DK. DK, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3911-6
Divided into sections exploring natural phenomena, human achievements, and plants and animals, this wide-ranging compilation offers intriguing glimpses of some of the more jaw-dropping sights Earth has to offer. Mineral deposits are responsible for...
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Kenneth S. Shultz, with Megan Kaye and Mike Annesley. DK, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3811-9
Consulting psychology professor Shultz and his collaborators have created a lively and energetic guide to retirement. The book, a graphic designer's dream, is organized primarily in two-page segments that address key questions ("What's in store?")...
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David Macaulay. DK, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4654-4012-9
Expertly blending comedy with a substantive look at physics and mechanics, Macaulay stages a lesson about simple machines at a zoo, where a sloth and shrew are attempting to escape. Short paragraphs explain the basic engineering behind levers,...
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DK. DK, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4654-2940-7
This companion to 2013's Where on Earth? takes an atlas-style approach to history, with world maps highlighting the development of written language and other inventions, the rise and fall of nations, technological advances, and more. Divided into...
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Meg Simmonds. DK, $50 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3790-7
Simmonds, official archivist for Eon Productions, the company behind the James Bond film series, opens up the vaults for a look at the designers’ work over the past 50 years. Reproductions of colorful storyboards, costume sketches, room designs, and
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Craig Steele et al. DK, $19.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7361-5
In this Python coding primer, Steele guides readers through coding essentials, including creating variables, using loops, and fixing bugs. Readers are asked to follow along with Steele to build nine coding games that grow in complexity. They include
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DK. DK, $19.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6178-0
This addition to the Visual Encyclopedia series covers a broad range of traditions in painting, sculpture, photography, music, and dance, from early civilizations to the present. Photographs and reproduced artwork provide vivid examples of artistic...
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James Mitchem, illus. by Claire Patane. DK, $12.99 (12p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6307-4
A family of rabbits helps children get a sense of the phases of the moon in a board book that features a light-up moon on its cover. Quiet rhymes introduce the rabbits’ confusion when the moon begins to disappear (“Nights came and went,/ and they...
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Violet Peto, illus. by Victoria Palastanga. DK, $9.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6786-7
Using what’s clearly a trick question as a hook (is there ever a wrong time for ice cream?), this science-minded board book explores characteristics of the seasons, touching on weather, animal activity, and things one could do instead of reaching...
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Editors of DK. DK, $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7453-7
This winsome beginner’s guide to caring for cacti and succulents packs a lot of information into creatively designed, colorful pages. Most of the book is taken up by profiles of 105 cacti and succulents, and each profile includes information about...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6844-4
Bright images welcome readers to a collection of experiments and craft activities surrounding basic concepts in the areas of space, nature, history, animals, and science. Space-themed projects include making button planets, marshmallow...
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Elinor Greenwood. DK, $15.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7332-5
Learning to identify and acknowledge emotions is the first step to navigating them, suggests Healy, a children’s emotional coach. Using cube-shaped figures that display a range of facial expressions, Healy introduces the four basic emotions:...
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DK. DK, $15.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6203-9
Published in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, this atlas highlights more than 600 animals and their habitats. An overview of each of the Earth’s continents is followed by more targeted explorations of the habitats within; the section on
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DK. DK, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7584-8
Once upon a time, “robots were machines of the future,” but, as this image-rich volume attests, robots are no longer the stuff of speculative fiction. Rogers traces robot evolution from early mechanical machines and automata to artificial...
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Ben Hoare, illus. by Daniel Long, Angela Rizza, and Daniela Terrazzini. DK, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7702-6
Gold foil–edged pages and a ribbon bookmark lend this anthology the feel of a keepsake volume. In lively prose, Hoare presents birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects, fish, and sea invertebrates from habitats worldwide. The passages describe...
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Violet Peto, illus. by Liza Lewis. DK, $9.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7866-5
Readers are tasked with guessing the identities of animal parents and the offspring that will hatch out of their eggs. “I have eight long arms. What will my babies be?” asks a friendly octopus; a large, die-cut flap shows “eight squirming baby...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (12p) ISBN 978-1-4654-7853-5
In an oversize board book with photo illustrations, glossy pages, and large flaps, a stuffed pink rabbit searches for carrots on a friendly springtime farm. Readers are tasked with helping Bunny locate her “tasty treat.” Each flap reveals a new...
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Zoe Edwards. DK, $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7440-2680-1
Fast fashion had its moment, but it’s time for that moment to draw to a close, writes blogger Edwards in this crafty debut on building “a healthier relationship with our wardrobes.” Rather than buy new clothes, Edwards encourages readers to mend the
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The Editors at DK. DK, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-1-46549-246-3
This enticing cookbook offers new options for those who eat plant-based meals, but still occasionally integrate meat or fish. Keeping in line with a Flexitarian diet, the recipes are primarily vegetarian and include tips for making the dishes vegan...
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Clare Lloyd, illus. by Lucy Semple. DK, $8.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4654-9093-3
This nonfiction board book, part of DK’s When I Grow Up series, relays eight international athletes’ journeys from childhood to triumph. Page headers present the subject’s name and an encircled headshot, the athlete’s sport, and an illustrated...
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Sarah Fowler. DK, $10.99 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5751-6
This handy guide to sharks is one of four titles joining a print companion series to the DK Findout! website. After briefly recapping sharks’ characteristics and history on Earth, Fowler goes on to discuss various types (including dogfish, sawsharks,
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DK. DK, $12.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7440-5792-8
This lighthearted volume distills the principles that helped propel country and pop music superstar Taylor Swift to fame, among them sensitivity, staying true to oneself, and believing in love. Written in an adoring voice (“No wonder that this...
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DK, illus. by MacKenzie Haley. DK Children, $6.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7440-3383-0
A round, smiling jack-o’-lantern with red spectacles grows worried as his fellow patch companions—each with a scary visage—get picked on Halloween. But in being himself, the friendly-faced pumpkin is in for a wonderful surprise. A contrasting font...
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Tom Tinn-Disbury. DK, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7440-3659-6
Tinn-Disbury traces one child’s grief through this weather-themed tale. Billy, a kid with warm brown skin and curly dark hair, believes his mother lives in the clouds following her death. Every morning, he checks on Mommy’s cloud, interpreting its...
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DK. DK, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5392-1
More than 20 years after Children Just Like Me, this updated version of the book introduces 44 new children who live in countries that include Ethiopia, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Vietnam. As the book moves continent by continent, readers...
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DK. DK, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5396-9
This interactive guide for magicians-in-training outlines how to do more than a dozen tricks that use a wand that can be assembled from a tear-out sheet, props such as a rope or deck of cards (not included), and the book itself, whose pop-ups and...
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Danielle Dudd, Bevelee Jay Regan, and Mia Pejcinovic, photos by Dorling Kindersley. DK, $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5575-8
Aimed at experienced sewers, this painstaking guidebook encourages readers to save money by tackling decorating projects, providing clear and complete steps along with details photographs for 25 domestic projects. The book first describes the sewing
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Dougal Jerram. DK, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5867-4
The Utterly Amazing series expands with this light overview of Earth’s geology and weather, which also touches on the planet’s history and living creatures. Jerram, a geologist, writes concisely and clearly (“Volcanoes are holes in the Earth’s...
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DK. DK, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5964-0
Helping kick off the Look series, this welcoming activity book invites children to enter the kitchen with their senses wide open. Bright photographs illustrate step-by-step directions for 11 dishes, including guacamole, meringues, bread, and...
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DK. DK, $6.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5493-5
Animals, food items, and other out-of-place objects invade a work site in this addition to the Spot the Difference series. In photo-collage spreads, children are asked to find differences in side-by-side images (a tape measure becomes a snail, a...
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Clare Lloyd, illus. by Victoria Harvey. DK, $9.99 (12p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5276-4
Children can help Little Black Cat find her friends by opening full-page flaps that trigger modest pop-ups in five scenes. Digitally collaged illustrations feature photos of gourds, brooms, and other seasonally appropriate items; Little Black Cat...
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Devin Dennie. DK, $12.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6190-2
Aspiring “rock hounds” are the kinds of readers Dennie is after in this broad introduction to the diversity of rocks, minerals, and gems on Earth. After initial spreads devoted to rock hunting and starting a collection, Dennie moves on to discuss...
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Jack Challoner. DK, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5135-4
Written in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, this book features more than two dozen hands-on experiments divided into four sections built around food, common household items, water, and the outdoors. Rated by difficulty level, the...
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C.J. Leonard, illus. by Giuseppe Di Lernia. DK, $12.99 (30p) ISBN 978-1-4654-6999-1
Dramatic artwork compensates for a fairly leaden text in this recounting of the Genesis story of Noah’s Ark. The plainspoken narrative is accessible, but, despite the stakes, there’s little tension (“Thunder crashed and lightning flashed. The rain...
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Kate Sheehy. DK, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7440-2662-7
Blue-gray Bob and pumpkin-colored Ginger, both anthropomorphic gourd-shaped guinea pigs with thin-lined features, are best friends who adore working in their shared garden, each winter planning the following year’s yield. Come spring, the two weed...
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Leslie Becker-Phelps, with Megan Kaye. DK, $19.95 paperback (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-2989-6
This infographic-heavy offering, created by illustrated book publisher DK with the help of consulting psychologist Becker-Phelps, explores the nature of intimate relationships. The text also explains how people looking for love can put the book’s...
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DK. DK, $9.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5125-5
This addition to the Follow the Trail series features glittery, embossed lines that readers can trace across the pages with their fingers while learning about penguins, elephants, bears, and lions. Photographs of the animals as adults and babies are
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Jon Woodcock. DK, $19.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5142-2
In a companion to Woodcock’s recent Coding Games in Scratch, readers are shown how to use the free programming language Scratch to create playful animations, games, and other programs. Woodcock briefly explains coding and its creative applications...
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Derek Harvey. DK, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5084-5
This addition to the Visual Encyclopedia line uses eye-catching CGI graphics to introduce 150 undersea predators in eight chapters. “Devils of the Dark” highlights animals that lurk in the “darker depths” of the ocean, and “Cruisers and Chasers”...
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John Woodward. DK, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4654-4600-8
Produced in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, this addition to the Super Encyclopedia series spotlights 100 insects, which appear in vibrant photographs, 3-D models, and detailed illustrations. Individual species are grouped into five...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4654-5097-5
Sleepover party traditions have remained fairly static for decades, at least judging by the activities in this party-planning notebook aimed at school-age girls. Nail art, facials, hairstyling, horoscopes, paper fortune-tellers, jewelry-making, and...
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DK. DK, $14.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4654-3613-9
Part of a new line of books aimed at families with blind or sight-impaired members, this smartly conceived board book is tactile in more ways than one. As readers count to 10, the numbers and accompanying rhymes appear in both English and raised...
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