What do you say to someone if they call you mundungus, hackum or Jabbernowl? Terry Deary runs riot through the horrible history of the English language. Even English teachers will be speechless!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1193-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
A wild and wind-lashed wall separates two terrifying tribes: the Picts and the Britons. Two Gaul soldiers are given the task of guarding the wall - on pain of death. But with catapults, feasts and football to distract them, will they be able to keep the peace and solve the mystery of the lost legion? Find out in this "Rotten Roman" adventure, it`s got all the gore and so much more!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0333-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
Horrid Henry gets up to some horrid tricks when the Queen comes to visit his school. The Queen is coming to visit Horrid Henry`s school. The real live Queen! Henry can`t believe it. But when Miss Battle-Axe puts him in the back row, Henry is furious. Now how is he meant to find out how many TVs she has? Somehow Henry has to get himself noticed - and show the Queen just how horrid he can
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0551-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 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
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 brilliant new collection of four stories about this favourite character - one of the few new characters to have emerged in recent years for this age group. Wickedly subversive, hilariously funny and bang up to date, Horrid Henry`s fame is spreading. In this collection, Henry accompanies his father to the office, hacks into his parents` computer, meets the Demon Dinner Lady and plan the ultimate revenge on Perfect Peter.
ISBN: 978-1-85881-825-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Number One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains HIDEOUS behavior, terrible dancing, disgusting glop and a trip to France!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.
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
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
"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
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
It`s a gift! Four fun and festive stories from one hilariously horrid boy - a perfect addition to a cheeky child`s stocking.Four fabulously funny stories full of every family`s worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping without spending his pocket money, attempts to ambush Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.Francesca Simon`s Horrid Henry series has sold over 20 million copies in the UK alone, and his antics have charmed adults and children across the globe. Don`t miss out on the fun!
ISBN: 9781842555460
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020
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
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
