The Hogg family are bursting out of their small house, so Mr Hogg challenges his three sons to build an extra bedroom themselves. An utterly original and engaging story filled with facts about the environment. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2006 - Best Book with Facts.

In this audiobook, learn more about the science of the animal kingdom and how observation and experimentation have enabled us to discover facts about animal species, survival techniques and behavioural patterns.

Spud's not Superman, but he wants to save the planet! Spud is an easy-going chap who's taken on a tricky New Year resolution. It's 1st January and he's decided to go green - and this is his diary to prove it! The year starts well: he learns to grow food, recycle rubbish, and look after wildlife. It all seems to be going according to plan... With th...

A young boy comes face to face with the hardships of everyday life for poor Mexicans when he joins his photographer father, who is helping to smuggle a Mexican family across the border into California.

A riotous journey through the dangerous and dastardly antics of the adventurers who discovered chocolate, tobacco and other useful plant products!

Can our hoodie hero make it through nine circles of Hell and back again? Will he find love with his soulmate, Beatrice? Discover the city of Dis where everybody disses everybody. Meet Frankenstein, the lovesick bouncer with the bling-bling. Come face to face with the Furies, a gang of snake-haired females in T-shirts. Prepare for a host of gluttons...

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house... There's a big bug in the wardrobe and a scorpion in the shed! Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about creepy-crawlies. Fact-packed, fun-packed, get packed ... and head for Henry's House!

Simon lives three seconds ahead of everyone else, which creates embarrassing problems, such as answering questions that haven't yet been asked and trying to walk through doors that haven't yet been opened. This inventive story takes you on a journey through space-time, while offering valuable lessons in acceptance and understanding. A great mix of...

There is evidence of the past all around us, if we know where to look. Old buildings, roads, ruins and weapons are all clues that tell us a lot about how people live. This audiobook looks at different sites where evidence of Victorian times can be seen and it explains how what is left behind can tell us much about life in Britain in Victorian times...

This is the ultimate audiobook on King Arthur! It combines the best-known stories about Arthur and his court with fascinating research on who Arthur really was and where Camelot was built, and the relationships between the main characters in the legends. The book was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award 2010.

Evolution and genetics are like a map for exploring the whole world of living things. Along the way, we've discovered some pretty shocking stuff about the links between poodles and polar bears, and fruit flies and people! Trace the history of life right back to our earliest ancestors and you'll be amazed at what you'll find. This book tells you eve...

Whenever disaster strikes, mild-mannered weatherman Cliff Thornhill and his dog are transformed into Captain Fact and Knowledge! Miniaturised to the size of a molecule, our heroes are injected into a real live human body. Here they must investigate innards and examine earwax to hunt down a vicious virus that's causing a transglobal outbreak of bott...

What is politics? How does parliament work? Is the great British democracy even a true democracy? And why are politicians such massive liars? This audiobook provides the information that teenagers really want - and need - to know. Complete with equally irreverent footnotes and a 'get involved' section with a list of websites and further reading, th...

In more than 100 interviews, children and young adults reveal their personal tips and tactics for honing the creative benefits of dyslexia, enabling them to thrive in school and beyond. Strategies include ways to develop confidence and self-belief. The contributors have outlined specific approaches they feel have helped them, and others that haven'...

Want to know: How a war started when a Brit insisted on sitting on a stool? Who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls? Why a Brit soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe? Discover all the foul facts about the barmy British Empire - all the gore and more.

What looks like a nice normal hill - until it explodes in a supercharged spurt of boiling lava? A volcano, of course. So what are you waiting for? Let's go and visit some! Plan an explosive holiday with the volcano vacation guide. Get clued up with the spotter's guide to eruptions. Or read the terrifying diaries of volcano survivors. Warning: aband...

Horrible Geography takes you under the sea with Odious Oceans. Discover where in the world you can tuck into a poisonous pufferfish, spot some perilous pirates and explore the savage seabed! Horrible Geography is the perfect escapism from miserable maps, rotten rock piles and dire diagrams. Hold tight!

Want some really horrible science? It's about time! Go time-travelling with this icky book and discover all the terrible time facts you've been waiting ages to find out. What happens if you go too close to a black hole? How do flies tell the time? Why do the years zoom past faster as you get older? Find out who was killed for changing the calendar....

Imagine physics as a community full of wacky characters, the building blocks of the universe each with a unique personality. This book throws open the doors and welcomes you into their amazing world. From gravity to the theory of relativity, this unique book provides visual interpretations of complex concepts, designed to make learning physics easi...

An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government, and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained clearly. Includes tips on how to argue and debate and a full glossary.

Whenever disaster strikes, mild-mannered weatherman, Cliff Thornhill, and his dog are transformed into Captain Fact and Knowledge! Armed with the power of fact and an unreliable time machine, our heroes dodge ravenous reptiles, terrifying Pterodactyls and misbehaving Mammoths to save a baby Triceratops!