Kids Reference and Non-Fiction Books

What does it mean to be human? What is truth? What is good? These are all very BIG questions that need exploring and the sooner children start to think about the answers, the better our world will be.  What is philosophy? What is life? What does it mean to be human? What makes us happy? What is good? What is love? What is truth? What is knowledge? What is time?  This delightful series builds foundations for life-long learning by explaining big ideas to little people. Using simple language to explain complicated ideas, each book takes the core questions that relate to each subject and provides answers that make sense to young children.   Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781915613677 • Author:  Katie Rewse • Publisher:  Noodle Juice • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions:   21 x 1 x 25.3 cm

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

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 

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

Discover the best way to practise your Maths skills fantastic 10 Minutes test book! Understand addition, subtraction and much more! Take the brain-testing challenges and develop strong maths habits in order to help you pass your SATs. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781409365419 • Author: Carol Vorderman • Publisher: DK • Format: Paperback • Pages: 80 • Dimensions:29.8 x 21 x 1cm

This all-new 2026 children’s annual is loaded with jaw-dropping, eye-popping, believe it or not facts and bright, bold photography! •    Combining the planet’s weirdest facts with the coolest and strangest true stories •    From bizarre beaks and brilliant butterflies to liquid trees, intriguing instruments and spinning storms. •    Explores animals, geography, science, the environment, human achievement and lots more •    The perfect book for fans of Guinness World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008750213 • Author: National Geographic Kids • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 30.6 x 23.8 x 1.9 cm

Did you hear about the creeper's birthday party? It really went off with a BANG! Why does Alex love redstone lamps? Because they light up her life. Where do tired miners sleep? On bedrock. The official Minecraft Joke Book is packed full of hilarious jokes that will have you laughing your blocks off! There's something for every Minecrafter, whatever their age.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781405295253 • Author:  Mojang AB • Publisher:  Egmont • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  96 • Dimensions:  23.5 x 28.1 x 1.2 cm

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

Introduce your child to the world of learning and satisfy their thirst for knowledge! Packed with fun subjects that children will be familiar with, such as games, sports, pets, food we eat, seasons, and weather. This children's knowledge book is a must-have addition to every family library! Does your little one have big questions about the world we live in? This fully updated kid's encyclopedia from DK has all the answers!  This illustrated encyclopedia is perfect for curious children aged 4-7 years! It is sorted into themes to make finding information and learning new things quick and easy. The clear text is perfect for parents to read aloud or for beginner readers to read themselves. There is no better starting block for learning than with My First Encyclopedia! Packed with fascinating facts and modernised content, plus a mixture of bold new photography and specifically tailored illustrations, the design and layout are guaranteed to capture a child's imagination. It is the perfect gift for young children who are not afraid to ask why. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241659847 • Author: DK • Publisher: DK  • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  80 • Dimensions: 24 x 1.2 x 30.9 cm

Why do stars shine? And how was the moon made? Children can blast off into space with this fantastic interactive flap book revealing the secrets of the Universe. Vibrant illustrations and simple explanations combined with over 70 flaps to lift. Each double page covers a different topic, including 'Glittering galaxies', 'On the Moon' and 'Space Station'. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836044604 • Author: Rob Lloyd Jones • Publisher: Usborne Publishing • Pages: 14 • Dimensions: 22.3 x 20 x 1.5 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

Dive beneath the waves with this fun search and find fact book from National Geographic Kids. Find it! Search the busy illustrated scenes to find more than 250 sea creatures. From the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic Ocean, shallow rockpools to the deepest, darkest depths they are sure to keep young readers entertained. Explore it! Discover amazing facts all about the creatures spotted. Did you know great white sharks can have up to 300 teeth? That narwhals get called the unicorns of the sea? Or that beluga whales can swim backwards? With colourful photos and lots of fun activities that kids will love it’s the perfect book for kids and grown-ups to enjoy together! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008421892 • Author: National Geographic Kids • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 48 • Dimensions: 28 x 22 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 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

Boost your spelling skills with this fantastic 10 Minutes A Day workbook! Support you child's knowledge of doubling letters, homophones, compound words and much more! Use the 10 minute timer to see if you can race the clock! Product Information:• ISBN: 9781409341420 • Author: Carol Vorderman• Publisher: DK• Format: Paperback• Pages: 80• Dimensions: 30 x 21 x 1cm

A new title in the ‘Buster Laugh-a-Lot’ series, this rib-tickling collection has hundreds of hilarious jokes for funny kids to enjoy and share. Why did the vampire’s breath smell? Because he had bat breath. Why did the brain never take a shower? It didn’t want to be brainwashed. Why did Cinderella’s team always lose? Because her coach was a pumpkin. Filled with over 300 laugh-out-loud jokes this super silly collection is guaranteed to have kids rolling on the floor laughing. Designed to be easy to read and even more fun to share it features giggle-inducing illustrations by Andrew Pinder for extra fun. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781837250295 • Author: Caroline Rowlands • Publisher: Michael O'Mara • Format: Paperback • Pages: 128 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.82 cm

Enter the prehistoric world for an incredible four-billion year journey in this book for young history and dinosaur enthusiasts. Take children on a fascinating journey through history, showing them how and where their favourite dinosaurs came to exist, and how events from billions of years ago are still affecting our natural world today. Packed with dynamic historical content, Prehistoric Worlds combines illustrations and photos to help young historians aged 7-9 learn all about the period that shaped our planet. Meet favourite dinosaurs, from the terrifying T.Rex to the spiky stegosaurus; nurture your inner palaeontologist by learning about prehistoric plant and animal fossils; and discover destructive extinction events that changed the world forever. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241643150 • Author: Ashley Hall & Claire McElfatrick • Publisher: Penguin DK (Dorling Kindersley) • Format: Hardback • Pages: 80

Enter the world of oceans and discover all the interesting animals that live in them! Swim with jellyfish, wonder at the busy life of a seagrass meadow, and fence with narwhals. Children will be delighted to learn about life under the sea and how to conserve it for generations to come. Inside the pages of Earth's Incredible Oceans, you'll discover: - Fascinating information about oceans that supports and goes beyond the national curriculum - Fun and unusual facts for curious 7-9 year-olds about amazing sea creatures, underwater habitats, and how we can bring about environmental change - Compelling and factual text written by animal expert Jess French, and beautifully detailed ocean-themed illustrations by Claire McElfatrick Let's go on an underwater adventure! From glowing jellyfish to deep-sea dwellers, they'll discover the incredible secret world of life under the sea. This ocean book is filled with colourful visuals that will delight and inspire kids - teaching them the importance of the ocean and how we can help to take care of it. Fish, sharks, whales, and invertebrates swim through the pages of this colourful ocean book, which combines gorgeous illustrations and photos to help young enthusiasts learn all about the world's oceans. Children will learn interesting facts, and explanations about how the ocean functions, such as, how underwater plants and species rely on each other, and how ocean animals have fun and look after their young. This beautiful book is the perfect gift for young animal and conservation enthusiasts. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241459140 • Author: Jess French • Publisher: Penguin DK (Dorling Kindersley) • Format: Hardback • Pages: 80 • Dimensions: 28.6 x 23.5 x 1.4 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