Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another g ...Show more
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!
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
Category: Reference Books
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Vile Victorians are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed and how stag hunting took place in Paddington Station. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit wi ...Show more
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
Category: Sport & Leisure
Do you think you know everything there is to know about football? Have you heard of ... * The psychic octopus who could predict the winner? * The Lancashire Lasses who became football's best kept secret? * The dog detective who saved the World Cup trophy? * The superstar footballer who never actuall ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
This is a brilliant book packed with amazing facts and terrific trivia about things that kids have done when they are eight from writing novels and symphonies to climbing mountains and recording hit records. Did you know? By the time you are 8 you will have: taken 67,159,993 breaths; blinked 52,851,994 ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Wow! | Reading Level: 5+
Wow! Pirates is the third book in the series, following on from Wow! Animals and Wow! Human Body. It is full of extraordinary facts. Find out about the biggest treasure hauls, the worst pirate punishments, the most powerful female pirate - Zheng Yi Sao, and much more! This is a lively, fun book that is ...Show more
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.
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
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
