"Whether you're a complete beginner or a more experienced player looking to improve your game, this step-by-step guide will help you play like a champion. Plan your moves with amazing 3-D illustrations. Discover tactics and strategies that will add firepower to your attack and strengthen your defense. Learn tips and techniques to improve your skills and solve the toughest of chess challenges. Includes practice chessboard and press-out pieces, so you...

Hand lettering is a visually dynamic and accessible way to add textual elements to any type of craft, from journals to mixed-media art. Some of the most accomplished artists present their favorite lettering techniques, illustrated with inspiring examples of their own work and accompanied by step-by-step instructions that kids can easily follow. No other book on the topic presents such a wide variety of original alphabets, font styles, and creative...

Pictures and text introduce cubs and kittens, their bodies, life cycle, and habitats.

This book provides pictures and brief facts about a variety of different kinds of dinosaurs.

"Nutcracker and Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magic kingdom populated by dolls." -- back cover.