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Be inspired to keep fit with Get Active!

Learn an array of water skills with Get Active!: Swimming. From breaststroke to backstroke, lifesaving to water polo, this book has useful photos, step-by-step guides and technical tips to help you perfect a whole host of strokes and skills.

When your favourite thing to do is be physically active, it’s easy to have fun and be fit. Readers will dive into swimming, bend over backwards for gymnastics, find peace with yoga and more, through fun, informational content about many popular activities. Step-by-step instructions will help readers learn all the right moves, and even teach them how to pursue a career in their hobby! Colourful photographs will draw future ice-skaters, dancers, and martial artists into the fascinating world of their sport – and encourage them to keep practising.

This series inspires a healthy lifestyle through fun, varied types of exercise, and is a perfect tool for children aged 9+.

Explore the wonderful world of centipedes and millipedes!

Everybody loves beautiful bees and butterflies, but what about kids who like more mucky creatures – the ones that live down in the dirt or eat their own poo? These minibeasts are just as deserving of attention. This beautifully illustrated title will explore the wonderful world of centipedes and millipedes.

Living down in the dark, damp places, find out the similarities and differences between these two creatures. How many legs do they really have? Why do you rarely see them in bright sunlight? How do they defend themselves from predators? What do these creatures look like in other places around the world?

Find out how to make a terrarium and watch millipedes close up.


Accessible, fact-filled text combined with cute, beautiful artwork results in a stunning non-fiction picture book.

Ideal for allowing children to learn more about minibeasts, but also for introducing them to habitats and understanding other living creatures.

Why not find the other titles in this series, too, about Ants, Snails and Worms.

This beautifully illustrated title explores the wonderful world of ants!

Everybody loves beautiful bees and butterflies, but what about kids who like more mucky creatures – the ones that live down in the dirt or eat their own poo? These minibeasts are just as deserving of attention.

This beautifully illustrated title explores the wonderful world of tiny ants. Did you know that ants will eat almost anything they can find, including fruit, fungus and dead animals. Find out more fascinating facts with this wonderful book about ants.

Accessible, fact-filled text combined with cute, beautiful artwork results in a stunning non-fiction picture book.

Ideal for allowing children to learn more about minibeasts, but also for introducing them to habitats and understanding other living creatures.

Look out for the other titles in the series too: Snails, Centipedes and Millipedes, Worms.

Discover how to care for your pony, and become your pet’s best pal!

Whether they already own one, or beg for one each Christmas and birthday, children love pets, and Pet Pals is the perfect title for any pet-loving child out there.

From where they sleep to what they eat, and how you can make them feel safe and at home, this book provides all the pet care advice you could possibly need.

Adorable photos, and gentle, accessible text, makes this the perfect guide for all pet carers – whether they own a pet or not!

Discover the world of science through easy-to-follow experiments

What are materials? What are a material’s properties and how do these vary? What is the difference between natural and made materials? Find out the answers to these questions and much more in Be a Scientist: Investigate Materials.

This friendly, illustrated series shows how young scientists can use investigation to find out about science for themselves.

Discover the world of science through easy-to-follow experiments

What are solids? How they are different from liquids and gases? How can solids be changed? Find out the answers to these questions and much more in Be a Scientist: Investigate Solids.

This friendly, illustrated series shows how young scientists can use investigation to find out about science for themselves.

A gripping illustrated account of the historic first moon landing in July 1969

Pacey, accessible text recounts the story of the first moon landing, from its beginnings in the Space Race, to early missions, the successful Apollo 11 voyage, Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the moon and the astronauts’ heart-stopping return to Earth.

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

Use eye-grabbing diagrams to help you to discover the human body in glorious technicolour!

With eye-grabbing diagrams and amazing facts, The Digestive System takes a vibrant look at journey of food through our bodies.

This colourful and fact-packed series provides an accessible look at the human body through bright and bold graphics. With spread-filling diagrams, a colour-blocking approach, and simple text and captions, The Bright and Bold Human Body presents the incredible scale and complexity of the human body in small, digestible chunks. As well as this, surprising statistics and close-up photos allow children ages 9+ to gain an insight into the wonders of our bright and bold bodies.

This environment education story follows Tom who is usually driven to school by his mum, but they always get stuck in traffic. At last Tom walks to school, and he learns that walking is better for your health and so much better for the planet. Panels alongside the story explore topics such as pollution and climate change.

Good to be Green is a series of six environment education books that help children age 6+ explore green issues and find out what they can do to help the planet. Each book features the story of a child who is exploring their world and learning why it’s important to think green. Alongside the stories are fact boxes with extra information and at the end of each story there are activity ideas, teaching notes and a quiz. Each story is accompanied by bright illustrations by award-winning illustrator, Diane Ewen.

All living things need food to give them energy to live. Plants that make their own food and animals that eat plants or other plant-eating animals are linked together by many different food chains. This book looks at a desert food chain in Arizona, USA. The text introduces young children to the scientific vocabulary associated with food chains and big, beautiful photographs bring the desert food chain to life.

The Follow the Food Chain series helps children aged 6 and up to explore food chains and webs in a range of habitats, from an ocean to a pond and from a rainforest to a desert. Titles in the 4-book series are: Who Ate the Butterfly?, Who Ate the Frog?, Who Ate the Penguin? and Who Ate the Snake?.

Hurrah for remarkable Reptiles! Discover amazing facts about your favourite animals and become a pet expert!

Do you know your Corn Snakes from your Crested Geckos? Are you loopy about lizards? Whether you own a reptile or you simply love them, this book will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about these cool animals.

It is packed with tips on handling, creating the perfect home, and of course has lots and lots of very cool pictures of our reptilian friends. Discover a huge variety of breeds, all about baby reptiles and work out what your pet is trying to say with a flick of its tongue and a whip of its tail.

The Pet Expert series explores the world of some of children’s favourite animals. It is packed with fascinating facts about record-breaking animals, rare breeds, pet history and stories of famous pets from real life and fiction. Filled with super-cute photos and a bright, engaging design, Pet Expert is a must-have for all pet owners and animal lovers.

For readers aged 7+
Titles in this series:

Cats
Dogs
Hamsters and Guinea Pigs
Horses and Ponies
Rabbits
Reptiles

A visually playful body and animal book!
Learn all about animal and human movements and muscles, the similarities and differences. From muscles, bones and exoskeletons to running, jumping swimming and flying, explore how humans and animals move and use their muscles.

The Human Body, Animal Bodies series looks at the features and function of the human body in isolation and also in comparison to those of different animals, looking at similarities and differences. The end of each book will look at sorting the featured creatures into their animal groups, using the classification information learnt throughout.

Perfect for readers aged 5 and up.

A visually playful body and animal book

Learn all about animal and human healthy bodies and their similarities and differences. From breathing and diets to sleeping and keeping warm and clean, explore how humans and animals stay healthy.

The Human Body, Animal Bodies series looks at the features and function of the human body in isolation and also in comparison to those of different animals, looking at similarities and differences. The end of each book will look at sorting the featured creatures into their animal groups, using the classification information learnt throughout.

Perfect for readers aged 5 and up.

What happens in engineering and industry when machines break down, the wrong materials are used or the weather overpowers your invention?

In the processes of engineering and industry, the smallest action can have a huge impact – and put your safety at risk!

Cause, Effect and Chaos! explores the relationship between things, their actions and reactions, and what happens when processes don’t go according to plan. From the unfortunate to the truly catastrophic, discover how things work in the world and beyond.

Each spread follows a narrative chain with fun illustrations and arrows leading the reader through a different action, process or phenomenon.

This highly visual approach, with simple text, makes it the perfect series for imparting STEM and geography concepts.

A gripping illustrated account of the historic race to reach the South Pole in December 1911.

Pacey, accessible text recounts the story of Roald Amundsen’s historic journey to reach the South Pole, from its origins in his failure to be the first to reach the North Pole, to planning the journey, early expeditions and setbacks, mounting rivalry with Captain Scott and its tragic conclusion, and the final joy of successfully reaching the South Pole.

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

Be inspired to keep fit with Get Active: Gymnastics!

Learn an array of different gymnastic disciplines with Get Active!: Gymnastics. From floor work to vaulting, the beam to the trampoline, this book has useful photos, step-by-step guides and technical tips to help you perfect a whole host of skills.

This book is part of the Get Active series. When your favourite thing to do is be physically active, it’s easy to have fun and be fit. Readers will dive into swimming, bend over backwards for gymnastics, find peace with yoga and more, through fun, informational content about many popular activities. Step-by-step instructions will help readers learn all the right moves, and even teach them how to pursue a career in their hobby! Colourful photographs will draw future ice-skaters, dancers, and martial artists into the fascinating world of their sport – and encourage them to keep practising.

This series inspires a healthy lifestyle through fun, varied types of exercise, and is a perfect tool for children aged 9+. The titles in this series are:

Dance
Gymnastics
Ice Skating
Martial Arts
Swimming
Yoga

Imagine journeying millions of kilometres into deep space!

But to really do that you’ll need to apply a fair bit of science.

This book has twelve scientific investigations to help you understand why the speed of light matters, how to communicate in binary and how dust can turn into a planet. Discover a Martian volcano and what happens when meteorites smash into Earth or the Moon – and lots, lots more!

This book is part of the Space Science series; the ultimate series for the astronomers and astronauts of the future. It delves into loads of intriguing ‘how’, ‘what’ and ‘why’ facts about the night sky. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and use readily available materials that won’t break the bank! Authored by Mark Thompson – a brilliant astronomer and television and radio presenter – who brings a fresh approach to the exploration and understanding of the Solar System … and beyond!

Space Science covers key areas of the science curriculum, such as forces, materials and matter, light, rocks, chemical reactions, recycling and waste, magnets, solar power, gravity, distance, maps and constellations.

For readers aged 9+

Titles in this series:
Science for Exploring Outer Space
Science for Looking into Space
Science for Rocketing into Space
Science for Surviving in Space

In an era when the global environment is defined by humans and their activities, humans are destroying natural habitats and resources, often the same ones on which they themselves depend. While humans understand more about the environment and population than ever before, what action are they taking to protect the natural environment for future generations – and is it too little, too late?

This book is one in the Question It! series for readers upwards of age 10, which explores globally important topics relating to the environment in a balanced and objective way, encouraging readers to adopt a questioning approach to the issues involved. Titles in the 6-book series are: Climate Change, Food, Natural Habitats, Oil, Population and Water.

Petroleum has utterly changed the way we live. But has the cost to the planet been too great? Has oil overheated our climate? Is the Oil Age already being replaced by smarter technologies? Is there enough of the black stuff to go round, and will it keep flowing?

This book is one in the Question It! series for readers upwards of age 10, which explores globally important topics relating to the environment in a balanced and objective way, encouraging readers to adopt a questioning approach to the issues involved. Titles in the 6-book series are: Climate Change, Food, Natural Habitats, Oil, Population and Water.

Step on to a magical rainbow and join Tilly and Grandad as they explore a dazzling world of colour. Watch out for the red frog in the rainforest and mix some colours with the clumsy clowns in the rainbow circus.

My Space Infographic Sticker Activities is an interactive journey through our Solar System. This book includes more htan 200 stickers and is printed on high-quality paper that’s perfect to colour in with felt-tips or crayons, It’s ideal for space lovers, long journeys, rainy days and a great gift for curious children.

Blast off with astronauts from planet Earth into space to learn the facts and figures about how far you can jump on the Moon, how long it would take to drive to the Sun, and build an astronauts space suit out of stickers.

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

Can you move a mug using a balloon? Make a square bubble? Can you turn soap into salt? How much water is in a plant?

This book includes 40 simple science activities using everyday items to do experiments about temperature, pressure, water, air, heat, plants and many more. Using everyday items such as balloons, bubbles, plants, potatoes and popcorn, each fun and easy activity includes how-to photos, step-by-step instructions and simple explanations of the science behind the experiments. Supply and tool lists and safety information are included, and tips and extra information are provided to extend and expand the scientific experience.

Get kids thinking like scientists in no time at all!

Queen Elizabeth II, Her Story recounts the story of Queen Elizabeth’s life, from when she was a young princess, to her coronation in 1953 through to becoming the longest reigning British monarch in 2015 and celebrating her 90th birthday in 2016. From the first official photograph of her as a baby to her life as a working monarch, this book charts the key events of her life and reign.

This book gives a real account of her private life, from a happy childhood with her sister Princess Margaret, to her marriage to Prince Philip and life as a mother and great-grandmother to George and Charlotte. Her public life is conveyed from the abdication of her uncle, King Edward VIII, to her accession as Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and her duties as monarch.

This lovely picturebook story tells the story of two children who find out about sound.

Ideal for home or classroom, this book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions of ways to explore scientific topics

Illustrated by the ever-popular and award-winning illustrator Mike Gordon.

This book is part of a series of stories about feelings and emotions for children aged between 4 and 8. Other titles are: What are plants? What is light and sound? What is electricity? What are materials?