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Non-fiction books are often a great way to engage children who don't like reading stories.
Perfect for inquiring young minds, these engaging non-fiction books approach subjects from biography to nature and science to history in a variety of interesting ways.
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Big Bad Wolf Investigates: Fairy Tales
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Big Bad Wolf Investigates: Fairy Tales
Could the Big Bad Wolf really blow down a straw house? A funny look at familiar fairy tales through the lens of STEM.
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How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
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How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
Have you ever wondered how long it would take to walk to the sun (about 2,000 years, if you didn’t burn to a crisp!)? And di…
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Insect Detective
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Insect Detective
A range of insects are introduced – wasps, solitary bees, ants, dragonflies – and their behaviour described.
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Can We Save the Tiger?
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Can We Save the Tiger?
A sequel to Ape, this beautifully illustrated book takes us through some of the extinct and endangered animals in the world.
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Unseen Jungle: The Microbes that Secretly Control Our World
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Unseen Jungle: The Microbes that Secretly Control Our World
In this fun and informative guide to all things microbial, aimed at Year 6-8 aged children, Dr Rice explains how microbes work in …
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Actual Size
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Actual Size
Have you ever looked a giant squid in the eye, shaken hands with a gorilla or been face to face with a tiger?
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Music Legends
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Music Legends
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 …
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Earth Clock the history of our planet in 24 hours
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Earth Clock the history of our planet in 24 hours
The Earth’s history – all 4.5 billion years of it – presented in a captivating, hugely informative large-format book. With brillia…
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North: The Greatest Animal Journey on Earth
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North: The Greatest Animal Journey on Earth
This exquisite picture book invites readers to accompany a host of animals from walruses to whales, as they migrate to the Arctic …
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The Barefoot Books World Atlas
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The Barefoot Books World Atlas
Full of fascinating facts and figures about the earth and beautifully illustrated with David Dean’s bright and colourful maps
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Stephen Biesty’s Trains
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Stephen Biesty’s Trains
This generously proportioned lift-the-flap book takes a journey through rail history: it's packed with fascinating nuggets of info…
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
This beautiful and profound book chronicles the struggles and achievements of historic and contemporary black women. Not just…
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101 Video Games To Play Before You Grow Up
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101 Video Games To Play Before You Grow Up
Split into platform games, action and adventure, sports and fighting, role playing and strategy, puzzle and arcade and party and m…
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Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life
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Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life
Celebrate the 2012 bi-centenary of Charles Dickens' life with this new, illustrated biography. Beginning with his birth it follows…
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True Stories of Heroes
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True Stories of Heroes
From animals to astronauts, and captured spies in World War II, this collection of thirteen short stories celebrates some truly am…
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Why Spacemen Can't Burp
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Why Spacemen Can't Burp
In this book Mitchell Symons answers important questions such as 'Is there anything children can do better than adults?' As you'd …
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Corpse Talk: Season 1
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Corpse Talk: Season 1
Corpse Talk, the 'show that brings the dead famous to life' is a highly amusing and clever comic style history book that introduce…
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A First Book of Nature
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A First Book of Nature
Hearld's nostalgic illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to this lovely chronicle of a child's first experiences of nature
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100 Steps for Science: Why It Works and How It Happened
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100 Steps for Science: Why It Works and How It Happened
This book plunges the reader into humankind's ten biggest discoveries, such as wheels, numbers and atoms. It's an optimistic, upbe…
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Fantastic Mr Dahl
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Fantastic Mr Dahl
This new biography of Roald Dahl, written especially for children by former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen, has been much…
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Horrible Science: House of Horrors
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Horrible Science: House of Horrors
Enter the house of horrors and get up close with fleas, dust-mites, rats and germs in this entertaining book from the popular Horr…
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100 Women Who Made History
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100 Women Who Made History
Featuring a thoroughly diverse selection of women from varied points in history and across many cultures and disciplines, this is …
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Walter Tull's Scrapbook
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Walter Tull's Scrapbook
Discover the fascinating true story of footballer and World War I officer Walter Tull in this highly visual scrapbook.
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Just Ducks
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Just Ducks
Every morning when she wakes up, a little girl hears the ducks quack down on the river that flows through the town.
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See What a Seal Can Do
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See What a Seal Can Do
This stunning picture book follows a day in the life of a grey seal.
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Space Kids
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Space Kids
Including topics such as stars, planets, moons, gravity and even how astronauts are able to eat and sleep, each page of this fasci…
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