Kids Reference and Non-Fiction Books

Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything.  It asks big questions, such as "how can I be good?" or "what makes something beautiful?" Using lively examples, humorous illustrations and simple thought experiments, this book opens up the world of philosophy to children and adults with enquiring minds.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781474950886 • Author:  Rachel Firth, Minna Lacey & Jordan Akpojaro • Publisher:  Usborne Publishing • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  128 • Dimensions:  24.8 x 17.4 x 0.9 cm

Discover how some of today’s most talented footballers rose from their humble beginnings to become the best in the world. Read the STORIES, look up the STATS and relive the MAGIC MOMENTS in this 10-book mega pack! Featuring: • Haaland • Mbappe • Bronze • De Bruyne  • Rashford • Grealish • Messi • Salah • Ronaldo • Kane Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804538562 • Author: Simon Mugford & Dan Green • Publisher: Hachette Children's Books • Format: Box Set • Number of Books: 10 

Get into the Christmas spirit with this ho ho ho-larious joke book! With a range of laugh-out-loud festive jokes, this book is the perfect gift for kids to share with their friends and family. Filled with fun, laughter and Christmas cheer! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781916763234 • Author: Andrew Pinder • Publisher: Michael O'Mara • Format: Paperback

The ultimate guide to one of the most popular online games around! With hardback cover, 64 full-colour pages and lots of exclusive features. Plus games, quizzes, tips and fun facts all included in every publication. Excellent for all ages! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781915994417 • Author: PBR • Publisher:  Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 29.3 x 19.7 x 1.2 cm

Travel back to the stone age, spend some time with the ancient Greeks, and sail aboard a viking boat with our History Beginners Boxset! This set is great for emerging independent readers with easy-to-read chapters and wonderful illustrations. Perfect for adults to read aloud, these fun and educational books will keep children learning all summer long.  The set includes the following books: • Usborne Beginners: The Iron Age  • Usborne Beginners: The Stone Age • Usborne Beginners: Vikings • Usborne Beginners: Egyptians  • Usborne Beginners: The Maya • Usborne Beginners: Digging up the past • Usborne Beginners: Ancient Greeks • Usborne Beginners: Castles  • Usborne Beginners: The Celts  • Usborne Beginners: Romans Product Information: • ISBN: 9781474929097 • Author: Usborne Publishing • Publisher: Usborne Publishing • Format: Box Set • Number of Books: 10 

This brand-new book in the Clever Kids® series contains over 100 quick-fire number puzzles to exercise young minds. From number chains and simple calculations to target sums and times-table challenges, it's packed with activities designed to test maths skills in 10 minutes or less. Written by bestselling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, this book is guaranteed to keep children's brains busy and provide hours of fun as they try to beat the clock.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781780558882 • Author: Gareth Moore • Publisher:  Michael O'Mara • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  192 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 19.7 x 2.1 cm

Dive into redstone with the official Minecraft Inventor’s Gift Box, packed with tips and tricks for Minecraft players. Ever wanted to build a redstone contraption? Seeking inspiration for your next epic build? This gift box is the perfect toolkit for unlocking the inventor in you! Learn the basics of redstone in the Mini Redstone Handbook, start to apply your creative skills with Amazing Bite-Size Builds Mini Edition and then take inspiration for an immense build in Epic Inventions. Plus kit out your bedroom with the double-sided poster and door hanger, and build yourself a little creeper friend to keep you company as you play! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008537449 • Author: Mojang AB • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm

Have a merry LEGO® Christmas with 50 festive build ideas! Use your LEGO collection to create Christmas tree decorations, santa hats, snowflakes and more. Plus challenge your friends and family to fun LEGO games. You won't run out of ideas over the holiday season with this perfect stocking stuffer. Let the holiday fun begin!  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241381717 • Author: Elizabeth Dowsett  • Publisher: DK • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  80 • Dimensions:  15.5 x 2 x 21.5 cm

This is a great fun flap book packed with interesting information about space, and the amazing things that float through it - stars, moons, comets, and the planets of our solar system. Each double-page spread has a stunning colour illustration, and several flaps to lift to find out more about what's going on in the scene - such as what goes inside the International Space Station, how astronauts visited the Moon and what they did there, as well as the history of astronomy, from Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope Product Information: • ISBN: 9781409523383 • Author: Rob Lloyd Jones, Benedetta Giaufret • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 14 • Dimensions: 22.2 x 19.8 x 1.5 cm

Sheep and his hilarious friends teach you how to bake! Covering eight core baking skills including delicious sponge cakes, breads, biscuits, gluten-free and dairy-free bakes plus much more, this baking book is packed full of step-by-step photographic instructions and colourful illustrations. Sheep may not be able to bake, but you can! Practically Awesome Animals is a series of practical activity books that use step-by-step instructions and hilarious animal characters to teach kids how to draw, bake, cook and create comics. Product information: • ISBN: 9781915613141 • Author: Sarah Walden • Publisher: Noodle Juice • Format: Hardback • Pages: 112 • Dimensions: 20 x 27.6cm 

Jamie Smart's bestselling Bunny vs Monkey series expands with a hilarious, giggle-guaranteeing joke book! The silliest joke book ever! Join your favourite comic characters for the craziest joke book ever published. Bursting with hilarious side-splitting gags, to make you and your friends fall about with laughter. Also featuring jokes from readers of The Phoenix comic! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788453349 • Author: Jamie Smart • Publisher: David Fickling Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 128 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9cm

Jump into the action-packed LEGO Marvel multiverse with DK's latest Visual Dictionary, complete with an exclusive minifigure. Discover everything you need to know about the latest sets, vehicles, and minifigures. See every detail of the Guardians of the Galaxy's spaceship, explore Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, examine the advanced vehicles of Wakanda, discover Spider-Man's most dastardly villains, and find out about your favourite LEGO Marvel minifigures - from Black Panther to The Scarlet Witch. Meet all the iconic LEGO Marvel characters and learn about their allies, villains, skills, vehicles and locations.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241621424 • Author:  Simon Hugo & Amy Richau • Publisher:  DK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  160 • Dimensions:  25.8 x 3.1 x 30.7 cm

Get to know more than 200 minifigures from the LEGO Harry Potter world - including an exclusive new minifigure to add to your collection! Whether wizards, Muggles, friends or foes, find out about all your favourite Hogwarts students and teachers, as well as creatures and other characters. Meet Harry's friends Ron, Hermione, and Ginny; Hogwarts' teachers including Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall and Sprout; plus Hagrid, Dobby, and other popular characters from the Wizarding World. Discover all the most popular LEGO Harry Potter minifigures as well as rare and unique minifigures you may never have seen before in the LEGO Harry Potter Character Encyclopedia - the ultimate handbook for fans of LEGO Harry Potter. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241593448 • Author: Elizabeth Dowsett  • Publisher:  DK Children • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  200 • Dimensions: 18.9 x 3.1 x 23.8 cm

An informative introduction to the world of money, covering everything from bank accounts, earning and borrowing to government spending, taxes and inflation.  With bright, infographic pictures, a detailed glossary and links to specially selected websites where you can visit a virtual bank, see money from around the world and more.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781474958233 • Author:  Matthew Oldham & Eddie Reynolds • Publisher:  Usborne Publishing • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  96 • Dimensions:  24.4 x 17.6 x 0.8 cm

Whether it's walking, talking, breathing, growing, eating or excreting, your body has a LOT going on.  But how does it do it? What's really going on in there? Lift the flaps to find out! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781409598800 • Author: Matthew Oldham • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 23 • Dimensions: 19.9 x 22.4 x 1.4 cm

This is a re-sized edition of the original flap book that introduces the fascinating world of science in a simple and engaging way for younger readers.  It is full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps. It includes basic science topics from how plants grow to astronomy and forces. Each double-page includes simple practical experiments for children to try themselves. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781409551287 • Author: Minna Lacey  • Publisher:  Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  14 • Dimensions: 19.9 x 2.2 x 22.3 cm

The hilarious history book for kids, all about the human body, from bestselling, record-breaking author and illustrator Adam Kay and Henry Paker. The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off. But there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then . . . doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked It's time to delve into history and get some answers to some big questions, like: Why did patients gargle with wee? Why did people used to get paid for farting? (Unfortunately that’s no longer a thing – sorry.) How did a doctor save people's lives using a washing machine, a can of beans and some old sausages?What was the great stink? (No, it's not what doctors call your bum.) If you're sure you're ready, then pop a peg on your nose (there was a lot of stinky pus back then), pull on your wellies (there was a lot of poo there too), wash your hands (because they certainly didn't) and explore this gross and gruesome history of the human body!  Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780241508541 • Author: Adam Kay • Publisher: Penguin • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 404 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.7 x 2.9cm

What’s the universe made of? Where did everything come from? Lift the flaps in this fascinating book to reveal some of the amazing discoveries that astronomers and physicists have made in their quest to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. Curious young minds will be fascinated to discover planets, stars and galaxies and explore intergalactic space, with over 70 flaps to lift. Includes explanations of some of the biggest questions in the universe, including ‘What happened during the Big Bang?’ and ‘What lies out in the far reaches of space?’. A mind-expanding book sure to fascinate young space enthusiasts. Product information: • ISBN: 9781409563969 • Author: Alex Frith • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 14 • Dimensions: 27.73 x 22.19cm

A humorous yet historically accurate look at life in a thirteenth century medieval castle.  Inventive embedded flaps on page allow children to explore the hidden world of the castle. Young readers are taken on an exciting journey in which they encounter a magnificent banquet, a thrilling tournament and a dramatic siege. David Hancock's bright, detailed illustrations combined with informative and friendly text, provide children with an entertaining insight into life long ago.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780746064467 • Author: Katie Daynes  • Publisher:  Usborne Publishing • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  16 • Dimensions:  22.6 x 2.2 x 28.5 cm