Books

Illustrated by Flavia Sorrentino Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by th...

Illustrated by Flavia Sorrentino Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by th...

Illustrated by Flavia Sorrentino Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by th...

Illustrated by Laura Brenlla Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by the wi...

Illustrated by Laura Brenlla Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by the wi...

Illustrated by Laura Brenlla Once upon a time, there was a misty blue mountain. Below the misty blue mountain was a wild, dark forest and by the wi...

Illustrated by Christopher Corr Celebrate your year from New Year's Day to Christmas Eve with this treasury of 52 best-loved stories from around th...

Illustrated by Zoe Persico This inspiring picture book retells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg - the Swedish teenager who has...

Join one little pigeon on her mission to spread the word of peace around the world. Set to the lyrics the iconic song Imagine, this book brings Joh...

illustrated by David Barrow But unfortunately it's just not that easy. First there's the case of the missing extra-delicious-smelling pizza slice -...

illustrated by Aurelia Durand Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about s...

When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his ...

When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...

When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...

Following the death of her mother, Coco spent her early life in an orphanage, where she was taught how to use a needle and thread. From there, she ...

When Mary Shelley was a little girl, she used to write stories beneath the trees in her garden. As an adult, Mary was inspired by this same imagina...

The youngest of ten children, Jesse grew up working in the cotton fields of Alabama. Discovered by his high school track and field coach, Jesse qui...

Jean-Michel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father. When he was eight and recovering from an accident in bed, ...

Born in San Francisco but raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was the child star of Hong Kong cinema. But, after getting into trouble as a teenager, his...

Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota. As a teenager, he played in various bands and, over time, his interest in music deepened, with a particula...

Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London. She ...

Alan grew up in England, where his best friends were numbers and a little boy called Christopher. When his young friend died, Alan retreated to the...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, M...

When Louise was a little girl, her mother died. She learned to express her feelings through drawing - and when she grew up, she turned these drawin...

The fourth of five children, Aretha was born in Tennessee and took the stage at an early age in her father's church choir. She went on to become th...

Agnes (later to become Mother Teresa) was born in Skopje, Macedonia. From an early age, she knew she wanted to dedicate herself to religion. She wa...

When Jane was little, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. This inspired her lifelong love of animals, and she went to study them in...

As a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After ea...

Anne Frank was born in Germany to a loving family. But when World War II broke out, Anne and her family had to hide in a secret annex in Amsterdam....

When he was little, Muhammad Ali had his bicycle stolen. He wanted to fight the thief, but a policeman told him him to learn how to box first. Afte...

Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine year...

When Vivienne was a young woman, she wasn't sure how a working class girl from England could make a living in the art world. But after discovering ...

Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher... so maybe he'd b...

As a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and went against his parents' values. But as a young man, he started to form beliefs of ...

Little David grew up in Leicester on the campus of a university, where his father was a professor. As a child, he spent hours in the science librar...

Little Jane was born into a large family with seven brothers and sisters. She grew up reading and writing stories in the English countryside. As an...

Bathalzar is the world's greatest violin-playing polar bear. At least, he used to be the greatest. Now he's the only polar bear left in all the wor...

When Simone de Beauvoir was a little girl, her father would proudly boast that she had the brain of a man – whatever that meant. But later, after y...

Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa went on to become a civil rights activist. In 1955, ...