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** WINNER OF THE 2026 THE WEEK JUNIOR CHILDREN’S AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR ** The second audiobook in a fantastically funny new history series from best-selling author and chart-topping podcaster Greg Jenner! Think history is just a boring list of facts and dates? Think again! History is hectic...

Thousands of Jewish children were rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, and other primary sources bring several of these important stories to life.

Emma Edmonds, a woman disguised as Private Frank Thompson, earned a spot in U.S. history as a successful Union spy during the American Civil War. At different times, she also posed as an Irish peddler woman, a black laundress, and a Confederate sympathizer.

It was the biggest event in the history of women's sports. And for the Americans, it came down to five kicks. After regulation play and two overtimes in the final game of the 1999 women's World Cup soccer match, the score was 0-0. Penalty kicks would decide the world champion. The Chinese and the Americans would each pick five players. One kick per player. With the score tied 4-4, the Americans had one more chance to win it all.

In 1859, the British and Americans coexist on the small island of San Juan, located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. They are on fairly good terms—until one fateful morning when an innocent hog owned by a British man has the misfortune to eat some potatoes on an American farmer's land. In a moment of rash anger, Lyman Cutlar shoots Charles Griffin's pig, inadvertently almost bringing the two nations to war. Tensions flare, armies gather, cannons are rolled out . . . all because of a pig!

The city of Paris wanted to tear down the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel, an engineer and amateur scientist, had built the incredible structure for the 1889 World's Fair. Created using cutting-edge technology, it stood taller than any other building in the world! More than a million delighted people flocked to visit it during the fair. But the officials wondered, beyond being a spectacle, what is it good for? It must come down!

Inspire little ones to follow their dreams with simple, engaging stories about the most impactful women, to listen to at home or on the go. With determination and unique ideas, these bold and talented women changed the world forever. Their journeys from young children to celebrated figures are...

Inspire little ones to follow their dreams with simple, engaging stories about the most impactful women, to listen to at home or on the go. With determination and unique ideas, these bold and talented women changed the world forever. Their journeys from young children to celebrated figures are...

Have you ever thought about who you might be related to? What if we told you that you were related to extraordinary emperors, great kings and magnificent queens? Well, your majesty, you are. In fact, everyone is. And geneticist Adam Rutherford is here to tell you how. Come on an extraordinary adventure through millions of years of human history where you will learn the story of our species from evolution to dinosaurs to you! You will meet kings and queens, pharaohs and vikings, and see just how far and wide humans have migrated around the world.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Myths! Lies! Failed satellite launches? Head to the launch pad with beloved educator and New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner, because the History Smashers are busting the biggest misconceptions about the Space-Race, and the facts are blasting off in 10-9-8…...

You might think that there's not much to jellyfish, but this audiobook will make you think again. Did you know that jellyfish can thrive in waters that would suffocate other sea creatures? Or that some jellyfish can flash different colours from purple to green? Or that they have the world's most powerful venom? There is even a jellyfish that is immortal! There are more than 2000 kinds of jellyfish, and they're one of the few creatures that will thrive in warmer waters due to climate change – yikes!

There's so much more to elephants than their enormous size! Have you heard about their excellent memory or their adorable sense of humour? Did you know that they actually walk on their tippy toes? And wait till you see who their cousins are – you're in for a surprise! Elephants can live until the age of 70 and are Earth's most intelligent giants, with incredible communication and relationship-building abilities.

There's more to snakes than them being venomous and cold-blooded. Did you know a snake can still grow even when it hasn't eaten for months? Or that snakes have flexible jaws that allow them to eat prey that's much larger than them? Or that snakes are masters of disguise? With more than 3700 sub-species around the world, there's a snake to delight and frighten every kind of listener, from Australia's deadly Eastern brown snake to the green anaconda, the heaviest snake in the world. Not to mention the teeny-tiny Barbados thread snake, which is half as long as a pencil!

Find out what really happened when an entire colony disappeared in 1590, just five years after it was founded. What is the truth about the missing members of the lost colony of Roanoke? In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to found the very first permanent English settlement in the Americas...

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Does the underwater kingdom of Atlantis really exist, or is it just a centuries-old myth? Find out all there is to know about Atlantis in this compelling and up-to-date addition to an exciting new series!...

Florence, 1469, en pleine Renaissance. Mais qui est donc cet apprenti qui ne tient pas en place dans l'atelier d'Andrea Verrochio ? C'est Léonard de Vinci, peintre précoce, qui bientôt surpassera son maître. Léonard se passionne aussi pour la sculpture, l'ingénierie... Il peint des chefs-d'oeuvre, comme la Joconde, et invente des machines incroyables. Ce touche-à-tout que les puissants d'Europe se disputent, gardera jusqu'à la fin un esprit libre, une curiosité insatiable et une inventivité hors du commun qui en font l'un des génies les plus brillants de notre Histoire.

Le destin d'une grande dame de la science, première lauréate du prix Nobel et à ce jour la seule femme à en avoir reçu deux. Scientifique d'exception, son travail sur la radioactivité a sauvé des millions de vies humaines.

La vie, romancée pour les enfants, d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry une personnalité qui a marqué l'histoire par son destin de pilote de l'aéropostale et par son oeuvre littéraire, notamment le célèbre Petit Prince. Une adaptation immersive, tout en musique et en sons, de la collection Romans Doc aventure à destination des petits mais aussi des grands.