Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Language & Literature

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...

A new title in the Buster Laugh-a-lot series, this paw-some collection has hundreds of hilarious animal-themed jokes for funny kids to share. Why do dogs run in circles? Because it's hard to run in squares! How does a lion greet other animals? "Pleased to eat you." Why are frogs always so happy? ...

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...

One day a collection of very old maps in found in a dusty library. They show where in the world monsters from mythology and folklore can be found. According to the notes left with them they were made by Cornelius Walters, an intrepid explorer from the 15th century. But did Walters really make the...