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?
A new coach is causing trouble for the team as Paul Stewart continues the action in book three of the Football Mad series. Danny, Scott, Jack and the rest of the Dale team are gearing up for a hat-trick in their last ever town cup competition. But the boys have moved to senior school and Danny's having a rough time. Their new coach is a hard, harsh man who has disliked Danny from day one. His t…
Mr Magnolia has many things, such as an old trumpet that goes rooty-toot, some very fat owls learning to hoot, a big purple dinosaur who's a magnificent brute. But poor Mister Magnolia has only one boot!
Finally, you're almost an adult! The upside: you get way more control over your life. The downside: you have to figure how to live.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust …
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writ…
You don't need a long, boring textbook to learn about history! Starting with the events that set the stage for war and finishing with its aftermath
"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?