Children’s / Teenage general interest: Practical interests

Millions of Americans don't earn enough money to pay for decent housing, food, health care, and education.

Reduce, reuse, and recycle with ideas from The Craft-a-Day Book.

Perhaps you've always dreamed about performing your music for others.

Maybe you love baking or doing martial arts-or perhaps soccer is more your thing.

Are you really into cooking?

Do you love to write?

Build your very own planes and rockets!

Be your own robotics engineer and watch these clever machines come to life.

Make brilliant land vehicles from simple everyday items and discover the engineering behind each model!

Landlubbers can make a splash with these easy-to-make watercraft using simple, everyday items!

¿Cómo llega el correo a su casilla de correo?

¿Quién se deshace de tu basura cuando tu cubo de basura está lleno?

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!

Las preguntas de pensamiento crítico y comprensión, hechos divertidos e ilustraciones encantadoras muestran a los estudiantes cómo las personas plantan, cultivan y cosechan calabazas.

¿Qué cultivos se cosechan en otoño?

Ilustraciones encantadoras y textos llevan a los estudiantes en un viaje al huerto de manzanas.

Student life can be expensive - but don't panic.

A beautifully illustrated collection of baking recipes for first cooks written by the winner of The Great British Bake Off.

Learn to cook delicious vegetarian food in this inspiring and comforting cookbook for kids by the winner of The Great British Bake Off.

The bestselling, inspirational first cook book for budding bakers and young chefs.

Watch the kitchen come to life as Wiskella is joined by her friends, Tongo and PanPan, in the search for super-fresh eggs to make the world's most delicious pancakes.

"e;I adore Duck and Tiny Horse.

A very funny, charming story all about the joy of finding your own style, full of brilliantly inventive hats for children to spot.

There Was a Young Zombie Who Swallowed a Worm is a spooky Halloween extravaganza, packed with toads, witches, bats, trolls and a VERY peckish zombie - watch out!

Get creative with The Moomin Craft Book, a stylish Scandinavian craft book featuring over twenty-six beautiful projects, all inspired by the wonderful world of Tove Jansson's Moomins.

The story of Queen Elizabeth II, who famously said 'if I wore beige, no one would know who I was', told through her clothes and jewellery.

A hilarious picture book about a non-conforming Egg from the bestselling Supertato creators Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet.

Join Winston the mouse as he sets out on another irresistible Christmas adventure!

"e;Destined to become a beloved classic"e; - The IA funny and frock-filled story for modern children who don't just want sequins and sparkles on their dresses, from rising star Lily Murray and Waterstones Prize-winning illustrator, Jenny Lovlie.

From Alex T.

This charming collection of poems written by Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) is written on a theme of nature and harvest, with the greater part of the collection being poems in homage to varieties of orchard fruits.

This early works is a fascinating guide with much of the information still useful and practical today.

**Shortlisted for Book of the Year Children s Non-Fiction or Illustrated at British Book Awards 2026****Shortlisted for Picture Book Category at The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2026**In March 2026, Selina was named as the inaugural National Reading Hero recipient of the Queen s Reading Room medal, a new literary award unveiled by Queen Camilla.

_______________"e;A winner with my grandson.

Whether in your garden, kitchen, bathroom or under a log in the woods, minibeasts are everywhere to be found!

Do you know that cormorants are expert fishers?

Do you know that rabbits eat their own poo?

The story of how one small creature can have a powerful effect for her and her friends using the power of restraint, kindness, and respect.

Pandas wearing pants?

Student life can be expensive - but don't panic.

This book spells out in simple terms why people may feel threatened by racial differences, what it feels like to be bullied because your skin is a different colour and why it hurts everyone to judge people by their skin or culture.

The perfect kids' guide to being a vegetarian.

In simple and reassuring terms, this entertaining book explores for young children aged approximately 3-6 what it is like to start school and how the reader might feel about it.

Baked Alaska, melba toast, hush puppies, and coconuts.

Toby Tries a Taco is a book designed to encourage children with rigid eating habits, sensory issues around food, or general reluctance to try new things.

Little girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice, but can we add some flour, yeast, and water to that?

The story of how one small creature can have a powerful effect for her and her friends using the power of restraint, kindness, and respect.

A multigenerational story about a young girl who learns from her grandmother about the enduring nature of love, the strength in rejecting labels, and the wisdom in standing with those who are different.