Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Leisure

We have lift-off on another fully revised and updated Guinness World Records annual! The 2023 edition takes readers on a journey that's out of this world, revealing the latest and greatest record-breaking achievements here on Earth and across the vast distances of space. Humanity's horizons are e...

This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually becoming a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in! Take the plunge with our opening BLUE PLANET chapter, celebrating...

We're proud to present the 13th edition of the world's best-selling gaming annual! Gamer's 2020 features all of the most popular videogame characters that our readers know and love. As an exciting change to our usual structure, Gamer's 2020 has the theme of gaming characters running throughout. G...

What happens when you burp in space? Can you comb a hairy doughnut? Is the platypus even a real animal? Join us for a mind-boggling look at the record-breaking world around us. From the science of slam dunks and the smelliest substances to over-engineered inventions and the physics of cats, you'l...

Build your gymnastics skills with the Sports Academy series. Looking to take up a new sport? Or just thinking about ways to keep fit and healthy? This book is a great introduction to all the important gymnastics skills you'll need. Full of tips and illustrations showing key techniques, you'll dis...

Get the skills to perform on parallel bars, rings, pommel horse, the floor and lots more.

"Play The Game: Gymnastics features star gymnasts, and an overview of the sport's history, rules, equipment, key skills and warm-ups. It is ideal for young players who are being introduced to the sport for the first time, as well as enthusiasts who want to hone their skills. Readers will bring to...

"This is a children's guide to the sport of artistic gymnastics, with a major section of the book focusing on gymnastics skills. The Skills chapter is a step-by-step Illustrated guide, with full-color photographs of gymnasts balancing, tumbling, jumping, and in various floor exercises and using e...

Turn the clock back to a simpler time. Cold lemonade in summer, evenings by a campfire, a warm blanket in winter. Fully-illustrated chapters feature the history and story behind more than thirty skills, including: How to skip stones, how to wrap a package with brown paper and string, and how to g...