Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Language & Literature

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...

"Firmly established as Australia's best-selling school dictionary, this sixth edition of the Australian School Oxford Dictionary includes more than 20,000 headwords suitable for school aged children between 10-16 years. A special feature of this dictionary is a specially written Grammar and Refer...

Why do fish live in salt water? Because pepper makes them sneeze! Why is a bee's hair always sticky? Because it uses a honeycomb! What time does a duck wake up? At the quack of dawn! How do you know carrots are good for your eyes? Because you never see rabbits wearing glasses!