With the big day fast approaching you may find yourself worrying about what to buy your friends and family. Now more than ever we are shopping online and it is easy to overlook books. Trust me when i say that DK offers a book for just about everyone on your christmas list.

So let’s look at some of DK’s offerings.

• A little book of self care; Self Reiki

• Chris Bavin Fakeaway cookbook

• My encyclopedia of very important adventures

• Timelines of Everyone

• The science of the Ocean

Self Reiki offers 40 step by step practices to promote inner balance and natural healing, to alleviate pain , stress and anxiety. A perfect gift for someone who neglects themselves but is always the first to help others.

Fakeaway is a cookbook with a twist, over 100 low calorie home cooked takeaway meals. With easy and illustrated instructions Chris Bavin shares recipes from Italy, Japan, China, India, Thailand and more. Ideal for those that love to spend time in the kitchen experimenting with flavours.

My encyclopedia of very important adventures has gone down a treat in my house. Full of true bitesize adventures. My children love to hear about real life pirates and explorers and enjoy the fun illustrations. A must have for any parent as there are stories to satisfy the most curious of minds, there is everything from ancient egypt, astronomical finds, animal antics and more.

Timelines of Everyone is utterly fascinating, you and your children will learn facts you didnt know about history’s most important figures some of who are well known and others are overlooked .from Leonardo da Vinci, Emmeline Pankhurst, Golda Meir, Muhammad Ali, to more recent figures like Dwayne Johnson and Oprah Winfry.

The science of the Ocean is not only incredibly informative but is exquisitely illustrated. Full of secrets of the ocean, facts and diagrams of all sorts of creatures that call the sea home.

All available at amazon.co.uk and bookshops