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“100 Things to Know about the Unknown” by Jerome Martin, Alice James, Lan Cook, Tom Mumbray, Alex Frith & Micaela Tapsell, illustrated by Federico Mariani, Shaw Nielsen, Dominique Byron &

How many tests to you suppose kids in your grade take each day?

A pandemic stream-of‑consciousness, an artist in the making and a bird society on the moon are among this year’s favourites

Set sail with Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger in a fantastic new gift edition of The Wind in the Willows, find answers to big questions about the universe, join two siblings in a menacing and magical world, and enjoy incredible true stories about conquering Everest in a September selection of new children’s books.

A selection of books published this week.

Welcome to part II of my musings on the 2010 blogging year. You'll need to have read the first part to make sense of it. The article you're reading now is extraordinarily long and I'd normally break up a piece of this length into two, three or even more separate articles. This year I want to get the birthday stuff out of the way as quickly as possible, however, so bear with me. Hey, you don't HAVE to read any of it. And so, off we go...

There are two kinds of enemies in this world; those who attack you from the front and those you don’t see.