Collection: Children's non-fiction

It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent to the trenches. From sharing your bed with rats and lice to a diet of bully beef, bread and biscuits...

It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent to the trenches. From sharing your bed with rats and lice to a diet of bully beef, bread and biscuits...

This series transports the reader to the grisliest times and places in history. The first-person narrative approach puts the reader in the shoes of some of the most unfortunate people ever to have lived - from pyramid builders to viking explorers, from medieval knights to the crew of the Titanic....

The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach encourages readers to get emotionally involved with the characters, aiding their understanding of what life would have been like exploring with Captain Cook. Informative captions, a timeline, maps, a complete glossary and an inde...

Coding means creating a set of instructions (or algorithms) that tells a computer how to perform a task. Another word for coding is 'programming'. Learn about the origins of coding, how it is done and how much control it has over our daily lives. Specially commissioned cartoon-style illustrations...

Learn about gravity and all the useful things it does - such as keeping us on the Earth and holding the entire universe together! This book is part of the science and technology strand of the series.

It's 1828 and you're a medical student at the world-famous Edinburgh University. You are keen to start dissecting bodies to learn all about anatomy, but be careful whom you buy your body from - some people will do anything to get their hands on one! This book explores the body-snatching craze tha...

You are Christopher Columbus, the explorer who accidentally discovered America. Follow Columbus' struggles to finance his journeys, his sometimes infamous behaviour and his final lonely days.

This is one in a series of concise guides to the different centres of power and influence in the United Kingdom. The books are directly relevant to the new Key Stage 3 Citizenship curriculum and to GCSE Economics and British Constitution.