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A bumper book for little learners that's bursting with fascinating facts about life on Earth, both past and present. This stunning collection includes three incredible reference books that help curious children answer all kinds of questions about prehistoric times, amazing animals, and life around the world. The first three books in the fact-filled series are included in this set: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things (ISBN 9780744080506)My Encyclopedia of Very Important Dinosaurs (ISBN 9780744099140)My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals (ISBN 9781465461988)Stunning photography and fun illustrations support the age-appropriate text and bitesize facts, helping eager learners gain a strong understanding of dozens of different topics about the planet, human bodies, animals, dinosaurs, different cultures, and global history. They'll discover amazing inventions that changed human history, find out how much sleep they need compared to different animals, learn which animals have no bon

Get to know more than 100 of the world's favorite dinosaurs with this essential illustrated introduction. This is the must-have illustrated introduction to the world of dinosaurs. Turn each page to find out more about a wide variety of dinosaurs, from the teeny-tiny to the gigantic. With beautiful illustrations, storybook text, and key terms highlighted on each page, this book is a wonderful and comprehensive introduction to the dinosaurs that used to roam the world. The Bedtime Book of Dinosaurs showcases dinosaurs from each of the core animal groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates) in six dedicated chapters. Many pages are devoted to a different dinosaur, with others featuring a collection of dinosaurs from the same family, and some explore more than one dinosaur type, giving bite-sized chunks of accessible information to help early learners get to know new species. There are also reference pages that dive in deeper to explore dinosaur classification, f

This remarkable reference book tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day, taking in everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics, and the wedge to the worldwide web. Exploring science in a thematic, highly approachable manner, each spread takes as its theme a specific event, discovery, invention, experiment, theory, or individual and explains why this subject was so significant in the development of scientific thought and what its impact on history has been. In addition to providing a broad-ranging and comprehensive history of science, the book also explains how science works, employing DK's trademark clarity and visual ingenuity to render tricky scientific subjects easily comprehensible. Science is structured chronologically with five chapters covering major phases in world history from ancient times to the present day, with an eye to the future. Within these chapters, subjects are arranged in discrete spreads, each of which takes a key scientific