Collection: Nonfiction

Hold your horses, the cat is out the bag! Discover all the amazing and awful facts about barmy beasts and cagey creatures across time with history's most horrible headlines: Animals edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to animals across time. From gory stori...

Uncover our planet's most sensational secrets with this mind-boggling atlas of mysteries that's packed with more than 100 strange and unexplained enigmas. What happened to the Bermuda Triangle? Where have Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Yowie been sighted? Why does the legend of Area 51 fascinate us?...

Legless lizards. Gliding geckos. In Roxie Munro's newest journey into the animal kingdom, twenty lizards are illustrated true-to-size, moving from terrifically tiny to cool and colossal! Legless lizards. Gliding geckos. In Roxie Munro's newest journey into the animal kingdom, twenty lizards are i...

Let me tell you a secret: drumming is magic. I love that I can express myself through drumming. Everything about it makes me really happy! Drumming has changed my life in so many ways. Now I'm here to share the magic of drumming with you, too... Learn how Nandi Bushell, the young drummer who has ...

The Incredible Octopus combines amazing photos with in-depth facts to get kids aged 7 and up excited about octopuses and the underwater world in which they live. Readers are introduced to the fascinating biology of the octopus, from its 3 hearts and 9 brains to suction cups and how they work, and...

Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When...

Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1938, Friedman's first memories were of life in the Jewish ghetto. Suffering starvation, disease, and constant violence, she and her par...

Discover the true story behind the legendary queen in this captivating look into the life of Cleopatra. Although her name and story might be familiar, much of what we know about Cleopatra is shrouded in mystery. Her life was one of politics, murder, war, marriage and affairs - but it was also one...

Featuring twenty of the world's most 'at risk' animals, this book teaches young naturalists about conservation programs protect the lives of endangered wild animals from hunters, poachers, illness and other threats. Understanding these threats is balanced with conservation success stories from ar...

The iconic Australian Outback: a sunburned country with a diverse tapestry of landscapes brimming over with avian treasures. Amongst the timeless beauty of the Australian bush, it's time to get out and discover our outback birds. This is said to be the 'land of the parrots', but there's so much m...