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Look Inside Books in Order

Look Inside contains 12 books, published between 1998 and 2021. The first book is Look inside a Castle (1998) and the newest is Look Inside Football (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1998–2021
Pages on record
70 in 5 of 12 books
See all 12 books in order Printable Look Inside checklist

Look Inside is a line of lift-the-flap books for children, listed in the catalogue under Rob Lloyd Jones. Subject headings include toy and movable books, juvenile literature, pictorial works, castles, the Middle Ages and sports. Look inside a Castle (1998) is the earliest of the 12 listed titles, with Look Inside an Airport (2009), Look Inside Your Body (2011) and Look Inside Space (2012) among the others. Look Inside Football (2021) is the newest title.

How many Look Inside books are there?

Look Inside has 12 books, released between 1998 and 2021.

Look Inside Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Look Inside books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Look inside a Castle, book 1 of the Look Inside series (1998)
  2. Cover of Look Inside Your Body by Louie Stowell, book 3 of the Look Inside series (2011)
  3. Cover of Look Inside Cars by Rob Lloyd Jones, book 4 of the Look Inside series (2011)
  4. Cover of Look Inside Space by Rob Lloyd Jones, book 6 of the Look Inside series (2012)
  5. Cover of Look Inside Mummies and Pyramids by Rob Lloyd Jones, book 7 of the Look Inside series (2014)
  6. Cover of Look Inside Trains, book 8 of the Look Inside series (2015)
  7. Cover of Look Inside How Computers Work by Alex Frith, book 9 of the Look Inside series (2016)
  8. Cover of Look Inside How Things Work by Rob Lloyd Jones, book 11 of the Look Inside series (2018)
  1. 1
    Look inside a Castle1998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  2. 2
    Look Inside an Airport2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Look Inside Your Body2011 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201114
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Look Inside Cars2011 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201114
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Look Inside Sports2012 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201214
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Look Inside Space2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Look Inside Mummies and Pyramids2014 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201414
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Look Inside Trains2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Look Inside How Computers Work2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Look Inside Construction Sites2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Look Inside How Things Work2018 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201814
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Look Inside Football2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Do you have to read Look Inside books in order?

You should read the Look Inside books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Look Inside book also stands alone.

Where to start with Look Inside

Start with Look inside a Castle (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Look Inside book?

Look Inside Football (2021) is the newest Look Inside book released so far.

Is there a new Look Inside book coming?

No next Look Inside book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Look Inside at a glance

Paused
No new Look Inside title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Look Inside books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
70 pages across the 5 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 14 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Look Inside books, 9 of 12, were published in the 2010s.
Attribution
Of the 12 titles, 8 are credited to Rob Lloyd Jones, 1 to Louie Stowell and 1 to Alex Frith. 2 titles carry no credit.

What the Look Inside books are about

5 of the 12 Look Inside books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Other series by Rob Lloyd Jones

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.