Rival inventor, Dr Biscuits and his boss, Magnificent, are there too, to steal the Convention's best invention. When they see the Crust-Away in action they realise they could use it to steal anything from anywhere without even leaving their secret hideout!Can Peng and Spanners stop them before it's too late? Will security guards Bosh and Tickle use the Concrete Banana of Justice? And what the flippers does all of this have to do with Mavis Onions and her cat Mr Stinky Pants?

Meet your new favourite superheroes, a the sarcastic penguin and a clever cat with a toolbelt. Join Peng and Spanners as they investigate the craziest pizza mystery ever. A full colour graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dogman, Barry Loser and Bunny vs Monkey.'Super funny!' Jim Smith'Absolutely ridiculous (in a good way!)' BookTrust'Deliriously daft!' National Book TokensJoin your...

Based on the #1 rated podcast (hosted by everyone’s favorite Catholic priest), "A Sinner Reads the Bible" offers one man’s unique and decidedly unofficial take on the Holy Scriptures. It chronicles the journey of writer Steve Webb (Glitter Girl, A&E’s Biography) as he reacts to the daily Bible readings and reflects on the message of the day. Sometimes witty, sometimes joyful, sometimes full of self-doubt, but always thought-provoking, Webb provides his unfiltered meditations on “the story ...

'Super funny!' Jim Smith'Absolutely ridiculous (in a good way!)' BookTrust'Deliriously daft!' National Book TokensPeng and Spanners are back in a story full of . . . RADIOACTIVE ICE CREAM! MYSTERY! SUBMARINES! AND A TERRIFYING SWAMP THING! Starring Peng, the sarcastic penguin, and Spanners, a clever cat with a tool belt.When a stately home becomes haunted by a swamp monster (who seems to love kidnapping cows), Peng and Spanners are called in to unblock the mys...

Space rocket, race racket, race to the moon, rocket racers to your places, ready, steady, ZOOM!So begins this rip-roaring race of a read, and the action doesn't stop until the three lovable dinosaurs reach the finish line. But who will make it there first?This is a wonderful action-packed story that children and parents will race through again and again!

Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and small, all attributed to human agency. Therefore, the megafauna were humans' first great impact on the planet. There is now an increasing realization that the 'blitzkrieg' view of these extinct...

Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes and documents the largest collection of modern human remains in the world from its time period. These Australian fossils, which represent modern humans at the end of their great 20,000 km journey from Africa, may be reburied in the next two years at the request of the Aboriginal community. Part one of the book provides an overview of modern humans, their ancestors, and their journeys, explores the construct...

The desert is too hot to stand still, so Hoppit and his friends keep moving. As more and more animals join, who knows where they're going to end up! It's a big surprise for everyone except the snake and eagle, who try to warn them what's ahead…Join in the rhythm and rhyme of the animal parade in this poem, written and illustrated by Steve Webb.Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied charactersText type: A poemChildren can follo...

An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's drought establish a new colony o...

By looking backward at the course of great extinctions, a paleontologist sees what the future holds.More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, a great battle was fought between those who thought that death had come from above and those who thou...

A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts look...

Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new place...