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Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder
Alom Shaha
Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: Adventures in Science round the kitchen table will help families appreciate the wonders of science together. This is not a book just for children, it's a book for the grown-ups too who want to enthuse and... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 08/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

Bug Hotel
Libby Walden
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month March 2018 Take a new look at some of the most common insects and mini-beasts around us in this fun to use information book about the habitats of beetles, bees, spiders, butterflies and more.... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Novelty book | Released 08/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

Bird House
Libby Walden
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month March 2018 This chunky book imitates a bird house in shape and makes a great format for an attractive lift- the- flap information book about the different habitats of birds. These include duck houses... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Novelty book | Released 08/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

Many Moons
Remi Courgeon
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month March 2017 Beautifully produced to make the most of its clever design, this is a book whose charm lies in its visual simplicity which leaves space for readers to dream their own dreams... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 09/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Life on Earth: Farm
Heather Alexander
March 2017 Book of the Month Unless they are regular visitors to the countryside it can be hard for children to connect the milk in the two litre cartons on the supermarket shelves or in their fridge with a cow... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 02/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Big Picture Thesaurus
Rosie Hore
February 2017 Fascinating Facts Book of the Month Children will find this book useful, effective and helpful, as well as fun, entertaining and stimulating. Busy, colourful spreads themed by subject or setting are full of little scenes, each one accompanied... Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

It Starts with a Seed
Laura Knowles
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award The life cycle of a tree is beautifully described in this outstanding book. A narrative poem alongside exquisite illustrations describes all the different stages, from the moment a sycamore seed falls onto the... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 21/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

100 Most Feared Creatures
Anna Claybourne
August 2016 Book of the Month This book is definitely not for those of a nervous disposition! It features hundreds of different creatures from big cats and bears to the tiniest creatures. They all have one thing in common: they... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 21/07/2016 Info Extract Buy

What If a... Could a Monkey Waterski?
Camilla de la Bedoyere
Discover some amazing and unusual facts about monkeys in this imaginative book full of humorous scenarios that children can relate to. Using everyday activities as a comparison, children find out more about the lives of monkeys in the wild. Highly... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 22/02/2016 Info Extract Buy

Plastic Pollution on Land and in the Oceans Let's Investigate
Ruth Owen
Plastic pollution is one of the most damaging environmental issues that we face today. And no one is more passionate about solving this problem and protecting our world than kids! This new tile in the best selling Fundamental Science series... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

Lots The Diversity of Life on Earth
Nicola Davies
February 2018 Book of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month February 2018 | A stunning book that is also an invaluable introduction to how to look at the world around us. Nicola Davies invites readers to look at... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

Peep Inside The Sea
Anna Milbourne
There's so much for very young children to discover when they peep inside the sea in the pages of this excellent board book. Each page features a different ocean scene, from the seashore to the darkest depths. Lifting the sturdy... Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 22/01/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago
Mike Jolley, A. J. Wood
For an information book, Lands of Long Ago takes a highly unusual approach, filling its pages with errors. Young readers are challenged to find 20 deliberate mistakes on each page; some of them are pretty obvious – a cement mixer... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Above and Below
Patricia Hegarty
Children are invited to explore eight different habitats in this appealing and very attractive information book, clever split page design allows them to examine the creatures that live there both above and below ground or sea and it also deftly... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Where in the Wild
Poppy Bishop
Each page in this beautifully illustrated and important book takes readers into a different habitat, from across the globe. A page of lyrical text describes each setting while another verse gives an animal itself a voice to speak about its... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 09/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

How Much Does a Ladybird Weigh?
Alison Limentani
Alison Limentani's extraordinary picture book introduces children to a fascinating world of wildlife, weight, numbers, and comparisons in the most original way. Find out how much a ladybird weighs and did you know that five starlings weigh the same as... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 07/07/2016 Info Extract Buy

On a Scale of 1 to 10
Ceylan Scott
A uniquely powerful, devastating novel of friendship, fragility and guilt. Featured in: YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

Once Upon a Raindrop The Story of Water
James Carter
Via simple but elegant illustrations, and a gentle sometimes playful rhyming text, this picture book passes on all sorts of information about water and its importance, while never losing the sense of the beauty of this essential element. Words and... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Skies Above My Eyes
Eve Edwards
This is a perfect book for anyone who likes gazing up into the skies above our head and wondering … A foldout, concertina poster format allows readers to soar billions of kilometres above earth and explore our solar system; floating... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 16/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Long Ago
Katie Daynes
Facts and flaps are an irresistible combination in this illuminating information book. Divided into sections Where, Who, Why, What, How, When and Which, it answers key or quirky questions from history, from ‘where did pirates bury their treasure?' (answer: they... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 08/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

What are Stars?
Katie Daynes
What are Stars? is an excellent book for children who love to ask questions. Over a series of six attractive and inviting double pages, featuring little children just like its readers, and with the help of numerous flaps, it explains... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 28/12/2017 Info Extract Buy

Dinosaurs : and Other Prehistoric Creatures
Matt Sewell
Opinions on what dinosaurs looked like have changed a lot recently, and instead of imagining them as big lizards with muddy-brown or green scales, palaeontologists now think that they may have been brightly coloured, and that lots of them had... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Bugs
Simon Tyler
This handsome, large format information book provides a fascinating introduction to the world of bugs (meaning the entire class of insects). Readers will gain a good understanding of insects in part one, from what they are to how they live;... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 07/09/2017 Info Extract Buy

Children's Discovery Atlas
Anita Ganeri
Bright, attractive and cleverly designed, this first atlas invites children to travel the world in a book, introducing them to the seven continents and their natural features as well as to the people living there. Using a mix of photos... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 25/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Big Picture Book of General Knowledge
James Maclaine
Packed with interesting and useful information on a range of important subjects areas, from geography (a section called Around the World), to music, natural history, space and architecture, and filled with bright, appealing illustrations, this book will keep curious youngsters... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Superhero Handbook
James Doyle
There's no excuse for anyone who, having read this book from cover to cover and followed its instructions carefully, does not emerge a superhero. Contained within its pages is a complete superhero training course. Not only do you learn how... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 22/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Book of Me
Adam Frost
This is a scrapbook with a difference. Yes, readers are asked to record the usual information about themselves, from their height to what kind of house they live in to their dream holiday, but it also tests how ambidextrous they... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

Look Inside How Computers Work
Alex Frith
With flaps to lift on every page and friendly little robots providing the explanations and information, this book will help anyone understand how computers work. It shows readers how much a part of our everyday life computers are, and takes... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 01/07/2016 Info Extract Buy

Hidden World Forest
Libby Walden
With large flaps on every page, short accompanying explanatory sentences and attractive illustrations, this is a great book to introduce children to nature and the natural world. Focussing on the forest and its animal and plant life, the book is... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Novelty book | Released 13/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Barefoot Book of Children
Tessa Strickland, Kate DePalma
Innovative and inclusive, The Barefoot Book of Children empowers young readers to learn about the different lives of children around the globe. Whilst being gently encouraged to ponder their own place in the world - the sights and sounds, the place... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Animal Journeys
Patricia Hegarty
Starting with the Arctic tern, which makes the longest migration of any creature, an astonishing 91,600km (57,000 mi) this journal-sized book is full of information on extraordinary feats of the animal world. It describes more amazing migrations, via land, sea... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 09/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

A Walk on the Wild Side
Louis Thomas
This animal guide book takes an unusual approach: it is presented in the form of a scrapbook completed by the author Louis Thomas as he travelled the world studying wildlife, and he and his friend Joe appear on lots of... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 08/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Amazing Dinosaur Detectives
Maggie Li
One of our Books of the Year 2016 | May 2016 Book of the Month Attractive, friendly illustrations and an interactive approach make this a fun introduction to dinosaurs. In the company of a group of ‘dinosaur detectives' readers can... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 14/04/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Awesome Book of Space
Adam Frost
Find out hilarious, intriguing and ridiculous facts with this awesome book! Are you ready for another EPIC book from the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 (Best Book with Facts)? Ready, set, BLAST OFF! Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Moon
Hannah Pang
September 2018 Non-Fiction Book of the Month | This sumptuous book, packed with gorgeous full and double-page illustrations by Thomas Hegbrook, will appeal to a very broad audience. Its subject – of course – is the Moon, our nearest and... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

People of Peace Meet 40 amazing activists
Sandrine Mirza
Dreamers... Leaders... And fighters for our rights. The top 40 people of peace are here! From Martin Luther King's dream to Gandhi's protest to Nelson Mandela's struggle, discover how each of these people dedicated their lives to making the world... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 24/04/2018 Info Extract Buy

Three Cheers for Women!
Marcia Williams
Three Cheers for Women is a hugely inspirational book for children. It is full of facts, quotes and jokes brought together in a really fun way to ensure you remember them. You may even feel having read about some of these... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Chef Academy
Steve Martin
Children fascinated by TV cookery programmes will learn just what's involved in being a chef from this book, as well as lots about nutrition, hygiene and even kitchen equipment. The introduction explains that being a chef is not just about... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Tyrannosaurus Rex Prehistoric Beasts Uncovered - King of the Dinosaurs
Dougal Dixon
June 2018 Non-Fiction Book of the Month | Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating for children and this new book, one of a series, uses the latest research and scientific discoveries to bring young readers right up to date on the tyrant... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/04/2018 Info Extract Buy

Plantopedia
Adrienne Barman
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month May 2018 | A stunning and original book and a useful one too. Subtitled ‘A Celebration of Nature's Greatest Show-offs' in glorious pictures it introduces over 600 different plants grouped together under all kinds... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 03/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Colours of History
Clive Gifford
A fascinating information book, The Colours of History takes readers to different places at different times to show how humans have used colour in art, politics and trade. They'll learn how indigo, made from plants that grow in Asia, began... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 19/04/2018 Info Extract Buy

Migration
Mike Unwin
Imagine: you're flying high over the Himalayan mountains, on a journey filled with danger. The temperature is far below freezing, the air is thin, and golden eagles swoop out of the sky to attack you. This is just one of... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 24/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

How Does a Lighthouse Work?
Roman Belyaev
Join a group of school children on this voyage of discovery and discover the answers to lots of questions as well as fascinating facts about lighthouses and how they work. How Does a Lighthouse Work? provides a fascinating journey through the science and history of... Featured in: 9+ readers | 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

50 Ways to Feel Happy
Vanessa King, Val Payne & Peter Harper
We all want our children to be happy and resilient, but may not realise that they can be taught skills to make them happier people. Written by a psychologist with the charity Action for Happiness, this book explains ten keys... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 15/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

Bubbles & Balloons 35 Amazing Science Experiments
Susan Akass
Who doesn't like playing with balloons and bubbles? Now you can have all the fun and learn about science at the same time. There are 35 different activities in... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 19/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Story of Life
Catherine Barr, Steve Williams
Shortlisted for the English Picture Book Award 2016 This is an exciting and dramatic story simply told in words and pictures about how life began and developed on Planet Earth, written especially for younger children. How the first living cell... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

Politics for Beginners
Kellan Stover
This book certainly gets my vote! Any young people who think politics is boring or nothing to do with them will likely have their minds changed by this excellent book. Over bright pages, liberally illustrated with attractive and informative cartoons,... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 08/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
Kate Pankhurst
It's impossible not to be inspired by this picture book and the great women featured in it: their stories are told across bright spreads, which are enticing to... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 08/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Big Bird Spot
Matt Sewell
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month May 2017 Described as ‘the Bansky of the bird world', Matt Sewell has created a fabulous hide-and-seek guide designed to inspire children to start bird watching both on the page and outside. Jungle,... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 11/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Ella Queen of Jazz
Helen Hancocks
Stylishly illustrated this is a piece of non-fiction, the inspiring story of a special friendship, and a bit of a mystery story too. It introduces young readers to Ella Fitzgerald and describes the beginning of her career when she and... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Story of Space
Catherine Barr, Steve Williams
The story of space is told with all the drama and excitement it merits but clearly and simply for the youngest readers. Over forty colourful pages readers travel through billions of years of history from moments before the Big... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

100 Steps for Science Why it Works and How it Happened
Lisa Jane Gillespie
Covering ten important general areas of scientific study including space, wheels, light, medicine, energy and life, this handsome information book shows how ideas have developed over the centuries, new discoveries adding to what has gone before to lead us to... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Earth Book
Jonathan Litton
April 2017 Fascinating Facts Book of the Month This beautiful information book explores all aspects of our planet, this ‘tiny sphere that orbits an ordinary, middle-aged star in a quiet backwater of the Milky Way'. It examines the inner workings... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

101 Brilliant Things for Kids to Do with Science
Dawn Isaac
Doing exactly what it says on the tin, this book is indeed packed with things for kids to do with science and the great news is that all 101 of them are fun and generally easy to do, and that... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Life on Earth: Human Body
Heather Alexander
This is a typically informative and cleverly designed book from Wide Eyed Editions, one of our leading new publishers of non-fiction. Over 16 spreads, it asks 100 questions about the human body, from what are my bones made of, to... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Board book | Released 02/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Sports Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Skipworth
Ernest Hemingway might have said there are only three real sports – motor racing, bull-fighting and mountaineering – but even he might have been forced to reconsider had he been presented with The Sports Timeline Wallbook. This unique history book... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body
John Farndon
Take a tour round the inside of the human body in this unusual and quite excellent information book. It examines our component parts, from cells to blood, bones, liver, lungs and the brain, explaining how they function – and thereby... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

Animals Behaving Badly
Nicola Davies
In a lively, highly readable book Nicola Davies examines ways that man and animals interact, highlighting species whose intelligence and adaptability causes real problems for their human neighbours. Take the Kea for example: these super-smart birds cause no end of... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

100 Most: Unexplained Mysteries on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
Think 21st century humans have explained pretty much everything there is to explain? Think again! As this book demonstrates, there's still a huge amount of stuff we simply don't understand. It takes 100 mind-boggling puzzles – mysterious ancient monuments, haunted... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 19/01/2017 Info Extract Buy

Fun Science
Charlie McDonnell
YouTuber Charlie McDonnell is a science fan & brings his passion and flair to inspire young readers to love science. From space and the beginnings of the universe to how science is used at home & all around us, bright... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/10/2016 Info Extract Buy

Day of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
Visually alive, original and information rich, this handsome book will fascinate budding young palaeontologists. It speaks directly to the reader, placing them in the heart of the action, ‘As you travel through the Triassic landscape you notice it's dry and... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

88 and 1/2 Science Experiments
Nick Arnold
Doing exactly what it says on the tin, Nick Arnold's book presents children with 88 different scientific challenges spread across brightly coloured, busy pages and grouped according to nine different themes, including air experiments, energy and sound experiments, body experiments... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

100 Most Awesome Things on the Planet
Anna Claybourne
The world we live in is truly amazing, and across its continents, oceans and skies are all kinds of fabulous places and astounding sights. Almost 100 of them are described in the bright, information-filled pages of this book. Natural wonders... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 21/08/2016 Info Extract Buy

Cool Mythology
Malcolm Croft
Stories, gods, heroes and villains from the world's great mythologies are all featured in this compact and appealing information book. It is therefore filled with great stories, some familiar, others less so, but it also compares the different myths, examining... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 11/08/2016 Info Extract Buy

Eat Your Greens, Reds, Yellows and Purples

A guide to delicious and nutritious vegetarian food for kids. This book includes 25 vegetarian recipes for kids including soup, salad and stir-fry as well as treats such as a muffin, cheesecake and cupcake. It enables you to learn about... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/04/2016 Info Extract Buy

You Do the Maths: Launch a Rocket into Space
Hilary Koll, Steve Mills
One of four new titles which uses maths to help solve problems in a range of exciting activities and helps show how useful maths is in everyday life. There are answers at the back and a glossary explains clearly what... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 18/05/2015 Info Extract Buy

Ocean Emporium
Susie Brooks
Ocean Emporium is a fine example of the new wave of non-fiction books which are not just full of thoughtfully presented information but as beautiful to look at as the best picture books. Susie Brooks and Dawn Cooper take readers... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 28/06/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Nature Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Skipworth
The most innovative approach to non-fiction since Horrible Histories, the What On Earth Wallbooks present information in a way guaranteed to inspire children's curiosity and to stimulate real enthusiasm for learning. Each one contains a full-colour poster – 2 metres... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

Vicious Vikings
Terry Deary, Martin Brown
All the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings are ready to uncover, including including Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. These bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/02/2016 Info Extract Buy

Groovy Greeks
Terry Deary, Martin Brown
Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/02/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Wonder Garden
Jenny Broom
Winner of the English Association 4-11 Picture Book Awards 2016 - Non-Fiction 7-11 category | Longlisted for the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize, an important new illustration prize for children's books | One of our Books of the Year 2015 New from... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 03/09/2015 Info Extract Buy

Lesser Spotted Animals
Martin Brown
Winner of the UKLA 2018 Book Award 7-11 | In a nutshell: not your average animal book | This is no ordinary animal book, you won't find the usual suspects in its page, no tigers, pandas, bears here. Instead be... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

Cool Coding
Rob Hansen, Damien Weighill
A fun, accessible guide to computers and coding for older children and curious adults. This fun and quirky book provides a fascinating introduction to the world of computer coding, organized into handy bite-sized chunks. Packed with playful illustrations and inspiring... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 08/06/2017 Info Extract Buy

National Trust: The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, a Medieval Knight in Training
Philip Ardagh
In a nutshell: historical adventures full of facts and fun Not since Horrible Histories has the past been brought to life for young readers so accurately and with so much humour. Written in partnership with the National Trust in... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

The School of Music
Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen
This excellent book is an inspiring and all-encompassing guide to the world of music for young people. By inviting them to imagine they are attending a music course over an academic year the authors make it particularly involving for young... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

Books! Books! Books!
Mick Manning
April 2017 Book of the Month Who better to take young readers on a guided tour of the British Library than Mick Manning and Brita Granström? Words and pictures work perfectly together to give children a vivid sense of the... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

Coding for Beginners: Using Python
Louie Stowell
This extremely user-friendly and accessible guide book will teach children the basics of Python, enabling them to create their own games and simple animations. Now that computers and coding are compulsory school topics in the UK it will prove very... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Spiral bound | Released 01/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Street Beneath My Feet
Charlotte Gullain
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award Detailed, ingenious and graphically beautiful this information book opens, as the best do, with an invitation to young readers to stop and wonder as they're asked to think about what is going on... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 21/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Women in Science
Rachel Ignotofsky
March 2017 Non Fiction Book of the Month | In a nutshell: an inspiring introduction to 50 pioneering women scientists | Hopefully everyone has heard of Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin and Ada Lovelace, pioneers in science. But what about Grace... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 09/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Exploring Space
Martin Jenkins
How amazing that less than 100 years after the invention of the motor car, humans have built and launched vehicles that can leave the solar system. We've landed space probes on two planets, and visited Earth's own moon six times.... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 02/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

How Machines Work
David Macaulay
Winner of the £10,000 Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize 2016, which champions the best science books for under-14s. Macaulay, who was announced as the winner at a ceremony in Cardif, was selected by a panel of child judges... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2015 Info Extract Buy

Super Skills: How to Create Animation in 10 Easy Lessons
William Bishop-Stephens
September 2016 Fascinating Facts Book of the Month Anything you can imagine, you can animate says this stimulating book, and it explains clearly and simply the ten key skills readers need to become expert animators, starting with flipbook loops and... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 21/08/2016 Info Extract Buy

50 Things You Should Know About Space
Raman Prinja
The Universe is huge – it stretches further than we could ever imagine or explore, and contains everything in space, from super stars to galaxies to tiny pieces of dust. Packed with facts, diagrams, infographics and photos, this is the... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 24/06/2016 Info Extract Buy

Cool Astronomy 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages
Malcolm Croft
With Cool Astronomy, you'll discover everything you need to know about the universe, from asteroids to the zenith point ...and almost everything in between! Learn amazing space-related tricks such as how to watch a solar eclipse safely and mapping stars... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 07/08/2014 Info Extract Buy

The Usborne Official Astronaut's Handbook
Louie Stowell
One of our Books of the Year 2015 - This book, with a Foreword by Tim Peake who in December 2015 became the first British astronaut to go to the International Space station, should go to the top of any... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/01/2015 Info Extract Buy

A World of Cities
Lily Murray
In this large format picture book 30 famous cities around the globe are brought to life through beautiful illustrations and a vast miscellany of intiguing facts. Every spread is devoted to a city and within that spread are facts which will... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Magnificent Birds
Narisa Togo
It isn't often that a non-fiction picture book has been so admired here in the Lovereading office. The stunning, stylish lino-cut prints capture the beauty and the drama of a whole host ofwinged creatures but in the writing the reader... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 02/11/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Big History Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd
If you want to know what was happening on Earth any time in the last four billion years, then you couldn't do better than opening out the Big History Timeline Each one of the What On Earth Wallbooks contains a... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

A World of Information
Richard Platt
Longlisted for the 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize | December 2016 Fascintating Facts Book of the Month A visually stunning collection of facts and figures for all the family to enjoy. Do you know how many bones there are in the... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 03/11/2016 Info Extract Buy

Young, Gifted and Black
Jamia Wilson
In a Nutshell: Inspiring celebration of black trailblazers This inspiring, illuminating, stylishly accessible anthology invites young readers to discover and celebrate phenomenal forebears and contemporary catalysts, while encouraging them to blaze their own inimitable trails. Taking its name from... Featured in: 13+ readers | 11+ readers | YA readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

This is Not Another Maths Book
Anna Weltman
This book sets out to prove that maths has more in common with art than many might think, and that it can be truly beautiful; it achieves its aim. A series of clearly explained and attractively designed activities demonstrate how... Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

Coder Academy
Sean McManus
October 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month This well-designed, interactive workbook provides a really good introduction to coding for children. It breaks it down into fun, step by step exercises and each bright, visually attractive page sets children tasks to... Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 07/09/2017 Info Extract Buy

Cool Physics
Sarah Hutton
An amazing guide to the wonders of physics, handily broken down into accessible bite-sized chunks and particularly helpful for anyone new to or flummoxed by physics. Packed with quirky illustrations and fascinating factual titbits, this book is both an incredibly useful... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 03/08/2017 Info Extract Buy

The British History Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd
The British History Timeline showcases milestones in the extraordinary history of the British Isles from the age of the Dinosaurs 100 million years ago to the hosting of the London Olympics in 2015. In a two metre long poster –... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/04/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Science Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Skipworth
The story of human invention and engineering began at least 10,000 years ago in the stone age and has continued non-stop ever since with each discovery leading to new developments in our understanding. The Wallbook Timeline of Science and Engineering... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

This is Not a Science Book
Clive Gifford
There's a lot more to science than lab coats, test tubes and text books as this stimulating interactive activity book demonstrates. All you need is a pen or pencil to try out the more than 30 different projects contained within... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

Cool Kids Cook
Jenny Chandler
The hot (cool) new cook book for 7 - 14 year old children who love food and want to understand more about where it comes from and how to create amazing real meals. Empowering (and with no rice crispy cakes... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 12/05/2016 Info Extract Buy

Chronologica The Incredible Years That Defined History
Whitaker's Almanack
Written and compiled by the team behind Whitaker's Almanack, Chronologica provides a eye-opening tour through over 2500 years of world history, starting in 753BC with the founding of Rome, and finishing in 1989 with the Tiananmen Square riots, the fall... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 17/11/2016 Info Extract Buy

Destination: Space
Christoph Englert
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2017 - Best Books with Facts | September 2016 Fascinating Facts Book of the Month Astrophysicist and illustrator, both leaders in their field, here work together to give children a revealing and eye-opening... Featured in: 7+ readers | 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Teenage Guide to Friends
Nicola Morgan
In a Nutshell: Warm-hearted handbook for happy, healthy friendships With comforting clarity, this thorough guide provides vital insight into all aspects of friendship, and also offers support and solutions for navigating one's way through worries and difficulties. While there are... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook
Christopher Lloyd, Dr. Nick Walton, Patrick Skipworth
The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook will give readers (of all ages) special insight into all the 38 plays, as well as into the man and his time. A colourful 2 metre long wall chart illustrated with intriguing picture scenes lays out... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

Survivors
David Long
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2017 - Best Books with Facts In a nutshell: jaw-dropping true stories; survival against the odds | Proof that true stories can be every bit as remarkable as the most fantastic fiction, David... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 20/10/2016 Info Extract Buy