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This info-packed fact book is bursting with over 250 mind-blowing facts and fun illustrations. Did you know ... Sometimes it's light from the moon, not the Sun, that creates a rainbow. When this happens, it's called a moonbow. Many prehistoric mammals were ancestors of familiar animals today - Me...

Graphic Novel. There's no questioning it, Peter Parker has never had it easy, but when the Parker luck is in full effect, you know it means epic Spider-Man adventures! A new era of villains keeps the bad luck streak alive when Col. John Jameson's is marked by the werewolf's curse becoming the Man...

Become inspired by this First World War story of bravery, courage and an unlikely friendship. On 6th May 1915, Henry Friston, a 21-year-old seaman, rejoined his battleship after ten days in Hell. Hell was just 180 metres long and 7 metres wide and was otherwise known only as 'X Beach', Gallipoli...

Love stories. Suspense. Suspense fiction. Paradise Alden's childhood in Nova Cambridge, Alabama, was idyllic until the night her parents were murdered. Since then, life has left her scarred. The abuse she suffered in the foster care system, her first love's betrayal, and the jaguar attack that ne...

Beginner Reader. Learn to read with young Amelia Bedelia! Amelia Bedelia has been loved by readers for more than fifty years, and it turns out that her childhood is full of silly mix-ups, too! When Amelia Bedelia's mother is having a 'gray day,' Amelia Bedelia knows just what to do to make it bri...

Graphic Novel. A comic-form mystery series for emerging readers starring sparky mouse aviator, Amelia Cheeseheart and her best friend Webster, a banana-loving spider; they investigates mysterious goings-on in their home at the museum - things are going missing, and are found in the Ancient Egypti...

Picture book. When Amelia Minnie and her friends discover fairies in the back garden, they know a magical time awaits. Amelia Minnie and the Secret Fairies is a delightful children's story that follows Amelia Minnie on a magical adventure. One sunny morning, she discovers real fairies hiding in h...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called "burned-over district" of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith's would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion ...

Little people love to explore little worlds! Explore the hidden spaces and sounds across the sand dunes.

Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. Music promoter Billy Lime is in trouble. The tour of rock legends, The Pagan Virtue, is the biggest in music history if Billy can keep the warring musicians off the drugs, out of the bars and on the stage. But when lead singer Jet ...

Ever wonder what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? When Zombie and his friends go on an excursion to an archaeological site, they uncover pieces of the Good Luck Amulet of Ancient Minecraftia. They hand them in to the museum ... except, Zombie sneakily keeps a piece for himself. And that's whe...

Attracted by the image quality, the tactile joy of a finely made camera, and the affordable prices of vintage equipment, photographers around the world are rediscovering the joys of manual photography. This comprehensive guide to shooting film photography covers all the bases, from setting up a c...

Reader. Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading abilit...

If human evolutionary history were compressed into a single calendar year with our earliest ancestor arriving on January 1, our transition from hunter-gatherers wouldn't occur until the end of December. We were hunter-gatherers for well over 90 percent of our collective history. The key to unders...

An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than The Book of the Dead, this popular book in Thames & Hudson's successful Time Travel series t...

Explores ancient India (c. 200 BCE-600 CE) through three of its major religions -Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism - to illuminate how they reflect political power, artistic innovation and changes in peoples' daily lives. Ancient India was a dynamic, cosmopolitan centre of creativity. The visual tra...

A groundbreaking reassessment of existing research and new data on traditional botanical medicine. Traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of people around the globe. These systems vary greatly in their underlying beliefs, but all commonly rely on the consumption of plant matter ...

Isaac has a keen eye for the resilient fragility of individual lives and cultures in the face of the homogenising sweep of the nation state and the dynamic of empires, whether in the West or the East. The book includes some of the most detailed writing on the condition of Assyrians, whose destiny...

This is a picture book of Kitty O'Meara's globally viral prose poem about the coronavirus pandemic, which has a hopeful and timeless message.

Graphic N. Chapter Book. Animal Stories. Adventure fiction. PRC 2018 : Reception-Year Two Books. Anders isn't a super hero: he's an average little kid with a big imagination who likes low tech fun, is sometimes afraid of things and is often klutzy and a bit difficult. He is not the fastest, the b...

Graphic Novel. PRC 2018 : Reception-Year Two Books. VIC Author. Anders, Bernie, Eden and Anders' pet beetle, Skip, are off to Camp Canvas at Mount Tremble for the holidays...They make new friends, which is lucky, as they'll need each other when Mount Tremble - the extinct volcano - starts to rumb...

Animal Stories. Step up to the barre with Angelina Ballerina as she tackles new challenges in this paperback bind-up of four chapter books full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and with sparkly foil on the cover. Angelina Ballerina welcomes her little sister and other new students to sc...

Adventure fiction. Graphic Novel. A grumpy grizzly bear attacks a young hunter. A huge hippopotamus strikes an unsuspecting tourist. A ferocious great white shark chomps into an experienced surfer. These shocking, true animal attacks could have ended in tragedy... but they didn't! What happened t...

BOARD BOOK. Guaranteed to enrich a toddler's vocabulary, this simple and fun series of bilingual board books is ideal for helping children discover a foreign language. Highlighting more complex concepts that go beyond Colors and Numbers, titles in the series feature Animals, Fruit, Home, Jobs, Sp...

"The year is 1912, and the famed ocean liner Titanic has just hit an iceberg. Twelve-year-old Annie has left her home in Ireland to begin a new life in America with her widowed mother. The peaceful journey across the sea comes to an end when Annie discovers the ship is sinking. As she scurries to...

Every ten years in Wil's home town of Lennon, California, one person is brought back to life for thirty days. Wil brings back her ex-best friend Annie LeBlanc. Wil's ecstatic - who cares that Annie stopped speaking to her before she died? Discovering a loophole that means Annie can stay alive, Wi...

Picture book. BOARD BOOK. Join The Wiggles and their friends for some wiggly fun in these fantastic shaped board books. These exciting new board books feature the two new additions to the Wiggles team.

Practical tips and recipes for avoiding chronic inflammation and maintaining your long-term health Anti-Inflammatory Diet For Dummies equips you with the latest information on how to avoid chronic inflammation and reduce your risk of associated health conditions. Inflammation is linked to arthrit...

When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunters Agency, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole, are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea in J...

An ant sat at a tin. It sat in the tin. What will the ant do?