Books featuring fun facts

Including topics such as stars, planets, moons, gravity and even how astronauts are able to eat and sleep, each page of this fascinating book is a journey through the complexities of space.

This beautiful and profound book chronicles the struggles and achievements of historic and contemporary black women. Not just for girls, this is an inspiring book for any child as it shows how determination, ambition and hard work can bring important change.

Could the Big Bad Wolf really blow down a straw house? A funny look at familiar fairy tales through the lens of STEM.

Your heart is constantly pumping blood. Your lungs are always breathing. And your brain controls it all! Find out more details in this fun and informative lift-the-flap book. 

Children will love this beautiful and fascinating introduction to Everest, and it’s a particularly useful resource for primary schools who are looking at international features such as mountains in Key Stage 1 and 2.

An informative, fun and cool guide to 40 of the greatest musical acts of the modern era, perfect for any young fans keen to learn more about their favourite bands.

Enter the house of horrors and get up close with fleas, dust-mites, rats and germs in this entertaining book from the popular Horrible Science series.

The Earth’s history – all 4.5 billion years of it – presented in a captivating, hugely informative large-format book. With brilliant colour illustrations and a useful timeline, this is fascinating and thought-provoking natural history.

In this fun and informative guide to all things microbial, aimed at Year 6-8 aged children, Dr Rice explains how microbes work in a number of contexts: in our homes, gardens and outside spaces, in food, and in our bodies.

Corpse Talk, the ​‘show that brings the dead famous to life’ is a highly amusing and clever comic style history book that introduces the reader to historical figures in a fresh and funny way.

From animals to astronauts, and captured spies in World War II, this collection of thirteen short stories celebrates some truly amazing, and amazingly true, heroic acts.