From a feast for monkeys in Thailand to gifts from Grandfather Frost in Ukraine, twenty children from around the world introduce us to their favourite feasts, festivals and celebrations.
A fun, feminist and colourful picture book celebrating the young Princess who grew up to be England's longest-reigning monarch - Queen Elizabeth II.
Who needs a Prince Charming when you're busy running the world? From ancient empresses and warrior queens, to fearsome pirates and modern-day monarchs, Fabulously Feisty Queens explores the lives and legacies of history's most powerful women. Made of stronger stuff than beauty and grace, discover just how bright, brave, brilliant and clever the world's female rulers have been throughout the centuries. With a foreword by historian and Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy Worsley and illustrations by Pauline Reeves.
It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches.
Experience history first hand with the My Story series. It's the 1580s. Queen Elizabeth's enemies plot to kill her and place Mary Queen of Scots on the throne. While Kitty's father works on secret projects for Elizabeth, her brother's mixing with suspicious characters. As Mary's supporters edge closer by the minute, Kitty fears the worst . . . that they'll all be thrown in the tower!
Toby can't wait to be catapulted back in time again to become his own ancestor! This time Toby is plunged back to Ancient Greece, into Niko's life, where he finds himself dodging the donkey "It's hardly a good idea to head-butt a donkey, and I'll never know what made me do it this morning. One minute I was standing there wondering which of the stubborn creatures to take to market, the next I was cross-eyed with my nose pressed up against a donkey's rear end. Not the nicest thing I've smelled today! Melissa the bee woman keeps well back because, she says, she doesn't want to catch my fleas. They're not my fleas. They're the donkeys."
The diary of Tilly Middleton, London, 1553-1559 12th February, 1554 Through my roof hole I am watching the final touches being put to the scaffold on Tower Green. It is draped in black, and straw has already been strewn around the block to catch the blood. There is no axe yet. The executioner will bring that. I wonder if Mother will let us watch? We usually do, on Tower Hill, but this is the first execution within the Tower Walls since I was about one and a half years old. Mother says that was a double execution-a queen and her lady-and tomorrow is the twelfth anniversary of those deaths. I do not remember them, of course, but I will certainly remember this...there have been many, many deaths in other parts of the Tower-some we never hear about. This bloody Tower.
Want to know which classic story has the number one slot out of hundreds of terrific tales? It could be Around the World in Eighty Days, Black Beauty or The War of the Worlds. Find out in this book, which also includes a top ten facts section.
