Interest age: from c 8 years

Discover everything you need to know about biodiversity and explore maps of the world's most biodiverse places. Find out about evolution, ecosystems and extinction; crucial coral reefs; and the amazing Amazon. Learn how biodiversity helps to protect us and the planet, and what we can do to protec...

Discover some of the rarest and most threatened birds on Earth, from the flightless kakapo to the soaring waved albatross. Find out where they are found, what they eat, their life cycle and the reasons why their survival is at risk. Most importantly, learn how conservations efforts are aiming to ...

Part of the 'Horrible Histories' series, this book presents some foul food facts about rotten rationing, awful evacuation tales and the terrible truth about London's bloodthirsty blackout murderer.

'Blood, Bones and Body Bits' reveals the secrets of strange scientists, shows how to diagnose deadly diseases, explains what happens when a boil bursts, and other horrible aspects of the body.

For anyone fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and irksome estimates, this book introduces the flowers that smell of rotting flesh, the highest trees in the world, explorers who disappeared in the jungle and enormous spiders.

Discover all there is to love about our Blue Planet, the stories of its inhabitants, and realise how you can help to protect this wilderness beneath the waves. In collaboration with 'BBC Earth', this illustrated non-fiction book captures the wonder, beauty, and emotion of the iconic Blue Planet I...

Discover all there is to love about our Blue Planet, the stories of its inhabitants, and realise how you can help protect this wilderness beneath the waves. In collaboration with BBC Earth, this illustrated non-fiction book will capture the wonder, beauty, and emotion of the iconic BBC Blue Plane...

Did you know that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second? Or that the US once had 144 different time zones? Or that across your lifetime, you'll spend about 33 years in bed? Discover more questions, answers, and theories in this bumper book all about the past, present, future, a...

'The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die' describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adve...

It's never been easier to access the news; TV, radio, billboards, newspapers and endlessly buzzing on to the screens in our pockets. But with more and more news available, it's hard to know what to trust. Where do stories come from? What's real news and what's fake? And what role does social medi...