Collection: Children's non-fiction

From the invention of the modern sport all the way to the present day, bestselling author and football expert Tom Palmer picks 100 of the most thrilling and significant goals, games and players from more than 150 years of the beautiful game. Featuring Pele's World Cup, Maradona's Hand of God, Joh...

Olive Morris was a social justice activist and campaigner. A Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, Black nationalist and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s, Olive's life changed forever when she witnessed police brutality towards a Black man and was arre...

'Girls Rule' presents the inspirational biographical stories of 50 incredible women from around the globe. From fierce pirate leaders, warrior queens and spies, to pioneering mountaineers, conservationists and scientists, 'Girls Rule' explores 50 phenomenal females whose accomplishments have left...

How do we convey to kids what immigration really means? How do we explain all the difficult decisions people make when they choose to leave their home country to start over somewhere new? This book will help! It breaks down many of the complexities of immigration while reminding us all that no ma...

Written in clear, straightforward language, this book looks at why people go to war and whether it is ever right to kill another person. It explains different attitudes to warfare and why wars are such a major part of history. It also looks at peace keeping organisations and conflict resolution.

'The Spectacular Science of the Human Body' is guaranteed to answer all those tricky science questions that children ask about their bodies - and that parents often struggle to answer - such as: What are the different parts of our brain, and what do they do? How do vaccines work? What is DNA, and...

The questions in this book were curated by the staff at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in London, to address all the most common - and a few uncommon - things that children want to know about the universe and about outer space. It covers a mixture of basic questions about planets, moons, human ...

Teach your child that our differences make us unique and are to be celebrated. Gender inequality is something that happens in lots of ways, every day. But it doesn't have to! This book helps kids to notice when things are unfair, ask why, and do something about it. Equality is worth standing up f...

What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you want to fight crime as a police officer, or save lives as a paramedic? Maybe you could look after animals and be a vet, or rescue people from fires as a firefighter! There are so many things to choose from, and this fun series will help you decide e...

Observology is the study of looking. An observologist makes scientific expeditions, albeit very small ones, every day. They notice interesting details in the world around them. They are expert at finding tiny creatures, plants and fungi. They know that water snails glide upside down on the unders...