Mick Manning

Brita Granstrom

Dino-dinners

Brita Granström

"Take a wonderful journey through time to discover the story of paintings, from Stone Age cave art to the graffiti-inspired work of Jean-Michel Basquiat."--Back cover.

A History of Art for Children

The Story of Paintings

From Aud the Deep-Minded, an early voyager to Iceland, and Sacagawea who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition across the USA, to Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space and Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest, this book shows the incredible courage, determination and power of women explorers over the last 1200 years. Also features Sylvia Earle, US marine biologist and oceanographer, Barbara Hillary, the first African-American woman to reach the North and South Poles, pioneering photo-journalist Lee Miller, Bessie Coleman, the first woman of Native American and African-American descent to hold a pilot's licence, Annie Londonderry, a Latvian immigrant to the US who was the first woman to cycle round the world, Nellie Bly, the first female US undercover journalist and a record-breaking round-theworld traveller, Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery in Maryland and went on to become an army scout and activist. These women have led the way exploring lands, oceans, mountains, skies and space, but have also made pioneering discoveries in the fields of science, nature, archaeology, ecology and more. The lives of these women, told as personal stories, are an inspiration to us all.

Great Explorers and Adventurers

Women Who Led the Way

Max and Kate make an adventurous pair! Readers of this charming book will follow these best friends on their fun quests. In this volume, Max and Kate go on a spooky camping trip, cross a wobbly bridge, share a delicious picnic, and meet a friendly squirrel. Vivid illustrations will draw in even reluctant readers. Simple, age-appropriate text is perfect for early readers. This humorous book will be a popular addition to any library or classroom.

Adventures with Max and Kate

As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father?s hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years later, he has carefully recreated his father's stories, writing them down as if his dad was speaking the words. In collaboration with Brita, he has illustrated them too. It?s for Charlie?s grandchildren ? and for everyone. Find out what it was really like to: Put up with food rationing ? Undergo RAF Training? Take off in a bomber? Face enemy fighters? Survive the Battle of the Bulge

Tail-End Charlie

The ruined house of this book was built hundreds of years ago and stands in a quiet valley in the north of England. Long since abandoned by humankind, the ancient house is now a haven for wild plants and insects, birds and butterflies. The book explores and explains its many natural wonders.

A Ruined House

The Story of Paintings begins with the cave paintings of our Stone Age ancestors and continues through to the modern day. Mick Manning and Brita Granström take your on a tour of their personally selected gallery which showcases the work of some of the world's most famous artists and few a less well-known ones. The artists featured include van Eyck, da Vinci, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Velázquez, JMW Turner, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Georgia O'Keefe, Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Jackson Pollock as well as Dame Laura Knight and Kalan Khan. The friendly text and illustrations help children to appreciate the art, highlighting interesting biographical details and picking out key details to spot. The book's large format means the art is reproduced on a wonderfully impactful scale. This really is a book to give and treasure. The creative team of Mick Manning and Brita Granström are well-known for their ground breaking children's information books. Their many awards range the TES Information Book Award for What's Under the Bed? and the English Association Non-fiction award for Charlie's War Illustrated.

Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site? With captions and pictures, and using up-to-the-minute research discoveries, Mick Manning and Brita Granström tell the incredible true story of this awe-inspiring monument – one of the greatest ancient sites in the world.

Secrets of Stonehenge

If you choose to share 'the facts of life' with children at a young age, this is the perfect book to do so. It gently guides the reader through each stage of a child's development within the womb with charming illustrations and simple explanations, inviting lots of discussion and providing answers to all those questions. Shortlisted for the Junior Science Book Award (now the Royal Society's Science Prize).

How Did I Begin?

From a wide range of historical periods (the 9th century to the present) and countries, this book reveals 33 intrepid women who broke the boundaries of society as well as geography in order to explore places, peoples and customs. Some of them took up personal challenges, like climbing the world's highest mountains or crossing oceans and deserts; others have joined space programs or pursued scientific research. Some were seeking new places to live. All were and are pioneers. While some are world-famous, others deserve to be better-known. Among them are Jeanne Baret (France), first woman to circumnavigate the globe; Amelia Earhart (USA) pioneer pilot; Junko Tabei (Japan) first woman to climb Everest; Aud 'the Deep-Minded' (Scandinavia), leader of settlement in Iceland; Mae Carol Jemison (USA), first black woman in space; Mary Anning (England), fossil discoverer; Sylvia Earle (USA), underwater explorer and ocean conservation campaigner; Arunima Sinha (India), first female amputee to climb Mount Everest.

Max and Kate play all kinds of creative games. They play pretend, build forts, and even do magic tricks. What goofy adventures will these best friends go on next? Readers of this delightful book will find out. Even reluctant readers will love Max and Kate's silly jokes and fun games. With simple, age-appropriate text, charming illustrations, and lots of humor, this endearing book is perfect for early readers.

Playtime with Max and Kate

A picture book for children who are learning to read. It contains a set of illustrated support notes outlining qualities in the text, giving readers pointers and suggesting a range of follow-up activities. More detailed guidance is available in a separate Parents' Handbook.

Zed's Bread

STONE AGE, BONE AGE takes a young child on an imaginative adventure back in time - back to the stone age when people dressed in skins and hunted for woolly mammoths. Carried along by an engaging, lyrical text, we discover all about how stone age people lived, the tools they used and the food they ate, how they dressed and where they slept. Finally, we visit a magic place, deep in a cave, where beautiful paintings flicker in the torchlight and wild dancing takes place...'Stamp like stag Dance like a bear ' and celebrate 'Stone Age, Bone Age, What a clever age '. This book is truly unique, and an exceptional addition to the Wonderwise series from an award-winning author-illustrator team.

Stone Age, Bone Age

Familiar images and subjects are a starting-off point for extending knowledge. Wonderwise links the familiar and the unknown, encouraging primary graders to think and question as they explore basic topics and concepts, like atmosphere and altitude, human bodies and animal bodies, that they will return to again as they learn and grow.

What's Up?

Compares and contrasts various parts of the human anatomy with those of animals and concludes that all bodies are different and special.

My Body, Your Body

Vivian French

Isabel Thomas

Nikki Gamble

Rob Alcraft

Teresa Heapy

Hawys Morgan

Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a series of engaging and imaginative non-fiction books which encourage reading for pleasure and are also phonically decodable.This pack of six contains one copy of Robot Zoo, Bird Sounds, Erik's Viking Adventure, Can Fish Fly?, One Potato, Two Potatoes and Ants.

Oxford Reading Tree Infact - Oxford Level 5

A multi-award winning series of non-fiction picture books Two excellent topics which link into the curriculum for maths, science, technology and history Includes helpful notes on making the best use of the books.

Let's Build a House!

Wonderwise books bridge the gap between stories and facts, perfect for building children's love of learning and reading.

A Book about the Earth Beneath Us

What's Under the Bed?

Ideal for National Curriculum Key Stage 1-2, a title in the WONDERWISE series which introduces children to the importance of personal hygiene, drawing comparisons between the habits of humans and animals. Illustrated by Brita Granstrom.

A Book about Keeping Clean

Wash, Scrub, Brush!

Let's Build a House! But what sort of a house should it be? And what do we need to build it? It could be a shack on a beach, or it could be a skyscraper. Try building a bungalow or even a castle! Join in the imaginative play as a group of children plan their houses and discover the materials and techniques needed to build them. The Wonderwise series presents facts in a way that will inspire young children's imaginations about the world around them. Wonderwise is an award-winning series of information books, perfect for introducing younger children to non-fiction. The books include updated notes and activities to support the new primary curriculum.

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