Claude Delafosse

In the middle of the dense jungle, you can discover countless animals and amazing plants. Your magic torch lets you see all the beautiful hidden details in the dark tropical forest.

While we sleep nocturnal animals are out and about. In this book you can see what they get up to! See owls hunt and cats prowl. Discover what mice and hedgehogs do in the dead of night. Find out how bats find their way in the dark and watch months fly and feed at night.

Have you wondered what it would be like to meet dinosaurs on land, under the sea and in the air? Travel back in time to the dark distant past and meet plateosaurus, diplodocus, pterosaurs and the great sea monsters.

Learn about the life in castles. Find out how difficult it is to get past its strong walls. Discover what it is like to be under attack.

It’s as dark as night inside a beehive, an anthill or a termite mound. You can’t usually see what’s going on in there. But in this book you can use a press-out paper flashlight to look at insects inside their homes as if you’d been invited in. As you move the flashlight around, you’ll soon discover all the details hidden in each darkened picture. Find out which jobs the queen, worker and male ants do. Watch a bee develop from egg to larva to pupa to adult. Learn how bees organize their lives and see the beekeeper at work.

Explore the hidden world that exists below the city streets. Find out why people are always digging up our streets. Discover how your waste water is taken away in a man-made underground river. Explore the tunnels that carry cars, lorries and trains under the sea.

Dive under water and watch the fish swim around in the pages of this book, from sea creatures near the seashore to the strangest fish that live in the depths of the ocean.

Meet the animals who live in darkness underground, safe from other animals who want to eat them.

Young readers will follow in the footsteps of these mysterious giants from long ago. They will find out which dinosaur was as long as two buses, which was as heavy as 12 elephants and where dinosaurs laid their eggs. Children will also watch scientists piecing back together a huge dinosaur skeleton. James Prunier and Henri Galeron's beautifully realistic illustrations bring these giants back to life.

Look under the bonnet of a car, help load a lorry, go through a tunnel in the mountain... Ride in a fire engine, a racing car, an ambulance... Step on to a bulldozer, a bus and a bicycle. Learn how to mend a puncture.