Around The World in 80 Ways: The Fabulous Inventions that get us From Here to There

Description

Discover through fun and beautiful original illustrations 80 ways to travel the globe A fascinating and engaging picture book exploring 80 exciting ways to travel, both past and present - from the obvious, to the crazy! Travel around the world by yacht, tram, train, unicycle, jetpack, camel... any way you can imagine, in this non-fiction children's book. Every mode of transport is part of a charming scene. See how astronauts travel around space, watch surfers ride the waves at the beach, and race to an emergency with the firefighters. Illustrator Katy Halford's beautiful drawings brings the scenes to life and fun complementary facts will prompt discussion and laughter between readers. How would you choose to travel? Donkey, pedalo, moon buggy? From the small to the big, the familiar to obscure, take your pick from the amazing 80 shown in DK's Around the Way in 80 Ways!

I was born in a small village in Leicestershire on a snowy winters morning in the year of '85. Ever since I have known, I have always loved to draw. I was told that from a young age, I used to always put eyelashes on the characters I drew. This became one of my distinct quirks and has stuck with me ever since! As a child, I used to create paper houses and shops and I would play for hours in these imaginary worlds, creating little stories and acting them out. I would say this is where my love for illustration started, and from then I continued to study the 'arts' at school and went on to graduate at Loughborough University with a degree in Illustration. I work from home, in a lovely house with a beautiful spacious garden. The garden is full of greenery and flowers and the birds are always singing. We have two bunny rabbits named Hubert and Esme, they are quite some characters! I am fascinated with people and animals and turning them into characters... I love to add patterns and details to clothing, add fun hairstyles, hats, glasses and lots of other accessories! Everything always starts off as a sketch and then I scan in the sketches and painted textures and work in Photoshop to add colour to my illustrations.

Packed with entertaining details and appealing characters * Parents in Touch * We have learned so much from this book about various modes of transport...an interesting read with great illustrations. * Creative Steps * Great for exploring transportation and habitat topics especially for when discussing adaptation to traverse the environment -- Parent with children ages 5 and 2 * Toppsta * This book is fabulous in many ways... The hardback format gives the book a great superior quality, a book that will last for many years to come -- Parent with children ages 8, 6 and 4 * Toppsta * The colourful drawings are hugely appealing for any age from Reception class upwards; I could spend hours looking at the details... a first class, highly informative book which I recommend for any home or school library -- Adult * Toppsta * I love all the different pictures and the funny ways you would never usually think about to travel -- Parent with child age 4 * Toppsta * Great fun book, well laid out with fun illustrations... Easy for my daughter to read alone but fun for us to explore together -- Parent with child age 6 * Toppsta * All my children enjoyed the colourful, lively illustrations and interesting descriptions -- Parent with children ages 11, 9 and 7 * Toppsta *