In Brazil, you can find interesting old towns, modern cities, and thousands of different animals and plants. It is hom...
After John Lennon went solo, he wrote some of the most important songs of all time. He was a family man and a peace pr...
Some love Scotland for its long white beaches and quiet green hills. Some like the busy cities, with their shops and m...
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. But nobody photographed...
I want to learn to fly,' Amelia Earhart tells her family one evening. But in 1920, flying is expensive and dangerous, ...
Tom is a pauper. His father sends him onto the streets of London to beg for money every day. But Edward is a prince, t...
England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. The four Beverley children...
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sa...
In Sweden nobody wants a troll to come into their garden, but how do you stop them? On a lonely road at night in Oman,...
All they could hear was the wind, and the waves. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken...
It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - ab...
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Brit...
Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She ...
Factfiles' are a sub-series of 'Bookworms' with a non-fiction angle providing factual information for students on a wi...
Everybody has bad dreams.Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that y...