Complete Booklist for Children Aged 6+

A Butterfly Is Patient

From the creators of the award-winning An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy and A Rock Is Lively comes this gorgeous and informative introduction to the world of butterflies.

A Nest Is Noisy

This gorgeous and informative book looks at the fascinating world of nests, from those of tiny bee hummingbirds to those of orangutans high in the rainforest canopy.

A Seed Is Sleepy

Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts.

A Stone For Sascha

This year’s summer holiday will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride.

A Street Through Time:
A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street

This illustrated history book for children takes you on a 12,000-year journey to find out the story of a single street.

A Year Around The Great Oak

Join Anna and Benjamin as they spend the seasons with the great oak tree, and discover the fascinating plants and animals that live around it.

Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country

Africa, Amazing Africa is Atinuke's first introduction to the African continent – an exciting starting point for young children aged 4+.

Amelia Earhart: A Picture Book Biography

You may know Amelia Earhart as one of history's most beloved aviators, but did you know she grew up playing football and studied automobile-engine repair?

An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

An Anthology of Intriguing Animals is a stunning animal encyclopedia for young readers to explore, with reference pages packed with fascinating information and stories.

Are You A Snail

A young snail faces many challenges as it tries to grow safely into an adult. All the facts a young child needs to understand the life of this intriguing backyard.

Art Book About Portraits

This captivating book offers a detailed insight into the lives of great portrait artists and the people they painted.

Atlas of Ocean Adventures

Whether you’re travelling long haul with leatherback turtles across the Pacific, snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing with a walrus.

Bedtime Math

This book series has proven to kids and families that yes, math is something fun you might actually want to do on purpose.

Big Picture Atlas

Young explorers can discover the countries, continents, oceans, mountains and ice caps of our amazing planet and learn where different animals and people live.

Billie B Brown

The Billie B Brown series is carefully designed with word art and illustrations – no mountains of text or super-tricky words to intimidate the early reader. It's a great series.

Butterfly Eyes & Other Secrets of the Meadow

Discover the hidden world of the meadow in this unique combination of poetry riddles and science wisdom. Beginning with the rising sun and ending with twilight.

Children Like Us: Homes Around The World

Children will love reading about the homes of their contemporaries in other countries; from underground homes and floating homes, to eco-homes, and the most unusual homes.

Counting On Katherine

Meet Katherine Johnson, the mathematical genius who helped make the historic Apollo 11 moon landings possible and made sure that the Apollo 13 returned home safely.

Dr Seuss:
Is a Camel a Mammal?

Dr. Seuss’ famous Cat in the Hat takes young readers on a fun-filled tour of the world of mammals.

Dr Seuss:
Miles and Miles of Reptiles

This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations.

Dr Seuss:
Wish for a Fish

Dr. Seuss’ famous feline plunges young readers from the sunny surface waters to the deepest ocean trenches in search of an amazing array of marine creatures.

Dr Seuss:
Would you Rather be a Tadpole

Join the Cat in the Hat as he introduces beginning readers to ponds.

Encyclopedia of British Wildlife – Identification Guide for Kids

This fun, practical guide features amazing facts, photos and easy identification tips to encourage children to be interested in nature. Young learners can identify and record their findings of over 100 different species of wildlife found in the UK, including birds, bugs, fish and mammals.

Everything Under The Sun

A collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by original QI Elf, Molly Oldfield.

Famous Composers Picture Book

Discover classical music through the ages, and the people who composed and performed it in this informative sticker book.

First Animal Encyclopedia

Learn how the animals that spend their lives surrounded by some of the world's biggest forests hunt for food, raise their young and hide from predators.

Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature

Branching, spiralling, spinning—you can find patterns almost anywhere in nature, if you look for them. This book is a starting point to seeing patterns in the natural world.

Harry Saves The Ocean!

From the bestselling children's picture book series, Harry The Happy Mouse, a children's picture book teaching about the problem with plastic pollution, and how to help!

Hey Jack!

Jack is invited to a costume party,and he’s made an awesome robot suit. But what if the other kids at the party think it’s lame?

In the Picture with Vincent Van Gogh

This Vincent van Gogh book looks at: Sunflowers, Starry Night, The Artist's Bedroom in Arles, The Night Café, The Potato Eaters, Portrait of Père Tanguy and Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear

It's Okay to be Different - A Children's Book About Diversity & Kindness

Every Child is Unique! Big or small, short or tall, like to swim, dance, sing or bike. Perhaps they have a special need or disability, or have a different ethnic background.

Just Joking - Animal Riddles

National Geographic Kids' presents silly jokes that kids love, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, traditional question and answer jokes, and more.

King Maximo and the Number Knights

At the grand feast the twelve ‘Number Knights’ reveal their answers to King Maximo’s momentous question, what is the greatest of all the numbers?

Leonardo Da Vinci: Extraordinary Machines

The most significant creations of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci come to life in the pages of this lavishly illustrated pop-up book.

Let's Build a House

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.

Let's Save Antarctica

Discover why we must protect Antarctica from climate change. Home to millions of penguins, ancient dinosaur fossils and huge blue whales, Antarctica is our last great wilderness.

Life Cycles - Everything from Start to Finish

Everything begins and everything ends - but what happens in between? Find out in this stunning nature book.

Lift The Flap:
Questions and Answers About
Recycling & Rubbish

A fabulous overview of what happens to our waste, from stinking problems and hi tech sorting systems to the importance of make less rubbish in the first place.

Lift The Flap:
Questions and Answers About
Your Body

Children are always asking questions and their bodies are an endless source of fascination to them. This quirkily illustrated book has lots of answers and will engross curious kids.

Usborne Look Inside:
A Castle

Lift the flaps to explore behind the scenes of a bustling medieval castle as Lord Robert and Lady Margaret hold a feast, watch a tournament and fight off fearsome enemies.

Usborne Look Inside:
Your Body

Children will love exploring the ins-and-outs of the human body with this fantastic interactive book. From brains and blood to senses and skin.

Monkey Puzzle

Monkey Puzzle is a clever, funny and charming tale from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.

My First Book of Garden Birds

A beautiful picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Rachel Lockwood's wonderful illustrations will delight children.

My First Book of Garden Bugs

These beautiful illustrations create the world of the garden, combined with text that leads young readers to the hiding places of various bugs.

Nadiya's Bake Me a Story

A unique combination of storybook and cookbook, Bake Me a Story brings families into the kitchen to spend time together sharing stories and cooking.

Oceans Water Cycles

From snowflakes falling from the clouds and deep ocean currents to hot springs and water in space, this nature book shows the beauty and power of water in the natural world.

One Plastic Bag

The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community.

Our World In Pictures: Trees, Leaves Flowers & Seeds

If you find yourself seeking the answers to these quirky questions and so many more, then Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds may be the book for you!

Over and Under the Pond

A follow up to Over and Under the Snow and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, this time focusing on the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain pond.

Pond

“It’s a powerful vision of making one’s own wild place, with no special equipment or expenditure required.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

See Inside the History of Britain

Britain is a country rich with history, and this lift-the-flap book for older children covers life in Britain from Anglo-Saxon invasions to the 21st Century.

See Inside Weather and Climate

Filled with facts from how hurricanes and floods happen to how global warming is affecting the Earth's climates.

Sir Cumference & the First Round Table

Join Sir Cumference, Lady Di of Ameter, and their son Radius for wordplay, puns, and problem solving in this geometry-packed math adventure.

Slow Down

Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. All around us, nature is turning, growing and working.

Swimming with Sharks

Before Eugenie Clark's groundbreaking research, people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers. From the first time she saw a shark in an aquarium, Eugenie was enthralled.

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

A Caldecott medallist and a Newbery Honour-winning poet celebrate the beauty and value of spirals.What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful?

Taking Flight

The pioneering Wright brothers dared to dream of being the first men in the world to fly, but would they ever see their dreams take flight?

The Amazing Animal Atlas

From the great winding Ganges river in India to the thick conifer forests of northern Europe, travel across the globe to discover the rich variety of animals that share our planet.

The Big Book of the Blue

Chatty, funny and full of amazing facts, it will be devoured by children eager to find out about the most exciting creatures from the deep blue.

The Great Kapok Tree

Exhausted from his labours, a man puts down his axe and rests, but as he sleeps the animals who live in the tree come and plead with him not to destroy their world.

The Life Work of Jackson Pollock

Who was Jackson Pollock? This book explores the life of the great artist in a way children can easily comprehend.

The Rainforest Grew All Around

Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following the circle of life in this adaptation of the song The Green Grass Grew All Around.

The Story of Paintings

The Story of Paintings begins with the cave paintings of our Stone Age ancestors and continues through to the modern day.

The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster

Scottish children's author and storyteller Lari Don sidesteps the modern Nessie to create a new Loch Ness Monster myth inspired by local folklore.

The Wonders of Nature

Uncover awe-inspiring stories behind the natural world with this nature book for curious kids aged 7-9. The world is filled with curious objects.

Town Mouse - Country Mouse

This classic tale of a town mouse and a country mouse takes a new twist as two engaging Victorian mouse couples eager to get away from their everyday lives.

Wacky Sports

Do you know you can go kayaking in a pumpkin? Or chase a cheese downhill? What about underwater cycling or ironing on top of a mountain? No? Then find out in Wacky Sports.

Welcome to our World

Children all over the world are very different, but they also have much in common. In this book, children learn about what people in other countries eat, wear and play.

What Were Castles For?

Find out who built castles, what knights did and what really went on inside castle walls in this entertaining and colourful look at medieval life.

What's That Tree?

If you want to know the difference between a Serbian spruce and a silver birch or how different trees change through the seasons then What's that Tree? is the ideal guide for you.