Secondhand Children’s Non-Fiction & Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4109

Secondhand Children’s Non-Fiction & Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP4109

Twelve books for a curious seven-to-ten-year-old: two Graeme Base hardbacks (Animalia and The Sign of the Seahorse), Owen Davey’s Bonkers About Beetles, Jess McGeachin’s Lost, DK Eyewitness Titanic, a lift-the-flap Museum, the Forest in the Tree fungi book and four Discover the Spiders/Bees/Ants/Butterflies. Heavy on illustration, heavy on facts.

1. The Sign of the Seahorse — Graeme Base — A tale of greed and high adventure in two acts, in rhyme, set in a coral reef run by a crooked Grouper and his gang. Base’s pictures reward an hour with a magnifying glass. Hardback.
2. Animalia — Graeme Base — An alphabet book where every page hides dozens of things beginning with its letter, and a small Graeme in a striped shirt hides in every picture. Three million copies sold and still the best I-spy book made. Hardback.
3. Bonkers About Beetles — Owen Davey — Four hundred thousand species, the strongest animal on earth, and a beetle that squirts boiling acid. Davey’s flat, graphic illustrations are the reason this won awards. Flying Eye hardback.
4. Martin Luther King Jr. — Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara — Little People, Big Dreams: the boy who was told he couldn’t play with his white friends, and the speech on the steps. Hardback.
5. DK Eyewitness: Titanic — The ship, the iceberg, the wreck and the objects recovered from it, photographed on white. New edition with a wall chart.
6. Lost: Uncover Vanishing Wonders — Jess McGeachin — The dodo, the Tasmanian tiger, the Library of Alexandria and a lost lighthouse, drawn and explained. From the Melbourne author of Fly. Hardback.
7. The Museum — A lift-the-fact book with fifty flaps: a museum front steps, and what’s behind every door and under every exhibit.
8. The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth — Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti — A cacao tree and the fungus that feeds it, drawn at every scale. CSIRO-published, and the best children’s book on mycology there is.
9. Discover the Spiders — Alejandro Algarra & Daniel Howarth — Webs, fangs, and why spiders are useful. Big illustrations, short text.
10. Discover the Bees — Alejandro Algarra & Daniel Howarth — The hive, the dance, the honey.
11. Discover the Ants — Alejandro Algarra & Daniel Howarth — The colony and the queen, with a magnifying glass on the cover.
12. Discover the Butterflies — Alejandro Algarra & Daniel Howarth — Caterpillar to chrysalis to wing.