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Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real computer coders look at the world and how they think.

Children’s brains are powerful and flexible, but they need exercising and challenging to develop. In this book they will uncover the core skills that can make a good coder great, and be encouraged to have a go at some simple activities to help them to train their brain to become better at applying outstanding coding practice.

By uncovering the way that real coders look at the world and approach problems logically, they will be learning skills that will set them in good stead for life. Each topic is broken down into manageable chunks, so the reader can build up their skills and naturally develop their thinking.

Each book contains biographies of four top coders or computing experts, and the humorous illustrations throughout help the reader to understand some of the trickier concepts.

Ideal for students aged 8+ who are studying coding or S.T.E.A.M. topics at key stage 2.

Titles in this series:
Think Like An Astronaut
Think Like An Artist
Think Like a Coder
Think Like An Engineer
Think Like A Mathematician
Think Like A Scientist

WINNER OF THE ASE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 (THE ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION)

Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real scientists look at the world and how they think.

Children’s brains are powerful and flexible, but they need exercising and challenging to develop. In this book they will uncover the core skills that can make a good scientist great, and be encouraged to have a go at some simple activities to help them to train their brain to become better at applying outstanding scientific practice.

By uncovering the way that real scientists look at the world and approach problems scientifically, they will be learning skills that will set them in good stead for life. Each topic is broken down into manageable chunks, so the reader can build up their skills and naturally develop their thinking.

Each book contains biographies of four top scientists, and the humorous illustrations throughout help the reader to understand some of the trickier concepts.

Ideal for students aged 8+ who are studying Science or S.T.E.A.M. topics at key stage 2.

Titles in this series:
Think Like An Astronaut
Think Like An Artist
Think Like a Coder
Think Like An Engineer
Think Like A Mathematician
Think Like A Scientist

Get up-close to the most famous and unique cars ever made!

What makes a car classic? Just how fast are classic cars? And how have classic cars influenced cars today? Get the answers to all these questions, and more, with this guide to some of the best cars ever made.

Motormania is the perfect series for car-mad kids. Striking photos ensure each car is displayed in all its glory, while top-trump style fact files and detailed ‘tech points’ highlight the engineering that makes each car special. This series mixes the very latest in car design and engineering with the greatest classics of the past, and is perfect for petrol heads aged 7+.

Does your child dream of a future career be in the exciting world of science? This book will show them that there is so much more to a science career than peering at bacteria through a microscope.

The perfect book for budding astronauts, crime scene investigators, brain surgeons, particle physicists or even volcanologists. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use science in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the possibilities that science can bring.

Famous and leading scientists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers will also go behind the scenes with crime scene investigators, palaeontologists, scientific photographers, food scientists and the particle physicists at CERN to discover more about how these professionals do their jobs.

This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.

Titles in the series:

The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology

An emoji-based fact book that takes infographics to the next evolution – injecting fun into facts

Are there any inventions older than the wheel? Who invented the computer? What was all the fuss about inventing a flying machine – and was it really that dangerous? Whether it spins, flies, lights up or explodes, Infomojis: Inventions is all about exploring inventions in a fun and engaging way. Core scientific areas of investigation are covered, such as how wing shape creates lift or how splitting atoms creates a deadly bang!

The book features custom-made ‘infomojis’ – presenting the information with real personality! So inject fun into facts, and take your young astronomer to the next evolution in infographics.

Infomojis is a series of ten books that are perfect for curious readers aged 8+.

Titles in the series:
Cars and Vehicles
Continents
Human Body
Inventions
Natural Disasters
Ocean Life
Planet Earth
Space
Sports

An emoji-based fact book that takes infographics to the next evolution – injecting fun into facts

Which ancient cultures enjoyed a bit of sporting competition? Who won the first marathon? How hard do top tennis players hit the ball, and which is the most dangerous sport? Whether you hit it, bounce it, run at top speed or ride in or on it, Infomojis: Sports is all about exploring sport in a fun and engaging way. Core scientific areas of investigation are covered, such as how streamlined F1 cars are designed to reduce drag and why athletes’ bodies need muscle power to compete!

The book features custom-made ‘infomojis’ – presenting the information with real personality! So inject fun into facts, and take your young astronomer to the next evolution in infographics.

Infomojis is a series of ten books that are perfect for curious readers aged 8+.

Titles in the series:
Cars and Vehicles
Continents
Human Body
Inventions
Natural Disasters
Ocean Life
Planet Earth
Space
Sports

Does your child dream of a future career in the exciting world of maths? This book will show them that there is so much more to a maths career than pushing buttons on a calculator and making graphs.

The perfect book for budding sports analysts, theme park designers, astronomers, climate scientists or even video game designers. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use maths in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the possibilities that maths can bring.


Famous and leading scientists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers will also go behind the scenes with weather forecasters, roboticists and with NASA mathematicians as they build the latest space tech, so they can discover more about how these professionals do their jobs.

This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.

Titles in the series:

The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology

Does your child dream of a future career in the exciting world of Art? This book will show them that there is so much more to art jobs than painting and drawing.

The perfect book for budding animators, stylists, photographers, special effects artists working on big-budget films or for fine artists creating beautiful works of art. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use art in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the exciting possibilities that STEAM expertise can bring.


Famous and leading artists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers also go behind the scenes in furniture design and testing, on a fashion shoot and restoring a famous painting to discover more about how these artists do their jobs.

This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.

Titles in the series:

The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology

Does your child dream of a future career be in the exciting world of engineering? This book will show you them there is so much more to engineering jobs than studying buildings.

The perfect book for budding aerospace engineers, chemists, gadget designers, nanoengineers designing things on a microscopic scale or even geothermal engineers. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions.. There are lots of careers that use engineering in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the exciting possibilities that STEAM expertise can bring.


Famous and leading scientists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers also go behind the scenes with NASA, Crossrail, one of the world’s largest shipyards and a geothermal power plant to discover more about how these engineers do their jobs.

This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.

Titles in the series:

The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology

Cats React is back for a second instalment! Share in the wonderment of space with a crew of crazy cats and measure your amazement, awe and disgust alongside their furry feline faces!

Like every topic, space becomes more interesting when cats are involved. Cats React to Space Facts is an engaging and fun way to understand our universe. It’s just purrfect! Bitesize text, fun photos, diagrams, dollops of humour and a react-o-meter all help to make science memorable and fun to learn.

This book is a great gift for cat lovers and science students aged 7 and beyond, covering physics in a unique way.

Learning loads of facts is boring, right?

Not with this book! Get your quiz on to become the ultimate biology buff on the human body.

This book is the ultimate combination of facts and fun. Each chapter has loads of fast facts followed by a short quiz, which makes it the perfect tool for revising for a test or for becoming the quizmaster of the universe. It covers a huge range of topics, from the brain, reflexes and nervous system, to how we move, breathe, feel pain and grow. The human body is astounding in so many ways and this book is a whistle-stop tour inside and out.

These books are designed as a companion resource for children studying core curriculum topics. Illustrations, timelines and graphics work with captions and extended texts to challenge the reader’s skills in memory, comprehension and reading. Kids will barely realise they are learning when the competitive element takes over as they aim to become the Quizmaster.

The books contain loads of information, but as the quiz sections are spaced evenly throughout, it can make the challenge less overwhelming. Readers can choose to read a section and then answer those questions, or read the book and then attempt the whole quiz in one go. It can be used to test themselves, test their friends or as a ready-made resource for teachers in need of a pop-quiz for their class.

Suitable for children aged 8+ who are studying the human body and its systems as part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum. Also perfect for science-mad kids who love to regurgitate facts!

Titles in this series:

Around the World
Dinosaurs
Human Body
Outer Space
Science
Sport

Explore the rise of technology that may soon rule our lives!

What is a drone, how does it work, what are they being used for and what role may they play in the future? Big impactful photos fill the pages highlighting the science and technology at work.

These pieces of technology are infiltrating all areas of our lives, including the home, our social life, the world of work, health and education. The supportive functions and the sinister elements are all explored.

Learn about how drones are used for search and rescue missions, deliveries of pizzas and medicines but also races and as weapons.

An essential guide to our future overlords – geek up on the technology that drives these machines and prepare for their takeover.

Discover the fascinating history of African and Caribbean communities in Britain, from pre-Roman times to the 21st Century.

Newly updated, The History of African and Caribbean Communities in Britain explores why people came to Britain, the problems they faced and the contributions these communities have made to British society.

Brought to life with case studies and rarely published photographs, this is an opportunity to get up close to the experiences and vital impact African and Caribbean people have had in Britain. Meet pioneers such as Olaudah Equiano and Phyllis Wheatley and find out why African and Caribbean communities have been fundamental to Britain’s success on the world stage.

Written by British historian and academic Hakim Adi, Profressor of the History of Africa and the African diaspora at the University of Chichester, this book is essential reading for children aged 11+ and anyone interested in learning about the history of these communities in Britain.

Learn about forces and matter through facts focused on percentages.

Did you know that only 12.5% of an iceberg is above the surface and the remaining 87.5% is below water? Find out about the different states of matter and the forces that govern them. Learn about forces and matter through facts focused on percentages. Liquids, solids, gases, buoyancy are some of the topics covered in this exciting new way of exploring forces and matter.

Find out what makes the world complete by understanding the different components that make everything whole.

The series combines the visual style of infographics and their striking way of presenting facts and figures, alongside in-depth explanations and diagrams. It is a fun approach to science, leaving behind long lists of facts and presenting information in a relevant and easy-to-understand way.

Other topics covered in the series are the human body, our living planet, energy and fuel, people and places, forces and matter, space and time.

Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.

Bread is an everyday food, but do you know where it come from and how it ends up on the supermarket shelves? Follow the story of a loaf of bread, through wheat farming to the manufacturing process. The simple text in this book, suitable for children aged 5+, is accompanied by large, attractive photographs. For children progressing through Book Bands, it is suitable for reading at level 8: Purple.

Where food comes from is a series for young children aged 5+, helping them question where their food comes from. It uncovers the role of farmers and others and begins an exploration of food groups. Children studying science topics including how plants change over time and healthy eating will also find these books useful.

Everyone loves chocolate, but do you know where it come from and how it ends up on the supermarket shelves? Follow the story of fair trade chocolate from bean to bar, through the farming process to manufacturing. The simple text in this book, suitable for children aged 5+, is accompanied by large, attractive photographs. For children progressing through Book Bands, it is suitable for reading at level 8: Purple.

Where food comes from is a series for young children, helping them question where their food comes from. It uncovers the role of farmers and others and begins an exploration of food groups. Children studying science topics including how plants change over time and healthy eating will also find these books useful.

The four-book series Green Tech is an upbeat guide exploring fascinating technology from the past, present and cutting-edge of futuristic development that has the potential to help solve major ecological issues facing Earth, from the climate crisis to plastic pollution and the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world.

Enough with the negative, it’s time to look at all the ingenious inventors who are all about trying to use technology for good.

The series offers a balanced view of this technology, considering the practicalities, affordability, sustainability and possible
unintended long-term consequences of various hi-tech solutions. It introduces the importance of behaviour change by people in richer countries, and includes technology that facilitates this. It also highlights the need for technologies that
benefit people in the world’s poorest areas, who have done the least to cause the climate crisis but are already feeling its effects the most acutely.

Perfect for readers aged 8 and up.

Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneers and discover their fascinating life story and inspirations.

George Washington Carver tells the story of this key scientific figure – covering his origins as the son of slaves in Missouri, USA through his work as an agricultural scientist developing better ways to cultivate crops. He also developed various products derived from peanuts, sweet potatoes and soy-beans that radically changed the agricultural economy of the United States.

Masterminds introduces some of the world’s great scientists, inventors and artists, retelling their lives and explaining why their work is important. Clear photographic designs bring a real-life quality to these biographies and major S.T.E.A.M. discoveries.


Provides an understanding of scientific discoveries and presents inspirational lives from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

Includes a timeline of the person’s life and shows the ongoing legacy that we can see around us today.

Perfect for readers aged 7 and up.

A fun, quirky science series that tackles the questions other books are afraid to ask!

Why does a mirror show things back to front? Why is the sky blue? And where does light go when you switch it off? A Question of Science: Light answers all these questions and much more.

With an engaging question and answer format, these books draw kids into science in a fun way. Each book features one question per spread with a clear explanation to follow, diagrams and fun and humorous illustrations. The quirky questions are designed to range from those that children will often ask to things they may never have thought of, but will still be keen to know the answer to.

Perfect reading for curious young scientists aged 8 and up.

Other books in the series include:
Why don’t your eyeballs fall out? And other questions about the human body
Why doesn’t the Moon fall down? And other questions about forces
How can a plant eat a fly? And other questions about plants
Where does lightning come from? And other questions about electricity
Why can’t penguins fly? And other questions about animals
Why is ice slippery? And other questions about materials
Can you hear sounds in space? And other questions about sound

A powerful look at Earth’s biodiversity loss, focusing on animals from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Discover some of the rarest and most threatened amphibians on Earth, from the unique Mexican axolotl to the colourful Malagasy rainbow frog. Find out where they are found, what they eat, their life cycle and the reasons why their survival is at risk. Most importantly, learn how conservation efforts are aiming to prevent their extinction.

Earth’s rich biodiversity is at risk everywhere, thanks to devastating habitat loss, pollution, poaching and disease. Endangered Wildlife examines some of the world’s most threatened species and explores what is being done to bring them back from the brink.

Aimed at readers aged 8 and up.

A gripping illustrated account of how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by being the first men to conquer Mount Everest.

For years, climbers and explorers had dreamed of being the first to reach Mount Everest’s treacherous, icy summit. On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally achieved this amazing feat. Their lives would never be the same again.

“A few more whacks of the ice axe, a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest.”

Fully illustrated throughout, with fresh, modern artwork breathing new life into this famous story. Perfect for readers aged 8 and up.

Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneers and discover their fascinating life story and inspirations.

Jane Goodall tells the story of this key scientific figure, covering her childhood during which she discovered her love of wildlife and observing it through to her ground-breaking observations and discoveries about chimpanzee behaviour. She revolutionised our understanding of our closest relative in the animal kingdom

Masterminds introduces some of the world’s great scientists, inventors and artists, retelling their lives and explaining why their work is important. Clear photographic designs bring a real-life quality to these biographies and major S.T.E.A.M. discoveries.

Provides an understanding of scientific discoveries and presents inspirational lives from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

Includes a timeline of the person’s life and shows the ongoing legacy that we can see around us today.

Perfect for readers aged 7 and up.

Meet the S.T.E.A.M. pioneers and discover their fascinating life story and inspirations.

Marie Curie tells the story of this key scientific figure, covering her origins as the daughter of a Polish teacher through her work on radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize, her professorship at the Sorbonne and her amazing legacy to science today.

Masterminds introduces some of the world’s great scientists, inventors and artists, retelling their lives and explaining why their work is important. Clear photographic designs bring a real-life quality to these biographies and major S.T.E.A.M. discoveries.

Provides an understanding of scientific discoveries and presents inspirational lives from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

Includes a timeline of the person’s life and shows the ongoing legacy that we can see around us today.

Perfect for readers aged 7 and up.

Does your child dream of a future career in the exciting world of technology? This book will show them that there is so much more to a science career than using a spanner.

The perfect book for budding architects, robotics experts, space technicians, racing bike designers or even film editors. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use technology in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the possibilities that technology can bring.

Famous and leading tech experts in their fields are featured throughout. Readers will go behind the scenes with architects, radiologists, racing car designers, and CGI experts to discover more about how they do their jobs.

This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.

Titles in the series:

The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology