It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Who shocked the world by showing her knickers? How two monkey`s and a dog became astronauts? Why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat? You can find out about last days of the vile Victorian Queen right up the nostalgic Nineties, with all the amazing changes and incredible inventions that happened in between!
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What a liripoop is? Which potty professor liked to walk like a dinosaur? What`s buried beneath the botanical gardens? Plot your path to the past with the frightful fold-out map of the city - take a puntast corpse-ridden Christchurch and go skeleton-spotting at the cruel and crumbling castle. Comes complete with frightful full-colour map.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1077-6
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Horrid Henry is desperate to be Joseph in the school Christmas Nativity play. The trouble is, Miss Battle-Axe has made him the inn-keeper. There`s only one thing for it - Henry`s got to make his own part BIGGER!
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0110-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Everybody knows that Roald Dahl wrote brilliant books for children and created a fantastic chocolate factory. But did you know that Roald was a fighter pilot, and a spy in the Second World War? Everything you ever wanted to know about the man with the chocolate factory.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0902-2
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
You`ve probably heard of Winston Churchill. He`s the one who raised his fingers in a V sign and smoked a massive cigar. Inside this work: get to know the man behind the cigar in Winston`s secret diary; re-live events of the century in The Winston Weekly ; and, read how Winston led Britain to victory in the Second World War. This work is horribly funny, horribly gripping and horribly famous.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0831-5
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Horrid Henry hates writing thank you letters. Why should he waste his precious time thanking people for terrible presents? In fact, why should anyone? Then he has a wonderful, spectacular one that`s guaranteed to make him rich, rich rich!
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0105-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Everybody knows that Horatio Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar and lost an arm and an eye. This book lets readers discover the facts, including how Napoleon nearly got killed by a polar bear, ate rats and maggots and was found pickled in a barrel of brandy.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-2407-0
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Readers might already know that Julius Caesar is horribly famous for conquering loads of countries, going out with Queen Cleopatra, and having some back-stabbing chums. But this book will tell them the facts no other biography is likely to tell them - that Caesar was once captured by pirates, had a month named after him and invaded his own home town.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-2414-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Four fabulously funny stories that will invoke every family`s worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping without spending his pocket money, ambushes Father Christmas with some serious accusations, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8474-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: which king died after falling off the toilet? Why people thought King John was a werewolf? Why Queen Anne`s feet were covered in garlic? This grippingly gruesome guide lets you into the secrets of our mad, menacing and murderous monarchs and the terrible times in which they ruled.
You`ve probably heard of a few inventors and their bright Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone. George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train). John Logie Baird and his television. But have you heard Bell didn`t invent the phone, but he did make a weird machine out of hay and a human ear. Stevenson didn`t invent the train, but he did spend a lot of time collecting gas in bladders. Baird`s telly was useless, and so were his thermostatic socks? Yes, even though they`re dead, inventors are still full of surprises. Everything you ever wanted to know about Inventors and their bright ideas.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1176-6
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Want to know: What Roman soldiers wore under their kilts? How Ancient Britons got their hair nice and spikey? Why rich Romans needed a vomitorium? Discover all the foul facts about the Rotten Romans - all the gore and more! Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-439-94400-7
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
With butcherings and beheadings galore, this title tells the history of France. It includes a cast of curious kings, quirky queens and evil emperors. It helps young horrible historians discover which king thought he was made of glass, why French bread was once made from broken tiles and bricks, and which queen used a budgie as her burglar alarm.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1184-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Everybody knows that Boudica went galloping to battle in a big chariot, and became very angry with her Roman rulers. This book lets readers find out the things, such as how she burned London to the ground and chopped off the Emperor Claudius` head.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-2412-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Four stories about Horrid Henry, in which he tries to trick the tooth fairy, has Moody Margaret to stay and sends her packing, makes teachers run screaming from school, and wrecks a wedding.
Four complete hilarious stories with really horrid music and sound effects. Horrid Henry`s Perfect Day Horrid Henry`s Dance Class Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret Horrid Henry`s Holiday
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6969-8
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Even though they`re dead, the scientists in this "Horribly Famous" title are still full of surprises. Not only did Darwin come up with the theory of evolution, but he also wrote a book about his pet worms! And Isaac Newton wasn`t all that keen on science - sometimes it got on his nerves! Readers can find out everything they ever wanted to know, and more, about their favourite seriously super scientists
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1213-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter`s diary and improves it; goes clothes shopping with Mum and tries to make her buy him some Rootatoot trainers; is horrified when his old enemy Bossy Bill turns up at school; and tries by any means, fair or foul, to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret.
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0099-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
