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Author: Pippa Goodhart
Format: MP3 CD
Author Pippa Goodhart
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 36m
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.
View BookWow Science: Biology! Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel
Author: Bryson Gore
Format: MP3 CD
Author Bryson Gore
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 36m
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.
View BookSpud Goes Green: The Diary of My Year As A Greenie
Author: Giles Thaxton
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Giles Thaxton
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 41m
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...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Masters
Format: MP3 CD
Author Anthony Masters
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h 4m
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.
View BookAuthor: Stewart Ross
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Author Stewart Ross
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 55m
A riotous journey through the dangerous and dastardly antics of the adventurers who discovered chocolate, tobacco and other useful plant products!
View BookAuthor: John Agard
Format: MP3 CD
Author John Agard
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 5m
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...
View BookHenry's House: Creepy Crawlies
Author: Philip Ardagh
Format: MP3 CD
Author Philip Ardagh
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 40m
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!
View BookTwilight In the Land of Nowhen
Author: Nury Vittachi
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Author Nury Vittachi
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 20m
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...
View BookOn the Trail of the Victorians In Britain
Author: Peter Chrisp
Format: MP3 CD
Author Peter Chrisp
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 48m
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...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: MP3 CD
Author Listening Books
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 56m
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.
View BookAuthor: Glenn Murphy
Format: MP3 CD
Author Glenn Murphy
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h 50m
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...
View BookCaptain Fact: Human Body Adventure
Author: Knife and Packer
Format: MP3 CD
Author Knife and Packer
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 58m
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...
View BookPolitics: Cutting Through the Crap
Author: Bali Rai
Format: MP3 CD
Author Bali Rai
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 42m
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...
View BookDyslexia Is My Superpower (most of the Time)
Author: Margaret Rooke
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Margaret Rooke
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h
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'...
View BookHorrible History: The Barmy British Empire
Author: Terry Deary
Format: MP3 CD
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 38m
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.
View BookHorrible Geography: Violent Volcanoes
Author: Anita Ganeri
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Anita Ganeri
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 4m
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...
View BookHorrible Geography: Odious Oceans
Author: Anita Ganeri
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Author Anita Ganeri
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 25m
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!
View BookHorrible Science: Terrible Time
Author: Nick Arnold
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Nick Arnold
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 54m
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....
View BookAuthor: Dan Green
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dan Green
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 45m
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...
View BookAuthor: Louie Stowell
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Author Louie Stowell
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 2m
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.
View BookCaptain Fact: Dinosaur Adventure
Author: Knife and Packer
Format: MP3 CD
Author Knife and Packer
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 50m
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!
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