Product Description
- Age 6+
- Hardback with Flaps
- 16 pages
- 276 x 216mm
Usborne See Inside Inventions
Over 60 flaps to lift to discover the wonderful, mysterious and often funny stories behind some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions.
Featuring eye-catching illustrations, quirky facts, and surprises such as flaps within flaps.
With internet links to websites to find out more and design your own inventions.
Usborne See Inside How Things Work
An amazing flap book packed with inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines, toilets, escalators, submarines and microwaves and many, many other machines. Includes internet links to websites with animations, games and experiments.
Usborne See Inside Trains
From Stephenson’s Rocket to today’s modern bullet trains, chidren will be fascinated by the history of locomotion as they explore this exciting flap book. Lift the flaps to explore all kinds of exciting trains, from a luxury steam train fit for a queen to super-fast trains that run on magnets, trains that can climb up mountains, and lots, lots more. Topics include the ‘Golden age of steam’, ‘Luxury travel’ and ‘Steam giants’, all vibrantly illustrated with over 60 flaps to lift. With internet links to exciting websites to find out more.
Usborne See Inside Ships
A brilliant flap book for older children exploring ships through the ages. Stunning illustrations with over 90 flaps reveal the insides of historical and modern-day ships along with fascinating facts about them. Ships include a Viking longboat, a cannon-firing Man-of-war, 19th century steamships, submarines, cruise liners and an enormous aircraft carrier. To illustrate the size of an aircraft carrier, the scene opens out in one large flap with even more facts beneath. With internet links to further information about ships.
Usborne See Inside Oceans
SPLASH! Dive down deep and go on an incredible journey into our oceans. With over 80 flaps to lift, discover the mind-boggling array of animals and plants that live under the sea, and find out why – without the oceans – life on Earth wouldn’t even exist. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for videos and information on how you can help our oceans.
Usborne See Inside Great Cities
Lift the flaps to discover famous landmarks and amazing facts about London, Paris, Istanbul, Shanghai and other great cities.
Explore soaring skyscrapers, elegant cathedrals and bustling shopping streets – and discover fascinating facts and details beneath the flaps.
With internet links to websites with virtual tours and panoramas.
An exciting flap book for older children full of detailed city illustrations.
Usborne See Inside Science
Fabulous flap book that demonstrates basic scientific ideas in a simple and engaging way.
Each double page shows key ideas from a different branch of science, including astronomy, ecology, chemistry and physics.
Reveals the secrets of how our world works and provides children with a strong foundation in science.
Includes internet links to websites with video clips, games and activities to find out more.
Usborne See Inside Where Food Comes From
With over 90 flaps, the scenes in this colourful book show children where the food they eat comes from. They can discover food produced on farms, in the sea and in greenhouses, and the importance of wheat, rice and corn around the world. There’s a map with flaps showing where the things we love to eat, including chocolate, olives and tea, come from.
Usborne See Inside Energy
We all need energy for our lives – and lots of it. Find out what energy is, how it affects our planet and the exciting new inventions scientists are creating to make energy in the future, in this fascinating introduction to an important topic. With over 65 flaps to lift and links to specially selected websites to find out more.
Usborne See Inside Weather and Climate
A fascinating flap book that tours the land, sea and skies to discover where weather comes from.
With over 100 flaps to lift, children can peer into a thundercloud, follow the path of a hurricane and visit the coldest place on Earth.
Includes pages on climate change, the seasons, world climates, the water cycle, winds and more.
An informative introduction to an essential school geography topic.
Usborne See Inside Recycling and Rubbish
A fun and fascinating flap book that follows rubbish on a journey from the bin to the sorting factories and recycling centres.
Over 60 flaps reveal how glass, metal, plastics and paper are recycled and what happens to the rubbish that can’t be recycled.
Includes a large, fold-out page showing the amazing machines that separate materials in recycling centres.
Usborne See Inside Maths
This is a brand new title in the innovative “See Inside” series, putting the often intimidating world of mathematics into simple, easy-to-follow language and showing how maths fits into readers’ everyday life. It introduces mathematical concepts in the simplest of terms from basic addition and subtraction, through multiplication and division to square roots and algebra. As well as over 50 embedded flaps to lift, each page includes a host of puzzles and games for readers to test their newfound maths skills on, making the book an interactive and informative experience. It is illustrated in a fun and accessible style by Colin King.
Usborne See Inside Planet Earth
Delve deep into the mysteries of Earth’s geography to reveal the hidden secrets of life on our planet. This title includes double page spreads on mountains, deserts, the oceans, the atmosphere and icy landscapes such as Antarctica, each one bursting with flaps to lift to reveal scientific and natural history information. It also contains a feature on how climate change is affecting our planet, and what can be done to reduce its effects. It contains over fifty sturdy embedded flaps.
Usborne See Inside World of Dinosaurs
A fabulous flap book with over 50 flaps to lift, offering a glimpse into the prehistoric world of the dinosaurs. Stunning illustrations show how dinosaurs lived, hunted and how they died out. Flaps reveal extra facts, information and surprises.
Usborne See Inside Your Body
This astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams display all the major organs of the human body and are accompanied by witty, clear and informative factual text. It contains over fifty flaps, which children can lift to reveal extra detail. Entertaining and authoritative, this is human biology for children at its very best – a book both educational and enjoyable.
Usborne See Inside Germs
Explore the microscopic world of bacteria, viruses and other microbes with this fascinating lift-the-flap book. Discover how germs spread, how the immune system works, the amazing vaccines and antibiotics humans have created, and much more. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for activities and videos and up to date information about coronovirus.
Usborne See Inside Atoms and Molecules
Marvel at the mind-boggling world of atoms and molecules – the building blocks of EVERYTHING everywhere (including you). Lift over 90 flaps to learn about atoms, molecules, compounds and electrons, and chemical reactions and explore the Periodic Table. With links to specially selected websites for activities and videos.
Usborne See Inside Space
A flap book of astronomical proportions, packed with facts and information about the stars, planets and the universe. Fabulous double-page topics show our solar system, the Milky Way, how scientists think the universe was created and the latest space travel technology. Over 50 flaps reveal fascinating facts about the universe and there’s a little book of star maps tucked in a pocket at the back of the book. Includes internet links to websites with the latest space information, games and photos
Usborne See Inside a Museum
Explore every corner of a museum – from grand exhibition galleries to cavernous storerooms and dusty back offices. With stylish illustrations and flaps to lift, this book is packed with fascinating information about how museums work, how they look after precious exhibits and what goes on behind closed doors. Includes website links to virtual tours.
Usborne See Inside the Ancient World
A fascinating flap book with fabulously detailed illustrations and information about peoples of the Ancient World, including the Ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. Lift the flaps to look inside an Egyptian temple, an attack by the Assyrian army, a Greek city-state, a Celtic tribe, Roman frontier town and much more. With internet links to find out more about the ancient world
See Inside The First World War
With vivid illustrations and over 70 flaps to lift, this action-packed book transports readers into the battlefields of the First World War, from the muddy trenches of northern France to the jungles of East Africa. Packed with essential information about the First World War, from the start of the conflict in 1914 to its resolution in 1918. Look inside trenches, see an attack across no man’s land, find out what goes on inside a tank, how fighter planes defended the skies against airships and lots more. Written in conjunction with a historical consultant from the Imperial War Museums.
See Inside The Second World War
From tanks rumbling across battlefields to submarines, blitzed cities and D-Day, this extraordinary flap book takes young readers right into the action of the Second World War.
With vivid illustrations and fascinating facts to discover, each flap reveals something new.
See Inside the Microscopic World
This book peers through the microscope to reveal TINY unimaginable wonders. Discover bizarre minibeasts and peculiar plants, meet the millions of microbes that live around and inside you, and marvel at miniature technology. The perfect introduction to a fascinating area of science.
See Inside Why Plastic is a Problem
Everyone knows that plastic has become a problem for our planet, but do you know why? And do you know how YOU can help be a part of the solution to the problem? This vividly illustrated book is packed with flaps that explain how plastic is made, what's bad (and sometimes good) about different types of plastic, and the many ways it can causes harm to our rivers, oceans and wildlife. And there are lots of ideas for cutting down on your own reliance on plastic, too. The book was created with expert input from Plastic Oceans UK, a leading campaign and education group all about the problem of plastic.
