Books go Walkabout - Stories across the world

A big visual introduction to the history of our world for children young and old.

Travel through time with this cleverly illustrated huge 80-page journey of our planet’s culture and events, from the Big Bang to the iPod and into the future. Take a trip across the timeline of world history, past dinosaurs, Vikings, Aztecs and spaceships, wars and disasters, artists, explorers and leaders, mythology, politics and inventions.

With a combination of facts, figures, infographics and fun illustrations, each double page scene covers a period in history, showing key events and aspects of culture in all parts of the world. Every page includes talking points for young children and a chance for older children and adults to put their own political, cultural and historical knowledge to the test.

Peter Goes is a Belgian author and illustrator of children’s stories.

Gecko Press, the publishers provide a world wide dimension to children’s books with their wealth of titles, authors and illustrators.

An incredible book packed with information with a huge amount of detail on every page. It provides wonderful stylish illustrations with text to guide the reader through the history of our planet.

Sue Martin Children’s Literacy Specialist

Play hide and seek in the city with a boy, his animal friends and a dinosaur that’s surprisingly hard to spot. The brilliantly interactive follow-up to international bestselling picture book, Have You Seen Elephant?

Best friends boy, dog and elephant are VERY good at hide-and-seek. There’s a missing dinosaur in the city—who better to spot this elusive giant? They search the skate park, the museum, the subway…

No one in the city can spot the dinosaur, not even this crack hide-and-seek team. But delighted readers will be pointing “There it is!” from the first page.

This absurd, laugh-out-loud picture book for preschoolers is richly illustrated with David Barrow’s trademark beautiful use of light and colour and dramatic cityscapes—a guaranteed hit with dinosaur-loving toddlers. 

This is such a great book, children from 2-5 and beyond will be immersed in finding dinosaurs, even on the buses!

David Barrow is a recent graduate of the Cambridge School of Art where he completed a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration and received the top prize, the Sebastian Walker award for most promising children’s illustrator. He lives in England with his wife and son. Highly talented and an author/illustrator to watch out for.

Gecko Press is a real find as a publisher, unique and with interesting titles. The link takes you direct to the page for can You Find a Dinosaur . You can take a look inside the book and search out other titles too.

An excellent book and one which I will be taking with me in school visits.

Sue Martin Children’s Literacy Specialist