Ever wondered who invented the Internet or your Ipod? This book explores the fascinating history of events that shaped the world. It takes the reader through the Eureka moments - from the discovery of fire to modern day research into genetic engineering. A timeline puts events in context, and feature-boxes explore the more significant inventions.

From sweet treats to simple family meals, young children will love trying out the exciting range of tasty and healthy recipes. Scrummy scrambled eggs, tasty tuna bake, caterpillar cup cakes and smoothie shake-ups make your first time cooking in the kitchen easy and fun!

Choosing the right plants and creating a suitable habitat, this title helps you to invite some interesting wildlife to your garden. It lets your child to build a bird box for a barn owl, get digging and discover how worms are good for the soil, and welcome guests to their very own ladybird hotel.

Tells how to balance on the beam and doing the perfect forward roll and handstand? This book teaches various things about the sport from the rules to the skills you'll need and find out how to keep yourself safe.

A guide that contains facts and gives various information about Ancient Egypt. It helps see inside the Great Pyramid at Giza and discover how Tutankhamun's tomb was found. It is suitable for projects or just for fun. It includes a pull-out wallchart and the clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download.

Helps your child learn about astronomy. From the man whose children helped him to invent the telescope, to the incredible connection between Earth's seas and the Moon: this book lets your child learn about planets and stars and discover the history of the world's oldest science.

Helps you to find out how the dinosaurs lived, what they ate and how they hunted. This title features six photographic pop-up scenes and pull-out surprises on every page.

From how a gecko can get airborne to the way a cobra uses poisonous venom to kill its prey, this book lets your child learn about the jungle's ecosystem.

Go on a sticker adventure with your favourite superhero, Spiderman! This sticker book allows you to make up your own Spider-Man cartoon scenes as you stick stickers on to special full-colour backgrounds and find out facts about the web-slinging, wall-crawling Spider-Man. These stickers are reusable.

Helps children learn all about how Ahsoka trains to become a Jedi. This book enables them to find out about her adventures under the wing of different Jedi's - Anakin, Luminara Unduli and Plo Koon - and see how she learns to trust her Jedi instincts and to work as part of a team.

An illustrated guide to the characters, aliens, monsters, locations and technology of the Doctor Who series. It includes photographs that reveals more in-depth details, from the fascinating aliens to the demise of the Time Lords. Each page also shows you the Doctor Who characters, technology and locations in graphic detail.

Offers the inside gossip on Disney's Hannah Montana, the world's most famous secret pop star. This title features pictures from all three seasons and facts on Hannah Montana characters from Miley Stewart aka Hannah Montana, to best friend Lilly, her dad Robbie and brother Jackson.

What caused Hurricane Katrina? What's inside an Eygptian Pyramid? How did the Vikings wage war? This book provides answers to these questions and more. It also covers events including the Asian Tsunami and Human Genome Project.

Do you think history is just about boring dates and long-dead kings and queens? This title shows you 200,000 years, 5,000 languages, 10,000 religions, 119 great empires, seven ancient wonders, two world wars, and one Elvis. It is packed with 3,500 years of bloody battles, glorious empires, revolting revolutions, and monstrous monarchs.

Slavery has plagued the history of humankind for thousands of years, from the conquered peoples of Ancient times to the millions of Africans stolen from their homelands and forced into work that helped build America and the modern world. This book offers historical information and personal stories to give your child the story behind slavery.

Between 1938 and 1945, six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. This book presents an account of the story. It includes maps, charts, and timelines which provide context and the testimony of survivors. It also accompanies a DVD.

Shows how rhymes, repetition, and writing can help you learn your times tables. This work is ideal for practising at home to improve your maths skills. It includes a say-along CD, a quick-wit wordbook, and a wall reward chart, when you've learned each table, give yourself a gold star.

Methen is a young boy whose father is a priest at the temple of the crocodile god, Sobek. Join him on his travels as he and a young servant girl get entangled in a terrible tale of deceit as they discover evidence of tomb robbing, and are determined to expose the villain! But will they lose their heads before they prove their case?

Learning Chinese is really difficult, right? Wrong! This book helps you to start speaking, writing and understanding this lingo. Give yourself a Chinese name, see how to haggle in the shops and test yourself to see if you know the key characters.

A multi-level reading programme that helps children to develop their reading skills and general knowledge. It features photographs, illustrations and age-appropriate stories.

Featuring Julie Downing's illustrations, this book offers a retelling of fourteen classic stories, which include tales like Cinderella , Jack and the Beanstalk , The Fisherman and his Wife and Diamonds and Toads .

Helps to make A, B, C as easy as can be. Packed with bright pictures, this book intends to stimulate recognition and encourage talking and naming. It features a chunky format that is helpful for little hands.

Introduces your child the animal kingdom. Packed with bright pictures, this book intends to stimulate recognition and encourage talking and naming. It features chunky format that is helpful for little hands.

Lets your baby discover all about bath time with touch and feel textures. This title lets their little hands roam and feel how shiny the bath ducks are and how soft the fleecy towels feel. It is suitable for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

Featuring photographs and illustrations, this book encourages children to look further and unearth more of the amazing secrets of our world. It covers plants and animals, machines and transport, science and industry, people in the past, music and the arts, and life around the world.

Contains flip flaps and fold out pages that encourages your child to discover about their body. This book helps the child find out what a sneeze is, why you can't breathe underwater, why it hurts if you fall over and graze your knee and what the point of a belly button is.

This text takes a look at mammals - from aardvarks to zebras - in their rich habitats. Its vocabulary is accessible to children aged five and above with the meanings of new subject-related words clearly explained in a glossary.

Shaped like a sports car with real wheels, this book allows children to look at different types of fast and racy sports cars including the McLaren F1.

Discusses inhabitants of our animal kingdom from crying crocodiles to slippery snakes. This title is divided into five sections on mammals, birds, insects, fish, and reptiles and amphibians, with questions and answers, facts, and step-by-step photographic sequences.

Explores the prehistoric world. This book lets children discover where the dinosaurs came from, how they lived and what happened to them as well as facts including which dinosaurs used their tail like a club and who had a brain the size of a ping-pong ball.

Features the amazing creatures that live in the rainforests. This work helps you discover why macaws eat clay before breakfast, see beautiful flowers bloom in mid-afternoon, follow an ocelot as it prowls its territory at night, and more. It supports National Science Curriculum at Key Stage 1, and is useful for early project work.

Do you want to help your child train their brain so they can calculate like Einstein, paint like Picasso, or compose like Mozart? Then put their grey matter to the brain-training test and see how they measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history. This title helps you know how to train your brain to be a genius.

A collection of animal stickers in full colour.

Get ready for the ballet with beautiful dancers and ballet accessories. Dress up as a graceful ballerina and decorate your book with sparkling ballet shoes and the prettiest tutus. Each activity encourages pre-schoolers' love of role-play and make-believe while counting, matching, and sorting activities help develop co-ordination skills.

Talking about puppies, from labradors to spaniels, this title allows you to choose stickers from more than 60 to either decorate your books and projects or create a scene on the pull-out landscape included.

Contains an 8 page booklet in which to place stickers, including a double-page spread of a reconstructed prehistoric environment.