Best Selling Books by Ruth Thomson

The titles in Let's Discover present a mix of information, ideas and activities to engage children with four popular historical subjects. The books employ words, pictures - including photographs of actual students - and make-and-do projects to take young readers on a thrilling voyage of discovery, where they can find themselves at a castle siege, taking part in a Jacobean banquet, or working machinery in a Victorian mill. This series has been specially developed to support project work and provides an excellent resource for any class or school library.

Presents a variety of works of art that depict animals in different media, explains how they express the artist's ideas, and suggests related projects.

A simple, attractive book introducing young children to the work of staff at a primary school. Explaining the day-to-day tasks of various people including teachers, cooks and site manager, and how they work together as a team. Illustrated with specially-commissioned, on-location photography.

'Changing Times' is a series that looks at life in the recent past through the eyes of four generations of the same family. Change and continuity are emphasised through contemporary photos and artefacts. The books aim to stimulate historical interest and awareness. Cooking is the focus of this title.

Intended for the literacy hour, this book aims to teach budding writers how to shape stories, using descriptive words, action and a good ending. Using well known tales as examples, this book then encourages children to write their own stories using elements found in the stories.

This great series looks at how children can help themselves to stay safe

Four Freckled Frogs is part of the Start Reading series, which uses phonic methods to introduce young readers to the alphabet, vowel sounds, consonant blends and rhymes, and reinforces learning with activity pages and games.

Special detective Peabody and his assistant, Humbug the dog, plan to a trip to the seaside but end up searching for the thieves of their ship's missing valuables.

A bear who knows all sorts of things (knot a rope, play a game, count to eight) wonders if the reader can do them too.

Argues that the hands are the busiest part of the human body, and looks at gestures, sign language, and other things we can do with our hands.

Jim and all the farm animals make sounds trying to wake up the cow sleeping in the middle of the road.

Photographs and artwork look at the first Indians and various tribes throughout America, concentrating on the traditional way of life of the Indians of the Great Plains. Includes related craft ideas.

These books will help you think about and look around your local area. Find out what your surroundings can tell you about how people live and work, where they shop and go to school and how they travel and spend their leisure time. Discover the clues that will tell you how people lived in the past. Think about the changes that could benefit your local area, whether it's your home, school or further afield.