This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!

Eighty-four champion hippopotamuses hit the Zamboola River with a thunderous crash and the 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race has begun!

Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! "It's a blister!" said her sister. "It's measles!" said Weasel. "It's hippopox!" said Fox. But in the end the spotamus turns out to be something hilariously unexpected!

Explores empires of medieval west Africa.

A small boy wakes during the night to a mysterious noise and imagines all the things it might be. A picture book with rhyming, repetitive text and illustrations by Terry Denton. For ages 4Q8 years.

An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.