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This beautiful collection examines the history of some of the best-loved nursery rhymes, looking at how they have evolved through the centuries, and the controversies surrounding their origins.

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2021Short listed for Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards 2021If you've ever wanted to know what a panda does all day long, how your heart manages to shift all that blood around your body or what makes a rainbow shine, you've come to the right book. A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You features the answers to all of these questions and many more, all told in a super-fun comic book format in three awesome sections: Human Body, Animal Kingdom and Earth and Science. A Day in the Life... is packed with facts, laughs and amazing illustrations you can dive into all day long. Meet your grumpy liver that has to do practically EVERYTHING; your trusty hands that are very, well, handy; the spiky porcupines ready to charge; lonely Mars rovers abandoned on the Red Planet; raging tornadoes ready to rip through the pages of the book and bubbly volcanoes ready to blow. All entries are told in the fun, friendly and informative style of Mike Barfield, and are broug

Structured around London's Tube lines, The Seven noses of Soho showcases some of London's fascinating and lesser-known oddities that hide in plain sight, revealing some unexpected and very different s

Written by a dog, and with helpful additions by other dogs, How to Be a Dogis essential reading, not just for all canines but also for their owners and dog lovers alike, providing an insight into thei

Nelson Mandela was one of the few men in recent history who genuinely changed the world—how we think about our place in society among other ethnic, political, and religious groups and how perseverance

Lovers of the grid know only too well that there’s nothing more absorbing and challenging than a good crossword puzzle—something that engages the mind and focuses the brain on things other than your d

English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist—we use these foreign words every

10 Patterned Sheets To Pull Out. This book has ten beautiful sheets of gift wrap and 12 gift tags cleverly folded away inside.The book contains ten sheets of large-sized beautifully designed wrapping

From lost villages and Victorian theaters, to Tudor alleyways and medieval churches,Lost Britain takes you on a journey through some of the extraordinary features of Britain's history which have been

This is the definitive guide to the vibrant and inventive language of the East End, featuring history, trivia, and anecdotes. Cockney rhyming slang originated as a secret code among the thieves of Lon