Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Language & Literature

Alice-Miranda is an extraordinary young girl who, at the age of nine and three quarters, has organised early entry into boarding school along with her cheeky pony, Bonaparte. Winchfield-Downsfordvale is a place of friendship and fun, but also of high drama, mystery and intrigue. There are teacher...

Dig deep into the world of dragons and discover all there is to know about these formidable fire-breathing beasts. Why are dragons so hard to find? What do they eat? When do they sleep? How far can they fly? And is it safe to get close to them? In this follow-up to the bestselling All About Merma...

Discover the most entertaining way to spend the year: with a spot of spring cleaning (that ends in a mess), a summer picnic (invaded by ants), Halloween dress-up (or not, if you're already scary) and the only thing to be done in December...

This is a graphically stunning, first-ever volume of nautical codes for children. This visual reference is an introduction to maritime communication through nautical flags, along with morse code, the phonetic alphabet, and semaphore signaling. Today's system of international maritime signal flags...

Packed with over 300 awesome animal jokes to get your friends screaming with laughter. Full of entertaining elephants, funny fish, potty penguins, daft dogs and much, much more! Q. What do you call a dog magician? A. A labracadabrador. Q. How do bats fly without bumping into anything? A. They use...

Using clever animal jokes, puns, riddles, fantastic images, rhymes and more, this book examines animal humor in everyday life. Readers will learn how humor is shaped by language and culture and be motivated to use it in their own writing. Ages 8-12 years.

Review: Drawing from the authoritative version first published in 1857, Tatar, a leading scholar in the field of folklore and children's literature, has gathered over forty Grimm stories, judiciously selecting tales that both resonate with a modern audience and reveal the broad thematic range of ...

This collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introd...

Be enthralled by the world of Arthurian legend in this lavishly illustrated, masterful retelling. From King Arthur's childhood to his final battle, the timeless tales of the sword in the stone, the quests of the Knights of the Round Table and the wizardry of Merlin are woven together into a breat...