Collection: Junior Non-Fiction

Pirate schoolboy Joe is invited to join his Uncle Bill in a hunt for treasure on Deadly Isle. But crafty Captain Cutthroat is also on the trail and it looks like he may get there first. This tale is linked with picture puzzles and packed with things to spot.

'The Lonely Princess' is an Indian fairy tale about a girl kept prisoner in a magic palace floating in the air, just as Rapunzel is imprisoned in a tower.

'The Giant Oak Tree' is an Eastern European fairy tale, where and old couple find their fortune at the top of a magic oak tree. It is retold alongside 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

Packed with short biographies of the some of the most famous - and not so famous - inventors of all time, Marcia Williams looks at the lives of the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell, demonstrating how their creations have changed the world.

This is a collection of stories, poems, playscripts and songs behind the festivals associated with Christianity. It contains explanatory notes, a festival calendar, a glossary and index.