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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'10/10! Loved every minute of reading this book! A friendly guide you can truly trust!' – Mrs Hinch'I’ve finally found the book that makes my house sparkle!' – Louise Pentland'If you get freaked out by your never ending to-do list, this is the book for you.' – Steph McGovernMake your home spotless in next to no time. From quick fixes for spills and stains to swift spritzes and full spring cleans, TV's favourite cleaning expert, Iwan Carrington, shows you how to make your home spick and span with minimal elbow grease. Room by room and task by task, Clean in 15 makes maintaining a sparkling home a doddle with ingenious hacks and easy routines that promise more free time for you. Make it easy: Follow routines that are fun, simple, and faff-freeMake time: Complete tasks in 5 to 50 minutesMake it happen: Only take action when you need to, from daily hacks to monthly maintenanceMake it yourself: Follow budget-saving recipes for multipurpose cleaning products*Clean in 15 made the Sunday Times Bestseller list in January 2026

Escape into a world of cute and cosy with this lovely colouring book! Unwind and enjoy a moment of calm as you bring Valentine’s scenes to life.Choose from the love-liest scenes and make it yours with this charming Valentine’s Day colouring book, full of heartwarming scenes and cute characters that will make you smile.De-stress with adorable characters splashing in puddles, sharing cookies, exchanging sweet Valentine''s Day cards and building hearts together with blocks. It’s time to enjoy the season of love through colouring!This Valentine’s Day colouring book features:30 tear-out postcard-style pages that are thick and won’t leak through colour.Bold and high-quality designs that are easy to colour.Cute and playful love-themed illustrations that are inspired by Japanese popular culture.A relaxing mindfulness activity that supports wellbeing and promotes time away from a screen.Super Cuties Cosy Colouring is a fantastic mindfulness activity, perfect for a relaxing night with a hot chocolate or a quiet, rainy day. Cultivating creativity and calm, colouring is also a wonderful alternative to screen-based activities and encourages self-expression and the development of concentration and focus.More in the seriesThe fun doesn’t stop here! Collect the Super Cuties Cosy Colouring series and fill your year with dreamy seasonal scenes and feel-good fun. Get festive with Super Cuties A Cosy Christmas Colouring Book, or get into the spooky spirit with Super Cuties A Cosy Halloween Colouring Book.

It’s time for your child to get to know their feelings with this beautifully illustrated emotions book.Watch feelings come to life with “Big Feelings, Little Feelings”, an engaging book crafted for children aged 5-9. This enchanting book introduces kids to a colourful cast of characters, from happiness and surprise to fear and anger. Join these fun characters as they show kids how to identify, understand, and manage their feelings.This book helps kids recognize and talk about their emotions, teaching them that it''s okay to feel happy, sad, angry, or anything in between. It helps children build emotional awareness and fosters empathy and resilience. With captivating illustrations, this book offers a funny but educational experience that keeps children engaged from beginning to end."Big Feelings, Little Feelings" is a must-have for parents and teachers looking to support kids'' emotional growth. Is your child ready to explore the vibrant world of emotions?

Egg-cellent news, it''s almost Easter in Peekaboo Wood! Hop along with Bunny as he sets up an Easter egg hunt for his friend, Chick.Bunny has a basket full of colourful Easter Eggs, and he can''t wait to hide them all! He''s setting up an Easter egg hunt for his best friend, Chick, and he is sure that this is going to be the best Easter ever. But someone else in Peekaboo Wood loves chocolate...and is on the hunt for a delicious treat. The friends from Peekaboo Wood return in the highly anticipated second story of the brand-new picture book series from DK, the publisher of the best-selling Pop-Up Peekaboo! series. The charming characters, illustrated by award-winning illustrator Sébastien Braun, and imaginative story provide a way to connect through the magic of shared, active reading.This hide-and-seek story is guaranteed to be a firm favourite with little ones who love to play peekaboo and say peekaboo!

Come along on a side-splittingly funny adventure and meet the tractors with a big secret... they''re going to space!Life on the farm doesn''t change much for tractors, so when an out-of-this-world adventure is suggested, they rustle up a spaceship and strap in for take off, ready to take on space! Battle weightlessness, navigate around blackholes and explore the wonders of our universe with these barmy farm-yard machines. With heaps of heart and hilarious illustrations by award-winning artist Alex Willmore, budding astronauts and tractor lovers will delight in getting to know their new tractor friends while exploring space and our solar system.Why chug around the farm when you could go on a cosmic adventure with the spectacularly silly space tractors!

This historical fiction chapter book series features decodable tales of survival against the odds for children aged 10-14. Against the Odds: Winter Whiteouts is part of the new Against the Odds series, a captivating collection of learn-to-read fiction books inspired by true events. In this installment, three young people battle against some of the most brutal natural disasters in history. Each title in this collection unravels the extraordinary experiences of young people overcoming incredible challenges. Whether it’s facing the unknown or triumphing against the odds, these stories are both riveting and inspiring. This historical learn-to-read series for children offers:Popular and captivating topics featured in a historical fiction chapter book series. Decodable text in Hi-Lo style that makes the story accessible for striving readers. A focus on prefixes, suffixes and word roots that enhances decoding, spelling and vocabulary. Engaging stories that follow historical fiction narratives - inspired by true events - to engage and motivate reluctant readers. The Against the Odds series focuses on morphology, which is largely important for improving spelling and reading comprehension. Against the Odds: Winter Whiteouts focuses on adjective and adverb suffixes and comparatives and superlatives to empower children to become fluent independent readers. Serving as a vital bridge between decodable and mainstream books, this book will empower readers to confidently understand the meaning from text alone.

An accessible and empowering conversation starter about setting goals. Setting goals is a superpower—but how do you know where to start? In A Kids Book About Goals, digital creator and mindfulness advocate Sean Oulashin guides kids through the process of dreaming big, starting small, and achieving meaningful results. Whether it’s learning a new skill, building better habits, or striving to make a difference, this book helps kids identify what they want, create a plan, and stay motivated along the way. Packed with Sean’s practical advice and real-world wisdom, this book is perfect for kids looking to make positive changes, tackle challenges, and become their best selves.

Learn how to read with Ahsoka Tano! Join Ahsoka Tano and her allies as they fight to protect the galaxy from evil. Will Ahsoka emerge victorious?Packed with fun facts, exciting colour images, simple vocabulary, and a fun quiz, this Level 3 non-fiction reader will engage young fans of Star Wars and help them build confidence in reading.

The world’s favourite pocket travel guidesMake the most of your trip to New Orleans with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that New Orleans has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.Inside this guide to New Orleans, you’ll find:Top 10 lists of New Orleans''s must-sees and must-dos, including devouring heaving plates of gumbo, admiring pieces in the New Orleans Museum of Art and listening to live music on Bourbon StreetNew Orleans’s most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shoppingThemed lists, including the best architectural highlights, museums and galleries, live music venues, regional dishes and much moreBrand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a weekA laminated pull-out map of New Orleans, plus five full-colour area mapsDK’s Top 10 travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002.Looking for more on New Orleans’s culture, history and attractions? Try our DK New Orleans travel guide.

Learn how to read with truly decodable non-fiction for older readers in need of support to build reading confidence, while learning more about the world around them. This learn-to-read series for 9-12 year-olds comprises 12 truly decodable non-fiction books for older readers who can read simple CVC words. Thrilling stories are packed with facts on high-interest topics that will appeal to older readers, taking them from CVC and CVCC word text through to adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing. For example:Book 1: CVC, CVCCBook 2: CVCCBook 3: CVCCBook 4: CCVC and -edBook 5: CCVCCBook 6: ‘ch’ and ‘tch’Book 7: ‘sh’Book 8: ‘th’Book 9: ‘ck’ and ‘qu’Book 10: ‘ng’Book 11: ‘wh’ and -ingBook 12: ‘le’Accompanying photocopiable activities for word building, blending, spelling and comprehension can be found in Phonic Books The Fact Files 2 Activities. The Fact Files 2 shares the same phonic progression as Phonic Books Alba and Totem and can be used in parallel to consolidate phonemic knowledge and reading skills. This beginner reader series features: Truly decodable text to allow independent reading, ideal for reluctant readers. Reading material aimed at children aged 9-12. Common CVC and CVCC words that are gradually introduced in each book. This pack of 12 decodable books containing 16 pages features:‘How to Use This Book’ guidance page, including information about the new sounds introduced, sounds learned from previous books, high-frequency words and important notes on the sound. Non-fiction narrative story pagesKnowledge builder for reading and spelling practice. Word list to go over what they have learnt. What is phonic? honics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.

A photocopiable activity book to accompany Phonic Books The Fact Files 2, decodable non-fiction for older readers in need of support. Phonic Books The Fact Files 2 Activities is an older reader activity book that introduces children to a few letters and sounds at a time. It accompanies Phonic Books The Fact Files 2 and is aimed at older readers who can read consonant blends and some alternative spellings for vowel sounds. Thrilling stories are packed with facts on high-interest topics that will appeal to older readers, taking them from CVC and CVCC word text through to adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes -ed and -ing. For example:Book 1: CVC, CVCCBook 2: CVCCBook 3: CVCCBook 4: CCVC and -edBook 5: CCVCCBook 6: ‘ch’ and ‘tch’Book 7: ‘sh’Book 8: ‘th’Book 9: ‘ck’ and ‘qu’Book 10: ‘ng’Book 11: ‘wh’ and -ingBook 12: ‘le’The Fact Files 2 shares the same phonic progression as Phonic Books Alba and Totem and can be used in parallel to consolidate phonemic knowledge and reading skills. This 200-page phonics activity book features: Activities to practice previously taught spellings in The Fact Files 2. Reading material aimed at older children who need support with their reading. Common CVC and CVCC words that are gradually introduced in each book. What is phonic? honics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialises in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.

Aligned to the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) Foundations phonics programme, Phonic Books Lift Off Readers: R-controlled Vowels and Long Vowel Teams comprises 10 non-fiction books and is aimed at children aged 6-8. This set covers the following:Book 1: ar /ar/Book 2: or /or/, ore /or/Book 3: ar, or, ore reviewBook 4: er /er/Book 5: ir /er/, ur /er/Book 6: /er/: er, ir, ur, w + orBook 7: ai /a/, ay /a/Book 8: ee /e/, ea /e/, ey /e/Book 9: oa /o/, ow /o/, oe /o/Book 10: ie /i/, igh /i/

Make your trip to New Orleans extraordinarySipping classic cocktails at a jazz club. Joining in the fun at Mardi Gras. Taking a stroll along the legendary Bourbon Street. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK travel guide is the perfect companion.Our updated guide brings New Orleans to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations, which take you inside the city’s buildings and neighbourhoods.You''ll discover:our pick of New Orleans’s must-sees and top experiencesbeautiful photography and detailed illustrations, taking you to the heart of New Orleansthe best spots to eat, drink, shop and staydetailed maps and walks which make navigating the region easyeasy-to-follow itinerariesexpert advice: get ready, get around and stay safecolour-coded chapters to each part of New Orleansa lightweight format, so you can take it with you wherever you goWant the best of New Orleans in your pocket? Try Top 10 New Orleans.

Grab a pair of binoculars and this pocket guide to set off on an exciting adventure with nature! Offering clear and concise instructions, What''s That Bird? is the ideal birdwatching manual, allowing you to identify the feathered wild creatures in your backyard with ease. Produced in association with the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), this illustrated reference guide contains details of over 150 common bird species found across Britain and Europe.Learn to identify birds by colour, size, shape, flight pattern, and sound, and find out the best season for spotting them as well as how to tell similar birds apart. What does a tree pipit look like? Where can you find a sand martin? What markings does a dunnock have? Find answers to these questions and much more here.In this updated edition, the uncomplicated descriptions by author and leading ornithological expert Rob Hume are accompanied by some new vibrant images that bring even more clarity and detail. The useful bird-finder section clubs birds together according to colour for convenience.With a simple visual approach for quick learning, What''s That Bird? is a must-have for beginners and a nifty reference for more experienced birdwatchers.

Learn how to read with these decodable Phonic Books for older readers. Lift-Off Readers are older reader books that introduce children to how words are built using vowel teams, diphthongs, and silent letters. This pack of 10 decodable books helps older children develop an understanding of morphology (the structure of words) through a series of engaging stories. Dedicated books in each stage break down phonics practice while offering different stories for ages 7-11 (Elementary). These action-packed stories are designed for reluctant readers, taking them through vowel teams, diphthongs, and silent letters. For example:Book 1: oo, u /oo/Book 2: oo /u/Book 3: ew, ui, ue /u/Book 4: Review of long /a/, long /i/, long /e/ and short and long /oo/Book 5: au, aw, augh /aw/Book 6: ea /e/, a /o/Book 7: oi, oy /oi/Book 8: ou, ow /ow/Book 9: Review of oy, oi, ow, ou, aw, augh, auBook 10: kn /n/, wr /r/, mb /m/This catch-up reader book series features:A pack of 10 decodable books, with carefully written stories designed to motivate older readers and build reading stamina. Each book has a higher ratio of text to illustration to bridge the gap between structured reading series and mainstream reading. Reading material aimed at older children who need support with their reading. Each book contains:Reading practice/vocabularyContents pageStory pagesQuestions for discussionFour-in-a-row gameWhat is phonic? honics is a way of teaching children to read through understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specializes in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.

An accessible and empowering introduction to kindness. Do you know what kindness is, really? Do you think being kind to someone means that you’re weak? Do you think you can't be kind to yourself? Here's a little secret…sharing kindness is one of the coolest things you can do! You're never too old, or too young, or too busy to be kind. Anyone can be kind to others, and to themselves, every day!Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.