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"The timeless novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth, is retold in this title in a graphic novel format. The graphic novel format helps readers und...
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A Very Peculiar History : with Added Blue Blood
A street-by-street tour of an ancient Greek town, showing major buildings and typical features, and describing the life of the town. With colour illus...
You are the son of a senior servant living in England in the 1400s. Instead of following in your father's footsteps and becoming a servant, you'd much...
Get ready... as a young man living in the Roman Empire, youโve heard many stories about far-away lands and people. It sounds exciting but youโre a...
Describes different species of big cats, how they look, and how they behave....
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, a...
Discusses the design and construction of the seven ancient Wonders of the World and compares them to impressive modern structures....
Jacqueline Morley explores the story of clothing in a time of crisis. Telling the story of clothes rationing, the Utility Scheme and 'Make-do and Mend...
Take an incredible tour through an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Step inside an ancient Egyptian building site where one of mankind's most spectacular cre...
Each title in this series takes a particular aspect of the world in which we live and explores it in great depth. They text is lively and the stunning...
Nasty stinging creatures that destroy crops and spread disease โ if that's your opinion of insects, read this fascinating book to discover the other...
You are a young man from a noble family in Mexico. Little do you suspect that you are about to fall victim to one of the most powerful South American ...
A Hazardous Job You'd Rather Not Have
Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh....
Imagine a world without books. You would have no information about the world outside, except what you could learn from travellers. You would know noth...
As a young servant to Catholic conspirator and would-be assassin Guy Fawkes, you'll witness the secretive planning and thwarted execution of the infam...
Recounts, in graphic novel format, the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus, who helped defeat the Trojans and who, after encountering the Sirens, th...
A LARGEFORMAT version of a title in the LIFECYCLES series which examines each stage in the growth of an egg into a chicken, with full colour illustrat...
What do killer whales eat? How do they live? Do they deserve their scary name? Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more....
Screen, Stage & Stars
Traces the history of such forms of entertainment as drama, dance, opera, and film....
A Very Peculiar History
In Cricket, A Very Peculiar History Jim Pipe uniquely explores one of this nation's greatest and the second biggest spectator sport on the planet. Fro...
After the Trojan War, Odysseus wants to sail right home to the island of Ithaca and his wife, Penelope. But the gods are angry with our hero. His flee...
What would life be like if you had to do without modern inventions? Howwould you cope without a toilet or live without electricity? Starting fromthese...
The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you...
Fliers and Flying Machines
Traces the evolution of the airplane from man's first flying machine to today's supersonic jets....
Explores the religion of the Norsemen, focusing on how particular gods and goddesses were part of, and honored in, the everyday lives of the Viking pe...
Find out the answers to many questions about the predators of the tropical rain forest....
For Work, Play & Display
This series presents a survey of popular topics from their earliest beginnings to the present day. They explain the development of the subject in rela...
Disgusting Things You'd Rather Not Know
This book presents a light-hearted approach to the process of mummification in ancient Egypt...
This series traces the growth process of a particular plant or animal, using simple, clear texts and detailed, full-color artwork....
The Olympic games, history....
This book offers children the thrill of examining a past civilization through the eyes of an archaeologist. Gorgeous, full-color panoramas of ancient ...
Traces the development of clothing from prehistoric times to future possibilities, describing adaptations brought about by social, political, and tech...
Citizens & Civilisations
This lavishly illustrated series explores from top-to-bottom the physical world around the reader, who will already know something of the topics descr...
Yorkshire is well known for its miners, pudding and cricket, but Yorkshire: A Very Peculiar History scrapes beyond the surface and past the cliches. F...
Nowadays, going to the dentist is a safe and usually painless experience. But that wasn't always the case. In past centuries, the only cure for a deca...
A Mission You'd Rather Not Go On
Describes what it was like to be an astronaut on the "unlucky" 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon....