Books by Richard Platt

A gallery of bugs and pests tell you everything you want to know about deadly diseases and pox-like pestilence.

Fun informative guides on how people in the past solved technological problems.

Fun informative guides on how people in the past solved technological problems.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level 1,100 years ago Baghdad was the world's biggest and finest city. Discover this glamorous, glorious desert city - its art, literature and learning - during the Islamic Golden Age.

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 5 reading books, 1 of each of: A New Alliance, The Fear Machine, Nature's Most Deadly?, The Lost: Dark Ground, Foolish Fears

The medieval journal of Tobias Burgess, a young page.

Explore the city at the heart of the ancient Roman Empire with Iliona, a Greek girl captured by pirates and sold into slavery.

Cities all over the world have an underground network of trains running right beneath our feet, helping the public to travel around quickly and safely. But how did these underground networks begin, and how were they built? Find out the fascinating history of underground trains in this non-fiction book by Richard Platt.

Discover the early history of Britain in Man Meets Metal. TreeTops inFact is an exciting non-fiction series for children aged 711. Its range of subjects and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.

This non-fiction title Foolish Fears explores the weird and wonderful fears from the past that petrified families, town and even whole nations you may discover that some aren't so foolish after all ... This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Travel the world and look at some of the most amazing buildings - inside and out! Find out how they're built, what they do and lots more fantastic facts in this exciting and very visual book. Each building is intricately illustrated, providing lots of detail to look at and talk about.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Why is the Brazillian rainforest vanishing and what can be done to save it?