Whether you’re planning a big holiday, a road trip, or hitting some local fun this summer, Lonely Planet Kids books are a great place to start exploring the world. Today I’m sharing some of the latest releases from Lonely Planet Kids, distributed in Canada by our friends at Raincoast Books. Check out these fun travel-themed novelty and activity books perfect for wherever your summer adventures take you!
Lonely Planet Kids combines astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery to ignite children’s curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school.
All these titles are available at select bookstores across the country, on Indigo.ca, and Amazon.
The Incredible Cabinet of Wonders by Joe Fullman
I haven’t met a kid yet who didn’t love lift the flap books! With more than 100 weird and wonderful objects to discover from museums around the world, kids can explore the treasures hidden inside these cabinets of wonder. Each spread features a different cabinet organized by specialty: archaeologist, doctor, monster hunter, tailor, naturalist, treasure hunter, musician, sailor, scientist, toy maker, miniaturist, and make-believer.
Open a drawer full of glass eyes (and a prosthetic nose!), discover the skull of a 9-foot-tall “terror bird”, count the necks (4) and strings (42) on the Pikasso guitar, and lift the flap to come face to face with a flea. These are just a few of the fascinating exhibits on display around the globe.
Around the World in 50 Ways by Dan Smith
Travel around the world in this cross between a kid’s illustrated travel guide and a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Starting in London, virtual travellers can choose to take a train, bus, ship, jeep, or bike to their next destination and learn about a new city/region on each leg of the journey.
Each spread contains a little info about each location along with a tourist attraction or activity that kids might like to experience. This is more of a teaser than an atlas, meant to entice young travellers to seek out more information on their own. The only thing missing is a world map marking each location to help kids understand where each place actually is in the world.
Brain Teasers by Sally Morgan
Learn Morse code, answer the Sphinx’s riddles, complete a safari crossword, or solve picture puzzles. This softcover activity book is the perfect size for backpacks and car backseat pockets on your next road trip.
“Are we there yet?”
“How about now?”
Packed full of 37 travel-themed puzzles, challenges, and games, Brain Teasers will keep the kids occupied for at least a little while, and that’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time!
Sticker World: Theme Park and Sticker World: Zoo by Becky Wilson
Tap into their creativity with Lonely Planet Kids Sticker World books. Kids can draw, doodle, colour, and use over 500 stickers to create and customize their own theme park or zoo. Every page has lots of room to create and personalize, and the last page is a certificate of ownership that kids can fill out themselves. Books are printed in red, blue, dark blue, yellow, and black ink only.
Sticker World: Theme Park lets you design and decorate all your favourite rides like the roller coaster, Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, and tea cups, plus popular attractions like the House of Mirrors and gift shop.
In Sticker World: Zoo, kids will start by naming their new zoo, then they’ll feed, care for, clean up, and learn interesting facts about all the mammals, fish, birds, lizards, and insects in the park.
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My family would most like to visit Italy the most,maybe someday!
She is studying Egypt in school and really wants to go now.
I would love to take the whole family to Ireland. It would be great to add some visual memories to all the stories they have heard from my husband and his family.
We went to Cuba in February and we would love to go back.
We would love to visit Hawaii
There isn’t just one place I would love to go too, my dream vacation is to go across Canada via the railroad, that would be so awesome!!
Italy is on the top of my bucket list.
We would love to go to Disneyland. We have never been
We would love to visit Iceland!
We would love to visit France and Egypt.
I would like a family trip to Cuba
I would love to travel to Ireland, or New Zealand.
My family would love to visit Peru. We’ve read a lot about it.
Would visit morroco, and then greece or bora bora
My family and I have always been eager to visit Japan!
We would really like to go to DisneyWorld someday.
I would love to go to Greece
I would like to take a family trip to Hawaii.
We would love to be back in Italy to visit our family.
We would love to go to Scotland
My family and I would love to visit Hawaii. We usually visit Mexico because it’s more affordable but we are saving for a trip to Hawaii. My parents go there and said it’s absolutely beautiful!
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I would love to visit Florence with my family.
I would love to visit Italy with my family.
I dont know where my kids would want to go (disneyland probably) but I would love to go to Japan with the family. It would be so amazing.
My husband and I would love to go to Rome, Italy because it’s the homeland of my grandparents.
As a family we would most want to visit Australia because we have so many friends and family there, some of whom have never met our children (or at least the youngest, in some cases). I’ve been several times, and my husband and I went there for our honeymoon, and I would really love to go back on a big trip there to show my kids some of my favourite places and to introduce them to some really important people in my life (despite the distance we’re very close!).
My daughter has her heart set on Disneyland. I have my heart set on exploring anywhere warm during our winters 🙂 thanks!
I would love to go to Newfoundland.
My daughter really wants to visit Paris.
Our family would love to visit New Zealand!
I’d love to be able to take the family on an African safari.
My family and I would love to visit Disneyland! My godson is at the perfect age right now 🙂
I would love to take my children to disneyland! I think that they are both now at an age where it would be fun for all of us!