Children's / Teenage general interest: People & places

From routes to symbols, point of view and scale, join Anna and her dad as they explore the wonderful world of maps - with words by Vivian French, storyteller extraordinaire, and delightful pictures by rising star Ya-Ling Huang.

Marie Curie was the brilliant, trailblazing scientist who discovered radium and coined the term radioactivity. She is the only woman ever awarded two Nobel Prizes-one in physics and one in chemistry. She helped develop the use of X-rays and radiation therapies that have had a lasting impact on me...

A father takes his two children on a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure into space and invites them to look back at Earth and the conflicts that have taken place since the beginning of time. This becomes a brief history of the world and a whistle-stop guide to the universe, all rolled into one.

Join two best friends as history is made in 1585. When Nell and Kat - who work in rivalling courts - meet by chance, an unlikely friendship blossoms. But tensions are high and the rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots is at breaking point. Can Nell and Kat keep their friendship aliv...

My birthday's coming up so soon, I'll need new clothes to wear. But most of all, I need to know, how shall I style my hair? Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showca...

The year is 2507. The oceans have risen. A new dawn of piracy has begun. Jacoby Blunt and Jasmine Peacock are students at the elite Pirate Academy. This is no ordinary school! Lessons range from Knots Class and Sailing to Combat Workshop. The teachers are all pirate legends. The pressure is alway...

Old MacPumpkin had a farm. Eek! Ahh! Eek! Ahh! Ohhh! And on that farm she had - a cat, a bat, a spider, a skeleton, a witch, a ghost and a MONSTER! Old MacPumpkin is too busy taking care of the farm animals to notice, until - Knock! Knock! Who's that at the door?

With sturdy lift-the-flaps, peep-through holes and fun rhyming text, young children can search for their favourite farmyard animals in this book illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

In honour of the 95th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, highly talented author Jane Riordan has created a wonderful collection of stories, written in the style of A.A. Milne, that take us back to when it all began, when Winnie-the-Pooh was first purchased for baby Christopher Robin. These brand-new...

From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this bouncy joey to learn all about life in the outback.