Non-Fiction 9+

Looking to satisfy your sweet tooth? Think small! Cook some miniature cinnamon rolls or tiny fruit tacos. You might even build a mini layer cake. Tiny sweets are tons of fun! The downsized projects in this book can all be made with items found around your home or school. Easy instructions and ste...

Would you rather visit the hottest place on Earth or the coldest? Behind each of these silly scenarios are some fun facts to help you choose an answer. Which would you rather do? Full of fascinating facts, this book will keep kids entertained for hours! They can read on their own or have fun aski...

From Children's Laureate Wales Alex Wharton comes 'Red Sky at Night, Poet's Delight', a second collection of funny and thoughtful poems, aimed at developing a love of language and self-expression. Readers will be excited by fun new characters like Mr Slime and the return of Hector the Horrible He...

Explores the most incredible, weird and awe-inspiring facts about all kinds of robots in bite-sized chunks of text, so readers won't be overwhelmed with information. Funny illustrations and photos are designed to hold their interest, and help them engage with S.T.E.M. topics.

Drawing on her amazing trajectory from playing with the boys' team on the pitches of North Yorkshire to becoming a football champion and role model, Beth will inspire girls and boys everywhere to dream big, work hard and never give up. She'll share her insider tips, tactics and advice for playing...

Alright BOOM, Big Manny is here to show you how you can become a real-life scientist and create awesome experiments at home using ordinary ingredients. We'll learn some basic (and not-so basic) chemistry tings - from combustion to chromatography (chroma-what-now?). We'll meet the amazing elements...

Technology and engineering surround us. From HUGE things, like spaceships and skyscrapers, to much smaller things like the toaster in our kitchen and the shoes on our feet. But all of these things only exist because of seven small inventions: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens,...

Founded sometime around 1600 BCE, the Shang Dynasty was governed by a series of about 29 kings over a 600 year period. They were situated along the Yellow River Valley, China, and historians know a lot about their lives from the discovery of the oracle bones, ancient tombs and cities and other ar...

Guaranteed to answer all those tricky science questions that children ask about cars, trains, ships and planes - and that parents often struggle to answer. How does a Maglev train float on air? What happens when you break the sound barrier? How do modern airports and container ports work? And man...

Who were the first Britons? Read about their daily lives, what jobs they did, what they made, how they traded. Find out the answer to questions such as 'How did they build their settlements such as Skara Brae?', 'Why was Stonehenge built?', 'When did the Bronze Age begin?', 'What were Iron Age ho...