The intrepid explorer can take a trip to the freezing-cold ends of the Earth in the latest Horrible Geography Handbook. This is the ultimate survival guide filled with tips on everything from how to handle a peckish polar bear to how to have a pee without geting frost bite - this is geography at its most perilous.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0883-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it`s alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful fll-colour map of the city`s horrible highlights - climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids and hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1097-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You`ve probably heard of a few pirates including: horrible Henry Morgan and his flaming fire ships; awful Anne Bonny and her flaming temper; and, barmy Blackbeard and his - er - flaming black beard. But have you heard that: Henry Morgan ate his own shoes? Anne Bonny scared strong men shirtless? Blackbeard guzzled his rum with a dash of dynamite? Now you can get the inside story from pirates` long-lost log-books, read the terrible truth about real pirate life and find out all about the biggest, baddest buccaneers who ever sailed the bounding main! The book is horribly funny, horribly gripping, and horribly famous.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1036-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
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
Want to know: • Why Henry VIII thought he`d married a horse? • All about terrible Tudor torture? • Which shocking swear words the Tudors used? Discover all the foul facts about the Terrible Tudors - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-0-439-94405-2
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is another horribly hilarious story from Terry Deary. It`s 1348 and the shadow of the Black Death is descending over England. Geoffrey Copton returns from the war in France, only to find himself caught up in a plot to rob and kill an innocent man. Will Geoffrey and his friend Meg manage to save the day, or will the dastardly plotters get away with the and with murder.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0956-5
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
A reading competition? No way is Henry taking part in a reading contest. That is, until he hears the prize is a family trip to a theme park. Henry is determined to win ...but how on earth is he going to read all those books?
ISBN: 978-1-4091-3175-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
This work features science with the squishy bits left in! How do plants suck out the insides of dead insects? Why do stinging nettles like skeletons? Which fungi can make your toes drop off? Get the awful answers in "Vicious Veg"!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0615-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Everybody knows that Albert Einstein was the smartest scientist in the universe and that he also had some very bad hair days. But in this Horribly Famous title readers can find out everything they didn`t know, including how Albert was actually expelled from school, and how he was spied on by the Nazis and the FBI. With Albert`s lost notebook readers can at last get inside his super-brain, and in The News of the Universe, they can get to grips with all his amazing theories without making their brains hurt.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1180-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
"Microscopic Monsters" is full of facts about the tiny world of microbes - viruses, bacteria, amoebas, they`re all here, as well as many other diminutive creepy-crawlies. Read the diary of a dust mite, get up close and personal with bacteria and find out what it takes to be a micro surgeon. This book is full of fantastic fact files, quizzes and cartoons
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0613-7
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Famously tutored by Aristotle, Alexander ruthlessly established himself as Macedonian king in the 300s BC, setting about continuing his father`s wars against the Persian Empire (for their attacks on Greek City states 150 years before.) Astride his horse Bucephalas, he embarked on his great eastern campaigns in which he conquered most of the known world, as far as India, taking Greek language and culture with him. He never returned, dying of a fever in Babylon at the age of 32. This is an incredible story of a brilliant military tactician who is bent on taking over the world. Taking part in Battles and sieges galore, Alex even finds himself up against an army off 326
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1173-5
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
You`ve probably heard of William He is dead famous for: writing a few plays - having a bit of a way with words creating characters like romantic Romeo and murderous Macbeth. But have you heard that William: did a seven-year vanishing act - nearly had his head chopped off by the Queen - nicked an entire theatre? Yes, even though he`s dead, William`s still full of surprises. Now you can get the inside story with William`s secret diary, find out the news of the day in the Shakespearean Sun and prepare to be amazed as the curtain is raised on Shakespeare`s most dramatic acts. This title is Dead Funny - Dead Gripping - Dead Famous.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1177-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Most science books are shockingly boring. Not this one! It’s simply sizzling with zippy, zappy facts to electrify you! Have you heard about the scientist who gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Do you know that lightning can strike you with heat five times hotter than the sun? Would you swim with a scary electric eel and get the shock of your life? Or with the hungry Hammerhead shark, which can sense electricity and use it to track down its victims? Did you know that there’s enough electricity in your body to light up the fairy lights on a Christmas tree? And could you imagine being Jacqueline Priestman, the woman with so much of it inside her that she made power sockets explode? If you want heaps of horrid facts to electrify you,...
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0536-9
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This work presents history with twice the nasty bits left a horrible new edition. "The Groovy Greeks" is full of fab facts about the hip `n` happenin` Greeks. In "Rotten Romans", readers follow life for folk in Roman times, from Nasty Nero to brave Brit Boudicca. Featuring curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests ...History has never been so horrible.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0968-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Geography with the gritty bits left in! Inside you`ll find out what happens when a volcano turns nasty, whether you`d survive at the frozen poles, and how a frog can help you get a drink in the desert. Hold on tight as you embark on a whistle-stop trip around the globe taking in everything from the perishing poles to desperate deserts, stormy weather to earth-shattering earthquakes. Crammed full of far-out facts, it`s the ultimate "Horrible Geography" guide to the planet. Geography has never been so horrible!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1734-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
From cruel Columbus` first cross-Atlantic cruise, to the first savage settlers, to the wicked Wild West and beyond, this title presents the history of the USA. It includes chapters on topics ranging from potty presidents to the very uncivil war and with a cast of characters that includes Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane, Abe Lincoln and more.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1185-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
