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The book traces Harris's path from a child attending civil-rights marches to a senator and Vice President, highlighting moments when she spoke up for herself or others.

This illustrated biography connects Anne’s life and writing with the persecution of Jews in wartime Europe, ending with her capture and a reflection on her story’s continuing legacy.

A hands-on animal reference combines braille and large print with tactile pictures. Entries range from bears and big cats to birds and bugs, with material on predators, prey, skeletons and organs, plus a quiz.

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.

Expect a lively, participatory animal book rather than a sustained story: children encounter creatures grouped by habitats, with words and pictures highlighting sounds, movement, physical features and wildness.

An engaging introduction to sanitation history, showing how changing toilet and sewage arrangements affected the handling of human waste in Rome, England and Paris.

This is a pick-and-mix reading experience: familiar characters, comic poems, memoir, letters and story extracts offer changing moods and subjects. It suits shared selection of individual pieces more naturally than uninterrupted reading.

A lyrical, illustrated account of Henry Brown’s life under slavery, his family’s forced separation, and his dangerous escape in a box.

A visually led science book for exploring skeletons through comparison. It moves from individual body parts to broader skeletal arrangements, combining factual contrasts, illustrations, scale information and playful headings.

A visually rich introduction to a Mexican dancer’s life and artistic work, linking formal dance training with regional traditions and the creation of a major folklórico company.

This is a visually led fantasy-information picture book: unicorns inhabit clouds, while their supposed actions account for changing weather and sky phenomena. It is likely to work best when the pictures, playful clues and factual-looking presentation are explored together.

A child’s-eye memoir about displacement, family love and survival, moving from wartime adventure-like discoveries towards the realities of bombing, Bergen-Belsen, starvation, illness and bereavement.

A colourful reference book for browsing, looking up terms or reading entry by entry. It ranges across biology, physics, technology, engineering and maths, pairing each of 100 concepts with illustrations and explanations.

A hands-on game for learning and recognising bug names, colours and appearances, with opportunities to encounter both familiar insects and less familiar species from around the world.

This is a direct, intimate account of grief: sadness can arrive anywhere, feelings change, memories may hurt or help, and sometimes being alone or talking feels preferable.

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.

A lively, visually supported introduction to what AI is, how it can be used and where it appears—from games and art to homes, space and the human body.

This offers a playful starting point for thinking about difficult philosophical questions. Its illustrations and humour may make abstract ideas more approachable, while the question-led approach could encourage readers to form their own views.

A playful survival manual built around imagined disasters and fantasy threats. Its humour, contemporary voice and cartoony illustrations may make the subject approachable.

A broad, browsable introduction to everyday science and the natural world, built around children’s questions. Its mixture of concise answers, visuals, fact boxes and matching activities supports dipping in rather than reading straight through.

A visually led introduction to jellyfish biology and history, offering scientific explanations alongside surprising facts. It may encourage curiosity about animals, evolution and the ways people affect the natural world.

This is most useful as focused reading practice rather than a book whose storyline or subject can be judged in advance. Its main purpose is practising a short-vowel pattern within a child-friendly reading programme.

A visually dramatic introduction to astronomy and space phenomena, with English and Spanish presented side by side in one edition.