Towns and Cities
On the Building In the Wood with Little
The Stories of The Stories of Site with the Three Red Riding Hood
Pictures & Sculptures Interesting Buildings Little Pigs
7
age 2–5
10
Learning Wheel
suitable for
age 2+
book parameters: illustrated by julie cossette
Size 170 × 170 mm, 6 spreads, written by pavla hanáčková
rotating mechanism,
hardbinding
In this series you’ll find funny, colourful books that
teach kids all the basics they need to know. Special
rotating mechanism on the left side of the spread
supports the visual learning and children will learn
NEW everything they need about colours, shapes, numbers,
opposites, seasons and the daily routine. On the right learning wheel
side of each spread, they will practice other things Opposites
connected to each topic. Just turn and learn! sold: Italian, Complex Chinese,
Hungarian, Lithuanian, French, Greek,
Simplified Chinese, Maltese, Spanish
learning wheel
My Day
NEW
learning wheel
Shapes
sold: Spanish & Basque, Italian,
Complex Chinese, Hungarian, Latvian,
learning wheel Greek, Simplified Chinese, French
Seasons
learning wheel learning wheel
Colours Numbers
sold: Italian, Complex Chinese, Greek, sold: Spanish & Basque, Italian,
Hungarian, French, Latvian, Simplified Complex Chinese, Latvian, Greek,
Chinese, Dutch, Maltese, Spanish Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French
11
12
Peek-A-Boo A House Full
suitable for suitable for
age 2+ age 3–5
book parameters: illustrated by edit hajdu (sliacka)
of Animals: Find
Size 190 × 190 mm, 9 spreads incl.
cover, board book
written by silvie sanža, markéta špačková
Hidden Animals
Do you know how polar bears are able to be almost
invisible in the snow despite being such giants? Why
do tigers have a striped coat? And what do hedgehog book parameters: illustrated by zuzana dreadka krutá
babies look alike when they’re born? Nature gave Size 215 × 280mm, 7 spreads, flaps, written by sabina konečná
animals homes and coats of various colours, shapes, hardbinding
sizes and patterns, thereby enabling them to hide from
enemies or crawl through the jungle, snow or garden A small hole in the fence, that’s all it took for a great,
undetected. And when their fur or their own home fun adventure to start. Curious animals from a nearby
cannot keep them warm, they move into square boxes
or houses with a lovely triangular shield. That’s a great
NEW ZOO set out to explore a neighbouring house. They’re
going to search six rooms in total, enjoying their visit
peek-a-boo place to live, isn’t it? Try to find all of the animals and immensely. They’ll take a taste of many goodies, have a
Animal Colours shapes which are hidden in the books! nap, crawl inside wardrobes, climb on shelves, even
sold: Dutch, Finnish, Italian, jump into the bathtub. Find all 86 animals that have
Norwegian, Swedish, Slovene, Simplified hidden themselves inside this generously illustrated
Chinese, Ukrainian, French for Europe, interactive book for small readers, and learn many
Russian interesting facts!
Cut out in the shape of
an animal house
peek-a-boo peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
Animal Patterns Shapes Animal Houses
sold: Dutch, Finnish, Italian, sold: Ukrainian and Shelters
Norwegian, Swedish, Slovene, Simplified sold: Ukrainian
Chinese, Ukrainian, French for Europe,
Latvian, Russian
13
14
Animal Invisible Animals
suitable for suitable for
age 3–5 age 3–5
Relationships book parameters: illustrated by linh dao
Size 210 × 210 mm, 7 spreads, written by pavla hanáčková
5 venetian sliders, hardbinding
book parameters: illustrated by jana kloučková kudrnová
Size 230 × 210 mm, 32 pages, written by petra bartíková and markéta špačková
hardbinding Books from this series explain
How can I tell my chosen one that I like her? If she children how animals camouflage
bares her teeth at me, does it mean that she likes me or themselves in nature. In each
that I should take to my heels? Relationships aren’t book five animals are hidden in
easy at all. As animals could tell you... In many stories their natural habitat and children can
for children, humans understand the language of uncover them by pulling the sliding mechanism.
animals only when magic is involved. Abracadabra! Moreover, they will learn more interesting facts about
Now they understand all kinds of barking and buzzing. the camouflage of each animal. On the last page,
Who wouldn’t want to understand animal language? If children will have loads of fun while looking for
you’re interested in knowing what animals talk about, invisible animals animals that are hidden in the picture!
then these are books for you. Who’s Hiding
in the Forest
animal relationships and Snow?
Why Crocodiles sold: Spanish worldwide, Simplified
Make Waves: Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian,
Love between Lithuanian, Polish
Animals
sold: French for Europe, English
for Australia
animal relationships
Why Lions
Roar at Lions:
How Animals
Communicate
sold: French for Europe, English for
Australia
invisible animals
Who’s Hiding in
the Desert and
Water?
sold: Spanish worldwide, Simplified
Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, Polish
15
16
Teddy and Friends
suitable for
age 2–5 My First Books suitable for
age 3–5
book parameters: illustrated by katarína macurová
of Nature
Size 190 × 190 mm, 6 spreads, written by petra bartíková
6 venetian slides, case cover
book parameters: illustrated by katarína macurová
Size 230 × 270 mm, 28 pages, written by petra bartíková
Four books about Teddy and friends who want to help hardbinding
him but don’t always succeed. In summer, the
strawberries in Teddy’s garden ripen. Teddy takes good
care of them. Oof, but who has eaten his carrot?! Teddy Push, dig, boom, cuddle. Gerbils sleep pressed next to
has a small farm, too. On his farm he looks after one another in holes with passage ways, which they dig
chickens, sheep, horses and other animals. His friend themselves. Zoom! Gulp! Smack! Frogs use their long
Mr Piggy helps Teddy. But sometimes Mr Piggy gets tongues to grab insects,
his trotters in a twist. Then life on the farm gets worms and even small
messy … In Teddy’s home two mice have never got up rodents. You will learn this,
teddy and his friends to anything but mischief, but this time they have and much more, in your first
Teddy in the decided to help Teddy – to make a delicious pizza! In illustrated books about nature.
Garden the garage Teddy and Mr Hedgehog have a lot of work my first books of nature
sold: Estonian, Greek ahead of them. How do you think they’ll get on? One How Animals Sleep
thing’s for sure – Teddy’s home will again be full of sold: Simplified Chinese, Estonian,
fun. Look through books and say what’s happening in Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Slovene,
the garage, on the farm, in the kitchen and in the Vietnamese
garden. Thanks to the magic pull bar, the animals all
but come to life!
teddy and his friends
Teddy on the
Farm
sold: Greek
Pull the magic
pull-bar
The picture will
change before
your very eyes
teddy and his friends teddy and his friends my first books of nature
Teddy in the Teddy in the How Animals Eat
Garage Kitchen sold: Simplified Chinese, Russian,
sold: Greek sold: Greek Ukrainian, Greek, Vietnamese
17
18
Bird’s Eye View suitable for
age 3–5 A Bug Hotel suitable for
age 3–5
Discovery book parameters: illustrated by tomáš kopecký
Size 230 × 260 mm, 32 pages, written by petra bartíková,
1 map 450 × 517 mm, hardbinding helena haraštová and markéta nováková
book parameters: illustrated by kateřina hikadová
Size 185 × 245 mm, 20 pages + map, written by štěpánka sekaninová
hardbinding Small and fragile, they are easy to overlook in the
countryside. Which is a pity. Do you have any idea
how picturesque the lives of insects can be? Take the
Bird’s eye view discovery book series guides readers longhorn beetle. It may look like an antisocial
who want to learn how to read maps. They will know-all, but that’s because of its extremely long
discover plenty of interesting facts about what makes antennae, which make it difficult to approach. Then
city a city or which animals live on the hot plains of there’s the dragonfly. It flaps its wings so rarely and
Africa. Each title contains a large fold-out map with carelessly, it’s a wonder it doesn’t fall. And these are
beautiful illustrations. Cute and funny bird just two of the creatures in the remarkable world of
companions will provide children with all sorts of insects. So what are you waiting for? Open the book,
interesting information. It doesn’t matter how young step into the Insect Hotel and get to know first-hand
or old readers are, everybody will have loads of fun its fragile guests with their antennae and wing-cases.
with this series! The ladybird receptionist is so impatient for your
bird’s eye view discovery sold: Simplified Chinese arrival that she is tapping the table with her pencil …
City from
a Sparrow’s Eye
View
sold: Simplified
Chinese
bird’s eye view discovery
Wild Animals from
a Swallow’s Eye
View
sold: Simplified Chinese
1920
Animal Pop-ups Animal Homes
suitable for suitable for
age 3–5 age 3–5
book parameters: illustrated by irene gough book parameters: illustrated by irene gough
Size 180 × 220 mm, 7 spreads written by pavla hanáčková Size 180 × 220 mm, 7 spreads written by pavla hanáčková
with pop-ups, hardbinding with pop-ups, hardbinding
What’s the best way to get the littlest readers familiar Come with us on a journey through the forest and
with the animal world? By using playful pop-ups that learn about the creatures that live here and their
will put smiles on their faces! All books in this series homes. Everywhere you look, animal friends will be
are linked with similar features: delightful, full-colour peeping out at you. Who’s that living in the hollow of
illustrations, simple yet concise texts and amusing a tree? Whose is that nest hidden among the leaves?
pop-ups. Because a picture is worth a thousand words. You’ll have lots of fun with these charming three-
dimensional pictures.
animal pop-ups animal homes
Animal Babies on In the Forest
the Farm sold: Dutch, French for Europe,
sold: Dutch, French Italian, German, Vietnamese
Walk with us through the garden, where you’ll meet
those that live here and learn about their homes.
Everywhere you look, animal friends will be peeping
out at you. Who’s that hiding in a lump of soil? Who’s
that in the wooden hut? You’ll have lots of fun with
these charming three-dimensional pictures.
animal homes
animal pop-ups In the Garden
Animal Babies sold: Dutch, French for Europe,
around the Forest Italian, German, Vietnamese
sold: Dutch, French
2122
Explore Animal suitable for
age 3–5 Little Shoes
suitable for
age 3–5
Kingdom book parameters: illustrated by alexandra hetmerová
Size 92 × 178 mm, 9 spreads, written by oldřich růžička
incl. cover, board book, shoelace
book parameters: illustrated by magdaléna takáčová with a bead This unique, accessible, playful, and shoe-shaped board
Size 230 × 230 mm, 16 pages, written by petra bartíková book will teach your children how to tie their
board book shoelaces. Each title contains a simple motivational
story and on the laced pages children will find a clear,
What would it be like to be a bee, an ant or a squirrel illustrated manual how their shoelaces should be tied.
living in the hollow of an old oak tree? Let’s explore Each title presents two ways how to do this so that
the animal kingdom, where you can be one of them for everybody can choose whichever one they prefer the
a little while. Of course, it’s only pretend! These best. The lace which ties individual pages together can
leporello books are shaped like hives, trees or anthills be pulled out, just like a real shoelace from your
with numerous carved out chambers and corridors. shoes – this allows children not only to learn how to
lace up their shoes, but also to develop their motor
skills while they’re pressing the string through holes.
explore animal kingdom
Illustrated
The Anthill Boing!
Boi
ng! instructions how
sold: Simplified Chinese, Ho
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to tie the lace
an
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Who
Portuguese for Brazil, Sc
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sh-s
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German, Galician, What
a catastrophe!
Finnish, Greek, Spanish, SOS!
Slovene little shoes
Joey Learns to
Look inside Tie His Shoelaces
the anthill sold: Dutch, English for China, Spanish
and Catalan for Europe, Complex That isn’t
Mic
e! Kate’s
Chinese, Russian, Portuguese for Brazil, shoelace.
Vietnamese, Slovene
!
t’s er
Le arp
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Ants only rarely Worker ants carry out
I’ll
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take a rest various tasks
Leave my ne!
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husband
illustrated by
Illustrated stories
martin šojdr for boys and girls
little shoes
Kate Learns to
explore animal kingdom explore animal kingdom Tie Her Shoelaces
The Tree The Beehive sold: Dutch, English for China, Greek,
sold: Simplified Chinese, Portuguese for sold: Simplified Chinese, Portuguese for Spanish and Catalan for Europe,
Brazil, Estonian, Italian, Galician, Greek, Brazil, Estonian, German, Italian, Galician, Complex Chinese, Russian, Portuguese
Hungarian, German, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish Greek, Lithuanian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish for Brazil, Vietnamese
2324
Beat Your Fear Yes or No
suitable for suitable for
age 3–5 age 3–5
book parameters: illustrated by jakub cenkl book parameters: illustrated by jakub cenkl
Size 190 × 190 mm, 6 spreads written by štěpánka sekaninová Size 260 × 260 mm, case cover written by štěpánka sekaninová, pavla hanáčková
+ 6 venetian sliders, hardbinding with punch windows + 6 spreads
We all get scared sometimes. Some of us often and + 6 sliders Can you be considerate of other people? Are you
a lot – at the doctor’s, on the river, when there’s careful not to put yourself or anybody else in danger?
a storm … This is when fear takes the upper hand, Really? Let’s have a look. Open the book, take a piece
when it takes us over, when we look at the world of paper and try to answer a few simple quiz questions.
through fear’s eyes. With the book Not As Scary Then pull the handle and check your answers.
As It Looks … children can pause and take a good Moreover, you can play with funny illustrations, which
look around for themselves. Is the doctor really a dark can be changed either into correct or incorrect
magician? Are those things in Grandma’s pond truly situations. It is an entertaining and funny book full of
octopuses? By taking a closer look, young readers will pictures and tasks which will teach you how to behave
see how things really are. Even if their fear isn’t safer in many different situations. You can’t believe it,
banished straight away, they only have to open the can you? Try and you will see.
book a second time for success to be guaranteed. yes or no
beat your fear Thanks to the beautiful illustrations, interactive sliding Can You Behave? Five simple questions
Not As Scary As It mechanism and changing pictures, even real scaredy- Etiquette for Little on each page
Pull the handle
Looks … cats will soon overcome their fear. Rascals
sold: Ukrainian, Italian, Spanish for sold: Simplified Chinese, Spanish for
Europe, Icelandic Six changing Europe, Russian,
pictures inside
Ukrainian
Check your
Pull the
answers
tab & stop
Unique sliding
mechanism Changing pictures
other title:
beat your fear
I’m Not Afraid of the Dark
sold: English for Australia and NZ, English for UK,
English for USA, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, French, yes or no
Greek, Spanish for Europe, Portuguese for Europe, Are You Careful Enough?
Latvian, Complex Chinese, Dutch, Russian, Estonian, A Guide for Little Hotheads
Icelandic, Italian, Romanian, Swedish sold: Simplified Chinese, Spanish for Europe, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian
2526
Choose and Learn Fairy Tale
suitable for suitable for
age 2+ age 3–5
book parameters: illustrated by veronika kopečková
Encyclopedia
Size 240 × 240 mm, 4 × 12 pages,
board book with a special rotating
mechanism This series of cheery and colourful books will show book parameters: illustrated by alexandra májová
readers everything they need to know! For example, Size 220 × 220 mm, 6 spreads, written by štěpánka sekaninová and
animals that live on the farm, in the woods, in the hardbinding petra bartíková
jungle and in the sea. All children need to do is to turn
the wheel and choose which little book to open. They Do you think that fairy tales are just lovely stories
can also learn what happens in spring, summer, filled with fantasy, magic, witchcraft and wonder, and
autumn and winter. The rotating mechanism on the that they tell us nothing new about the world that
book opens the way to the chosen season. And what surrounds us? If you do, whether you’re a big reader or
about square, rectangle, triangle and circle? These are a small one, you’re wrong. Let the Encyclopaedia of
the shapes that form the pictures in the individual Fairy Tales series prove it by showing you all the things
books. A world full of shapes awaits young readers. fairy tales can teach us. Walk through the woods with
Let’s turn the wheel and choose which book to open! Little Red Riding Hood, inspect the garden with
Sleeping Beauty, help the Three Little Pigs build
a house, and dive deep into the sea with the Little
boar
boar cow
cow Mermaid. What are you waiting for? Learn about the
world against the background of your favourite stories
cow fairy tale encyclopedia
In the Garden with and have fun at the same time!
boar Sleeping Beauty
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fairy tale encyclopedia fairy tale encyclopedia fairy tale encyclopedia
On the Building In the Ocean In the Wood with
Site with the with the Little Little Red Riding
choose & learn choose & learn choose & learn Three Little Pigs Mermaid Hood
Animals Seasons Shapes sold: Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese sold: Simplified Chinese sold: Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese
2728
More books suitable shape books for
young readers
a pictorial
mini-encyclopedia
for age 2–5
The Undersea Everyday Life at
World School
sold: Dutch, Simplified sold: Russian,
watch me grow up tales of nature Chinese, Portuguese for Simplified Chinese
Brazil, German
From a Baby Boy Samie the Stork
to a Grandpa sold: Estonian,
Simplified Chinese
Life in a Castle
sold: Simplified
Chinese, Portuguese for What Will I Be?
Brazil, Slovene, German sold: Russian,
Simplified Chinese,
Lithuanian
From a Baby Girl Rosie the
to a Grandma Raindrop
sold: Estonian, The Mystery
Simplified Chinese of the Mummy
sold: Simplified
Chinese, Portuguese
for Brazil
other books
how plants grow bedtime reading Pirates – The Look Inside:
Treasure of Fruit and
Hopalong Jack Vegetables
Watch That Touch the Sky sold: Dutch, Simplified sold: Finnish, Slovene,
Tree Grow! Chinese, Portuguese for Estonian
sold: French, Simplified Brazil, Slovene
Chinese
Animals
of the Jungle
sold: Simplified Chinese,
Watch That What’s that Portuguese for Brazil
Plant Grow! Light?
sold: French, Simpli-
fied Chinese
2930
age 6–8 & 9–12
3132
How Animals Live Where the Beaver
suitable for suitable for
age 6–8 age 6–8
Does His Business:
Various creatures have found their homes here from
small and at first sight almost invisible ants, to What Animals Leave
Behind
wood-destroying beetles and busy bees up to diverse
kinds of climbing trees and rodents and finally even
genuine giants, such as majestic wolves and bears. All
this in an attractive 3D package modelled as an animal
dwelling. The ‘How Animals Live’ series entertains and book parameters: illustrated by hedviga gutierrez
fascinates. As readers play, laugh at the amusing Size 250 × 250 mm, 36 pages, written by markéta nováková
book parameters: captions and study the many brilliant illustrations, they hardbinding
Size 250 × 250 mm + model of don’t realize how much they are learning. The ‘How
anthill/beehive (11 board panels Animals Live’ series doesn’t look like what it is, an Even the stubborn loner bear sometimes feels like
with flaps) + encyclopedia encyclopaedia; it looks like a real beehive, a real anthill, dancing. When he does, nearly everyone in the woods
real dens and burrows and of course real tree hollows. knows about it. And just think of all the traces he
(12 pages), hardbinding
illustrated by This encyclopaedia takes eager readers right to the NEW leaves! Battered pines, firs bent out of shape, bear hair
tomáš tůma heart of the matter. How could education possibly be in the tree bark, plus lots of giant footprints. Every
written by any more fun? animal leaves various traces – poop pellets, feathers,
jitka petřeková eggs, nests, you name it… Join us in their woodland
homes, the town, the field, the meadow and the
garden, even underwater. Not only will you discover
where the beaver does his business, you’ll learn lots of
other things too – like who makes the best slides in the
snow and in the mud.
book parameters:
Size 250 × 250 mm, 6 board panels with flaps + encyclopedia (18 pages),
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Beehive In Burrows and In the Tree
sold: Italian, Simplified Chinese, Dens Hollows
Complex Chinese, Estonian, Slovene, sold: Simplified Chinese, Estonian, sold: Simplified Chinese, Estonian,
Russian Lithuanian, Korean Korean
3334
NEW
A Year in Nature Take me Home
suitable for suitable for
age 6–8 age 6–8
book parameters: illustrated by aneta žabková book parameters: illustrated by linh dao
Size 250 × 250 mm, 20 pages, written by petra bartíková Size 240 × 240 mm, 13 spreads, written by pavla hanáčková
4 booklets, 4 concertina folds, hardbinding
12 flaps, hardbinding It’s great fun to be in the woods or the garden, as
there’s always something going on in the natural Take Me Home book series guides readers through
world – in spring, summer, autumn and winter. So go various places: be it different types of forests or various
outside and watch the animals in all four seasons. Find types of bodies of water. Titles in this series are
out what blooms and when, and how nature changes. accompanied by cute and funny illustrations and are
The books A Year in the Woods and A Year in the packed with fun facts. That’s why they will make great
Garden will teach you many things, including how to companions for readers, who are interested in nature
tell a hare from a rabbit, what a worm does and want to get to know it even better! And what
underground and why a snake sticks out its tongue. about those readers, who are fond of adventure? They
The fun illustrations by Czech artist Aneta Žabková won’t be disappointed either. On 13 spreads, they will
include many windows to open, and there are booklet become a part of a cute group of friends, and together
inserts with simple instructions on how to make your take me home they will explore various types of forests and waters.
own herbarium and bird feeder. Forests The readers can guess what place each animal calls
a year in nature of the World home. After reading the book, they will know for sure.
A Year in the It doesn’t matter how old readers are – everybody will
Woods have loads of fun while reading this series!
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Polish, Slovene,
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Peek deep
underground!
take me home
Waters
of the World
Craft and learn
in the nature!
a year in nature
A Year in the
Garden
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3536
Amazing Nature
suitable for
age 6–8+
book parameters: illustrated by linh dao
Size 215 × 280 mm, 36 pages written by pavla hanáčková
hardbinding
Take a look around – does it look like everything in
the wild is all right? Have you noticed the litter strewn As we travel from scorching deserts to green
everywhere, the withering trees, or the dying plans? rainforests to regions permanently under ice and snow,
Do you feel like you see certain plants and animals less we find the most amazing plants and animals. Come
and less? No wonder – we, the people, have made it amazing nature with us on a journey and learn about the most
pretty warm for the wild. Soon, the only way for us to How Animals Care fascinating organisms that our planet has to offer. The
know certain kinds of animals will be the pictures. for Their Young: world around us is wonderful – so let’s go and explore
People are on the rise and nature is in decline. We fell Parenting Styles in it together!
trees, settle formerly unexplored places, and rob the Animal World
animals and plants of their homes. If you want to help sold: Korean for Korea, English for
the wild, then don’t hesitate to read on! You’ll learn Australia and New Zealand, Italian, Dutch
what places, animals, and plants are in danger and how Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Slovene,
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amazing nature
Animals in Danger
or How We Can
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amazing nature amazing nature amazing nature
Unlikely How Animals Myths and
Friendships Adapt to Their Stereotypes about
in Nature Surroundings Animals
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3738
Wonders of the All about the Egg
suitable for suitable for
age 6–8+ age 6–8
Animal World
book parameters: illustrated by matej ilčík
Size 215 × 280 mm, 64 pages, written by markéta nováková,
book parameters: illustrated by jana kloučková kudrnová pocket with a folding poster, eva bártová, blanka sedláková
Size 250 × 250 mm, widespreaded written by markéta špačková hardbinding
500 × 500 mm,32 pages + 3 maps,
hardbinding Take a look at the nests of various sizes hidden in
The animal world is full of surprises … Certain known branches, underground, high up on cliffs or deep under
ones which impress and fascinate every day, and those the surface of the sea. Who lays the most eggs at one
still not yet discovered. Animals include certain record go, who has the strangest, the smallest or, in contrast,
holders which can travel at an incredible speed and the largest eggs? Who shows them off to others for
cover long kilometres in distance. The Arctic tern, for admiration and who hides their eggs from the rest of
example, a small bird with a red beak and legs which the world in chambers on a sandy beach? Eggs are
flies all around the world each year! Reindeer, exotic always at the beginning
butterflies or long-legged storks also migrate in order of new life. Come and
to escape from the winter. And then there are those discover all of the
who bravely face out the winter. How? Why don’t you mysteries connected
wonders of the animal world come with us and take a look! The book contains with them …
Wanderers of the 3 large-format fold-out maps where you will find out sold: Estonian, French for Europe, Italian,
Animal World about more than 80 animals! Slovene, Simplified Chinese, Complex
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COMMON KINGFISHER ON A PERCH
Kingfishers are sworn loners outside
the nesting season. They carefully
STRONG WINGS
↓
Alcedo atthis 6–7 eggs
sometimes
guard and defend their position at
slowly flowing and crystal clean
↑
SNOW WHITE EGGS 3× per year streams. They are most fond of
SHINY SHEL LONG, SHARP
↓ locales where branches dip into
↓ BEAK
the water, where they can sit and
18–23 days observe their prey. They are able
to submerge up to 30 centimetres
under the surface to catch a fish.
They grab their prey firmly in their
23 × 19 mm beak and emerge from the surface
with the use of their wings. They
begin to feast on their favourite
male and perch. They swallow the fish
female headfirst, so the scales don‘t scratch
alternate their throats!
UP TO 1 METRE
LONG TUNNEL
1:1 ↓ FISH AND FISH ONCE AGAIN
↑ Immediately upon arrival each youngster eats one fish per hour.
SMOOTH, FINE-GRAINED The parents are kept extremely busy trying to satisfy so many hungry
SURFAC
EGGS throats. They often are still partially feeding the almost grown young
from the first brood while warming another clutch of white eggs.
Kingfisher eggs are nice, shiny and truly tiny. All of them
Despite their small bodies, they are able to pull an up to 12 cm long
are round except for the last one which can be a bit
more oval-shaped. Have a lovely white colouring as NEST ↑
chub from the water! The entire life cycle of the kingfisher is linked,
in other words, with fish and it is therefore not surprising that the
camouflage colours are not needed in the dark tunnel Kingfisher homes resemble a fish EGGS AND PELLETS male gives its chosen as an engagement gift...you guessed it, fish
hidden from 0.5 to 37 metres above the water surface. market. Everywhere you look OF KINGFISHERS
once again.
are fish bones, scales and fins.
Sometimes the parents have trouble
wonders of the animal world getting back into the nest because
Kingfisher diet
Occurrence of the mess. A hollow is located
Wild Animals in EUROPE AND ASIA FROM
GREAT BRITAIN ALL
at the end of the tunnel where the
small eggs are hidden. A 15–30 cm
the Winter World THE WAY TO JAPAN,
INDONESIA AND NEW
tunnel, sometimes measuring more
than 1 metre, is dug in the sandy
riverbank! FISH FROGS INSECTS AND LARVAE CRAYFISH
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3940
Encyclopaedia suitable for
age 6–8 In Motion
suitable for
age 6–8
of Animals for book parameters: illustrated by tomáš pernický
Young Readers Size 270 × 380 mm, 48 pages,
hardbinding
written by šárka fenyková and
štěpánka sekaninová
book parameters: illustrated and written by tomáš tůma Some creatures walk, while others run, walk
Size 270 × 380 mm, 48 pages, or swim, or move about in some other way.
hardbinding Some creatures can only fly or only swim. In
A great many animals live on Earth, from small insects Motion, a series of large-format picture
to large mammals. The animal world is weird and books, gives you a peep into the lives of
wonderful and fascinating besides. This encyclopedia swimmers and floating non-swimmers, flyers
will familiarize you with several hundred of the and non-flying aviators. Some of the beautiful
best-known and most interesting animals from all over illustrations take you into and under the
the world. What’s more, it will help you put each water, while others bear you up into the
animal in the group it belongs to. You’ll find an clouds.
attractive selection of mammals (including rodents,
ungulates, primates, beasts of prey and cetaceans), in motion
birds, fishes (including cartilaginous fishes), All that Floats
amphibians, reptiles, plus other groups of animals from with or without
all corners of our world. The beautiful full-colour Fins
illustrations and simple text make sold: French, Italian, Simplified
this book an indispensable help Chinese
sold: Danish, French for Europe, Italian, for every pre-schooler.
Portuguese for Europe, Spanish for Europe
in motion
All that Flies
with or without
Feathers
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Chinese
4142
Adventures Urban Legends:
suitable for suitable for
age 9–12 age 9–12
of Crime and „True“ Horror Stories
Punishment from City Streets
book parameters: illustrated by marcel králik book parameters: illustrated by miloš mazal
Size 215 × 280 mm, 48 pages, concept by b4u Size 215 × 280 mm, 48 pages, concept by b4u
hardbinding hardbinding
The guillotine. The word itself has a Maybe you think of cities as rather boring places,
strange sound. To say nothing of the where the fellow citizens we meet are always grumpy
brief moment with the keen whistle, and in a hurry. Certainly you don’t see them as settings
NEW the last thing the condemned would
NEW
for mysteries, to say nothing of horror stories. Well, if
ever hear… The French guillotine was that’s what you think, you’re mistaken. The book in
in use for over 200 years, in the your hands will take you to dark, secluded urban places,
course of which it separated around spinning before your very eyes a web of urban legends,
100,000 heads from their bodies! Every some better known than others. If you value your life, I
nation and every time punished its thieves and rogues advise you not to get into the strange black Volga or
in a different, imaginative way – as names and slang onto the midnight bus. Having read this book, never
terms for popular instruments of torture (e.g. again will you be surprised by a deadly hotel fan. If you
Lamentation Mount, rack, Capet’s necktie, have overcome your fear, let me welcome you to the
drunkard’s cloak, thumbscrew, cat o’ nine pages of modern legends and myths.
tails) go to show. While we’re on the
subject of animals, do you know what they
were used for thousands of years ago? This It’s a cold night in China, and
two people are waiting. at a bus
Once they get on, the senior sits down in the front while
the younger passenger heads to the back.
A couple of minutes later, a couple of
passengers join the bus.
history of painful interrogation has plenty Midnight bus Why does
the old guy
knock about
here, in his Why does the
I’ll take a
seat back
there, to have
Oh
look,
people!
of bite!
age? a nice nap
young guy knock
about here, in
his age
I’ll settle here
in the front so
What is it like to be sitting in a midnight bus and riding DAR- that the dandy’s
snoring doesn’t
KEST NIGHTe to the final? Is there really such a car full of disturb me
bloodthirsty spirits? Are you scared…? So read ...
A short while later, the old man
Hmm, gets up all of a sudden and heads
something a toward the young passenger
bout them
seems fishy
I hope he
He took a stone left history doesn’t feel
pre tod
A TRAIL IN THE BRONZE AGE Although the office
like having a
ay chat…
to me by my grandpa
from the Stone Age!
of judge remains,
You stole
my wallet,
bastard!”
it is forever They sit next to each otheR.
The young man defends himself against
the accusation, and an argument ensues
changing … After a while, the driver loses his patience And so they end up in an unknown part of
and orders the two to leave the bus. Beijing, in the middle of a cold night.
T he urban legend about a midnight bus no. 302 has been told in China in different What are you
babbling about? What the
I didn’t steal Get out, hell was that
versions. Some sources claim that it first occurred a couple of years ago in Beijing, anything from
you!”
now!” supposed to
mean?
Speak! And others date it all the way back to 1995. The basis has always been the same, though: a
the truth! midnight bus, two mysterious figures, and a very quick-witted mortal who saved his
But I… I’ve just
Is anyone missing? th e m i d d l e a ges
saved our
Oh, so you’re lives!
fellow passengers. From what? They didn’t find out until the next morning when they a liar, too? I’ll
call the police!” Are
opened a newspaper: the police searched bus no. 302 and discovered that its driver
you happy for
getting us
I thought it My client a thief stealing, for instance, or can testify thrown out?
was lying in there with a broken neck, sometimes accompanied by a murdered ticket Finally!
was bronze! means to say As a coming together of three people can that the accused stole nothing, as he was
collector. To put it shortly, this isn’t a story you’d like to hear while departing from
And I saw that he took be a little boring, we also have a defence repairing their boiler when the alleged theft
some obscure suburbs in the middle of the night.
him do it! nothing. counsel. He tries to prove that the accused took place. Beware! Like making a false
Ghosts aren’t picky and can do with other means of travel – trains, for example. In What? Are you „…??!!
is less of a rogue than he may appear. accusation, giving false witness is a crime.
insane?
Missouri, USA, people claim that a ghost train is passing the town of Poplar Bluff each
We need witnesses, too – people who saw Lying in court simply doesn’t pay!
night. When a driver is waiting by a railway crossing at night and the windows of their
car steams up, guess what that means? This legend dates all the way back to the early
ky 20th century when the small town experienced a terrible accident. A train was derai-
vs
stoe
Do led there, killing almost everyone on board. However, the unborn child of a pregnant
M.
woman who succumbed to her injuries, and one victim’s head have never been found.
F.
So whatever means of transport you pick at midnight, take a good look at your fellow Next morning, news report
that the bus vanished without
travellers and at the driver – just to stay on the safe side. Bon voyage! a trace. No one has ever seen
the bus or its driver ever again
The importance of having Who comes together
a judge at a trial? -8- -9-
Having a conscience
The first judges first saw the light of day In addition to the judge, there are always at
along with the first laws. It was their job to least two others at a trial – the plaintiff and Classic Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich
hear both sides of an argument, consider the the accused. The former accuses the latter Dostoevsky writes about crime and punish-
different points of view and then decide on of a crime and the latter is charged with that ment in his world-famous novel Crime and
a punishment. To carry out his office, a judge crime. Before you accuse anyone of anything, Punishment. In this book, he describes
had to be wise and impartial, and his autho- think long and hard about it. Making a false a man’s unbearable struggle with his consci-
rity needed to be accepted by those his deci- accusation is a crime in itself; it was formerly ence after he has committed the most awful
sions affected. known as calumny. of all crimes – cold-blooded murder.
4344
NEW
Book in a Book Remarkable
suitable for suitable for
age 6–8 age 6–8
Works of Art
book parameters:
Size 290 × 350 mm. The book contains:
an Explorer‘s Diary with an adventure
illustrated by lukáš fibrich, jan smolík
written by štěpánka sekaninová around the World
story and lots of informations about
ancient Egypt, an Encyclopaedia Discover this outstanding series of large-format book parameters: illustrated by jakub cenkl
of Egyptian Curiosities, flaps, letter children’s books. Each book contains a number of great Size 215 × 280 mm, 64 pages, written by štěpánka sekaninová
envelopes, an original Archaeologist‘s inserts - including diaries, letter envelopes, a mini- hardbinding
Notebook, a plan of a pharaoh‘s tomb encyclopaedia, a map, a diagram, an amulet, a proper
and an Egyptian alphabet. pirate’s tattoo, an archaeologist’s notebook and an Paintings, sculptures, remarkable buildings, architects,
Egyptian alphabet - that instantly draw the interesting towns and cities, artists, unique skills and
reader into the action. Let’s go on an NEW enormous talents. That is the essence of this book
adventure! series. Those interested in watercolours, crayons,
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more than satisfied.
remarkable works of art
around the world ININTHE
THEHEART
HEARTOFOFSHOPPING
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a fairytale.
tale.
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