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Great explorers have one thing in common – a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter the dangers it presents. This book will take you through Ferdinand Magellan’s first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary’s treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, and beyond.

This non-fiction book provides an introduction to history’s most famous trail blazers – people whose courage opened frontiers, turned voids into maps, forged nations, connected cultures, and added to humankind’s knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds. Packed with jaw-dropping fun facts about the world and written so beautifully it will get your heart racing. Explorers is the perfect kid’s book for any young mind with an avid sense of adventure!

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Level: KS2
Subject: Maths

An engaging Maths activity book to really help boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning!
Including helpful questions and answers, this Maths book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child’s learning at home.

Combining useful Maths practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Maths practice book helps to boost your child’s confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.

Included in this book:

questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at school
colourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at home
helpful tips and answers so that you can support your child’s learning

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Will your children be ready for the new national times table check? All children in Year 4 will have to sit an on-screen times tables check; this series will help to prepare children by supporting their learning and understanding of times tables. Each workbook provides practice, problem-solving activities, games and quick-fire quizzes to build fluency of times-tables facts. A free online practice test will also help children to prepare for this important national check. Each book uses concrete resources, problem solving and reasoning to build a mastery of multiplication and division, not just rote learning. Perfect for use at home or in the classroom. An accompanying Teacher’s Guide is also available providing lessons and activities to build confidence and fluency in times tables.

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This Progress with Oxford Comprehension Age 7-8 workbook will help your child to progress with essential comprehension skills while having fun. They will develop a deeper understanding of text and become more confident in answering questions about text they have read. Each Progress with Oxford book is focused on the skills your child will need to master at each stage of the school curriculum. The books are precisely matched to your child’s age to make sure they are aligned with school expectations for their year, helping children to fully achieve their potential. The series has been created to help every child develop essential skills at home, with minimal help and support. Picture clues are used to show very young children how to complete activities, whilst reminder boxes, tips and advice support older children to become self-sufficient learners. A lively character accompanies your child through all the colourful and engaging activities, and fun stickers are included to reward their work. A handy progress chart at the end of each book captures their achievements, so you both know what to do next.

Find further support on the Oxford Owl at Home website, which provides specific advice on helping your child with comprehension, and fun activities to extend their skills.

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Grammar is back on the national curriculum in a big way. Our simple workbooks help to break down the skills children need to master to meet the new objectives in a clear and fuss-free way. This workbook supports children in Year 3 (ages 7-8) to develop their grammar knowledge through fun and engaging activities.

Practice activities to use at home or in school Matched to National Curriculum requirements. Quickly builds confidence and understanding. Includes extra notes and tips to reinforce skills. All Answers available online. Matched to the Scholastic English Skills: Grammar and Punctuation teacher resource book. Perfect for use in class or at home.

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A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.

Includes lots of different writing activities including a fictional school journal, writing a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture. Packed with writing tips and a ‘storywriting toolkit’ to inspire budding authors. Concealed spiral binding that allows the book to open flat but doesn’t get in the way as you write.

Perfectly complemented by Usborne’s Write Your Own Story Word Book, an inspiring write-in book that helps children find the right words for engaging stories.

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Warning: this book will cure all boredom! Pick which pet is worse: a vampire bat, a dead worm or Godzilla; decide what you would do if you were Prime Minister; discover some yucky things that people eat around the world… and much more!

This witty and wacky book is bursting with laugh-out-loud facts, games, quizzes and things to do for hours of fun. Say goodbye to long journey blues!

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Hundreds of creative LEGO (R) building ideas, activities, games, challenges and pranks!

Winner of the Best Book category Creative Play Awards 2016, this superb LEGO (R) building book inspires you to look at your LEGO bricks in new and exciting ways.

Go on a LEGO treasure hunt. Create and perform LEGO magic tricks. Make a LEGO stop-motion movie. Build your own LEGO pet. Challenge your family to build the tallest LEGO tower. And much, much more!

Featuring imaginative play and building ideas, from LEGO games that take just a few minutes and require a handful of bricks, to inspirational build ideas and activities to keep you occupied for hours.

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This charming reference introduces young readers to the wider world by exploring languages, landscapes, weather, animals, capital cities, mountains, deserts, and other landscapes and landforms, and more.

It encourages kids to get play with activities such as creating a mini-rainforest in a bottle and singing a simple song in Spanish. More than 100 colourful photos are paired with kid-friendly and age-appropriate maps along with basic facts about each continent. This book will quickly become a favourite at Storytime, bedtime, or any other time.

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Kate Pankhurst, descendent of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, has created a wildly wonderful and accessible book about women who really changed the world. Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world we live in! * Fly high with incredible explorer and pilot Amelia Earhart * Discover the Wonderful Adventures of medical pioneer Mary Seacole * Fight for your rights with legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks * Change the face of books forever with superstar novelist Jane Austen Bursting full of beautiful illustrations and astounding facts, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is the perfect introduction to just a few of the most incredible women who helped shaped the world we live in. A fantastic gift for girls and boys alike! List of women featured: Jane Austen, Gertrude Ederle, Coco Chanel, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Mary Anning, Mary Seacole, Amelia Earhart, Agent Fifi, Sacagawea, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank.

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