Books by Ruth Owen

Book SynopsisThis big book of 96 info-packed pages introduces young readers to the subject of life cycles using a Question and Answer format. The animals featured in the book include wild mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders, and also familiar farm and pet animals. Understanding animal life cycles is a core science topic and this book gives students plenty of information for school projects and science lessons, while also being a high-interest read. The beautiful photos support the text, and labels, short captions, and diagrams help introduce newly fluent readers to non-fiction reading.

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Book SynopsisEvery double-page spread in this high-interest Key Stage 1 science book includes an investigation, experiment or hands-on activity. Instead of just reading about this core curriculum topic, readers will work step by step through the fact-packed pages discovering the science for themselves. They will ask questions, discuss ideas and theories, investigate and experiment. The creative and innovative activities and projects will help budding scientists discover changing states of matter by heating, freezing or combining foods, how we can grow our own food, how new foodstuffs are invented and much more!The book includes accessible text and age-appropriate step-by-step instructions, opportunities to use science equipment and vocabulary, colourful designs and great photographic imagery. Perfect for both classroom and home learning.

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Book SynopsisPacked with science, this title is a celebration of these chubby, eight-legged, moss dwelling, microscopic creatures that have incredible survival skills. Scientists have frozen tardigrades, boiled them, dried them, and even sent them into space with no air and extreme levels of radiationand they survived! Discover how scientists are studying tardigrades to learn more about the origins of life on Earth and how their survival skills could be used in human medicine. Using cool, superhero references, fantastic photos, 3D artwork, and microscope imagery, this book is a high-interest, non-fiction read for fans of science, nature, and factual books.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at the past gives young readers the chance to see moments from Britain's history captured in photographs. From bread and dripping, to using a mangle; from watching TV for the first time during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, to the ritual of a Sunday bath night this book focuses on everyday life in the home during the first half of the 20th Century. The photos explore topics that include how some people lived in poverty in tenements, how many families used outside privies with newspaper for toilet roll and how children ate carrots on sticks instead of ice cream during World War II rationing! Many of the topics are living history and the author has interviewed people who were born during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s who were delighted to share their Memories of Life at Home for the book.

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Book SynopsisEngineers are clever problem solvers who invent and build machines and other objects. To do their jobs they use LOTS of science. In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists meet engineers who use scientific equipment to invent machines that help us in our everyday lives, build spacecraft and even develop and build high-tech artificial limbs for children. This colourful, quirky and delightful first look at the work of an engineer will help young readers develop a love of reading and of science.

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Book SynopsisJoin a worm as it wriggles through its muddy world searching for food and avoiding being eaten by hungry birds! This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this fascinating little animal. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

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Book SynopsisHow is your body different and the same to a giraffe's? What characteristics make a mammal a mammal, or a reptile a reptile? In this title, readers will turn their investigative skills to studying animal bodies and learning how scientists group animals. Packed with fascinating facts and fun challenges, students will meet a host of animals including blue whales, the world's largest spider, great white sharks and colourful chameleons. How does a polar bear's fat help it survive in the freezing Arctic? Is a bat a mammal or a bird? And can you tell whether a minibeast is a spider or an insect? Look for the download button throughout the book. It shows there are free downloadable worksheets and other resources available for that topic.

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Book SynopsisWhat plants and animals live in a garden? What do these living things need from their habitat? And who eats who? In this title, readers will explore a garden, woodland, rock pool and desert habitat. They will also discover what plants and creatures make their home in a tree stump micro-habitat. This book introduces simple food chains and helps students discover how living things in a habitat depend on each other for survival. Look for the download button throughout the book. It shows there are free downloadable worksheets and other resources available for that topic.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at the past gives young readers the chance to see moments from Britain's history captured in photographs. From young children that worked as chimney sweeps, to working in a grocery store where every product was individually weighed and wrapped by hand; from delivering milk using a push barrow, milk churns and ladle, to type-setting a newspaper using individual metal letters this book focuses on life at work during the past 100 years. The photos explore topics that include being a telegram boy, working as a bus conductor and the original recyclers rag and bone men! Many of the topics are living history and the author has interviewed people who were born during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s who were delighted to share their Memories of Going to Work for the book.

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Book SynopsisWe all know that crane drivers work high above the ground building skyscrapers and other tall structures, but did you know that they use science in their job? In this title for early readers, the Little Scientists visit a building site and learn all about forces and pulleys. They will discover how cranes work, how crane drivers control their machines, check and repair them and use maths and science skills to load and unload ships and trucks and shift heavy objects on construction sites. This colourful, quirky and delightful first look at the work of a crane driver will help young readers develop a love of reading and of science.

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Book SynopsisJoin a busy ant as it forages for food and works as a team with the other members of its colony. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this tiny insect. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

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Book SynopsisThis high-interest read takes kids on a fascinating underwater dive into the world of zooplankton and phytoplankton. These living things may be small, but without these microscopic superheroes, life on Earth could not exist! Readers will meet some weird and wonderful plankton species, they will see how many marine animals begin their life cycles as plankton, they will learn how plankton are essential to all marine ecosystems and food webs, and they will discover how plankton are helping us fight climate change. Stunning photos, 3D realistic artwork, and scanning electron microscope images support the science-packed text that includes lots of laughs and some cool superhero references.

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Book SynopsisWe all use it every day but what happens when we throw it away? The BIG problem is that it does not disappear. In this title kids will act as environmental scientists to learn about the problem with plastic; single use plastic; plastics in landfill; plastic in the ocean; microplastics and the dangers to birds, animals and the environment. On a more positive note they will also learn about recycling; plastic free packaging; beach clean-up operations and the actions we can all take to reduce the plastic pollution and save our oceans. This title is filled with critical thinking questions and answers, activities and experiments, and it is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisStep back in time to discover a story of invasion and empire. Learn what everyday life was like for a Roman citizen back home in Rome. Join centurions as they march across Europe to invade Britain. And experience life as a Roman immigrant living in Londinium (modern-day London) 2000 years ago. This title supports the following Key Stage 2 History Learning Objectives: The Roman Empire and it's impact on Britain; The Roman Empire by AD 42 and the power of its army; successful invasion by Claudius and conquest; Hadrian's Wall; Romanisation of Britain.

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Book SynopsisAn inspirational CALL TO ACTION for all young conservationists, The Problem with Plastic combines nature, science, beautiful photography and a fact-packed handbook. Kids worldwide care about this issue and this new book gives them the information they need and pratical solutions they can put into action TODAY!

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisCan you really grow tomato ketchup? Today, many children do not know where the foods they eat come from. This book takes kids step-by-step through all the stages needed to grow a small crop of tomatoes: from planting seeds to harvesting their fruits. Then readers will follow a recipe to make delicious ketchup. The book is packed with plant life-cycle information and shows how tomatoes can be grown in a container or small garden, but also includes information about how tomatoes are grown commercially on farms. Get muddy and sticky with some fun and fact-packed, hands-on science.

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Book SynopsisJoin a busy ladybird as she hunts for aphids and searches for a safe place to lay her eggs. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully leveled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this little beetle. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

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Book SynopsisJoin a leafy tree as it spends the day sucking up water with its roots, making food with its leaves, and becoming a home and meal for lots of its animal neighbours. This beautiful book for young readers uses stunning, detailed photographs and carefully levelled text to show a 24 hour period in the life of this amazing plant. The engaging text is perfect for building an enjoyment of non-fiction reading.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, readers will discover all about the basic structure of plants, including roots, stems, leaves and flowers. For example, how roots take in water and nutrients and how leaves make food for a plant. Packed with facts and information about familiar wild and garden plants, this title gets readers testing how water travels up plant stems, exploring how some plants grow from bulbs, and even going on scavenger hunts to find out all about leaves, tree bark and colourful petals. Look for the download button throughout the book. It shows there are free downloadable worksheets and other resources available for that topic.

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Book SynopsisHow do the changing seasons affect what time it gets dark and the type of weather we experience? How do plants and wild animals respond as the year passes by and the seasons change? From new green shoots pushing through the soil and warm sunshine in spring, to shorter days and frost and snow in winter, readers will discover how the world around them changes as the seasons change. This title is filled with critical thinking questions and ideas for activities and experiments to enable young science enthusiasts to learn about the seasons. It is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisWhat are materials? Everything around us is made from a material from glass to wood, plastic to rock and metal to wool. In this title the reader will learn to identify different materials; where they are found; what they are used for and their properties. Filled with ideas for activities and experiments, this title will give young science enthusiasts all the information they need to learn about everyday materials for the key stage 1 curriculum.

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Book SynopsisInside this delightful book, young readers will meet families of every kind from all around the world. As they turn the pages, they will have lots of opportunites to: understand similarities and differences between themselves and others; learn about different people, places, communities and traditions; understand feelings and be sensitive to others' needs; make comments and ask questions; make descriptions and discuss their own lives and experiences; read and understand words and simple sentences.

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Book SynopsisIs it living or non-living - can it move on its own? Does it need air? Does it need water and food? Does it produce waste? Does it react to things that happen around it? Does it grow? Can it reproduce? Ask these questions about the things around you to learn if they are alive or not alive. From cats to plants; robots to skin cells and toys to clothes; using fun experiments and activities and answering critical thinking questions kids will discover if things are alive, were once alive or have never been alive. This title is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisHow do you fix a giant tortoise's damaged shell? What could cause a red river hog to unexpectedly lose weight? And how do you perform an eye operation on an elephant? It's all in a day's work for a busy zoo vet. In this title, readers will discover how zoo vets use technology and their science skills to take care of wild animals every day. There is also a fun Q&A to help readers decide if becoming a zoo vet could be the career for them!

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisStep back in time to the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and discover how stone age people lived in Britain and Europe. Meet stone age artists, hunter-gatherers, the first farmers and Otzi the Iceman. Explore the development of human technology and culture in Britain and Europe through the period known as the Bronze Age. This title supports the following Key Stage 2 History Learning Objectives: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age; late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, for example Skara Brae; Bronze Age religion, technology and travel, for example, Stonehenge.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants including roots, stems, trunks, leaves and flowers; Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth and how they vary from plant to plant; Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants; Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal; Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways; Identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment and identify how they are adapted to suit their environment.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun in the solar system; Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth; Describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies and use Earth's rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify how sounds are made; Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear; Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it; Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it; Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Recognise that light is needed in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light; Notice that light is reflected from surfaces; Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines; Explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into our eyes; Recognise that shadows are formed when light is blocked by an opaque object; Explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them and find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify common appliances that run on electricity; Construct a simple electrical circuit, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers; Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit; Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit; Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

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Book SynopsisCan you really grow a carrot cake? Today, many children do not know where the foods they eat come from. This book takes kids step-by-step through all the stages needed to grow a small crop of carrots: from planting seeds to harvesting their vegetables. Then readers will follow a recipe to make a delicious carrot cake. The book is packed with plant life-cycle information and shows how carrots can be grown in a container or small garden, but also includes information about how carrots are grown commercially on farms. Get muddy and sticky with some fun and fact-packed, hands-on science.

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Book SynopsisCan you really grow crisps? Today, many children do not know where the foods they eat come from. This book takes kids step-by-step through all the stages needed to grow a small crop of potatoes: from planting seed potatoes to harvesting their vegetables. Then readers will follow a recipe to make a bowl of delicious crisps. The book is packed with plant life-cycle information and shows how potatoes can be grown in a container or small garden, but also includes information about how potatoes are grown commercially on farms. Get muddy and sticky with some fun and fact-packed, hands-on science.

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Book SynopsisCan you really grow strawberry jam? Today, many children do not know where the foods they eat come from. This book takes kids step-by-step through all the stages needed to grow a small crop of strawberries: from planting runners to harvesting their fruit. Then readers will follow a recipe to make delicious jam. The book is packed with plant life-cycle information and shows how strawberries can be grown in a container or small garden, but also includes information about how strawberries are grown commercially on farms. Get muddy and sticky with some fun and fact-packed, hands-on science.

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Book SynopsisIn this beautiful science book readers will join Mr. Green and his friend young Mo in their community garden. When spring comes, the garden bursts into life. Mo discovers how daffodils and other plants grow from bulbs. The friends plant flower and vegetable seeds for the summer. The garden's birds are busy building nests. And insects, spiders, and other minibeasts appear from their winter hiding places. Perfect for studying plant and animal life cycles and for developing a love of nature.

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Book SynopsisIn this beautiful science book readers will join Mr. Green and his friend young Mo in their community garden. When autumn comes, the plants produce their seeds and start to die. The leaves on the trees change colour and drop to the ground. And as some of the garden's animals prepare to hibernate or hide away for the winter, there's still lots to do as there are pumpkins and apples to be harvested. Perfect for studying plant and animal life cycles and for building a love of nature.

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