AuthorRichard Platt
NarratorJane Steel
Duration1h 35m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Science
Key StageKS2
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind the food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Listeners will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today - grasshopper stew anyone? Includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discovered what Neolithic man ate.
Author: Stacy Mcanulty
Author Stacy Mcanulty
Narrator Taylor Meskimen
SeriesOur Universe, Book 3
Duration 19m
From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the formation and history of the moon-told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock-she's Earth's rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her frie...
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Author: Steven Johnson
Author Steven Johnson
Narrator Steven Johnson
Duration 2h 57m
Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not-but you should, and New York Timesbestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innova...
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Author: Gail Herman
Author Gail Herman
Narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman
Duration 1h 20m
Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environ...
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Author: Agnieszka Biskup
Author Agnieszka Biskup
Narrator Various
Duration 49m
Follows the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the science behind ecosystems.
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Would You Believe... Vatican City Is A Country?! and Other Metropolitan Marvels
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 2m
Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world from medieval towns to the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Listen to this audiobook from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and o...
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Would You Believe... In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! and Other Academic Advantages
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h
Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...
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Author: Katherine Johnson
Author Katherine Johnson
Narrator Heather Alicia Sims
Duration 5h 19m
The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportu...
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Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Author Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 20m
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and comp...
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Author: Chelsea Clinton
Author Chelsea Clinton
Narrator Chelsea Clinton
Duration 20m
Did you know that blue whales are the largest animals in the world? Or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal? The world is filled with millions of animal species, and all of them are unique and special. Many are on the path to extinction. In this audiobook, Chelsea Clinton introduces young readers to a selection of endangered animals, sh...
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Would You Believe...two Cyclists Invented the Aeroplane?! and Other Transport Triumphs
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 32m
Find out about the four legged friends of the Aztecs, bloomers and the bike revolution, and how the Wright brothers got it right! Listen to this book from start to finish for a social history of transport or dip in and out for fascinating and often hilarious facts.
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