Mick Manning

A companion to the successful and innovative Tail-End Charlie, this tells the fascinating story of life on the Home Front in World War II

As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father’s tales about life as an RAF airgunner during WWII. Now he has carefully recreated those stories; for Charlie's grandchildren – and for everyone.

Watch ship builders at work, charge into battle, enjoy the hustle and bustle of market day and listen to fireside tales about the Viking gods - you can even wipe a tear from your eye at a Viking funeral.

A colourful and fascinating introduction to the life and work of one of the world's most important scientists.

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? Includes an illustrative fact strip from the very latest Mammoth discoveries.

What's for supper? A wriggly worm? Yuck! Come and join various sorts of babies in the slimiest, stinkiest, most revolting feast ever. But with spiders, lizards and rotten eggs on the menu, who will say 'yum!' and who will say 'yuck!'?