13 December 2011
FROM the creators of the excellent Aliens Have Underpants, Monstersaurus tells the story in picture book format of a little boy called Monty who just…
12 December 2011
WHO he? Amongst many other things, he’s the guy who wrote Shrek!
12 December 2011
IS this another money-grabbing celebrity attempting to cash in on their name by knocking out a children’s book?
04 December 2011
BEFORE he was finally persuaded to write the life story of the Apple icon, Isaacson had already penned biographies of Benjamin Franklin and and Albert…
03 December 2011
COLONEL Rodney Hythe retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in India. On the outbreak of World War II, he made himself available…
03 December 2011
THE official tie-in book with the Channel 4 series of the same name, The Food Hospital offers a fresh slant on health.
02 December 2011
PERSONAL and business coach, mentor, entrepreneur and motivational speaker: Paul Bird is a busy man.
23 November 2011
NOT a lot of people know that the author of this bright and breezy series is the voice of The Gruffalo in theatre productions.
22 November 2011
BILLED as a fun mix of reference and nostalgia, this paperback version of the Sunday Times bestseller should be standard issue in schools.
14 November 2011
IMAGINE Harry Potter with a sense of humour (and a frock) and you get a notion of what Millie, the Dragon Princess, is about. Truth
14 November 2011
NO ONE could accuse the writer/illustrator double act behind this volume of a lack of ambition.
13 November 2011
COMPILED on the premise that we all know more poetry than we think we do, this collection boasts a simple but unique selling point which makes it all…
05 November 2011
IS it possible to describe the great sweep of British history from the Roman invasion to the end of World War Two in just 150 entries – each running to…
30 October 2011
A MAJOR Sunday Times bestseller hit in hardback, the I Used to Know That format has spawned a series of very well-received books which are now filtering…
30 October 2011
THE woman behind the incredibly successful Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean series has only gone and dreamed up another fabulous new character.
30 October 2011
DID you know that 27 per cent of the world’s population is aged under 14 or that there are more geysers in Yellowstone Park than anywhere else on the…
18 October 2011
WIDELY regarded as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century, the late Roald Dahl was no slouch either when it came to raising…
18 October 2011
GARDENING was once described as the new rock and roll.
13 October 2011
warned: if there’s a dog-shaped hole in your life that you’re even so much as toying with filling, this story is likely to be the deal clincher...
26 September 2011
THIS side of Encyclopedia Britannica, it's unlikely you'll find more more hard facts packed into any other book published this year.
