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Jan Thornhill
This is an informational book about death and life cycles, using a dead bird as its starting point. It addresses both biological questions and how people deal with bereavement.
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.
Greg Roza
This is an image-led introduction to ossuaries, charnel houses and varied burial traditions, combining photographs with short explanatory features. Expect attention to human bones, unusual customs and cultural difference rather than a narrative plot.
Meredith Costain
This offers a compact way into Ancient Egyptian society, beliefs and material remains, linking mummification and pyramids with writing, art and social order.
Terry Deary
Expect a lively, irreverent introduction to ancient Egyptian history, moving among pharaohs, pyramids, gods, mummies, writing and ordinary people. The comic approach foregrounds surprising and unpleasant details rather than offering a solemn historical overview.
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.
Satoshi Kitamura
This is an illustrated adventure that uses a boy’s encounter with Stone Age life to introduce practical processes and archaeological curiosity. Its open-ended dream-or-time-travel premise invites discussion rather than a single definite explanation.
Andy Seed
Choose this for a child who enjoys ancient Egypt, mysteries and hands-on problem-solving. It offers a story-led route into hieroglyphs and historical information, with the reader actively helping to investigate the crime.
Michaela Morgan
A visually presented life story linking football, military leadership and racial unfairness.
Jennie Cashman Wilson
A true story follows Jennie from childhood through meeting Abram, love, his death and her search for courage. It links fear and bravery while showing grief as part of continuing life.
Adam Murphy
Expect a lively, comic presentation of history in which well-known people are imaginatively interviewed after death.
This is a factual, story-led collection about animals involved in wartime. It combines rescue, communication, morale and service with a gentle, sometimes uplifting presentation, while acknowledging that some animals died.
Amy Hansen
A seasonal introduction to insect survival: some migrate, some remain protected in natural surroundings, and one caterpillar freezes solid before thawing. The book presents these examples as ways insects endure winter.
A quick, fact-led introduction to gladiators, covering arenas, fighter types, weapons, armour and the question of whether every contest ended in death.
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