Author: Richard Platt

Explore the city at the heart of the ancient Roman Empire with Iliona, a Greek girl captured by pirates and sold into slavery.The year is AD102 and...

How many rivets and bolts hold the wings of a Boeing 777 plane together? Why does an astronaut's space suit have a layer of liquid-cooled underwear...

An entertaining and comprehensive telling of diseases, infections, plagues and pandemics for young readers. The Germ Lab features case histories of...

The medieval journal of Tobias Burgess, a young page.Sent to his uncle's castle to learn to be a page, eleven-year-old Toby keeps a detailed journa...

Written by award-winning author Richard Platt, How They Made Things Work: Egyptians examines aspects of technology in ancient Egypt, including irri...

This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to c...

The swashbuckling adventures of Jake Carpenter, cabin boy.The twenty-third of September, 1716. I write this on my last day at home. Tomorrow I am t...

Build your childs reading confidence at home with books at the right level Discover how people have mapped Australia from songs that rec...

The term smuggling conjures up images of a sailor in long boots and a striped jersey, rolling barrels of brandy up a moonlit Cornish beach and into...

A stunning collection of the world''s most important discoveries for all the family to enjoy.In the stylish miscellany, print-maker James Brown tra...