This title features delicious soup recipes for the whole family, with editor-in-chief Sophie Grigson. Discover over 150 tried-and-tested soup recipes organized by ingredient. From pasta and noodles to meat and winter vegetables, turn surplus food in your fridge into mouth-watering meals. Handy tips on preparation and cooking times, freezing advice, nutrition information and 'cheap eat' symbols will help you choose the best soup to whip up. Step-by-step instructions make cooking simple, guiding you through all the essential techniques from how to puree to making stock. It comes in a portable compact format, and is perfect for taking with you to the farmer's market.

This is the complete step-by-step guide to a stronger, sculpted body. Build a better body with this essential handbook to strength training for men and women of all abilities. Step-by-step instructions and tailor-made programmes will help you reach individual goals. Find over 150 exercises, with invaluable advice on preparation, nutrition and preventing injury. Each exercise is illustrated so you can perfect your technique, plus anatomical artworks give an at-a-glance guide to targeted muscle groups. Written by strength training experts this is ideal for free and fixed weights, in the gym or at home. The ultimate guide to improving your muscle tone, strength and endurance.

Helps children improve their ballet. From first position to en pointe, this book shows detailed step-by-step photographs of how young ballerinas can improve on each position whatever their age or stage; making it enjoyable and easy to perfect their style. The DVD features the ballet steps and individual dances in motion.

Teach your baby all about trucks with touch and feel textures. Stroke and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about trucks. Broom broom! Let their little hands roam and feel how chunky the truck's big wheels are. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about farms with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about farms. Oink oink! Quack quack! Let their little hands roam and feel how feathery the ducklings are and how soft the piglets feel. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about playtime with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about playtime. Let their little hands roam and feel how cuddly the teddies are but how shiny and smooth the toy train feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Teach your baby all about animals with touch and feel textures Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about animals. Let their little hands roam and feel how soft and cuddly kittens are but how scaly the lizard feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

With over 31,500 terms and more than 5000 colour photographs, this is both an encyclopaedia and a dictionary. Packed full of visual cutaways and exploded views from the prehistoric earth to the digital camera, it brings the world to life. Now fully revised, it is a useful family reference and should enable you to see everything through new eyes.

This is a beautiful first Bible in an appealing padded format, perfect for tiny hands. From Noah's Ark to the story of Easter, 25 of the Bible's best-loved stories from the Old and New Testaments are re-told with stunning watercolours from acclaimed illustrator Diana Mayo. Read them together with your toddler and enjoy lots of fun activities encouraging even the youngest child to join in with the stories. It is a first Bible to cherish and revisit again and again.

Teach your baby all about puppies and kittens with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about puppies and kittens. Let their little hands roam and feel how fluffy the tails are but how rough the padded paw feels. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Look and learn to recall a wealth of everyday vocabulary in Chinese with this intuitive easy-to-use visual language dictionary. Whether it's for business or pleasure, pick up 6,000 key Chinese words and phrases on a range of subjects: from shopping and eating out, to sport and beyond quickly and easily. Find every word you need to know fast using the clearly labelled colour illustrated scenes from everyday life. Plus, find helpful features on key Chinese nouns, verbs and phrases to improve your understanding. It is pocket-sized so you can take it wherever your travels take you.

Get your child hooked on reading as they meet the Jedi Knight Anakin from the new Star Wars Clone Wars series. Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, this fun-packed Clone Wars Reader is all about your child's favorite hero, Jedi Knight Anakin. Watch as your child meets Anakin and his young apprentice Ahsoko. They'll find out all about their dangerous missions battling fearsome foes from battle droids to the Sith Assassin, Ventress. Plus, they'll meet the Jedi, the clone soldiers who fight alongside them and check out the Clone Wars vehicles, spaceships and much more. Packed with pictures from the Clone Wars series, it's an out-of-this-world read. And don't forget, there's a galaxy-full of DK Star Wars books to collect.

Get your child hooked on reading as they meet the characters from the new Star Wars Clone Wars series. Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, this fun-packed Clone Wars Reader is a first introduction to the characters from the new Star Wars Clone Wars animated film and TV series. From Jabba the Hutt and his son 'Stinky' to R2-D2 and C-3PO, your child will meet their favourite creatures, species, aliens, monsters and droids. Packed with pictures from the Clone Wars series, it's an out-of-this-world read. And don't forget, there's a galaxy-full of DK Star Wars books to collect.

This is a definitive compact guide to rocks, minerals, crystals and gemstones — for every rockhound and budding gemologist! From primeval origins to their astonishing modern-day uses and appeal, this is the ultimate portrait of Earth's buried treasures — rocks, minerals, crystals and gems — produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Learn how to identify more than 450 rock and mineral specimens through stunning photographs and detailed characteristics. Discover more about your finds through folklore and historical artifacts, and find out the fascinating stories behind the world's natural treasures; from the Hope diamond to the Great Mogul emerald. Plus, pick up practical advice on rock and mineral collecting, including how to cut, polish and display your finds.

Get your child hooked on reading as they discover all about Star Wars intergalactic battles. Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, this fun-packed Reader is packed with information on Star Wars' most death-defying battles. Watch your child uncover facts on the deadliest weapons, fiercest battles and bravest heroes. Filled with action-packed pictures of Star Wars greatest battles, it's an out-of-this-world read. And don't forget, there's a galaxy — full of DK Star Wars books to collect.

This title is for comic-book fans everywhere — an updated edition of the A-Z reference of the DC universe. New and expanded, this one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,200 of the classic characters created by comics giant DC is essential for any fan. With new entries on the latest DC characters and expanded ones on Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, the JLA, Aquaman, Catwoman and Wonder Woman, all the world-renowned super heroes and super villains are here, as well as the weird and wonderful one-offs. Special features celebrate some of the DC heroes and villains' more memorable exotic vehicles and weaponry, their titanic clashes, or romantic encounters plus recent story developments including the Infinite Crisis. With a brand new cover designed by Alex Ross, one of the world's pre-eminent comic book artists and thrilling original, comic-book art, the fun and excitement of more than 60 years of comic-book history explodes off every page!

This colorful series takes DK's classic touch-and-feel formula and presents it in an all-new baby-friendly format. With padded covers, simple images, and an amazing range of novelty textures, Baby Touch and Feel books will immediately capture the attention of the very youngest children, and create an experience they'll want to repeat over and over again. Features a shiny ball, a bumpy strawberry, a soft sunflower, and more!

DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about Ancient Greece. From heroic warriors battling monsters, to the fantastic legends of gods and goddesses, it helps your child learn all about Ancient Greece through exciting stories. DK Readers are part of a five-level, highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading. Level 3 have a rich vocabulary, challenging sentence structure, additional information, and an alphabetical glossary and index to build literacy skills — ideal for children who are just beginning to read alone. There are over 90 DK Readers in the series.

This work includes nine classic stories that are retold with beautiful illustrations and a sprinkle of story magic. Listen to the 60-minute CD with your child and have great fun following the words on the page together. All the best-loved characters are here, from Little Red Hen, The Lion and the Mouse to The Three Little Pigs. Make bedtime every child's favourite time.

Perfect for helping children develop early language skills, this exciting range of interactive flash cards reinforces learning through touch.