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A World of Information (HB) by Richard Platt
$34.99 NZD
Category: Children
This visually stunning miscellany from the effortlessly stylish print-maker James Brown is a collection of incredible facts and figures. Do you know how many bones there are in the human body or how clouds form? Or about different types of knots or how Morse code works? Each illustration is both beautif ...Show more
Castle Diary: Journal of a Young Page by Richard Platt
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children
This is the medieval journal of Tobias Burgess, a young page. What was it really like to live in a castle during the Middle Ages? This book gives the answer! Sent to his uncle's castle for a year to learn to be a page, ten-year-old Toby keeps a detailed journal of everything that happens there - from su ...Show more
Egyptian Diary by Richard Platt
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
Step back 3,000 years in time with the fascinating journal of Nakht, a young scribe. The year is 1465 BC and Nakht's family is moving from their village to Memphis, where his father has just become an important scribe. With Nakht, we explore this bustling Egyptian city: visiting the craftsmen's workshop ...Show more
Pirate Diary by Richard Platt
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children
This title presents the swashbuckling adventures of Jake Carpenter, cabin boy. The twenty-third of September, 1716. I write this on my last day at home. Tomorrow I am to join my Uncle Will aboard his ship and become a sailor. Will has told me of sea monsters and mermaids and has sailed through a hurrica ...Show more
Roman Diary by Richard Platt
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
Explore the city at the heart of the ancient Roman Empire with Iliona, a Greek girl captured by pirates and sold into slavery. The year is AD 102 and Iliona, an educated Greek girl, has been orphaned and sold as a slave in Rome. Apart from her beloved diary, she hasn't a friend in the world...But the fa ...Show more
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections by Richard Platt
$37.00 NZD
Category: Children
This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings.Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-secti ...Show more
The Germ Lab: The Gruesome Story of Deadly Diseases by Richard Platt
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children
A lavishly illustrated and comprehensive history of diseases, infections, plagues, and pandemics for young readers. The Germ Lab features case histories of specific epidemics and pandemics, including Covid-19, "eyewitness" accounts from the rats, flies, ticks and creepy-crawlies who spread the most de ...Show more
The Germ Lab: The Gruesome Story of Deadly Diseases by Richard Platt
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children
An entertaining and comprehensive telling of diseases, infections, plagues and pandemics for young readers. The Germ Lab features case histories of specific epidemics and pandemics, including COVID-19, 'eyewitness' accounts from the rats, flies, ticks, and creepy-crawlies who spread the most deadly vir ...Show more
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