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“First up is the wonderful, encyclopaedic The Way Things Work by David Macaulay. It is full of hand-drawn illustrations and features a mammoth as a recurring motif, adding humour to all the explanations” Read more...
How Things Work: Great STEM Books for 8-12 Year Olds
Our Children's Editor, Five Books Editor
Our most recommended books
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Carrie's War
Nina Bawden, Alan Marks (illustrator) -
How Was That Built? The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Roma Agrawal, Katie Hickey (illustrator) -
The Secret Garden
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Reckless: The Petrified Flesh
Cornelia Funke, translated by Oliver Latsch -
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame -
Ben Rothery's Deadly and Dangerous Animals
by Ben Rothery
