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Countries In the News: Ethiopia
Author: Andrew Campbell
Format: MP3 CD
Author Andrew Campbell
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h
This audiobook brings together the facts about Ethiopia. It explores the country in depth and features the latest issues, historical background and current opinions. Suitable for KS2 and KS3.
View BookAuthor: 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 BookGuglielmo Marconi: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Dr. Mark Goldsmith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dr. Mark Goldsmith
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the man who created radio, an invention that made travel safer, transformed warfare and brought live news and entertainment into our homes. Follow his life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are still affecting us today.
View BookDiane Fossey: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Liz Gogerly
Format: MP3 CD
Author Liz Gogerly
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the woman who provided unique insights into the lives of mountain gorillas, who strove to protect them and their environment and who revealed the similarities between gorilla and human behaviour. Follow her life story and find out how her discoveries are still affecting the world today.
View BookMichael Faraday: Scientists Who Made History
Author: Stewart Ross
Format: MP3 CD
Author Stewart Ross
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 1h 10m
Meet the man whose investigations into eletricity, chemistry, magnetism and electrolysis eventually led to the invention of motors, generators, electroplating and many other scientific breakthroughs. Follow Faraday's life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are affecting us today.
View BookAuthor: Richard Hammond
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Richard Hammond
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 59m
Listen to this audiobook and journey through time, space and beyond, discovering what makes life, the Universe and everything the way that they are. Find out if matter really does matter and how physics encompasses everything. Winner of the Royal Society Junior Prize for Science Books 2007.
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 BookMurderous Maths: Guaranteed To Bend Your Brain
Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Format: MP3 CD
Author Kjartan Poskitt
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 46m
It's maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Plus all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach you in school!
View BookHow To Snog A Hagfish! Disgusting Things In the Sea
Author: Jonathan Eyers
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Jonathan Eyers
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h
'How to Snog a Hagfish!' explores the most bizarre, the most disgusting and the most fascinating creatures that inhabit the oceans. When attacked, the hagfish (also known as the slime eel) ties itself in a knot that travels the length of its body, squeezing out mucus by the bucketful and making it impossible for a predator to keep hold. To eat, a s...
View BookWhy You Need A Passport When You're Going To Puke
Author: Mitchell Symons
Format: Stream / Download
Author Mitchell Symons
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 57m
Did you know: Square watermelons are sold in Japan? There is a River Piddle in Dorset? And that Americans use enough toilet paper to wrap around the world nine times! Join us on a fact-finding world tour.
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: 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 e...
View BookAuthor: Stewart Ross
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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 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 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 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 BookMurderous Maths: The Secret of Sums
Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Format: MP3 CD
Author Kjartan Poskitt
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h
Murderous Maths: The Secrets of Sums is full of facts, tricks and tips to help children discover why numbers are nifty and arithmetic is amazing. Updated for the relaunch of the primary national curriculum in autumn 2014, children can learn all about prime suspects, diabolical division, sneaky signs and much more with simple explanations and hilari...
View BookTwilight In the Land of Nowhen
Author: Nury Vittachi
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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...
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