John Logie Baird by Nicola Baxter
$12.95 NZD
$16.99 (23% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This book tells how the television, now a feature of almost every household ...Show more
George Stephenson by Emma Fischel
$12.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This title explores the life of locomotive pioneer George Stephenson.
Historical Storybooks: Annie - the Story of a Victorian Mill Girl by Margaret Nash
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Historical Storybooks
Presented in a story form, this book tells the story of a young Victorian girl working in a mill. Suitable for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, it gives a good feel for the period and the place, and gives an insight into the life of child workers in the mills of Victorian Britain - how they were ...Show more
Louis Pasteur by Karen Wallace
$12.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
The book describes how Louis Pasteur was born into a Europe still plagued by horrendous diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, and how he discovered that it was germs living in the air and in food that caused illnesses. The reader learns that his pioneering of a method of heating food just enough to kil ...Show more
James Watt by Nicola Baxter
$12.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. In this book, the reader learns that James Watt was a scientific instrument ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Life and Times of This Great Playwright and His Masterpieces by Claire Oliver
$14.95 NZD
$16.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Snapping Turtle Guides: Great Writers
This fascinating introduction to the playwright begins with a description of the world in 1600 -- plague, famine and war -- "yet out of this turbulent world came one of the finest, most highly-respected and best-loved writers of all time". At the forefront of the English Renaissance Shakespeare began hi ...Show more
Spilling the Beans on Albert Einstein and Other Clever Clogs by Fran Pickering
$16.95 NZD
Category: Biography, YA,children
William Caxton by Harriet Castor
$12.95 NZD
$16.95 (23% off)
Category: Biography, YA,children | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Exciting stories about famous people, outlining their lives and the important events which made them memorable. Every page features easy-to-follow text and a black-and-white line drawing to help bring these events to life. Each title gives further facts about the famous person and the times in which he ...Show more