New Releases by Mick Manning

Suggests ways to study nature, covering such areas as field skills, tracks and droppings, animal homes, trees, and rock pools.

Familiar images and subjects are a starting-off point for extending knowledge. Wonderwise links the familiar and the unknown, encouraging primary graders to think and question as they explore basic topics and concepts, like atmosphere and altitude, human bodies and animal bodies, that they will return to again as they learn and grow.

Compares and contrasts various parts of the human anatomy with those of animals and concludes that all bodies are different and special.

First published in hardback in 1997, a full colour introduction to the concept of rain in the EARLY WORMS series, featuring images of wet washing, wellington boots, puddles and umbrellas, illustrated by Brita Granstrom. Suitable for the National Curriculum KS 0-1.

Presents information about how human babies as well as many different kinds of animal babies grow and develop from before birth through early childhood.

Full of facts and feelings about the real world, this picture book encourages children to think, feel, imagine and wonder as they learn.

Did you know you can explore space and visit the stars from right here on planet Earth? Follow along with Max and Kate as they visit a science museum and learn about the night sky.