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Baked, dipped or fried, spicy, salty or sweet, delicious food is something everyone enjoys. Many tasty dishes are the result of thousands of years of development, scientific breakthroughs or moments of genius or sheer chance. This high-interest book takes you through the delicious and sometimes surprising history of what people eat.Covers topics such as healthy eating, genetic modification, farming, celebrations and inventions.The consultant is a food historian, writer, tv presenter and podcaster.Contents: Vital For Life; Hunting and Gathering; Settling Down; Food Takes a Trip; What''s In Your Meal?; Taming Nature; Rice is Nice; Spicing It Up; A Sweet Story; The Columbian Exchange; Chocolate; Where Do They Come From?; Food Celebrations; Accidental Inventions; Frozen In A Flash; Food Visionaries; Processed Foods; Food In Space; Going Meat Free; Feeding More People; Future Food

A funny, fresh comic-strip look at the incredible history of life on Earth Take a whirlwind comic strip trip through 4.5 billion fascinating years of evolution, discovering how life on Earth began and how it diversified, the weird and wonderful first animals, the age of the dinosaurs, the first humans and much, much more.A Comic Strip History of Evolution works as a timeline, combining information spreads with comic strip stories, and is supported throughout by high-interest facts and plenty of humour. Perfect for kids aged 9 and up.Contents:How it started /In the soup /It''s all about the genes / Single cells rule!/ Lots more species... / Animals arrive / Life explosion! / Evolving ecosystems / Oh no - species disaster! / Land takeover / Green planet /Into the air! / Four-legged fish / Age of the dinosaurs / Fossil focus / Reptile world / Mini-mammals /Is it a bird? / Watch out dinosaurs! / Gone forever! / Massive mammals / Looks familiar! / The human family / Types of evolution / Smart humans / Changing wild species / Understanding evolution / It''s still going on! / Evolution timeline / Glossary / Index

Funny comic strips combine with facts to help children engage with the science of animals and plants.Packed with comic strips, fun facts, and easy-to-understand diagrams, this book makes learning about the science of living things, both educational and entertaining. Meet funny characters who explain how animals and plants get their food, how animals are classified, what food chains are and more.Perfect for children aged 7 plus, the Science Toons series turns science into an adventure with colourful comic illustrations and laugh-out-loud moments. Titles in the series: The Human Body / Animals and Plants / Changing States / Materials / Planet Earth / Space / Sound and Light / Forces and Motion.

Are you ready to come aboard and learn all about trains? Toot toot!From trains that climb up mountains, through tunnels, across bridges and deep underground - take an exhilarating ride through the world of trains. Discover singing tracks, speedy bullet trains, powerful tunnel borers, super steam engines and so much more to delight young train fans. Unfold multiple pages to reveal busy stations, cross-sections and lots of details and facts to pore over. A ''can you spot?'' page at the back of the book encourages readers to go back through the book to find out even more. All aboard!Contents:Freight trains * tracks * steam engines * Gatefold: Inside a steam engine * modern trains * being a passenger * Gatefold: cross section of passenger train * bridges * going underground * Gatefold: cross section of underground railway * climbing uphill * stations * Gatefold: chaotic junctions leading into a busy station * Can you spot?

Find out the facts behind the biggest, longest and most powerful dinosaur record breakers and explore the science behind them.Discover how the best prehistoric parents cared for their young, meet the largest and smallest dinosaursand find out about incredible dinosaur crests, skulls and claws. Children can learn facts such as: Who named the first dinosaur? Which dinosaur had over 500 teeth? How did Diplodocus use its tail as a weapon?Packed full of bold images and surprising information, the Record-Breaking Facts series for children aged 7 plus, dives into a range of fascinating facts and reveals the secret science behind them.

Shakespeare''s The Merchant of Venice like you''ve never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: The Merchant of Venice has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Wendy Tan Shiau Wei. Follow the fate of Antonio, Bassiano and Portia, who exist at the mercy of the fickle sea and fierce, unrelenting personal grudges.This series has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the doors of literature for all to enter and understand. With dyslexia-friendly design for readers aged 10+; inclusive art so anyone can relate to iconic roles; snappy simplified text; introductory material to set the scene; heaps of material at the back (looking at the play''s themes, language, publication, performance in history, a timeline of Shakespeare''s life and works, and more! Classics available: Macbeth, The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night''s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Twelfth Night and King Lear.Praise for Classics in Graphics: "[...] an encouraging entry point to Shakespeare for my kids, and [...] an excellent job converting challenging language and literary themes to make it very inclusive, smoothing ease of understanding dialogue, plot, and narration without dumbing it down." - EricWilliamson, leagueofcomicgeeks.com

Join best friends Rachel and Kirsty on four magical adventures with the Friendship Fairies!This bumper story collection contains Esther the Kindness Fairy, Mary the Sharing Fairy, Mimi the Laughter Fairy and Clare the Caring Fairy. The girls must help the fairies find their magical objects before friendships everywhere are ruined. Can Rachel and Kirsty work together to show how powerful true friendship can be?Rainbow Magic is the perfect stepping stone for children to become independent readers. With black and white illustrations, short chapters and lots of books to collect, these books are really accessible for children aged 5+.''These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!'' ReadingZone.comDo YOU have a Rainbow Magic fairy? Find a fairy with your name at orchardseriesbooks.co.uk/rainbow-magic and collect all the books in the range.

A friendly and accessible introduction to the United Kingdom for children, and the perfect companion for young geography learning Take a journey around the United Kingdom, discovering how it was formed, its different countries, capital cities, counties, landscapes, geographical features, people, climate, history and much more!Simple maps enhance the learning and teach valuable map-reading skills.Welcome to the United Kingdom! / Island home / Running the UK / UK wildlife / Lots of languages / England / London / The landscape / Working life / Getting around / Festivals / Scotland / Edinburgh / The landscape / Working life / Lochs / Sports / Wales / Cardiff / The landscape / Working life / National parks / Castles, bridges and homes / Northern Ireland / Belfast / The landscape / Working life / Ancient volcanoes / The coast / Glossary / Find out more / Index

Mandy is a banana. A yellow, bendy, half-moon-shaped banana. The problem is, Mandy doesn''t want to be a banana. She would rather be a prickly pineapple like Pedro, a round watermelon like Wilhelmina, or - frankly - ANYTHING other than a banana. It takes a plucky little blueberry called Blip to help Mandy focus on her ''haves'' rather than her ''have-nots'' and to celebrate what makes her so unique, so bendy, so brilliant and so absolutely, utterly . . . BANANA!A quirky celebration of learning to love the skin you''re in, featuring an all-star cast of fruit-bowl friends. Heartwarming and funny in equal measure, Mandy is Still a Banana is guaranteed to be a hit with little ones and adults alike.