Family Space Explorers

Ada Twist’s head is full of questions. Like her classmates Iggy and Rosie, Ada has always been endlessly curious. But when her fact-finding missions and elaborate scientific experiments go too far, her frazzled parents banish her to the Thinking Chair. Will all that thinking change Ada’s mind?

Madeleine is a little girl with a BIG imagination. One day she builds herself a rocket and flies it to the moon. What will happen when she gets there? Will she make new friends? Will she return home safely? And more importantly, will she tidy her room?

From Number One bestselling children’s author David Walliams, comes this explosively funny space adventure, with out-of-this-world illustrations.

Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal – to fly – Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt’s dream come true. But when her contraption doesn’t fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie’s contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit.

There are living things so tiny that millions could fit on a dot. Although they are invisible, they are everywhere. And they are busy doing all sorts of things – from giving you a cold and making yoghurt to wearing down mountains and helping to make the air we breathe. Find out how the smallest things on the planet do some of the biggest jobs.

At five years old, Jane was already a watcher. Little Jane Goodall loved to watch all the animals in her world – the earthworms and insects, birds and cats. She loved to read about Dr. Dolittle, who could talk to animals. When she grew up, Jane followed her dream and travelled to Africa to study chimpanzees. She watched them, she listened to them, and, in time, she became their friend. Renowned children’s book creator Jeanette Winter brings us this moving biography of Jane Goodall, the woman who lived with the chimps – and who still speaks out to protect the animals and their homes.

One day, a little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. Easy-peasy! But making the most magnificent thing turns out harder than she thinks. She measures, hammers, fastens and adjusts again, but the thing just keeps turning out wrong. If only the thing WOULD JUST WORK!

In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?