Can you imagine spending a freezing cold Antarctic winter outside, with no food for miles around--maybe even a hundred miles? This is what the male emperor penguin does. After his mate has laid her egg, she takes off for the ocean where she swims about, getting plump on squid and fish, while Papa stands around keeping the egg warm for two entire months! Martin Jenkins's remarkable picture book …
When there is a problem, Charlie and his friends always find an answer. But it is not always the one you expect!
'Vile Victorians' gives the reader all the terrible truth about revolting events affecting everyone not so very long ago - from the vile Victorian queen herself, to some vicious Victorian villains.
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.
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.
Lift the flap on each page to compare what your wear now with clothes from long ago. You can see what children used to wear, what people wore to parties, and what they thought was really fashionable.'
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…
Uses a question and answer format to explain what our nose does for us, how it smells, the relationship of smell and taste, and other facts relating to our olfactory sense.