How do farm animals really live?

The lives of farm animals no longer look anything like what is depicted in most picture books. Laughing piglets and joyously frolicking cows on green meadows? Not quite. It is high time for children to have an honest fact book about this very ...

How did the teddy bear come by his name? How did the common or garden sausage become that barbecue staple - the hot dog? And to what lucky accident do we owe the ice lolly?
Every day we pick up things we know hardly anything about. They may be familiar objects, but we have no idea of the ...

Fear can show us the way…

Fear is important. Fear is part of life - no one knows that better from first-hand experience than a child. And it's good to know how to make certain it never gets the upper hand.

Fear is a profound and exciting subject, and ...