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This book combines good quality artwork and contemporary illustrations with simple, well-written text. Young readers will discover how the fire started, what devastation it caused and will be able to compare fire-fighting in 1666 to the present day.



Photos of artefacts and original illustrations help bring the topic to life.

Truth or Busted: Survival Skills takes popular notions and ideas about how to survive in urban and wilderness environments and examines where the ideas came from, how or why they have become well known, and finally whether they are really true or false!

This hilarious book looks at statements like: ‘You can drink your own wee to survive!’ or ‘Cows are more deadly than great white sharks!’ Each statement is evaluated and then awarded a Truth or Busted stamp at the end of each entry.

This beautiful kitchen-garden cookbook, produced in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, contains step-by-step guides to show how easy it is to grow peas, beans, potatoes, carrots and more in your garden, in patio containers or in window boxes or on an allotment. Then transform your home-grown produce into delicious meals and desserts by following easy, step-by-step recipes.

By having fun growing different plants, children won’t be able to wait to try their tasty produce, encouraging great, healthy eating habits.

Learn all about how plants grow, from seeds to seedlings, watering and weeding, to harvesting and composting.

Information on minibeasts and garden creatures show how nature works together to help plants grow.

Includes advice on cooking tools and utensils and healthy and balanced diets.

For inspiration in the garden and the kitchen … a how-to guide to growing and eating your own fruit and vegetables – Daily Express

Colourful and beautifully illustrated, it is a great aid for fostering a love and understanding of fresh produce and an awareness of a healthy diet – The Lady

If your small child is even vaguely interested in helping you in the garden, or on the allotment, then I’d urge you to get him/her this great book… – Judy Bown, Dig my Veg

There are endless facts to learn about Planet Earth, but once you’ve absorbed them, do you really know how your own planet works?

It continually changes thanks to some incredible processes – and understanding them is the key to understanding it. It’s time to discover how volcanoes erupt, how rocks form and how rain falls. Pore over the step-by-step infographic art and fascinating facts to uncover the dazzling truth about this amazing planet – then try out the mind-bending challenges on each page!

TOPICS:
How the continents move
How an earthquake happens
How a volcano erupts
How to build mountains
How rocks are formed
How tides work
How a river carves a gorge
How the water cycle works
How rain falls
How lightning is made
How a hurricane forms

The Infographic How It Works series is an exploration of the processes that make the world (and the universe) go round, from the activity in tectonic plates to the enzymes that break down food in our bodies. Each process is clearly explained using amazing infographics and essential facts – plus an experiment or challenge for readers to try, so they can keep the discovery going.

Perfect for readers 9 and up.

Other titles in the Infographic How It Works series:
Life on Earth
Machines and Motors
Our Universe
Today’s Technology
Your Body

There are endless facts to learn about living things, but once you’ve absorbed them, do you really know how plants and animals work?

They adapt and grow thanks to some incredible processes – and understanding them is the key to understanding life on earth. It’s time to discover how animals reproduce, how plants protect themselves and how living things adapt. Pore over the step-by-step infographic art and fascinating facts to uncover the dazzling truth about the astonishing flora and fauna on our planet – then try out the mind-bending challenges on each page!

TOPICS:
How plants make energy
How plants reproduce
How animals reproduce
How predators hunt
How living things adapt
How animals see
How animals smell
How animals feel
How plants protect themselves
How animals protect themselves
How animals survive a shortage
How living things are recycled

The Infographic How It Works series is an exploration of the processes that make the world (and the universe) go round, from the activity in tectonic plates to the enzymes that break down food in our bodies. Each process is clearly explained using amazing infographics and essential facts – plus an experiment or challenge for readers to try, so they can keep the discovery going.


Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.

Other titles in the Infographic How It Works series:
Machines and Motors
Our Planet
Our Universe
Today’s Technology
Your Body

There are endless facts to learn about the technology we use every day, but once you’ve absorbed them, do you really know how your own gadgets work?

They make our lives easier thanks to some incredible processes – and grasping them is the key to understanding technology. It’s time to discover how a house can make its own power, how a touchscreen works and how GPS helps us find our way. Pore over the step-by-step infographic art and fascinating facts to uncover the dazzling truth behind technology – then try out the mind-bending challenges on each page!

TOPICS:
How a house can make its own power
How a light bulb grows
How a microwave cooks food
How a refrigerator works
How a robot cleans a room
How TV is broadcast
How a computer works
How movies are streamed
How a mobile phone makes a call
How a touchscreen works
How GPS finds your way
How a 3D printer works

The Infographic How It Works series is an exploration of the processes that make the world (and the universe) go round, from the activity in tectonic plates to the enzymes that break down food in our bodies. Each process is clearly explained using amazing infographics and essential facts – plus an experiment or challenge for readers to try, so they can keep the discovery going.

Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.

Other titles in the Infographic How It Works series:
Life on Earth
Machines and Motors
Our Planet
Our Universe
Your Body

My Human Body Infographic Sticker Activity Book is an interactive journey around your amazing body. Includes more than 200 stickers and printed on high-quality paper that’s perfect to colour in with felt-tips or crayons. This book is ideal for long journeys, rainy days and a great gift for curious children.

You can build a skeleton out of stickers, discover what goes as fast as a high-speed train, and find out how many supertankers your heart could fill with blood.

Packed with fact-based stickering, colouring and searching activities to help children remember all of the incredible information, My Human Body Infographic Sticker Activity Book is a bold, bright and beautiful book that will take your imagination on an exciting journey.

Includes over 200 stickers and printed on high-quality paper that’s perfect to colour in with felt-tips or crayons, this book is ideal for long journeys, rainy days and a great gift for curious children.

This exciting story brings the gunpowder plot to life for young readers.

Cecil the spymaster and his assistant, Jack, learn of a new plot to kill the king. They are determined to catch the plotters in the act. The trouble is, where do they begin their search?

Full of secrets, excitement and danger, this short text is suitable for struggling readers but engaging enough to give confident readers a quick, fun read.

Suitable for use in schools as guided reading texts or for reading independently.

A beautifully illustrated narrative non-fiction picture book that imagines the consequences of a world without sharks

A healthy ocean is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be big, like a whale, tiny, like a shrimp, and even scary, like a shark. Even though sharks can be scary, we need them to keep the oceans healthy. Unfortunately, due to overfishing, many shark species are in danger of extinction, and that can cause big problems in the oceans and even on land. What would happen if this continued and sharks disappeared completely?
Artist Lily Williams explores how the disappearance would affect other animals across the whole planet in this clever book about the importance of keeping sharks, and our oceans, healthy.

Perfect for children aged 5 and up, this book is a great introduction to the food chain and some of the dangers facing our planet.

Introduces children to the anatomy of animals with cutaway illustrations

What wonders can you find out about the amazing world of amphibians? See what a frog really looks like inside; find out how a toad catches its food and where an axolotl’s lung and gills are plus many more dazzling facts about amazing amphibians.

The Inside Animals series introduces children to the anatomy of animals with cutaway illustrations, with the outer image followed by the inner image over the next page, so children can understand exactly how anatomy works. There is also a handy glossary at the back to explain key scientific terms in an accessible way.

Perfect for any curious 6-8 year old or budding scientist.

The Children in Our World picture book series helps children make sense of the larger issues and crises that dominate the news in a sensitive and appropriate manner. With relatable comparisons, carefully researched text and striking illustrations, children can begin to understand issues in the news, how they affect people and how readers can help those who are affected. In this book children can explore why we have rules from those in school to laws in society and what happens when rules are broken.

Where issues aren’t appropriate to describe in words, Hanane Kai’s striking and sensitive illustrations help children visualise the issues with images that are suited to their age.

In October 1914, the explorer, Ernest Shakleton and a team of men, set out on the ship, Endurance, to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. A few months into their voyage, the ship became trapped in ice, eventually sinking.

With little hope of rescue, Shakleton’s crew lived on the ice, enduring freezing temperatures and with only the food they could catch from the sea. When the ice floes began to crack beneath them, the men undertook a treacherous journey in three small lifeboats across the icy, stormy sea, eventually landing on Elephant Island – a place where no-one lived or was ever likely to visit…

Retold in vivid detail and illustrated with contemporary photographs and artefacts, this story recounts one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human endeavor ever recorded.

Grab your suitcase and prepare to explore Croatia: its major cities, culture, way of life, food, language, and history. Find out about Croatian fashion, music, popular culture and sport, as well as quirky facts and bite-sized information on Croatia’s customs and everyday life.

Go on a journey through the world’s rainforests, from the Amazon rainforest to Costa Rica, answering questions such as why on Earth does it rain so much? Where are there forests in the clouds? And how can a tree cure disease? Along with many others. It looks at medicines, monkeys, poisonous snakes, venomous spiders, stinky flowers, enormous trees, and much, much more. Crammed full of amazing animals and astonishing plants, geography has never been so exciting!

Packed to the gills with far-out facts and fascinating information, the Where on Earth? series makes standard KS2 geography topics lively, fun, pacey and interesting.

‘If the Sun were the size of a grapefruit, Earth would be the size of a grain of salt. Even the largest planet, Jupiter, would be only as big as a large pea.’

Some things are so big or so old that it’s hard to wrap your mind around them. In If, we look at these hard-to-imagine objects and events and compare them to things we can instantly see, feel and touch. It is wonderful new way of seeing the world and is a fascinating way of understanding numbers and big ideas for children aged 8 and upwards.

The author, David J Smith has found ingenious ways of scaling down everything from time lines (the history of the Earth is compressed into a single year!), to quantitites (all the wealth in the world is divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets are shown as different-sized balls). Each description is beautifully illustrated to reinforce the concept in a child’s mind.

By reducing everything to human scale, the big ideas and concepts are easier to grasp and, therefore, more meaningful. This fact-filled book is for children who love to be wowed by exciting new facts, figures, stats and information. It is also the perfect vehicle for visual learners, since it’s ‘infographic’ approach makes information easier to understand through imagery.

As well as being an excellent read for pleasure, If is also an amazing classroom resource that can be reached for again and again when studying scale and measurement in maths, but also has many applications for the study of space or the earth in science and geography, social studies and PSHE.

For those who want to delve deeper, thre are 6 suggestions for practical projects at the back of the book as well as a full page of resource information.

Covers topics as diverse as: evolution of man and early life forms, time line of the last 3000 years in history, inventions through the ages, continents, water, energy and population.

How did Islam start? What weapons did Islamic warriors use? Where was the ‘Round City’? Who invented the elephant clock?

This book helps children at Key Stage 2 discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions. It also recommends sites on the Internet and sources in local libraries where they can find out more about early Islamic civilization. The detective shows readers how to create their own project reimagining a stroll through Baghdad, interview their favourite scientist or inventor from the Islamic world and spot the key features of mosques.

Packed with fascinating information, The History Detective Investigates series inspires children’s curiosity to find out more about the past.

Travel back to the time of the Anglo Saxons! Who was Alfred the Great? Where did the Anglo Saxons come from, and what traditions and beliefs did they bring with them? Explore this ancient civilisation to understand how prehistoric people have influenced the way we live today.

Find out how we know about the Anglo Saxons, and how archaeologists and historians have pieced together their story from the evidence and artefacts found. Learn about the Anglo Saxon way of life – how they farmed and feasted, what they believed and where and how they lived. Information about their songs, music, poems, arts and crafts will help you to picture yourself among them. Read an Anglo Saxon warrior’s letter, and try your hand at making an Anglo Saxon helmet!

Readers will enjoy the bright design and photographic approach.

History in Infographics helps children to visualise facts and statistics using a clever and appealing mix of graphics and numbers. The colourful, high-impact design will appeal to a wide range of children, from visual learners to struggling readers, capturing and then holding their attention. Infographics are a really exciting, different way to learn about core historical topics, and are ideal for fact-hungry children, revision work, and to improve the quality of presentations.

History in Infographics: The Mayans allows children to explore the Mayan civilisation like never before, finding out how people lived, what they ate, what they wore, how they were ruled, the games they played and how the civilisation died out. Children can discover that the Maya were the first people to make hot chocolate, and how they did it, that they went to war to capture prisoners they then sacrificed to their gods, and all about other South American civilisations, including the Aztecs and the Incas.

Ideal for children of 9+, and fact and history lovers of all ages, the Mayans have never seemed more exciting!

Dive into the great big water cycle story! The same water has been falling as raindrops for billions of years. It travels around our planet again and again, from raindrops into rivers, and from seas to water vapour in mist and clouds. The water on Earth is in glaciers, rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs. It is used by plants, humans and animals.

Follow the journey of a young boy and girl as they float, splash and slide through the incredible water cycle story. This beautifully illustrated picture book shows the incredible story of the water in all its forms, from grey storm clouds to rushing waterfalls, calm lakes and shining icy glaciers.

‘Look and Wonder’ is a fresh, bold and bright, narrative non-fiction picture book series, for children aged 4 and up, introducing children to life cycles and the natural world. The eye-poppingly colourful digital illustration style will explain the scientific concepts while the light and fun text-style will make these books real home and classroom favourites.

Other titles in the series:
The Great Big Water Cycle Adventure
The Amazing Plant Life Cycle Story
The Amazing Butterfly Life Cycle Story

Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a roller coaster. You’d definitely want it to be the best roller coaster in the world. But how do you go about designing THAT? Armed with your own imagination and some smart research, find out how you can transform a fantasy design into an actual dream product. You’ll apply real-world design considerations to your ideas, refining your design to make it workable and achievable as it takes shape.

Uncover History and find out about ancient Egypt, its people and the story of ancient Egypt that goes back some 4,000 years.

Who were the Ancient Egyptians? Read about their daily lives, what jobs they did and why the river Nile was so important to them. Discover the mysteries of the pyramids, why the Egyptians mummified their people and about the gods and goddesses that ruled their way of life. Find out the answer to questions such as ‘what are hieroglyphs?’, ‘why were the pyramids built’ and ‘why did ancient Egypt end?’

Using fun, humorous illustrations, this book tells the story of many great kings and pharaohs, such as Tutankhamen and Cleopatra and shows how hieroglyphs offer an insight into the daily life of the Egyptian people.

Ideally suited for readers age 8+.

Read the other titles in the series: Ancient Greece, The Maya, The Vikings, Stone, Bronze and Iron Age, and the Shang Dynasty

Explore the building blocks of our planet with fun jokes, cartoons and hands-on activities.

Find out why earthquakes shake the ground and what makes volcanoes erupt. Learn how to measure earthquakes, escape tsunamis and build skyscrapers that do not fall down. Explore different types of volcanoes, such as shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes and supervolcanoes

This book is part of the Geology Rocks series. This collection of books examines the Earth’s make up, from the different types of rock it is made from to discovering the structure of the planet itself, and how tectonic plates relate to earthquakes and volcanoes.

Perfect for readers 7 and up.