Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Language & Literature

The little ladybird is back, and now What the Ladybird Heard Next, bestselling picture book from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, has been adapted by author Julia Donaldson into a fun and accessible play script that children will love performing at school or at home. The What the Ladybird Heard N...

WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER? An embarrassed Penguin? A sunburnt elephant? A newspaper! Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There's a lot more where they came from. Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (p...

"Examines dragons in myth, culture, and folklore, and describes 'dragonlike' animals and where they live, including Komodo dragons, monitors, flying dragons, bearded dragons, and seadragons."

Collects ten stories of African folklore, from Amharic and Arabic tales to Shona and Zulu lore.

Follow the amazing life of William Shakespeare, vividly described in words and pictures, with graphic dramatisations of Shakespeare's most famous plays.

If you've ever wondered how a movie gets made, you're not alone. Author and illustrator Jeff Kinney didn't know either, but when his bestselling series Diary of a Wimpy Kid was turned into a live-action movie by 20th Century Fox he learned how a book gets adapted into a major motion picture. Now ...

Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Anthology is a beautiful hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and rive...