Bøker av Ruth Owen

An inspirational CALL TO ACTION for all young conservationists, The Problem with Plastic combines nature, science, beautiful photography and a fact-packed handbook. Kids worldwide care about this issue and this new book gives them the information they need and pratical solutions they can put into action TODAY!

This big book of 96 info-packed pages introduces young readers to the subject of life cycles using a Question and Answer format. The animals featured in the book include wild mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders, and also familiar farm and pet animals. Understanding animal life cycles is a core science topic and this book gives students plenty of information for school projects and science lessons, while also being a high-interest read. The beautiful photos support the text, and labels, short captions, and diagrams help introduce newly fluent readers to non-fiction reading.

Illustrated with colourful images this is a sensitive introduction to the life-cycle of a human and birth of a baby. The book includes critical thinking questions and answers and it is supported with downloadable worksheets.

Join a leafy tree as it spends the day sucking up water with its roots, making food with its leaves, and becoming a home and meal for lots of its animal neighbours. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this amazing plant. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Join a busy ant as it forages for food and works as a team with the other members of its colony. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this tiny insect. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Join a busy ladybird as she hunts for aphids and searches for a safe place to lay her eggs. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully leveled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this little beetle. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Join a hungry snail as it emerges at night from its daytime hiding place to forage for food and find a mate. But can it avoid becoming a meal for a hungry toad? This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this fascinating little animal. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Join a worm as it wriggles through its muddy world searching for food and avoiding being eaten by hungry birds! This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this fascinating little animal. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Join a little dandelion as it grows a flower, produces seeds, and becomes a meal for lots of tiny minibeasts. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this little plant. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

Packed with science, this title is a fascinating exploration of the underwater worlds of zooplankton and phytoplankton. Incredible imagery and fun superhero references create a high-interest, non-fiction read for fans of science, nature, and factual books.

Packed with science, this title is a fascinating exploration of moss dwelling tardigrades-the ultimate survivors! Incredible imagery and fun superhero references create a high-interest, non-fiction read for fans of science, nature, and factual books.

The creative and innovative activities and projects will help budding scientists discover the properties of water, all about states of matter including freezing, melting, evaporation and condensation, the water cycle, how water is essential for all Earth's living things and much more!

The creative and innovative activities and projects will help budding scientists discover changing states of matter by heating, freezing or combining foods, how we can grow our own food, how new foodstuffs are invented and much more!

Young readers will be enthralled by the hedgerow and the wildlife it supports but horrified when Little Mouse is trapped inside a plastic bottle carelessly thrown from a car. This beautifully illustrated picture book highlights the dangers of litter to young readers - thankfully it has a happy ending and Little Mouse is rescued by hikers.

Here at Ruby Tuesday we love spotting beautiful wild animals in our gardens, at the park or on a woodland walk. Now we''ve created this new book to celebrate the wonderful mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and insects that live all around us. Children will love studying the highly-detailed, stunning photographs and the book''s facts are perfect for curriculum work relating to life-cycles, habitats and any projects about wildlife and nature. The book includes a glossary and wildlife quiz. It''s the PERFECT book for young animal and nature fans.

These beautiful new titles from this bestselling and award-winning series explore four exciting environments and the living things that make them their home and depend on these habitats for survival.

These beautiful new titles from this bestselling and award-winning series explore four exciting environments and the living things that make them their home and depend on these habitats for survival.

Readers will act as plant scientists to investigate how trees grow, how they get water, food, and nutrients, how they produce oxygen and clean the air, and how they provide food and shelter for animals.

Dinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

Crunch! Munch! Delicious! We eat fruits and vegetables every day, and in this book, kids will act as plant scientists to investigate how these foods are grown and why they are good for our bodies.

Farmers use LOTS of science to do their job. In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists visit a farm and learn how to take care of chickens and goats, how science is used to make cheese, how farmers keep bees to pollinate their apple trees and how farmers use high-tech computers in tractors to help them plough their fields.

In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists visit a building site and learn all about forces and pulleys. They will discover how cranes work, how crane drivers control their machines, check and repair them and use maths and science skills to load and unload ships and trucks and shift heavy objects on construction sites.

Engineers use LOTS of science to do their jobs. In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists meet engineers who use scientific equipment to invent machines that help us in our everyday lives, build spacecraft and even develop and build high-tech artificial limbs for children.

Vets use LOTS of science to do their job. In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists take their pets to the vet¿s surgery to see how vets use science to examine, diagnose and treat our pets . This colourful, quirky and delightful first look at the work of a vet will help young readers develop a love of reading and of science.

Dentists use LOTS of science to do their job. In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists visit the dentist and learn how dentists use special tools and X-ray machines to check our teeth, how they fix cavities and clean our teeth using scientific equipment and how they show and tell us how to keep our teeth healthy.

This book focuses on everyday life in the home during the first half of the 20th Century. Using phtographs and 1st hand interviews it explores topics including how some people lived in poverty in tenements; World War II rationing; how many families used outside privies with newspaper for toilet roll and the ritual of a Sunday bath night.

The first in a new range of BIG BOOKS for young readers. Using a fun question and answer format, each book is a fact-packed introduction to these popular topics. Young kids will love the big full-page labelled images. The engaging text is written at a level for emerging readers to tackle alone or with help. Real page-turners and the kind that kids will return to again and again!

From muddy puddles to compost heaps, rotting tree stumps to the human body, this book explores the smallest of habitats and the tiny living things that make these places their home.

Dinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork