Books by John Wood

Book SynopsisYou know that food is important. But do you know why? What really happens if you don't eat your vegetables? How do carbs affect your brain? How does chocolate change your body? This book explores the science behind food. Look inside to see how food affects your mood and how to plan a healthy diet.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisWhen you wish upon a star it gets made on The Wishing Starship, a factory for wishes. Making wishes is hard work, and it gets even harder when one of the shipmates makes a very unsafe wish.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisLong-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices. The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing âsustainableâ products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles. The book will be of interest to manag

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Book SynopsisCome one, come all! Come and see some of the greatest fears known to humanity! Explore fears associated with the places we call home. Featuring fears of falling, echoes, empty homes, what's in the closet and more. Make yourself at home in The Greatest Fears on Earth.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisKid King is trapped with his clown, Jokes Malone. He is worried about the people in the nearby town. After a long winter, the town has run out of food. He needs to help them, but the snow is too thick to leave the castle! Can Kid King save them, or will he be trapped with Jokes Malone forever?

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Book SynopsisCome one,come all! Comeand see some of thegreatest fears knownto humanity! Explore fears associated with nature. Featuring fears of plants, thunder, holes, the dark and much more. Some fears are natural and some nature counts as some of The Greatest Fears on Earth.

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Book SynopsisCome one,come all! Comeand see some of thegreatest fears knownto humanity! Explore fears associated humanity and human body. Featuring fears of beards, clowns and even knees. Discover what happens in the body when we are afraid and how it affects us. So, make friends with your fears in The Greatest Fears on Earth.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new series explores the variety of habitats in our world and explains how animals have adapted to be able to make their homes in each and every one of them. Here readers can get their first taste of the diversity of life that our planet has to offer.This exciting new series explores the variety of habitats in our world and explains how animals have adapted to be able to make their homes in each and every one of them. Here readers can get their first taste of the diversity of life that our planet has to offer.

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Book SynopsisCan you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie? Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more! Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys, tolls and technological gadgets into our everyday lives. Come and meet Professor Tess Tube, and join her STEM school, where you will learn about the amazing gadgets and gizmos that are all around us.

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Book SynopsisTash doesn't sleep. At night, Tash runs from the monsters who haunt the jungle. But Tash can't run forever. Then one day Tash finds a family of bugs with a secret

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Book SynopsisPeople come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This series talks about all the ways in which our bodies are different and wonderful. Each book features an inclusive selection of people from all walks of life.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisThe Dame of Faketown decides that nobody is allowed to walk on the floor. What will her people do?

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be an immigrant? Why and how do people move to a new home? How does it feel to live in a new country? Includes a timeline of events that have caused large amounts of people to move to a new place, from the Irish Potato Famine to the war in Syria, and a case study of Iraq.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new series explores the variety of habitats in our world and explains how animals have adapted to be able to make their homes in each and every one of them. Here readers can get their first taste of the diversity of life that our planet has to offer.This exciting new series explores the variety of habitats in our world and explains how animals have adapted to be able to make their homes in each and every one of them. Here readers can get their first taste of the diversity of life that our planet has to offer.

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Book SynopsisFrom processors that filled a room to microcomputers that fit on a grain of salt computers have caused a revolution. Find out how computers help in our daily lives and how they are taking on lives of their own in this bright and engaging infographic-style title.From processors that filled a room to microcomputers that fit on a grain of salt computers have caused a revolution. Find out how computers help in our daily lives and how they are taking on lives of their own in this bright and engaging infographic-style title.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting series zooms in on the little things in life. Peek through the microscope and take a look at the tiny things all around us the lives of bacteria viruses fungi and parasites. How bacteria are there on a human hand What viruses can be found on a mobile phone And what is living in your eyelashes Not got the faint-hearted this series looks at the little critters we all live with and can''t live without.This exciting series zooms in on the little things in life.Peek through the microscope and take a look at the tiny things all around us the lives of bacteria viruses fungi and parasites. How bacteria are there on a human hand What viruses can be found on a mobile phone And what is living in your eyelashesNot got the faint-hearted this series looks at the little critters we all live with and can''t live without.

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Book SynopsisUse your big monkey brain to do things that even your teachers can''t do. With these books, you will talk to computers, create games, draw pictures and find information. Come on, code monkeys - let''s write some code!

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Book SynopsisCan you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie? Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more! Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys, tolls and technological gadgets into our everyday lives. Come and meet Professor Tess Tube, and join her STEM school, where you will learn about the amazing gadgets and gizmos that are all around us.

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Book SynopsisThe town of Bede has a visitor: a big metal bot. But it turns out this bot is programmed to delete everything and it wastes no time getting started. This is bad for Bede. Can Neve the athlete do anything about it?

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Book SynopsisIt should be another normal art lesson for Mr Grumpton. However, suddenly one of his students, Archie, has a very strange trip to the toilet. Now it is up to Mr Grumpton to protect Archie from government agents, greedy businessmen, and an out-of-pocket caretaker.

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Book SynopsisThere is more than milk and butter in the fridge. Now it is full of rude words too! People come from far and wide to hear what it will say next.

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Book SynopsisThe Dame of Faketown decides that nobody is allowed to walk on the floor. What will her people do

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Book SynopsisThe Sun has stopped working, but the Prime Minister knows just who to call

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Book SynopsisGrome is the monster that all other monsters fear. This is because he is the one that wakes them up in the morning with a big trombone. But one day the trombone goes missing...

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Book SynopsisLord Pomp wants a painting of himself, so he invites the village artist, Joy, to his castle. During dinner, Joy notices hidden messages in her food. Not everything in Castle Pomp is as it seems

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Book SynopsisIt is the day of the gardening contest. But the gardeners are quite odd this year. Sanam has snails in her pockets. Winifred glues clocks on her hands. But all that is nothing compared to what Prue is hiding

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Book SynopsisDo you have a problem? Take it to Sir Squash! He is certain to solve it. Well, almost certain... Can Bernard help Sir Squash in his moment of need?

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Book SynopsisHistory will never seem boring again once you have read all these fascinating stories about events that happened in the past. Illustrations from the past as well as pictures of actual items involved in some of history''s most famous stories.History will never seem boring again once you have read all these fascinating stories about events that happened in the past. Illustrations from the past as well as pictures of actual items involved in some of history''s most famous stories.

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Book SynopsisHistory will never seem boring again once you have read all these fascinating stories about events that happened in the past. Illustrations from the past as well as pictures of actual items involved in some of history''s most famous stories.History will never seem boring again once you have read all these fascinating stories about events that happened in the past. Illustrations from the past as well as pictures of actual items involved in some of history''s most famous stories.

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Book SynopsisPeople come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This series talks about all the ways in which our bodies are different and wonderful. Each book features an inclusive selection of people from all walks of life.People come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This series talks about all the ways in which our bodies are different and wonderful. Each book features an inclusive selection of people from all walks of life.

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Book SynopsisUse your big monkey brain to do things that even your teachers can''t do. With these books, you will talk to computers, create games, draw pictures and find information. Come on, code monkeys - let''s write some code!

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisHave you met the Fixer? He can build and fix anything. He has written this book (well, we wrote it for him, he doesn''t have any hands) to tell you how to put your building and engineering skills to the test. Featuring simple layouts and lovely illustration, this book will teach you how to build toys and machines using simple mechanics and engineering.

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Book SynopsisFirst Coding introduces children to the basic principles of programming and computing, from being safe on the internet to their first steps in computer logic. This series uses easy-to-read text and colourful images, as well as real examples of code.

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Book SynopsisGrome is the monster that all other monsters fear. This is because he is the one that wakes them up in the morning with a big trombone. But one day the trombone goes missing...

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Book SynopsisThere is more than milk and butter in the fridge. Now it is full of rude words too! People come from far and wide to hear what it will say next.

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Book SynopsisIt should be another normal art lesson for Mr Grumpton. However, suddenly one of his students, Archie, has a very strange trip to the toilet. Now it is up to Mr Grumpton to protect Archie from government agents, greedy businessmen, and an out-of-pocket caretaker.

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Book SynopsisPeople have had some great ideas but they've also had some really bad ones. Everything we do comes back to us in the end. From the things we eat to pollution in the air and sea, find out how people are poisoning the world and themselves and what to do about it.

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Book Synopsis Interest ages: 7-11 Level: KS2   Subject: reading   In this non-decodable, fiction reading corner book, can you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more. Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys tools and technological gadgets into our everyday lives. Come and meet Professor Tess Tube and join her STEM School where you will learn about the amazing gadgets and gizmos that are all around us. STEM In Our World is an exciting and engaging series looking at new and future technologies.  Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools  A Bug Club Reading Corner book designed for reading for pleasure  Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence 

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Book Synopsis Interest ages: 7-11?  Level: KS2? Subject: reading  In this non-decodable, fiction reading corner book, thousands of people get organ transplants every year, but the need greatly outweighs the supply of organs. What if scientists could grow organs to help make people well? The technology isn''t so far-fetched anymore. Readers learn all about how this could be possible, as well as work in areas like genetics, and much more in the riveting pages of this book. Chock full of STEM topics, including careers in the medical, research, and technology fields, this volume is a great complement to the science curriculum and classroom library.  Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools?  A Bug Club Reading Corner book designed for reading for pleasure   Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence?  Suitable f

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Book SynopsisScience and geography interact in this series. From the basic science of the processes on Earth through to the way people use and abuse natural resources these books cover the topics in a natural way not excluding subjects because they do not fit with the standard divisions of knowledge and curriculum subjects.Science and geography interact in this series. From the basic science of the processes on Earth through to the way people use and abuse natural resources these books cover the topics in a natural way not excluding subjects because they do not fit with the standard divisions of knowledge and curriculum subjects.

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