In only a few days' time the international school will play host to almost 1,000 participants from a total of ten different schools for the mini-Olympics! And it goes without saying that the five friends are training more intensively than ever before. But even on the first day strange things ...

Our past and our future are buried beneath the ice.

The ice-cap in the Arctic and Antarctic has always played a crucial role in the earth's complex eco-system. So this 740,000-year old ice contains valuable information about the climatic changes which took place in the ...

Everything children really want to know about sex-and aren't afraid to ask

How much sex education do primary school children need? As much as they ask for, say the experts. And what exactly is it that children want to know? When teaching primary school classes about the human ...

How much would you need to eat if you used as much energy as a hummingbird? Are animals right-handed or left-handed? A duck's quack doesn't produce an echo, and nobody knows why. Can fish drown, and can monkeys fall out of trees in the jungle?The animal world produces unbelievable records and ...

Enough already, for Gods' sake! For almost 3000 years people have been telling each other god knows what about the heroes and gods of Greek mythology. It really is high time the truth was brought to light. Here, the Olympians and Heroes take the matter into their own hands-from Achilles to Zeus.

Be careful, don't let it fall in the wrong hands!

Everything you need to survive the boring school hours: cartoons, teacher and student slang, pages to play dots and boxes as well as Battleship, instructions on how to make paper airplanes, jokes, little riddles, pages to design and ...

Who wouldn't like to have a cool detective with a super stink-gun as a friend? Fletcher is immortalised in this friendship journal, revealing what he's particularly good at (sleuthing), what his favourite food is (bread dumplings - for breakfast, lunch and dinner), who is his favourite animal ...

This book contains space for drawings and all your favorite things: the wrapper from your favorite candy, the pressing of your favorite flower, the photo of your best friend, a test daub of your favorite nail polish, etc. Through its sketchbook quality, the book is also designed space for your own ...

Small garden, great delight

Gardening - it is so much more than just sticking seeds in the ground and waiting for weeks until something finally grows. With very simple means, children nine and older can beautify their window sills, press flowers, create pictures from petals, make ...

It's twice the fun if there's more than one! Creative ideas for two.

37 activities for girls and their friends-from baking to handicrafts, or just finding out how well you really know each other. Because everything's twice as much fun if there's two of you. Which is why there's always ...

When the Romans occupied Egypt and with them Christianity moved in, the ancient Egyptian culture became less and less important and eventually the meaning of the old inscriptions was entirely forgotten.

Speculation about Egyptian hieroglyphs began in the Renaissance; though sometimes ...

Let's talk about sex, in a competent, open and entertaining way.

For this task, we have chosen as authors a knowledgeable man and woman, so that they can give answers to all that questions that girls and boys in the jungle of emotions that emerges during puberty might have.