A history of the information wheel, with moveable wheel models. Information wheels have been used since the 14th century to measure, record, predict and calculate everything from time and space to military history and recipes.

Aims to solve a puzzle of the source of the Indo-European languages and English. This title reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization.

First published in 1994 and now reissued in paperback, a READ AND WONDER title which looks at things that spin and whirl, such as pizzas, sausage dogs, helter-skelter rides, planets and bicycle springs. Full colour illustrations by Margaret Chamberlain.

Alden Amos is a legend and mentor to the growing handcraft community of spinning. He shares his deep knowledge of wheel mechanics, spinning fibres, wheel construction, and yarn, as well as a wealth of spinning history and traditions.

The titles in this series draw the reader from page to page with magical die-cutting. Classic nursery rhymes accompany the colourful artwork.

What really makes the things around us tick? Did you know that the principle behind the zip fastener also governed the building of the pyramids? Or that the dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? The inner workings of hundreds of machines and devices are explained in this fun, colourful and unique look at.

Using a 75-word vocabulary and clear illustrations, pre-readers are helpfully introduced to the concepts of number, colour, and opposites. These books have been designed to appeal to children through the use of humour, rhyme and bright pictures that can be 'read' even by the non-reading child.