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It is 1577 and Francis Drake, the Queen of England's favourite adventurer, has been ordered to command a new expedition leaving from Plymouth. Drak...

Many dangerous diseases are carried by bacteria - tiny organisms that can get into the body and multiply inside it. Antibiotics are medicines that ...

Though most of them are too small to be seen with the naked eye, bacteria are everywhere. They appeared on Earth more than 3 billion years before t...

Imagine a world without books. You would have no information about the world outside, except what you could learn from travellers. You would know n...

We could not live without water. Almost two-thirds of our body weight is water. We rely on it to keep ourselves clean, to keep our bodies nourished...

We depend on electricity in almost everything that we do. It gives us heat, light, transportation and entertainment. Electricity has always existed...

It's a nuisance when it rains on a picnic. It's a tragedy when a tornado destroys a neighbourhood. But our planet would be a very different place i...

Nasty stinging creatures that destroy crops and spread disease - if that's your opinion of insects, read this fascinating book to discover the othe...

We rely on our mobile phones all the time, whether it's to keep in touch with friends, to play games, or to access the Internet. As phones become s...

For thousands of years, nurses have tended to the sick and the wounded. Although they don't get the glory, nurses are just as important as doctors....

Sleep is very mysterious. No one really knows why we do it. And how do we explain all those strange dreams? What scientists do know is that sleepin...

Describes the disadvantages to being one of the many builders during the construction of a Medieval cathedral, including masons and quarrymen, and ...

Profiles the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and why you wouldn't have wanted to work on it!

Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stage 1/2, a title in the YOU'D NEVER BELIEVE IT BUT... series which looks at the nature of lightning. Include...

Text and illustrations presents facts about the five senses, including information about how plants and animals sense their surroundings. Includes ...

?By the light of the moon, each budding creature came to see that they?re not like one another, and that was meant to be. All have a purpose, and t...

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When little Titch outgrows his clothes, he receives hand-me-downs from his brother and sister that are too big. "You'll soon grow into them," they ...

When little Titch outgrows his clothes, he receives hand-me-downs from his brother and sister that are too big. "You'll soon grow into them," they ...

The beginning of a weird, wacky, one in a million series about the plight of the truly nasty Mr Gum and a crazy cast of characters?a cross between ...

The beginning of a weird, wacky, one in a million series about the plight of the truly nasty Mr Gum and a crazy cast of characters—a cross between ...

A fun picture book with simple text, for ages five and under, to help prepare for the arrival of a new brother or sister.

What happens when a cheeky, little monkey plays lots of tricks on all of his friends?

Daley B's lifeis full of questions : what is he ? Where should he live? What should he eat ? But the question he finds most perplexing of all is wa...