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Kill or Cure (Grisly History of Medicine) by John Farndon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Kill or Cure takes a good look at surgeons and healers, covering early surgical practices and operations including a very famous patient Louis X!V and his successful albeit excruciating operation in his bottom region! Through to the start of early anaesthesia...what a relief that must have been!
The Stone Age: Hunters, Gatherers and Woolly Mammoths! by Marcia Williams
$17.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Hear all about the Stone Age from the great storyteller Sparrow - history like it's never been told before! Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age. Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they learn how to make fire, invent stone tools and turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Packed with jokes, comi ...Show more
The Tudors: Kings, Queens, Scribes and Ferrets! by Marcia Williams
$17.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Hear all about the Tudors from the great scribe Arthur Inkbott - history like it's never been told before! Join Marcia Williams on a journey through Tudor times with Arthur Inkblott, Queen Elizbeth I's favourite scribe and his pet ferret, Smudge. Meet Henry VIII and his six wives, fight the Spanish Ar ...Show more
Gorgeous Georgians (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary
$8.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including their sneaky schemes for hiding personal hygiene problems and the schoolchildren who went to war with their teachers. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a ...Show more
Rotten Romans (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary
$8.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Rotten Romans are ready to uncover, including what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts and how ancient Britons got their hair nice and spiky. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of T ...Show more
Stormy Weather (Horrible Geography) by Anita Ganeri
$15.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Geography | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Where in the world can you watch tornadoes that rip houses from the ground? Meet the man struck by lightning seven times? See frozen turtles fall from the sky? All this and more in Stormy Weather.
Shocking Electricity (Horrible Science) by Nick Arnold
$15.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Science | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
This is a reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index.
Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs? by Mitchell Symons
$17.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Ever wondered why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why DO farts smell like rotten eggs? Mitchell Symons has the answers, told in his brilliantly witty trademark style.
Don't Flush! Lifting the Lid on the Science of Poo and Wee by Richard Platt
$24.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Reading Level: 7
This book is a light-hearted, yet highly informative study of two of the most natural human resources in the world -- poo and wee. Throughout history, the products of our bladder and bowels have helped us to build houses, wash and dye our clothes, fertilize crops, treat illnesses, solve crimes, control ...Show more
What They Don't Tell You About World War I by Robert Fowke
$20.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: What They Don't Tell You About
This book explains how the war started, what it was about and who it involved. It describes the major battles and looks at what life was like for the soldiers in the trenches, the pilots in the air, the sailors at sea and the civilians back home. Written in the lively style common to this series, the au ...Show more
What They Don't Tell You About World War II by Robert Fowke
$20.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: What They Don't Tell You About
Did you know that Adolf Hilter wasn't, in fact, German? The Second World War brought horror and heartache to millions of people all over the globe, and it turned everyday living upside down too. Any history book will give you the boring facts THEY think you should know, but only this one will tell you w ...Show more
The Epic Book of Epicness by Adam Frost
$17.00 NZD
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Pick up this book and see what you can find... Crikey! That's dead scary. If all the dead people on earth came back to life as zombies there would be 101 billion zombies in the world. Aagh! Run for your life! Check your worryometer! If you see a tiger shark be very afraid, it will eat you. On the other ...Show more