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Alex Woolf
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Train Your Brain: Think Like an Artist
Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real artists look at the world and how they think. Children's brains are…
Train Your Brain: Think Like an Engineer
Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real engineers look at the world and how they think. Children's brains are…
Train Your Brain: Think Like a Coder
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…
Train Your Brain: 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…
Fact or Fake?: The Truth About Science
Sort the truth from the lies with the Fact or Fake series packed full of unbelievable, mind-boggling facts! Read each statement and decide if they…
Train Your Brain: Think Like a Mathematician
Help your child to develop their growth mindset as they discover how real mathematicians look at the world and how they think. Children's brains are…
The Story of Food: Sugar
The little grains you use to sweeten your food every day have an amazing story to tell. Like many other foods, sugar has a fascinating…
The Story of Food: Chocolate
Did you know that the chocolate bar you can pick up from any corner shop used to be a precious and exotic food that only…
Parallel History: The Nineteenth-Century World
What developments in government and society, industry, exploration and discovery, science and technology, art, architecture and literature, medicine, communication and transport were there in the…
Parallel History: The Modern World
Since 1900, the world has undergone many changes and seen some huge technological leaps. War became far more deadly during the modern era and tens…
Parallel History: The Medieval World
What developments in government and society, food and farming, architecture, science and technology, art and literature, medicine, education and entertainment were there in the medieval…
Parallel History: The Ancient World
What developments in government and politics, food and farming, architecture, science, art and medicine were there in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and…
Parallel History: The Classical World
What developments in government and politics, food and farming, architecture, science, art and medicine were there in the classical world of the Ancient Greeks, Celts…
The Story of Food: Salt
Did you know that the little white grains that sit in your salt cellar have an amazing story to tell? The simple condiment has caused…
The Story of Food: Tea
Did you know that the plain-looking bags you use to brew a steaming mug of tea are steeped in fascinating history? This simple drink has…
Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of Hospitals
Find out what life was like in Britain before the National Health Service was introduced in 1948? How has medicine progressed since the Victorian times?…
Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of Holidays
Find out how the holidays of British families have changed dramatically in the past 150 years as foreign travel has become easier, cheaper and more…
A Child's Day In...: My Life in Indonesia
What's it really like to live in Indonesia? Come and experience a day in the life of ten-year-old Eva from Soya; from the moment she…
A Child's Day In...: My Life in India
What's it really like to live in India? Come and experience a day in the life of twelve-year-old Rajiv from Delhi; from the moment he…
Encounters with the Past: Meet the Tudors
You can learn a lot from what archaeologists and historians have uncovered about the past, but what would the people who actually lived at the…
Animal Attack: Killer Sharks
If you ever wanted to know how Killer Sharks survive in the wild, find out in this fascinating book about survival. Different sharks will use…
Medieval Realms: Death and Disease
This title gives readers an in-depth look at death and disease in medieval times. You can find out what ordinary people did when they fell…
Medieval Realms: Education
This book gives readers an in-depth look at education in medieval times. You can learn about the different kinds of schools and discover why the…
Children of the Holocaust
The Holocaust is one of the most shocking events of the 20th century and one that continues to resonate today. Its Nazi perpetrators showed no…
Travelling Wild: Expedition to the Arctic
Follow a traveller's diary of an expedition to the frozen North Pole! Find out how to gear yourself up for the trip, about the animals…
Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of Home Life
Children will be able to see the homes people lived in, how they cooked, how they furnished and decorated their homes, and how they spent…
Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of Schools
We see what life was like for school children in the past. What lessons did they have, what did their classrooms look like and how…
Past in Pictures: A Photographic View of World War One
Photographs from The National Archives will show what life was like during World War One. What were conditions like in the trenches, what did they…
Travelling Wild: Journey Along the Amazon
Follow a traveller's diary of a trip along the entire length of the Amazon, discovering all about the unusual animal and plant life, landscape features,…
History on Your Doorstep: Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain
Much of the evidence we have of past times comes from the buildings people left behind. Their homes, villages and towns give us clues that…