Non-fiction and fact books your child will love (ages 4-8)
Getting children to love reading isn't necessarily about fiction and fairy tales.
There are loads of brilliant non-fiction books that can teach your child about the world, as well as being entertaining, funny and gorgeous to look at. Sometimes non-fiction is also a fantastic way to tempt a reluctant reader into sitting down with a book.
Here are just a few of our favourites to get your family ready and excited to read.
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Our Story Starts in Africa
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Our Story Starts in Africa
A perfectly pitched story of Black history that brings it back to the personal for a little girl.
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A Little Monster’s Guide to Positivity
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A Little Monster’s Guide to Positivity
This charming picture book from Emily Snape has a simple and reassuring tone for little ones who may also feel anxious about new t…
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Can You Get Rainbows in Space?
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Can You Get Rainbows in Space?
Bursting with fantastic facts and cool science, approached through the prism of colour, this is a brilliantly original way to expl…
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Who Ate All the Bugs? The TRUE and GORY story of the food...
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Who Ate All the Bugs? The TRUE and GORY story of the food...
This delightful and very funny cartoon-style guide to food chains is a brilliant introduction to the concept, and gives young read…
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Curious About Crocodiles
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Curious About Crocodiles
The latest in Owen Davey’s amazing nature series featuring individual species, Curious About Crocodiles gives facts and …
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Meet the Weather
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Meet the Weather
An energetic, fun introduction to different types of weather, using rhyme and vibrant, bright illustrations.
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How To Spaghettify Your Dog… and other science secrets of...
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How To Spaghettify Your Dog… and other science secrets of...
It could be said that physics is the science of absolutely everything: clouds to cars, time to rainbows and rain to sandwiches. Bu…
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Animal Atlas
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Animal Atlas
This attractive, large-format board book, featuring pop-ups and flaps to lift, introduces young children to a range of animals fro…
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Return to Factopia
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Return to Factopia
Wow your friends and family with 400 more jaw-dropping facts in this jam-packed followup to Factopia.
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We Are All Astronauts!
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We Are All Astronauts!
Luna and her granny learn how to be astronauts together. Packed with space facts, and brilliantly illustrated, this is inspiring S…
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How to Chat Chicken
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How to Chat Chicken
This fun, colourfully illustrated non-fiction book explores the ways in which different creatures communicate with one another. It…
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Cats: Understanding Your Whiskered Friend
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Cats: Understanding Your Whiskered Friend
This enjoyable read is a mix of a fictional story about Libby the cat and her life with Miss Lewis, intertwined with facts and inf…
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Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo's life story is adapted for younger readers - with bold and colourful illustrations, and an inspiring facts and photos…
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Outside: A Guide to Discovering Nature
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Outside: A Guide to Discovering Nature
Amphibians, birds, rocks, oceans and clouds: they're all explored in this large and stylish hardcover guide to nature for children…
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Can I Eat That?
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Can I Eat That?
A quirky combination of fact and fun, this distinctive picture book about food poses questions that inquisitive children typically…
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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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Under Earth, Under Water
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Under Earth, Under Water
This gorgeous large hardback explores what happens under the earth and in our oceans and seas in fantastically colourful and acces…
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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
Written and illustrated by a direct descendant of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, this colourful picture book is full of facts abo…
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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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Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder
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Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder
Learn to think like a scientist in this beautifully illustrated book, which celebrates and inspires readers to be curious and expl…
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Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets
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Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets
This beautifully designed picture book with exquisite illustrations explores a variety of shapes relating to Islamic objects and p…
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Alastair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers
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Alastair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers
An inspiring introduction to 20 adventurers and explorers from the last 700 years. This book will encourage readers to live m…
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The Great Big Body Book
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The Great Big Body Book
How does the human body develop and change in a lifetime? Hoffman and Asquith explore these questions and more in this honest, ent…
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Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable
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Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable
This funny non-fiction picture book for older readers is packed full of fascinating facts about poo and enthusiastically explains …
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Grandad Mandela
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Grandad Mandela
This insightful and uplifting picture book recounts the life of Nelson Mandela through the eyes of his great-grandchildren, Zazi a…
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The Book of Clouds
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The Book of Clouds
This wonderful book about the magic of clouds is full of surprising and original poems, perfect for upper key stage two children e…
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The Book of Bees
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The Book of Bees
This glorious book will introduce you to the bee world. It is fantastically illustrated in a cartoonish style that is big, bold an…
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She Persisted Around the World
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She Persisted Around the World
Featuring simply-told stories and glorious illustrations, this book about incredible, determined women from around the world is su…
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Gloria’s Voice
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Gloria’s Voice
An inspirational picture book biography of an amazing woman: the feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem. Aura Lewis’ dre…
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Sports are Fantastic Fun!
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Sports are Fantastic Fun!
Full of brilliant detail about a vast range of sports, this highly entertaining illustrated picture book gives children a good int…
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Search and Find: Alphabet of Alphabets
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Search and Find: Alphabet of Alphabets
A book with 26 differently illustrated and themed alphabets is an original idea, and it’s fun to dip in and out of – both to …
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Dogs in Space
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Dogs in Space
This informative and exciting picture book details the journey of Belka and Strelka (dogs sent into space as part of the Sovi…
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Stubby: A True Story of Friendship
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Stubby: A True Story of Friendship
Published to coincide with the centenary of the end of the First World War, this beautiful book tells the story of Stubby, the mos…
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