Liz Gogerly

This is the story of Sabrina Carpenter's incredible rise to stardom! Sabrina could hear the audience chanting her name. She stepped onto the stage in her platform heels and raised the microphone to her lips. Silence fell in the arena, and she knew this was where she belonged. She started to sing... Discover how a young girl from Pennsylvania began her career posting videos of herself singing to YouTube, before a big break on television propelled her to international stardom. This retelling of Sabrina's life story is perfect for young fans to learn about the early life of a musical megastar, and her amazing rise to fame from Disney child-star to chart-topping superstar. Discover a world where dreams really do come true!

Ariana Grande's rise to global stardom, retold for young readers.

This sensitively written guide will help children to understand and come to terms with death

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of South America's major cities

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of Africa's major cities

Find out about our seas and ocean with the green team, Anjali, Lulu, Mason and Noah

An engaging and visually stunning look at some of Asia's major cities

An engaging and visually stunning look at some of Europe's major cities

This sensitively written guide will help children to understand and come to terms with death

Find out about caring for nature and saving the planet with our team of helpful kids, Anjali, Lulu, Mason and Noah

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of South America's major cities

Find out about the weather with children Anjali, Lulu, Mason and Noah.

Find out about caring for nature and saving the planet with our team of helpful kids, Anjali, Lulu, Mason and Noah! In Nature Needs You, these four friends discover an injured fox in the garden and need to take it to an animal rescue centre. There, they begin a year of discovery learning about the amazing animals, plants and places that make up our natural world. As the year goes on, the children talk to lots of different people, from park rangers and environmentalists, to teachers and grandparents. They learn lots of things about the natural world, from facts about biodiversity, food chains and climate change to pollination, plastic pollution and ecosystems. Throughout the book, there are Take Action advice panels, which give examples of small ways that people can get involved to help protect nature. Get Busy activity suggestions encourage children to be actively engaged with nature, by birdwatching or planting wild flowers. There are also full-page, step-by-step activities for how to make a bug hotel and a bird feeder. Perfect for keeping your keen naturalist busy this summer! Take this book to the back garden, the beach or the park and start helping nature now! By the end of the book, readers have a better understanding of the importance of nature, humans' impact on nature and what can be done to help protect it. Look out for the other titles in this series: Go Green!, Wild Weather! and Save the Seas!

Weather is awesome and exciting - it's part of our everyday lives but what is it? This funkily illustrated title explores all types of weather with four children Anjali, Lulu, Mason and Noah. Their teacher, Mr Sangar, explains that weather is about what's happening in the atmosphere. And, there are six major things going on up there that are constantly changing and making our weather. Mason's dad explains the water cycle to them. They experience all types of weather, such as rain, snow, sleet and hail and see some fantastic rainbows too. They learn about extreme weather, such as floods, hurricanes and typhoons and find out how to identify different types of clouds and lightning. They discover the different climate zones, learn about jet streams and get serious about climate change and global warming. Get Busy activity suggestions encourage children to be actively engaged. There are also full-page, step-by-step activities for how to make a cloud burst or a tornado in a jar. Look out for the other titles in this series: Go Green!, Nature Needs You! and Save the Seas!

Nurture a child's natural curiosity with this quirky book about the jobs people do, which won the SLA Information Book Award 2020, for age 7 and under! Think of a person who does a heroic job. Perhaps you're thinking of a firefighter who puts out burning buildings, or a doctor who makes sick people better? These people are definitely heroes, but our world is full of lots of amazing people whose job it is to help us. From park rangers to police officers and from librarians to lifeguards, the heroes who help us are everywhere! Readers will love spotting the similarities and differences between the people and places that are familiar and those that are new to them. It opens up opportunities for talking about interesting careers, diversity and positive role models and will inspire them to become 'everyday heroes' through kindness and compassion. Our heroes in action are beautifully illustrated and accompanied by easy-to-read text, which is great for sharing with a child as they learn to read. It is perfect for more confident readers who can read alone. A truly inclusive and positive book, Heroes Who Help Us represents the diversity of people on our planet and celebrates Earth's infinite varieties of race, gender, ethnicity and abilities. From Botswana to Brazil and from Nepal to New Zealand, many countries from the six inhabited continents are included, and every child reading this book should be able to find themselves represented in some way. Perfect for children aged 5+ who are learning about values and citizenship and for curious minds eager to find out a little more about the amazing people in our world.

Discover how dinosaurs first appeared on Earth and how they developed through time! Prepare to take a chronological journey, from over 200 million years ago, when tiny Saltopus hopped around in search of food, and pterosaurs took to the skies, through to huge dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus and Allosaurus of the late Jurassic Period. Travel right up to the mass extinction event of the Cretaceous Period, which wiped out three quarters of all life on the planet ... Perfect for readers aged 7+ who want to find out more about the time of the dinosaurs, and their evolution over millions of years.

This colourful and positive book explains why it's good to 'go green'! It's Anjali's birthday party and the children have had a great time. But looking around the room at the end, they see mountains of rubbish, from food waste to wrapping paper, burst balloons and small plastic toys. What will happen to all of this waste? The children find out what happens at a recycling centre and about the huge amount of objects that can be recycled or reused. They learn how to take action outside by helping nature, reducing waste at school dinners, and saving energy and water at home. Through chatting to teachers and local people, the children learn all about green topics such as landfills, litter, plastic mountains in oceans and global warming. But it's not all doom and gloom. They discover that there are ways that they can take action to help save their environment and the planet. By walking to school or switching off lights when they don't need them, this book is full of ideas for reducing and reusing. At the end they hold a fun Eco Festival to raise awareness of how easy it is to 'go green'! 'Stop and Think' panels encourage readers to think about the problem in their local area and 'Take Action' panels give advice for how readers can get involved. Look out for the other titles in this series: Wild Weather!, Save the Seas! and Nature Needs You! Great for teaching children age 7+ about science topics including pollution, global warming, natural resources and energy use.

Nurture a child's natural curiosity with this quirky book about the jobs people do, which won the SLA Information Book Award 2020, for age 7 and under! Think of a person who does a heroic job. Perhaps you're thinking of a firefighter who puts out burning buildings, or a doctor who makes sick people better? These people are definitely heroes, but our world is full of lots of amazing people who's job it is to help us. From park rangers to police officers and from librarians to lifeguards, the heroes who help us are everywhere! Readers will love spotting the similarities and differences between the people and places that are familiar and those that are new to them. It opens up opportunities for talking about interesting careers, diversity and positive role models and will inspire them to become 'everyday heroes' through kindness and compassion. Our heroes in action are beautifully illustrated and accompanied by easy-to-read text, which is great for sharing with a child as they learn to read. It is perfect for more confident readers who can read alone. A truly inclusive and positive book, Heroes Who Help Us represents the diversity of people on our planet and celebrates Earth's infinite varieties of race, gender, ethnicity and abilities. From Botswana to Brazil and from Nepal to New Zealand, many countries from the six inhabited continents are included, and every child reading this book should be able to find themselves represented in some way. Perfect for children aged 5+ who are learning about values and citizenship and for curious minds eager to find out a little more about the amazing people in our world.