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

Get ready for hours of laughter with this hilarious 5-book set! Includes: • Gross Jokes • Silly Jokes • Dinosaur Jokes • Knock-Knock Jokes • Animal Jokes Product Information: • ISBN: 9781837251193 • Author: Michael O'Mara • Publisher: Michael O'Mara • Format: Box Set

Greatest Football Stars dives into the incredible journeys of the world's greatest players of all time. Featuring talents from all around the globe. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781802635355 • Author: Luke Paton • Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing • Format: Box Set 

A fantastic 6-book collection featuring your favourite F1 racing legends, with 101 facts in each book. Featuring: Fernando Alonso, Oscar Piastri, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035089895 • Author: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Box Set

The official Minecraft Annual of 2026, full of updates, builds, activities and more! Discover all there is to know about the past year of Minecraft in this exciting annual. Stuffed to the brim with updates, activities, step-by-step builds and tips and tricks for the game, this book is a must-have for any minecrafter. This year’s annual includes a biome personality quiz, loads of fun activities and tips on surviving a trial chamber, where to find all the wolf variants and how to loot an ancient city. Plus discover a mob board game, awesome builds and survival challenges for you to complete in-game! This is a brilliant gift for any Minecraft fan! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008682200 • Author: Mojang AB • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 29.1 x 22.2 cm

Features, puzzles, quizzes, stats, profiles and the best photography – all this and much more is inside Arsenal FC Official Annual 2026! Relive the highlights from the season across the club, and much more! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781917538299 • Author: Arsenal FC • Publisher: Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 28.5 x 19 x 1 cm

The new Pokémon Annual 2026 introduces fans to the brand new HORIZONS series. Meet Liko as she joins a crew of friendly Trainers aboard the Brave Olivine airship and discovers their name – the Rising Volt Tacklers and get ready for battle as they encounter a new set of villains – the Explorers! Journey across Paldea to discover new Pokémon and learn everything there is to know about this exciting new region. This annual features stories, profiles, activities, colouring and a PaldeaPokédex filled with awesome Pokémon facts and stats. Every Pokémon fan will love the Pokémon Annual 2026. Perfect for Christmas. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008701604 • Author: Pokémon & Farshore • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 29.1 x 22.2 cm

The Little Book Big Idea series builds foundations for life-long learning by explaining big ideas to little people.  What is science? asks questions such as: how can science help us? why is science important? what can you do with science? and provides the answers in a simple and clear way. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781915613714 • Author:  Sarah Walden  • Publisher:  Noodle Juice • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions:  21 x 1 x 25.3 cm

A MATCH! publication with hardback cover, 64 full-colour pages and lots of exclusive features. Full of top Football Skills tips, with a countdown of the ultimate players and their best tricks. Plus fun facts in every publication. Excellent for all ages! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781917522106 • Author: Match! Magazine • Publisher: Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 28.5 x 19 x 1 cm

The eye-catching and entertaining Disney Princess Annual 2026 features favourite Disney Princesses: Moana, Ariel, Raya, Rapunzel, Belle, Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine, Mulan, Tiana and Aurora. As always the annual includes engaging stories, fun activities, games, colouring, posters, profiles and much, much more. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008682187 • Author: Disney & Farshore • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 29.1 x 22.2 x 0.75 cm

Discover the planet's amazing wildlife with specially commissioned LEGO® models and maps. A stunning, interactive animal book for kids featuring a detailed LEGO map, dotted with charming micro build creatures, introducing each of the continents. This animal atlas also comes with 60 bricks and detailed instructions on how to build four exclusive mini models: panda, penguin, giraffe, and kangaroo. Which animal gobbles up 4,000 clams in one meal? Where can you find a snail as big as a tennis ball? Find answers to these questions and be inspired by tons of LEGO ideas in this awesome atlas for children! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241316573 • Author: Rona Skene • Publisher: Penguin DK (Dorling Kindersley) • Format: Hardback • Pages: 80 • Dimensions: 28.1 x 22.2 x 2.3 cm

The Manchester City FC Official Annual 2026 is packed with all things City! With features on players like Erling Haaland, Omar Marmoush and Yui Hasegawa, there’s a focus on new signings such as Tijjani Reijnders, Rayan Cherki and Rayan Ait-Nouri. There are quizzes, picture puzzles and wordsearches to solve. The ideal gift for any young City fan! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781917538442 • Author: MCFC • Publisher: Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 28.5 x 19 x 1 cm

Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses made history once again by retaining their European crown at UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 in Switzerland, and this official annual is your ultimate celebration of that unforgettable triumph. If you love everything about England football, this annual is packed with pride, passion and unbeatable football content. A must-read for all lovers of the beautiful game. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781917538381 • Author: England FA • Publisher: Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 28.5 x 19 x 1 cm

Discover the magic of the very first Christmas. As stars light the sky, Mary and Joseph journey on to welcome the birth of a special baby. The baby Jesus. Celebrating one of the most loved stories in the world, this gentle retelling introduces the joy of the Christmas nativity. With sweet, gentle text that weaves a tale of magic and friendship and beautiful, soft illustrations that add an extra touch of magic to the story, this charming picture book is perfect to snuggle up and read to someone special. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781802491500 • Author: Bookoli • Publisher: Bookoli • Format: Paperback • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.7 cm

The official Sonic the Hedgehog Annual is back! Fill your egg heads with puzzles, quizzes, character bios, crafts, comic stories and updates from the world of Sonic. Think you can keep up with the blue blur? Then get ready to race through mazes, codebreakers, sudokus, spot the differences and more. Or maybe you want to assist the evil Dr. Eggman and create a new terrifying invention … your choice! Dive into Sonic’s adventures and catch up with his latest campaigns alonside his best buds Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow and more. Learn all about the speedy crew with fact files and brush up on your Sonic knowledge with the timeline. This year’s annual is stuffed full of fun, perfect for Sonic the Hedgehog fans. So what are you waiting for? Gotta go fast! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008682286 • Author: Sega & Farshore • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 29.1 x 22.2 x 0.75 cm

It was a year to remember and 2026 could be even bigger for Eddie Howe’s Magpies – and the Newcastle United FC Official Annual 2026 brings all supporters closer than ever. Packed with interviews, photographs, insights and memories, it’s the perfect way to look back and enjoy a wonderful 2024/25, as well as staying fully informed for the current campaign and testing your knowledge with puzzles and teasers. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781917538466 • Author: NUFC • Publisher: Grange Communications Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 64 • Dimensions: 28.5 x 19 x 1 cm

Packed with stunning photography, Eyewitness Football is the perfect guide for any football fan who wants to know everything about the "beautiful game". Become an eyewitness to world cup winners and champions past and present in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a tour of the beautiful game. Children will love reading about tricky tactics, freshening up on football skills knowledge, and getting to grips with the science and technology behind the game. This fact-packed football guide for children aged 9+ includes bite-sized biographies of well-known players - from Lionel Messi to Zinedine Zidane - to fill you in on those important details needed to impress, as well as club shirts and memorabilia pictured from years gone by and the shining trophies you still see today. Action-packed photographs help you relive moments of glory, while record breakers and national team profiles are listed for quick-fire mastery of famous football history. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241617182 • Author: DK • Publisher: Penguin DK (Dorling Kindersley) • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 28.9 x 22.4 cm

The ultimate Christmas bestseller of amazing facts, extraordinary stories, and eye-opening pictures is back! Every year Ripley's Believe It or Not! storms the bestseller list as it unveils the latest collection of weird but true stories, bite-size, jaw-dropping facts, and amazing photographs gathered from all over the world. This year ... Gasp at the paddle-steamer made entirely out of ice. Find out who invented the bullet-proof vest. Meet Fedy, the cross-eyed cat, who has 400,000 followers on Instagram. Discover the whereabouts of the volcano that blasts out gold. Shudder at the Australian mosquito that sucks blood from frogs' nostrils. Visit the city of Chefhaouen in Morocco, where every building is painted blue. And much, more more... No Christmas can possibly be complete without Ripley's! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529961027 • Author: Ripley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 29.9 x 23.6 x 2.2 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

The Little Book Big Idea series builds foundations for life-long learning by explaining big ideas to little people.  Studying history, in theory, should stop us from making the same mistakes again. But only if we keep asking questions such as Who studies history? Who should you believe? Whose stories haven't been told. These are all very BIG questions that need exploring and the sooner the better. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781915613721 • Author:  Noodle Juice • Publisher:  Noodle Juice • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions:  21 x 1 x 25.3 cm