from the back cover: Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.
After fifteen fearsome years on the page, Horrible Histories are coming to the small screen - with all the nasty bits intact - of course. Twelve classic Horrible Histories are being reissued with a tie-in cover. In Gorgeous Georgians readers can discover the full story: Gangs who made a living selling dead bodies. Husbands who sold their wives at auction. Doctors who cured toothache with squash…
On Christmas Eve, the Gravenstein family stays for a few weeks in Valleby Hotel. They have a very valuable Japanese Apple Hound. The hotel personnel prepares a big traditional Christmas celebration, but soon the problems begin. The dog has dissapeared. Billy and Maya again has a tricky case to solve.
Faithful Dog Tom has woken up Farmer Skiboo. It is the middle of the night, but all the farm animals think it is morning. Have they gone mad?'
Ronald is a little lamb, but he isn't white as snow. Ronald wants to be tough. Is he tough enough for the Big Bad Wolf.'
Who is the uninvited guest wearing a creepy costume at Prince Prospero's ball? Can a man be driven mad by the "sounds" of the crime he has committed? These spine-tingling stories and others by Edgar Allan Poe are adapted for a first chapter book reader.
Somebody is stealing diamonds from the jeweler Mohammed Carat! It looks like the culprit is someone on his staff, but who? Is it Luke Smith, the recently hired fitness fanatic with a taste for the finer things in life? It surely can’t be Vivian Leander, the loyal shop assistant who is now short of money . . . The police in the little town of Valleby are stuck, so they contact young detectives…