Books published by publisher Oxford Univ, UK

After a dramatic accident Kit and his parents find themselves washed up on a small island. But there is no sanctuary here. The local community is hostile and menacing. Soon Kit's life is in danger and he is forced to face not just the inhabitants but a disturbing new arrival whose presenceon the island terrifies the community. In his struggle to stay alive and make sense of what is happening Kit is forced to confront good and evil in unexpected forms, even within himself, and face trials and dangers beyond anything he could have imagined.

A wonderful new series of well-told, beautifully illustrated biographies with dramatic, evocative illustrations on every page. Each book tells the story of a remarkable person from the past, whose name and achievements have lived on far beyond their own time.Lively, narrative text by skilled storytellersColourful, picturebook style artwork will stimulate the imagination and linger in the memoryInternational range of charactersEach has a timeline and index for easy referenceThe biographies link in with National Curriculum KS1 and KS2Young children love a good story. What better way to introduce them to the giants of our past than through these delightful books?The titles in the series have been chosen to cover a wide range of characters and to have both national and international appeal.

Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to desing and pilot flying machines, which terrify Christina every time heleaves the ground. Will is certain he can become a success, but what price is he willing to pay for the glory?A Carnegie Medal winner in 1969, this novel is now reissued in a smaller format mass-market paperback.

Stories about animals and hunters, wise stories, funny stories, stories about cunning and trickery, love and goodness.These stories are written down here for the first time ever. The author has travelled around Ethiopia collecting stories from this incredibly diverse country. There are stories like those of Aesop, the Bible and Grimm. They are retold by a prize-winning children's author who loves the country.Elizabeth Laird has won the Reader's Choice award for the Smarties, the children's Book award and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie. She has previously published with Egmont, Macmillan, Collins and Hodder. She has spent two years travelling to gather these stories.

A Zapotec village chief named One Earthquake is murdered by his enemies, who then carve the gruesome image of his death on a huge stone slab and place it in their temple as a warning to others. An Inca official selects young village girls to be raised in the distant House of the Chosen Women, where they will spend the rest of their childhoods learning traditional arts in complete seclusion. A Spanish priest named Bernardino Sahag�n recounts the development of the mighty Aztec empire in Mesoamerica and witnesses its tragic overthrow by Spanish conquistadors. These are a few of the gripping stories readers will encounter in The Ancient American World.Authors William Fash and Mary E. Lyons use a wide range of primary sources including sculptures, hieroglyphs, pottery, and ancient tombs to trace the captivating history of ancient America. Readers accompany archaeologists as they unearth fantastic artifacts and spectacular buildings and decode ancient manuscripts to unlock the secrets of these cultures.From farming to the building of great pyramids and from sacred sacrifices to the Spanish conquest, The Ancient American World uses archaeological findings and ancient texts to explore the remarkable cultures of this region.

New master work by worldwide bestselling illustrator Stephen Biesty.The scene is Rome in AD 128. Join up with Marcus Cotta and his 9-year-old son Titus as they spend a festival day together in Rome. Each picture shows in extraordinary detail the everyday scenes and major monuments of the imperial city. Numerous cutaways enable the reader to look into thebuildings, to see what the people are doing and how the buildings are constructed. Travel through Rome in one day and see what life was really like in ancient times.* The lavish illustrations include: a wild animal show at the Colosseum (teaming with 50,000 spectators); horse racing at the Circus Maximus; bathing at the Baths of Trajan; festival day at the Temple.

When Mr Bagthorpe gets his latest bank statement, all hell breaks loose! He thinks he's broke and nothing can persuade him that the bank has made a mistake. All he can think about is saving money - and that means that if the Bagthorpes don't raise it themselves, they're not eating it. Noshops; no sweets; no arguments.But the Bagthorpes have never really been hunter-gatherers. So, while Granny Bagthorpe retires to her room to scoff a hamper from Harrods, the rest of the family find food - and how to stop it escaping - a whole new challenge!

When Peter finds the gauntlet on a Welsh hillside, he becomes the latest link in an old legend. Suddenly transported back to the fourteenth century, to a world of castles, feasts, jousts, and battles, he is accepted by everyone as the eldest son of Sir Roger de Blois. Peter learns how to liveas the son of a Norman lord, how to hawk, and fight, and shoot a longbow, and, finally he has to escape alone from their besieged castle to bring help. But one day he will have to return to his own time ...

An anthology of poems about conflict. The book starts in the playground and moves outward from the personal to the global, taking in ownership, rights, respect, justice, and peace. The poems deal with important issues in a context which children will really understand.The anthology is beautifully illustrated in black and white by Peter Bailey.Jill Bennett is a primary school teacher and a noted poetry anthologist.