Best Selling Books by Franklin Watts

Join Kid Pirate and his crew - Salty, Meg, Bo and Vane - marooned on a desert island. In this adventure,the crew notice their food supplies are going missing and a trail of banana skins are left behind ... Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the adventures of the same set of characters in exciting comic book form, perfect for encouraging reluctant readers. The books have been book banded to support children''s reading in the classroom. The Kid Pirate books have all been banded at book band 7 Turquoise.

A beautifully illustrated retelling of this favourite African tale. Anansi the spider is a trickster and he will stop at nothing to get Nyame''s story box, proving that even the littlest among us can achieve the greatest things. Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child''s reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.

Rainforests are teeming with life from the depths of the forest floor to the tops of the towering tree canopies. Spend a day and night in a rainforest to see how the unique animals and plants that live there change depending on the time of day. Thousands of fabulous creatures live around in rainforest. Get ready to meet ... ...shrieking squirrel monkeys darting through the trees ... enormous harpy eagles swooping through the branches looking for food ... sunbathing iguanas basking in the bright sunshine ...slimy blob-like caterpillars and beautiful blue butterflies ....scarlet macaws and toucans cracking nuts ... and many, many more. Then find out why rainforests are in danger and what is being done to help them. Perfect for children aged 7+ to help them learn about this beautiful and amazing habitat. Full of intricate illustrations by award-winning artist, Khoa Le.

This highly praised series of books has been in print since the 1950s (launched originally by Franklin Watts himself). Today''s First Books provide engaging, in-depth introductions to subjects in all areas of the middle-grade curriculum, including science, social studies, and the arts. Illustrated with color and historical photography and art, each First Book is chaptered, includes an index, a for-further-reading list and, where appropriate, a glossary and original maps.

These entertaining and information-filled books provide a rich resource for the study of colonial America. Each volume surveys an important aspect of life for all the people -- settlers from England, Holland, Spain, Germany, and other lands; slaves; indentured servants; Native Americans, who helped shape the emerging American nation.

The books in this series cover 500 years of Hispanic history in North America -- from the settlements of "New Spain", long before the arrival of the Mayflower, to the many issues of Latinos in the United States today.

The creator of the X-Ray and Timelines series presents this very different slant on history, from the amusing to the bizarre and strange. Each book traces its subject from the earliest times to the present day, examining the unusual and less obvious.