History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage)

  • Incredible golf

    £6.99

    Whether you’re a diehard fan or new to the sport, prepare to be amazed by this fun-filled book of stories, facts and stats from the world of golf.

  • Why the world isn’t fair

    £25.00

    Something really strange happened 10,000 years ago, and it changed everything. Why did millions of people agree to obey a few leaders? Where did kings and kingdoms come from? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story. Have you ever wondered how we got here? From gathering berries and hunting mammoths, to shopping at supermarkets and letting people tell us what to do? You might hear a lot of people say ‘the world isn’t fair’. But why isn’t it? And how did it become so? In volume one, we learned how humans told stories to become rulers of the world – for good and bad. Now, in this next chapter, find out how we learned to control animals like dogs, chicken and cows. And how a handful of humans learned to control everyone else.

  • How humans took over the world

    £12.99

    We humans aren’t strong like lions, we don’t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don’t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story.

  • The prisoner of Bhopal

    £7.99

    Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where he lives. Instead, on his tenth birthday, he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son, Jalesh, in their dilapidated printing factory. There, hidden in a trunk, he finds a secret First World War journal. As its pages come to life, they reveal not only why Amil is there, but that he and the journal’s author – his great-grandfather, Sanjiv – share a magical gift: they can read the wind. Its purpose remains a mystery until, one terrible night, the pesticide plant leaks poison gas into the air above Bhopal.

  • Little People, BIG DREAMS Amazing Women Memory Game

    £14.99

    A Little People BIG DREAMS memory game featuring 20 amazing women from across history – learn about inspirational role models as you play!
     

  • Little People, BIG DREAMS Who Am I? Guessing Game

    £17.99

    Who Am I?, from the bestselling Little People, Big Dreams series, is a guessing game with a difference! Play by guessing some of history’s favorite characters!

  • National Geographic Readers Animal All-Stars Collection

    £6.99

    Spark your child’s love of reading and help them build key skills with this five-book collection of Level 1 readers featuring kid-favorite animals!Hop along as a tadpole transforms into a frog. Play in the ocean waves with a family of sea otters. Climb trees with koalas, snuggle up for a nap with a red panda, and join snack time with a hedgehog. Kids will love exploring the worlds of these beloved animals in these engaging books written especially for new readers.Packed with fun facts, dazzling photography, and a hands-on activity to reinforce the content of the book, each of the five titles in this bind-up will help beginning readers develop ease and confidence in their reading as they discover where these animals live, what they eat, and the fascinating traits that make them unique!

  • The fossil hunter

    £8.99

    Have you ever found something mysterious? Something you had no idea what it was but you had this feeling it was important, that it held a secret? Mary Anning was a fossil hunter, scouring the cliffs and seashores of Lyme Regis for strange rocks and shells. Monstrous marine reptiles and dinosaurs had once reigned the land and seas here millions of years ago, disappearing only to leave mysterious traces for humans to puzzle over. Mary’s fossils paved the way for modern palaeontology and helped to piece together a picture of how the dinosaurs lived and evolved. Little did she know that 200 years later we would still be talking about her amazing discoveries and how she influenced our understanding of the history of the Earth.

  • Sally Ride

    £9.99

    This magical biography charts the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space. It’s the perfect gift for young dreamers. 

  • Roman soldiers

    £12.99

    What was a Roman legion? How exactly did soldiers train for battle? And why did they have to ‘march like a tortoise’? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this complete guide to life in the Roman army. Filled with fascinating facts and grisly detail, you’ll uncover what life was like in the army camp, how soldiers planned a siege and even why they catapulted creepy-crawlies at the enemy.

  • An elephant in the garden

    £7.99

    An epic story of determination and love, about one family’s escape from the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War

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