My first book about our world

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Our world

Websites to visit

What is planet Earth?

Take a pretend trip and see continents and oceans of the world

Watch a video clip about what makes it rain

Find out what causes thunder and lightning

Learn about volcanoes and earthquakes and why they happen

Print out and shade in a map of the world
Click on "World: Continents" or choose a different world map.

Spot the difference between natural and man-made objects
Click on the picture of the rope to try a sorting game "Natural or made by man", and click on the boy to begin.

Make and paint pictures of spring, summer, autumn and winter
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Animals around the world

Websites to visit

Search for animals that live around the world
Click on a country or continent in the "area" drop-down menu.

Go on a photo safari and take pictures of rainforest animals

Find out about animals that live at the North Pole

The Arctic or Antarctica? Try a quiz about where polar animals live

See a sea anemone, clownfish and other animals in a coral reef

Watch a video clip about animals that live in a desert

Find out about animals and plants that live in a forest

Play a game about animals that live in the ocean
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About this book

My first book about
My first book about our world

What makes it rain? Where do penguins live? How many oceans are there? Young children can find the answers in this charming book and have fun adding stickers to the pages and doing puzzles too. Topics include weather, the seasons, rainforests, deserts, icy places and a world map, and there are internet links to websites with video clips and games. Also available as a hardback library edition with no stickers and with a contents page and index.

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Felicity Brooks

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s. She has written and edited hundreds of children’s titles, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts. Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

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