Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Leisure

A comprehensive overview of the origin of the world's best-known musical instruments, presenting many fascinating facts along the way. Niccolo the cricket would like to become a musician. But which instrument should he start with? The violin? The guitar? The trumpet? All at once? Well, he does ha...

Created in association with the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, The Story of the Olympic Games brings to life the glorious history of the Games of the Olympiad. Chronologically structured and featuring up to 200 original photographs, the book charts the story of this famous global event, beginning in...

Sport can bring moments of joy and huge emotion. It can also bring moments of supreme weirdness! Some of sport's oddest stories are almost too strange to be believed. From lucky socks and alligators on the golf course to marathon runners who let the train take the strain, this book uncovers some ...

Do you enjoy building castles, leading fantasy armies, and developing strategies to divide and conquer? This tactical guide will appeal to strategy games enthusiasts looking for tips and tricks to dominate in their favourite games. They'll also enjoy reading about how these games were made and wh...

A fact-packed flap book of weird and wonderful record-breaking plants, animals, people and machines. In this stylish follow-up to 'Lift-the-Flap Biggest, Fastest, Tallest', readers can find out what the strongest, deadliest, fiercest, cleverest, hottest, coldest, smelliest and weirdest things are...

Why was the little iceberg just like his dad? Because he was a chip off the cold block! Over 900 eye-wateringly funny gags are included, featuring wickedly funny one-lines, knock-knock jokes, puns, spoof film and book titles and much more. In reading and telling the jokes, kids will pick up cultu...

Discover the classic stories behind your favourite DC Super Heroes! Baby Kal-El made a dramatic escape from planet Krypton, arriving on Earth in a rocket ship. Wonder Woman and Nubia were shaped out of clay by their mother Hippolyta and given life and powers by the gods. The Flash was a scientist...

Learn to play the game you love with this AFLW skills book. Start with Aussie rules basics like HANDBALLING and the DROP PUNT KICK and work up to epic moves like SELLING CANDY and the TORPEDO KICK.