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Meet your favourite monsters, fairies, heroes, and tricksters from all around the world!

Enter the enchanting world of mythical creatures and explore the history behind them in this beautifully-illustrated Greek mythology book for children aged 5-9. You’ll meet an incredible cast of mind-boggling fictional animals from all around the world. Say hello to Bigfoot in the forests of North America and learn about the Native American traditions that inspired its story. Voyage to Japan to meet kitsune, supernatural nine-tailed foxes that can turn into humans. Then jump onboard an ancient storm-battered ship to learn why mermaids were the last thing a sailor wanted to see! Learn about the societies that spawned these legendary creatures, from Ancient Greece to the indigenous tribes of Australia, and find out what the beasts tell us about the people who created them.

With magic and mystery in every page, your child can discover:

-Facts behind the myths -Insights into cultures from around the world and their creation stories
-Stunning full-colour illustrations by Pham Quang Phuc

Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures tells you everything you need to know about supernatural animals great and small. A must-have volume for children aged 5-9 with an interest in fantasy tale, Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures is filled with supernatural stories that brings the history of mythology and magical creatures to life, and explores the societies that birthed these legendary creatures found in narratives from Ancient Greek mythology, Australian and Native American folktales.

From narwhal tusks inspiring the legend of unicorns, to dinosaur bones creating rumours of dragons, there is an interesting story behind every magical beast. This beautifully-illustrated fantasy book for kids is wonderful for children who like to delve into enchanting stories and magical creatures.

Learn all about numbers with over 100 mind-boggling activities that make learning easy and fun.

What is a rhombus? How do you work out a percentage? What is data and why is collecting it useful? Brain Booster Maths covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore the world of numbers.

Kids aged 7-11 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this maths activity book and tackle the wide range of puzzles and activities – including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring.

This engaging maths book for children includes:

– Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography alongside immersive text to engage children with learning.
– Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and interact with maths.
– Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge.
– In-depth information on symbols, shapes, symmetry, and how it all works.

This numbers book for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding mathematicians busy, and to inspire children to engage with maths. Designed to support teachers and educators around the world, these books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home.

About the series

Brain Booster is a brand new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Brain Booster books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home. Why not check out our other title in the series, Brain Booster Bugs?

Learn all the essential facts about the human body in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids.

How many bones are there in the adult human body? How do your lungs work? What happens under your skin? Active Learning: Human Body covers all these questions and more!

Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore the human body.

Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this anatomy book and tackle the wide range of puzzles and activities – including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring.

This exciting human body book for children includes:

– Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and engage with the human body.
– Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge.
– Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography, alongside engaging text.
– In-depth information on the anatomy of the human body, its physiology, and how it all works.

This body book for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding biologists and doctors-in-the-making busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with the human body.

Active Learning is a brand new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Active Learning books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home.

Learn all the essential facts about our solar system and beyond in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids.

How old is the universe? How was the Earth formed? What lies beyond our solar system? Active Learning: Stars and Planets covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore the stars and planets in outer space.

Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this space activity book and tackle the wide range of puzzles – including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring.

This exciting stars and planets activity book for children includes:

– Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography alongside informative text to engage children aged 8-12 with learning.
– Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and interact with the universe we live in.
– Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge.
– In-depth information on astronomy and how it all works, including how stars and planets are born and die, and how humans and machines are exploring the cosmos.

This book on stars and planets for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding astronomers-in-the-making busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with space knowledge.

About the series
Active Learning is a series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Active Learning books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home.

Learn all the essential facts about dinosaurs and other prehistoric life in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids.

What was the biggest dinosaur? And the smallest? Are there any animals today that are related to dinosaurs? Why did the dinosaurs die out? Active Learning: Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore different types of prehistoric creatures.

Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this dinosaur activity book and tackle the wide range of puzzles – including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring.

This exciting dinosaur activity book for children includes:

– Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography alongside informative text to engage children aged 8-12 with learning.
– Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and interact with different dinosaur species.
– Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge. – In-depth information on dinosaurs , prehistory, and how it all works.

This book on prehistoric life for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding paleontologists-in-the-making busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with dinosaur knowledge.

About the series 

Active Learning is a series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Active Learning books are ideal for supplementing your child’s education at home.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022

‘A superb twist on the crime novel.’ Irish Times
‘A piercing commentary on mother-daughter relationships, the burdens of caregiving and the impositions of religious dogma on women.’ New York Times

When Rita is found hanging in the bell tower of the local church, the police quickly rule her death a suicide. Her mother, Elena, knows they’re wrong.

Living with advanced Parkinson’s disease, every movement Elena makes is governed by the strict timetable of her medication. Yet she is determined to undertake one final journey across Buenos Aires to uncover what really happened to her daughter. As she pieces together the truth, long-buried secrets emerge, exposing the devastating consequences of religious dogma, misogyny and the ways society polices women’s bodies.

Both an ingenious literary mystery and a deeply moving portrait of motherhood, Elena Knows is a gripping novel about love, grief and the extraordinary determination to seek justice when everyone else has stopped asking questions.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and translated into more than twenty languages, Claudia Piñeiro’s unforgettable novel combines the momentum of crime fiction with the emotional depth of literary fiction in one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years.

A teenage girl was murdered. Thirty years later, her family is still living with the consequences.

Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize

“Piñeiro appears to have invented a unique genre: the family crime novel.” — La Nación

In a quiet middle-class neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, the body of a teenage girl is found burned and dismembered. Decades later, the crime still casts a shadow over the lives of those left behind.

Lía, the dead girl’s sister, has fled to Spain but cannot escape the rage and grief that continue to shape her life. Carmen clings to religion and certainty. Their widowed father remains haunted by the daughter he lost and the family that fractured in the aftermath.

As buried secrets begin to surface, Claudia Piñeiro unravels a devastating portrait of family, repression and silence. Dark, gripping and emotionally charged, Cathedrals is a razor-sharp exploration of religion, gender violence and the truths families refuse to face.

From Claudia Piñeiro, internationally bestselling author of Elena Knows, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.