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Jon Balchin
Expect a broad historical tour told through individual scientists’ lives and work, rather than a single subject in depth. Topics range from geometry and medicine to cosmology, atomic particles and the Internet.
Michael Burgan
A compact sports-history account centred on one striking photograph, its moment in the ring and the controversy that followed the 1965 fight.
Catherine Barr
A visually lively introduction to evolution, this book connects cells, changing environments, extinction events and human origins across immense stretches of time. Its clear sequence and labels may help readers build a first framework for how life changes.
Simonetta Carr
This is a concise, illustrated Christian biography combining life events with Calvin’s writings, ministry, theology and sixteenth-century setting. It includes personal relationships, bereavement and illness, while presenting Calvin within a distinctly Reformed understanding of church history.
Valerie Petrillo
This is an activity-led introduction to Latino history and culture in the United States, moving across regions and communities while pairing historical information with practical creative projects.
Kevin Cunningham
A useful introduction to video games as an industry rather than simply a pastime, showing the many specialised workers, skills and educational routes involved in making them.
Nancy Churnin
A lively introduction to a deaf baseball player whose practical solution to communication barriers became part of the sport. It combines biography, baseball history and bright illustrations celebrating persistence and ingenuity.
Bridget Heos
This is an energetic introduction to fly biology, using a fly’s first-person advocacy, jokes, diagrams and classroom-style notes to make less appealing natural-history details memorable.
Juan Felipe Herrera
A visually presented introduction to Hispanic and Latino American figures whose work spans culture, public life, science, sport and the arts. It offers short life sketches rather than one continuous narrative.
Sophie Williams
This offers a visually rich way into deep time: readers learn about changing life and Earth while searching illustrations for creatures, then using the glossary to revisit unfamiliar terms and animals.
Terry Deary
A lively, irreverent introduction to pirate history, this book mixes historical information with jokes, illustrations and deliberately gruesome stories. Its central angle is corrective: pirates are presented as far less heroic than popular legends suggest.
Kate Pankhurst
A lively introduction to women’s contributions across history and different fields, presented through colourful illustrations, short profiles, facts and quotations. Its page-by-page structure supports dipping in, revisiting individual figures and noticing links between personal achievement and wider social change.
Nikkolas Smith
A visually rich shared-history book that links humanity’s beginnings in Africa with creativity, discovery and belonging. Poetry invites reflection, while the timeline adds factual context beyond the main narrative.
Meredith Hooper
This is a visually led Earth-history journey, using one pebble to connect geological change with the appearance of living things and human activity. Its chronological sweep may invite shared looking, pausing and questions rather than one quick read.
Sam Taplin
This is an information-led pirate book with jokes and colourful illustrations, rather than a sustained fictional adventure. It offers accessible facts about ships, sailing, pirate life and historical figures through a playful guidebook voice.
James Davies
Expect a compact factual tour of pirate history rather than a sustained adventure story. It introduces famous pirates and practical historical topics, with humorous wording, illustrations, infographics and geographical material.
Giselle Clarkson
A lively invitation to look closely at slugs, bees, spiders and other small creatures in familiar places. Its blend of humour, sketches, factual detail and observation activities makes ordinary surroundings feel worth investigating.
Helaine Becker
A focused biography of a pioneering mathematician, linking childhood curiosity with consequential work at NASA. Its strongest offering is a clear portrait of expertise, persistence and African American women’s contribution to space history.
Susan Vande Griek
A gentle historical-fiction picture book about a child observing an artist, then joining him in painting the changing natural world. It emphasises looking closely, shared making and the lingering significance of a brief summer.
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