Pack up your rucksack and go on some of history's most exciting journeys of discovery

Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief-makers who are about to take your child on an incredible journey to meet a host of famous explorers and share their incredible discoveries! They'll find out why the Ancient Phoenicians were bewildered by Britain, laugh at the great big fibs told by 'explorer' Sir John Mandeville, and travel along the River of Disappointment!

Packed with amazing explorer facts to learn about - timelines, and things to find - your child will take a journey just about everywhere, and discover everything they ever wanted to know about the whole world and beyond!


A funny and fascinating look at the countries of the world

Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief-makers who are about to take your child on an amazing journey around the world to discover everything about our planet.

These pint-sized pals will show children all about what the planet is made of, where the highest football stadium is and why Brazil is called Brazil. They'll join the teeny travellers as they take a camel trek to the pyramids, have a ball at a bonzer Australian beach party, and play the maddest game of crazy golf across North America.

Packed with fantastic fold-out pages with mad maps, perfect pull-outs and fabulous facts on places and people, your child will learn loads of stuff about climate, oceans and Earth in space. It's a terrific tour of our world!


A brilliant book bursting with big ideas

Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief makers with big ideas. Pint-sized pals who’ll show you around and tell you all about key inventions, the breakthroughs that lead to them and spectacular spin offs which followed…

When was the wheel first used? Who were the bright sparks that thought of the light bulb? And what connects a teapot to a 400 kph train? Find out all about more than 300 key inventions that changed the world (and lead to almost everything else that’s ever been invented).

Fantastic fold-out pages reveal the who, what, when, where and why of each invention and explain the way it transformed the way we live.


What defeats foot-eating fungi? How does the brain tell you when you’re hungry? Where’s there an acid bath in your body?

Meet the Brainwaves, pint-sized pals who’ll take you on a rollicking, rip-roaring romp around the human body. Look out for them along the way as you see a fight against an invasion of horrible toxic bacteria, dodge squirting digestive juices, and take a white-knuckle ride on red rapids of gushing blood.

Fantastic fold-out pages reveal exactly what’s happening in your insides, exploring all the important bits, and how they work.

It’s a quirky quest of discovery!