Explores the main world settlements througout history, including here they were located, daily life, culture, ad historical significance.

Gus is in the garden, and he can see lots of little animals. Connects to the non-fiction text pair, Yummy, Yummy!

A big boy starts school and sees all the big things at school. Connects to the fiction text pair, I Can Go to School.

A girl shows all the things she has for school, how she gets to school and all the things she can do there. Connects to the non-fiction text pair, School.

The girl is in the bathtub, and she can see the bubbles. Her toy duck, frog and fish can play in the bubbles.

A girl has different types of fruit. She shows us the different colours and where the fruit grows. Connects to the fiction text pair, Gus is in the Garden.

You can see bubbles in lots of different places - and you can play in them, too!

Ivar is tired of sitting on the sidelines making sails while other men experience adventure on the high seas. He decides to take matters into his own hands and stows away on Leif Erikson's ship. Find out what adventures await Ivar and Leif on their expedition to explore new lands.

Everyone in her family loves to ski, except Sally. Will Sally ever fit in or will she find her own way to shine on the slopes?

A mysterious accident. A dead husband. People are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Is the past ever truly dead? Beiv, a celebrated artist, has moved from suburban Dublin to her holiday cottage on an island off the coast of West Cork. But a dark shadow from the past hangs over her. When her estranged son and his new young wife arrive to stay, she is faced with some difficult questions. Nancy Harris's play The Beacon was premiered at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, in September 2019 before transferring to the Gate Theatre, Dublin, as part of the 2019 Dublin Theatre Festival, in a co-production between Druid and the Gate, directed by Garry Hynes.

'Passion has its price.' An orphan girl, adopted by a wealthy family, is given a pair of beautiful red shoes. At first it appears her dreams have come true... but appearances can be very deceptive. Nancy Harris's play The Red Shoes is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction. It premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2017.

Each book in this collection of non-fiction readers tackles a single high-interest or curriculum topic through a combination of simple, levelled text and bright, appealing photographs. Topics covered include core curriculum topics such as adaptation, materials, simple machines, maps and the Egyptians, as well as topics such as healthy eating, recycling, families and more.

Engage Literacy is the award-winning reading scheme from Raintree. Perfect for both guided and independent reading, its engaging and contemporary content motivates and supports early readers while providing a reliable and instructional framework. Readers in book bands pink to grey are thematically linked in fiction and non-fiction pairs and all readers are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary introduced and reinforced throughout the levels.

A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, No Romance is a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. It received the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2012. Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for years. Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, Nancy Harris's No Romance playfully observes the longings, fears and desires we reveal - and don't reveal - in our closest relationships. No Romance was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.

"A man boards a train: the confined space of the carriage triggers potent memories. Soon he is confessing to a terrible crime, one for which he holds Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata responsible. Written in 1889, Leo Tolstoy's novella became instantly notorious, and was banned in both Russia and America. Tolstoy hoped one day to see it performed to the accompaniment of live music. In this adaptation by Nancy Harris, musicians and actors come together to bring the story to life for the stage."

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. Power struggles, rites of passage, love and forbidden relationships are some of the rich themes that run through the 2012 cycle of plays. Some are deeply funny, some are provocative and some reflective; and one has really catchy songs! For the 2012 Festival, the anthology has an international feel and offers a window on the world. It includes from Australia a play based on a nineteenth century court case in which a teenage girl was falsely convicted; from Brazil a drama about young lovers doomed to tragedy; set in Russia, a play exploring differing attitudes to National Service and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; a drama about students' rights to an education and the Cultural Revolution of 1966 in China; and a comedy involving a group of Irish country girls travelling to London to audition for the X-Factor.