Collection: Junior Biography

This title describes the life and career of Alexander Graham Bell, including his pioneering work with deaf people, his marriage and private life, and his struggle and eventual success in creating a machine that could transmit words along wires.

Everybody knows Alexander the Great had an appetite for war and conquered loads of countries. But did you know that Alexander named all his cities after himself? This book contains everything you ever wanted to know about the great man from Macedonia.

Each book in this series focuses on a different man or woman who has had an enormous impact on the world. Lavish photographs and artwork, informative maps and a comprehensive timeline are included, as well as a glossary and useful bibliography.

Alexander came from a family of heroes. When he was only 20 years old, he became king of Macedon, part of ancient Greece. Not content with just that, Alexander set off to conquer the rest of the known world. On his travels to the furthest edges of Asia, he fought battles, won lands, and founded c...

In this series, engaging and often inspiring biographies of rapper and hip-hop celebrities are combined with full-colour photographs of the personalities at different stages of their lives.

The books that comprise this series are written for primary school children. Each volume focuses upon a particular children's author and profiles that author's life in a way that younger readers can relate to.