Children's / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past

  • Shevolution

    £14.99

    Everyone alive today can trace their ancestry back to just one woman.But what would her life have been like and what has happenedsince for her billions of descendants?In an all-encompassing tour through prehistory, history, and on tothe future, Shevolution spans 200,000 years, following the journeysof the female pioneers.

  • Rebel heart

    £7.99

    England, 1645. Merriweather Pryce is the daughter of a nobleman fightingfor King Charles I in a war that divides the country. Whenher family home is besieged by Cromwell’s army, Merri sets outto get help. But in a land filled with enemy soldiers, turncoatsand spies, who can she really trust?

  • British Museum: Around the World Colouring: Ancient Rome

    £6.99

    Explore the history of ancient Rome with 20 brilliantly busy scenes and patterns to colour – before sticking in fun stickers from the British Museum’s collection! Discover how the ancient Romans lived in this entertaining, and educational, sticker colouring book that explores what they wore, their favourite pets, what they did for fun, and more! Learn what life was like as a farmer in the countryside and experience the thrill of gladiators fighting at the Colosseum, as you colour in detailed scenes from the ancient Roman world. Each page is accompanied by stickers of fascinating objects from the British Museum collection, including beautiful mosaics, a Roman soldier’s helmet and even an ancient toilet. Around the World Colouring: Ancient Rome is the perfect first introduction to the incredible world of ancient Rome.

  • When fishes flew

    £7.99

    A sweeping story of love and rescue and an unforgettable journey back in time to the Second World War – from the master storyteller

  • Dragons love underpants

    £7.99

    From the creators of the bestselling Aliens Love Underpants comes a hilarious new story all about a pack of pant-loving dragons. 

  • Billy the Kid

    £10.99

    Billy has just been picked to play for Chelsea when WWII breaks out . . . Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo weaves a powerful tale of triumph and tragedy on the pitch and off it.

  • Rosa by starlight

    £12.99

    A magical novella from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles and The Skylarks’ War.

  • Wolf Road

    £7.99

    The epic new prehistoric children’s novel from bestselling author, academic and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts.

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