This book lets you explore the Enterprise NCC-1701-D in amazing high-resolution 3D. Using original blueprints, diagram and scans, you can take a tour of the famous starship with the book and CD-ROM. The book was written by Star Trek expert team Denise and Michael Okuda. Launch date: February 2013.

Author Warren Elsmore presents a pictorial collection of world-famous buildings and landmarks made of LEGO blocks, along with instructions to build your own versions.  The models that readers can build include: The Golden Gate Bridge, New York’s new World Trade Center, The Louvre in Paris, Rome’s Coliseum, The Great Wall of China…and many more. Launch date: May 2013.

This spy kit in a book-shaped box includes spy glasses, a decoder, ID cards, a listening device and more items a kid will need to be a double agent whose job it is to track down some top-secret files.

Barron’s This new activity kit for boys and girls by Sue Unstead holds the ingredients for an imaginary journey to the mysterious land of Transylvania and the spooky castle that is home to Count Dracula. Enclosed with an assortment of creepy vampire accessories is a 32-page illustrated book that retells Dracula’s classic story and presents a game in which the players must figure out how to escape from Dracula’s castle. The box also contains a collection of items to enhance the scary surroundings, including vampire-style fanged teeth, Dracula’s cape, black rubber bat, washable white face paint, imitation blood capsules, and a cardboard model of Dracula’s castle to assemble. Kids can let their imaginations run wild as they dress up for Halloween or dramatize Dracula’s delightfully chilling story at any time of the year. The kit measures 7.5" x 9.5" x 2.25".

Featuring two classic Christmas stories, Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas" and Saviour Pirotta's retelling of "The Nutcracker," this large hardcover is illustrated with watercolor art by Susanna Lockheart and features several changing picture windows for added intrigue.

This beginner's origami book instructs kids on creating designs that include a spaceship, frogs, flowers and more. The 48 pages of instruction include color diagrams, and the back of the book holds 40 sheets of origami paper. A drawer in the book's spine opens to reveal six colored pencils and 12 decorative eyes that may be used to adorn the finished creations. The book measures 7.5" square.

The Little Box of Ballet includes an illustrated storybook, "Little Book of Ballet Stories" with the tales of "Sleeping Beauty," "Giselle," "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker"; an instruction booklet with photos, "Little Book of Ballet Steps: An Introduction to Ballet Dancing"; a pink tutu; a matching headband with rose decorations; and a slipper pendant on a ribbon necklace.

This kit includes a storybook of one toddler, Hannah, learning to use the potty, a plush Hannah doll, a small, stuffed teddy bear and an animated DVD. The DVD includes a live-action segment of toddlers dancing to the song, "Bye-Bye Diapers" and an informative segment from a pediatrician. A "Henry" version of the kit for boys is also available. Launch date: September 2007.

A human kidney, a brain, a heart, an eyeball and a plastic skeleton with removable parts are assembled in this unusual and instructive kit for budding junior biologists. The shapes of all organs are accurately rendered, and an accompanying book is filled with full-color illustrations and descriptions of the human body’s organs and functions, described on a level that is understandable to older children. Launch date: October 2007.

Spooky Fun is a Barron’s Fun Pack that contains everything kids need to become a Spook Buster. The Spooky Fun book tours the haunted house. The illustrations are in sinister, shadowy full color, and they seem to pop off their pages when viewed through the 3-D glasses. Launch date: August 2007.

A rich combination of enchanting verse and magical color illustrations make this a truly unusual and attractive book for younger children. The easy and accessible poems — all of them written by major literary figures — share a common theme: fairies and fairyland. Ingenious paper engineering produces illustrated images that change in their details as kids turn the pages. Launch date: October 2007.

This gently amusing story for children is beautifully illustrated in a manner that resembles the painting style of the illustrious Pierre Renoir, Jean’s father. It includes several illustrations of Renoir’s paintings. Of course, the senior Renoir finally relents, and young Jean Renoir does get his hair cut. Still later, as an adult, Jean becomes famous in his own right as a widely acclaimed film director. Launch date: August 2007.

This true account of Matisse and the chapel at Vence, in southern France, is the main focus of Laurence Anholt’s newest delightful children’s story. Anholt’s illustrations faithfully reproduce many of Matisse’s wonderful artworks in this beautiful storybook. Launch date: October 2007.

Here’s a terrific set of spooky pop-up pictures to capture the Halloween spirit. Five sets of black cut-out silhouettes pop up from two-page spreads to show against colored backgrounds that suggest autumn skies at sunset and at night. Enclosed with the book is a small flashlight that kids can turn on in a darkened room. When they flash the beam against the silhouettes, they create magically eerie shadow effects. Launch date: August 2007.

This is one of several titles in Barron’s series of Graphic Classics, famous literary works retold in graphic novel form for young readers. Wonderfully atmospheric color illustrations and fast-paced narratives will keep older boys and girls absorbed. The famous musketeers —Athos, Aramis, Porthos and D’Artagnan — find themselves fighting for their lives against seemingly impossible odds. The books are available in both paperback and hardcover editions. The hardcover MSRP is $15.99. Launch date: September 2007.

This is one of several titles in Barron’s series of Graphic Classics, famous literary works retold in graphic novel form for young readers. Wonderfully atmospheric color illustrations and fast-paced narratives will keep older boys and girls absorbed. Count Dracula, the legendary vampire who is Lord of the Undead, departs from his castle in Transylvania and arrives in London, where he begins claiming new victims. The book is available in both paperback and hardcover editions. The hardcover MSRP is $15.99. Launch date: September 2007.

This Barron’s Fun Pack features fascinating challenges for kids to meet and overcome as they take part in an adventure on the high seas. Readers of the enclosed color-illustrated Pirate Fun book become members of a pirate crew led by the dastardly Mad Jack Blackheart. The Fun Pack contains everything they need to become pirate captains and succeed in their quest. Launch date: August 2007.

A fascinating, color-illustrated book points out the meanings of this kit’s other dragon-related items. In the book, “The Dragon Master’s Tale,” young readers meet a young knight named George and join in on his perilous quest. Launch date: October 2007.

This 32-page, hardcover book with paper engineering is a three-dimensional introduction to the planets, the stars, the galaxies and human exploration of space. Full-color pop-ups and gatefold illustrations on every spread show the Earth and its relation to the Sun and Moon, the solar system’s planets revolving around the Sun, asteroids, comets, meteoroids and other heavenly bodies. The book measures 10-1/2” x 10-1/2”. Launch date: October 2007.

Parade Day is an amusing story that teaches kids the “long-a” vowel sound. Kids learn the sound, then read the word. Educators and parents know that a phonics-based approach to reading works.

Part of the Barron's Reader's Clubhouse series (two nine-book sets that emphasize different phonics for young children), this clever tale of "Dan the Ant" covers the "short a" sound. The book features attractive illustrations and has a funny story theme that keeps kids engaged.

Fiona McTague instructs readers using 21 patterns that include various animals, including a penguin, a zebra, a monkey and a caterpillar finger puppet. There are also dolls and clowns. Knitting skills are at a beginner-to-intermediate level using small needles. The book is illustrated throughout in color.