This Is Paris
£9.95Sasek’s beloved 1950s children’s book exploring the city of Paris is now updated for the twenty-first century and available in a smaller format.
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This Is London
£9.95Sasek’s beloved 1950s children’s book exploring the city of London is now updated for the twenty-first century and available in a smaller format.
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Once Upon an Island
£16.99Award-winning historian Alice Albinia takes readers on a journey across oceans and centuries, uncovering the secrets of 20 fascinating islands – each vividly brought to life through first-hand stories and illustrated maps.
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Big Brilliant World
£12.99This bright and busy book tours 12 cities around the world: London, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Seoul, Istanbul, Mexico City, Budapest, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona and Rome. The detailed illustrations will take you right to the heart of some of the world’s most exciting and magical cities. Learn how to say new words and phrases in different languages, whilst also meeting characters, discovering new foods and spotting historical landmarks along the way. With fun characters and surprises to spot throughout, this book provides hours of fun for little ones, and is an ideal first introduction to foreign languages.
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Our World: England
£7.99Hello! Come along for a day in England. Eat a full English breakfast, watch the horses grazing from the train, and picnic and play cricket in the heath. Now with extended endnotes!
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Great Escapes
£18.99Discover the most daring escapes of all time! From slaves fleeing captivity to wartime heroes and heroines being smuggled across occupied Europe, from dangerous criminals tricking their way out of jail to ordinary people who got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Over thirty tales of adventure, inspiration and derring do. As well as famous stories like the Great Escape and Harriet Tubman’s epic 500-mile trek to freedom, this fascinating book includes lesser-known escapes like Yoshie Shiratori, a Japanese fisherman who escaped jail four times, Nadia Murad, who was inspired by her escape to win the Nobel Peace Prize and Henry ‘Box’ Brown, a slave who posted himself to freedom in a wooden crate.
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The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World
£16.99“Here is a STEM-oriented exploration of the world’s most interesting technologies, inventions, and scientific discoveries. Drawing from Atlas obscura’s deep catalog of tech-related entries, this book will bring readers to fascinating locations all around the world and move them through the progressions and scientific ideas that forge innovation”–. Provided by publisher.
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On the Streets of Paris
£14.99Blending lyrical poetry with non-fiction, this illustrated book celebrates the city of Paris. Readers will be introduced to iconic landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower and Montmartre, as well as hidden corners of the city, including a charming Parisian café and a magical night along the River Seine. This collection includes 18 poems, and each text is paired with a beautifully immersive watercolour scene.
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Dig!
£14.99Dig! is an archaeological excavation into the exciting secrets of the ancient past, and the cutting-edge methods scientists use every day to uncover them.
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First Day Around the World
£12.99How do children around the world spend their first day of school? Some eat warm akara for breakfast in Nigeria, while others unwrap lunches of kluski in Poland. In China, they practice intricate characters in special notebooks, and in Argentina, they learn each other’s names in a sing-song memory game. No matter where in the world, every student has something new to look forward to on their first day! From Ethiopia to Germany to India to Brazil, this lyrical text introduces young readers to the breakfast-to-bedtime routines, cultures, and landscapes that connect people across all continents.
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My Sweet Orange Tree
£9.99Meet Zezé – Brazil’s naughtiest, and most loveable boy, his appetite for mischief matched only by his capacity for kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with a bow-tie’ but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the other residents of his family’s impoverished Rio de Janeiro shanty town and conjuring a varied cast of friends into being with his imagination. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change.