Willy Nilly is off to the shop to buy a cabbage. “Yuk!” he says. “Don’t say that, Willy Nilly!” says his mum. So Willy Nilly tries very hard to always say the right thing but somehow he always says it just at the wrong moment. “Don’t say that, Willy Nilly!” he’s told. Will Willy Nilly ever get it right?
"Mum, why can't I jump like you?" asked Tadpole. "Oh but you will, Tadpole," said Mother Frog. "You will. Just keep splishing and splashing!" Every creature that the teeny weeny tadpole meets seems to be able to jump, except him. Then he meets the big bad fish, who can't jump — but he can swim very, very fast, and he eats little tadpoles . . . What is Tadpole going to do?
Largely forgotten for centuries, the ancient Maya were incredible. Their cities across Central and South America featured astonishing pyramids and palaces, while they were also successful farmers and highly creative artists. The Maya were the first people in the Americas to learn how to read and write, and they invented things like rubber, chocolate and chewing gum. They had a deep understandin…
Baby Elephant cannot get to sleep when he loses his teddy bear, so Elmer sets out to find it
Sometimes we have to travel a few billion miles to find our way home.
Could you last six whole weeks without your phone? Six weeks without sharing photos, without group messages, without being kept in the social‑media loop? An eccentric entrepreneur has challenged Esther’s year group to do just that, and the winners will walk away with £1,000. For Esther, whose dad and sister live thousands of miles away in New York, the prize might be her only chance …
Straightforward text presents the facts and Raff's infographic illustrations demonstrate the science and tell a humorous story. There are hands-on activities, such as using a chocolate bar to demonstrate material consistency and using a balloon to prove gases have weight, to reinforce the learning. A glossary defines density, plasma, vapor, and more essential terms.