Series: Lonely Planet Kids

Bring the English language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. Perfect for the whole family, First Words English features 100 words to use while travelling, from food and transport, to animals and weather. Each word is accompanied with a bold illustration...

Beware! The world's deadliest creatures reside in the pages of this epic kid's animal atlas… do you dare to meet them all? Discover the world's scariest beasts in this ultimate compendium of our planet's most fearsome predators. From snakes, sharks, and spiders to tigers, eagles, and jellyfish, curious kids will learn how these deadly animals spend their lives, defend their...

Lonely Planet Kids City Trails - Washington DC offers colourful themed trails that allow readers to get under the city’s skin and discover amazing facts and intriguing tales that aren’t on the usual tourist routes. Find out where you can meet Henry the Giant Elephant, indulge in oyster sandwiches, view the Grand Canyon on a ceiling, and so much more!...

Lonely Planet Kids City Trails - Rome offers colourful themed trails that take readers beneath the surface of the city to uncover amazing facts and intriguing tales beyond the typical tourist routes. Discover where you can see Rome’s belly button, indulge in reading a poem to chocolate, snack on witch sweets, and explore much more! Perfect for kids aged 8...

Get ready for a walking tour like no other – all from the comfort of your sofa! This seriously streetwise guide is packed with themed trails, from food and festivals to music, art and sport, that reveal amazing facts and intriguing tales you won’t find on the tourist routes. In Lonely Planet Kids City Trails - Barcelona and City Trails:...

This fun and colourful lift-the-flap book gives a unique insight into how cities looked in the past, compared to how they look now. With ancient cities and ruins including Pompeii, Great Zimbabwe, and Babylon, discover how history has shaped our planet’s urban areas and changed them over time. Featured cities include: Thebes in Egypt (c. 900 BCE) - Shows the...

Satisfy your canine curiosity with this who's who of dogs. This fully illustrated guide will take you on a woof-tastic journey around the world to meet over 150 weird and wonderful dog breeds— from the dapper Boston Terrier to the chirpy German Dachshund, the lively Portuguese Podengo, and the tiny but tough Australian Terrier. Written by Frances Evans and featuring...

Explore the world in this choose-your-own travel adventure! Set off from London and travel across the globe. Then try to make your way back again! Choose your route and modes of transportation, from bicycles and sleds, to steamboats and hot-air balloons. Visit well-known cities and far-flung destinations along the way and learn facts about each place to create a fun-filled...

This special edition in our beautiful Adventures In sticker book series takes young readers aged 3 and up on a non-stop tour of the continents, adding fun and humour along the way. Find out fun facts, decorate sticker scenes, add colour and patterns to some iconic sights, and solve puzzles as you travel across the world. There's also a fold-out...

Get talking with this fun and accessible guide to French, perfect for any young learner. Topics include greetings, describing your family, discussing school, hobbies, pets, favourite foods, asking for directions and much more. With a simple introduction to the language and easy-to-follow pronunciation guides, this book makes French as easy as un, deux, trois! With 168 bright and colourful pages...

Lonely Planet Kids' brand new series of sticker activity books, Let's Explore, is perfect for any child with a sense of adventure. With fascinating facts, puzzles to solve, and pages to colour and complete, little explorers aged 5 and up will love discovering the amazing environments of our planet. Let's Explore Ocean takes you under the waves and into a...

Get ready for an epic adventure like no other with our awesome series of kid's travel guides featuring the most amazing countries and cities around the world. France, here we come! Did you know that France is home to an ancient cave system with 20,000-year-old paintings, or that there's a glass platform atop a mountain where you feel like you're...

Explore the world above with this fascinating stargazing guide that teaches kids everything they need to know to become an expert stargazer. Learn about the history of stargazing, discover top tips on how to navigate the night sky, explore our amazing Solar System and spot constellations with this practical and portable book for budding astronomers. This is the ultimate activity...

Explore the world beneath our feet with this fascinating rock-collecting guide that teaches kids everything they need to know to become an expert rock collector. Learn all about rocks, discover rocks from around the world, understand the do's and don'ts of rock collecting and find and identify rocks with this practical and portable book for budding geologists. This is the...

Get talking with this fun and accessible guide to Italian, perfect for any young learner. Topics include greetings, describing your family, discussing school, hobbies, pets, favourite foods, asking for directions and many more. With a simple introduction to the language and easy-to-follow pronunciation guides, this book makes Italian as easy as uno, due, tre! With 168 bright and colourful pages...

Jump in your trusty canoe and get ready for an unforgettable journey down the Amazon river. Sail past tribal villages and bustling jungle cities, and come face to face with incredible rainforest creatures in this beautifully illustrated wall frieze. Unfolding Journeys Amazon Adventure by Stewart Ross, Lonely Planet Kids offers a captivating exploration that will ignite your imagination. Perfect for...

From designing medieval costumes and adding ghosts to your spooky dungeons, this is your chance to build the ultimate castle. Design a coat of arms, entertain friends with enormous banquets, and put on a jousting competition. Just add stickers, doodles, and lots of colour to bring it all to life. As the castle owner, you’ll have loads of fun activities...

Here's a book about Paris that's seriously streetwise! Let Marco and Amelia, our Lonely Planet explorers, take you off the tourist trail and guide you on a journey through Paris you'll never forget. This book is perfect for anyone who has been to Paris, plans to go there, or is just interested in finding out more about this amazing city!...

To infinity and beyond! This out-of-this-world adventure takes young explorers on a voyage of discovery across the universe. From the first satellites to the Moon landings, and from Mars rovers to the possible colonisation of other planets, this handy reference provides an overview of space exploration past, present and future. Packed with amazing photos and infographics throughout, author Ben Hubbard...

Bring the Mandarin language to life for the whole family with these 50 double-sided flash cards. Inspired by our First Words books, they make learning a new dialect even more fun. With images on one side and text on the other, adults and children can test themselves against family and friends. From Lonely Planet Kids, these First Words Mandarin Flashcards...

Take a walk on the weird side as Lonely Planet Kids World's Wackiest Animals reveals 100 of the world's strangest animals. From glass frogs and mole lizards to umbrella birds and fishing spiders, discover crazy creatures and rare species you've never heard of before from all corners of the globe! Meet the egg-eating snake and satanic leaf-tailed gecko from Africa;...

Discover the planet's weirdest wonders. Our experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre creepy crawlies, ocean beasts, places, and predators, and ranked them in order of their strangeness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, combined with our 'strange-o-meter', kids will have hours of fun exploring the weirdness of our world. A peek inside the World's Strangest pages will...

Discover the secret lives of more than 30 extraordinary creatures that share our cities. From red foxes sneaking rides on London buses to leopards prowling the backstreets of Mumbai, Lonely Planet Kids Wild In The City explores the clever ways animals have adapted to the urban environment and explains how you can help protect our wild neighbours. Crammed with buildings,...

If you were asked to tell someone on the other side of the world about yourself, where would you start? Perhaps you'd mention your favourite hobbies, the pranks you play on your family, or what you want to be when you grow up. Would you include a selfie or a family photo? A cute snap of your puppy or that...

Explore over 60 of the world's most amazing cities with this activity book for urban explorers. Fill in New York's famous skyline, design a Mexican wrestling mask, spot the difference between Viennese dancing horses, and add your own mural to a Melbourne graffiti wall. Start your tour by decorating a totem pole in Vancouver, Canada, and then travel around the...

From designing your own passenger jet and checking in customers, to selling holiday hats and sunglasses, this is your chance to build the ultimate airport. Serve up your favourite food, fill in passports, and transport weird and wonderful objects around the world in giant cargo planes! In Lonely Planet Kids Sticker World - Airport, you'll dive into the bustling world...

Lonely Planet Kids Pop-up London will come alive with this beautiful and colourful pop-up book from Lonely Planet Kids. With a set of six stunning pop-ups and gorgeous illustrations, this book is the perfect introduction to the magic of London for any age. This stylish look at the city's iconic landmarks will kickstart the travel bug in young explorers! Lonely...

From the otherworldly landscapes of the Atacama Desert to the thundering Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, journey to jaw-dropping habitats around the world and learn about the people and creatures that have adapted to living in such extreme environments. With mind-blowing facts to be amazed by, incredible photographs throughout, and advice on protecting ecosystems for future generations, this book is a...

Everything young explorers need to know to travel in space, covering what life in zero gravity is like, how to find your way around the solar system, and the all-important question of how to pee in a spacesuit! Unique illustrations take kids to the heart of the action, and amazing photos show what the universe is really like. Incredible stories...

From monster-slewing heroes to ancient accounts of gods and goddesses from all around the world, such as Thor and Odin, the beautifully illustrated follow-up to Atlas of Monsters and Ghosts is a fun and fascinating journey through the realms of mythology, enthralling with tales of creation, legendary fables, gods and beasts. Accompanied by engaging text by Marzia Accatino, Laura Brenella's...

Ever wondered what life will be like 100 years from now? Based on the latest in scientific thinking, Future Worlds will tell you just that, covering everything from the forms of transport we will use, the jobs we will do, to how and what we will eat. Welcome to the future... Packed full of incredible facts, written by Anna Claybourne...

Bring the Spanish language to life for the whole family with these 50 double-sided flash cards. Inspired by our First Words books, they make learning a new dialect even more fun. With images on one side and text on the other, adults and children can test themselves against family and friends. From Lonely Planet Kids, these First Words Spanish Flashcards...

Perfect for introducing very young children to the Mandarin language, this colourful board book features 12 words to learn - from 'sun' and 'shoes' to 'beach' and 'bed'. Each word is accompanied by an illustration and pronunciation guide that make the vocabulary easy to learn. From Lonely Planet Kids, First Words Mandarin is a great learning resource for families planning...

Bring the Japanese language to life for the whole family with these 50 double-sided flash cards. Inspired by our First Words books, they make learning a new dialect even more fun. With images on one side and text on the other, adults and children can test themselves against family and friends. From Lonely Planet Kids, these First Words Japanese Flashcards...

Bring the Italian language to life for the whole family with these 50 double-sided flash cards. Inspired by our First Words books, they make learning a new dialect even more fun. With images on one side and text on the other, adults and children can test themselves against family and friends. From Lonely Planet Kids, these First Words Italian Flashcards...

Bring the English language to life for the whole family with these 50 double-sided flash cards. Inspired by our First Words books, they make learning a new dialect even more fun. With images on one side and text on the other, adults and children can test themselves against family and friends. From Lonely Planet Kids, these First Words English Flashcards...

Get talking with this fun and accessible guide to Spanish, perfect for any young learner. Topics include greetings, describing your family, discussing school, hobbies, pets, favourite foods, asking for directions, and much more. With a simple introduction to the language and easy-to-follow pronunciation guides, this book makes Spanish as easy as uno, dos, tres! With 168 bright and colourful pages...

Packed with over 60 ideas to invent, make, and play your own games, Create Your Own Holiday Games is perfect for keeping kids entertained while on the go – whether that's in the car, on a plane, or on holiday at home or abroad. Written by Laura Baker and accompanied by fun illustrations by Yu Kito Lee, there are suggestions...

Here's a book about New York that's seriously streetwise! Let Marco and Amelia, our Lonely Planet explorers, take you off the tourist trail and guide you on a journey through New York you'll never forget. This book is perfect for anyone who has been to New York, plans to go there or is just interested in finding out more about...

In this fun and light-hearted introduction to cities, find out about different styles of houses, types of transport, places to visit, emergency services and much more. From skyscrapers to museums, and rooftop gardens to houseboats, discover what makes cities tick around the clock with this engaging book. With bright, bold and colourful illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock and easy-to-read text...

Discover, draw and make artefacts from different cultures around the world in this fun and creative activity book - from beautiful Native American dreamcatchers and colourful Hawaiian leis to traditional Russian nesting dolls and carved Maori pendants. Lonely Planet Kids Around the World Craft and Design Book contains a mix of exciting projects that can be made from common household...

Did you know that the cheetah can accelerate faster than a racing car, or that a peregrine can swoop at prey at speeds of almost 260 kph (160 mph)? These are just some of the incredible facts you'll discover as 50 of the world's most awesome animal athletes compete in their very own athletics championships. From the fastest runner and...

It's hard to believe that you have the power to save the world, but it's true! We'll show you how to harness your inner hero with loads of awesome ways to make a positive impact on the planet. In 101 Ways to be an Eco Hero, the follow-up to 101 Small Ways to Save the World and The Plastic Problem,...

It’s hard to believe that you could change the world, but it’s true! We’ll show you loads of awesome ways to help out family, friends, yourself and the planet – and show how you’re never too young to make a big difference. Includes random acts of kindness, craft projects, energy-saving ideas and much more. 101 Small Ways to Change the...

Discover the exhilarating world of wildlife and adventure with Lonely Planet Kids Let's Explore... Safari by Christina Webb, brought to you by Lonely Planet Kids. Specially crafted for inquisitive minds aged 5 and up, this captivating sticker activity book invites young explorers on an unforgettable jeep safari across the vast and diverse landscapes of Africa. In Let's Explore Safari, children...