Is Lionel Messi your number soccer player? In this NEWLY REVISED edition, we bring you fully up to date with Messi's story so far, featuring his stats and achievements since he left Barcelona for PSG after 18 glorious seasons before heading stateside to Inter Miami in 2023. We also cover his achievements on the international stage, including his epic Copa América win with Argentina in 2021 and stunning World Cup triumph in 2022.
Did you know that the living legend Leo has played more than 1,000 matches, scored more than 815 goals for club and country, won 35 club titles wirh Barca, including 10 La Liga titles and picked up 76 awards?!
Discover how Leo went from being the smallest player on the field (as a young boy he was so tiny all the other players called him 'Titch') to being widely known as the 'Greatest of All Time' with his incredible runs, ball control and lots and lots of goals!
Soccer Superstars is a series aimed at building a love of reading from a young age, with fun cartoons, inspirational

Who are the best players in world soccer today? Is Man City's Erling Haaland still the most prolific in front of goal or is it Harry Kane at Bayern Munich? Which midfielder has the greatest impact on a game - Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham with his attacking play or Barcelona's Pedri with his vision and passing? Who's the top performer between the sticks - is Alisson Becker still the world's premier keeper or has AC Milan's Maignan taken the top spot in 2025?

While every fan has an opinion, back yours up with the latest stats featured in Soccer Legends 2025 (Men's) and show them who's the best soccer pundit! Showcasing the top 100 stars in the modern game, Soccer Legends 2025 offers the latest facts and stats of players in every position who play - or spent most of their careers - in the world's elite leagues. With a star profile on each page, the book is packed with incisive data and includes stunning heat maps that show the pitch movements of every player featured. Get your copy now and start comparing the goals, assists, saves, freekicks (and a host of other data) of the current icons in world soccer. US league players profiled include Christian Pulisic, Sergio Busquets, and Lionel Messi.

In Soccer Rules the World, discover how soccer became the most popular game it is today, boasting a mind-blowing 3.5 billion fans worldwide!
A good choice for reluctant readers, this eye-catching offering should delight soccer fans and incite interest from the uninitiated.--Booklist

From Lionel Messi's World Cup triumph and USA's domination in the women's game, to the greatest goals and pioneering bosses, SOCCER RULES THE WORLD brings you the most incredible TRUE stories from the biggest game on the planet!
The daring duo of Dan and Simon will usher you through the story of soccer - the highlights of course! You'll meet the legendary players and inspirational managers of the beautiful game, relive the magic moments and read stories of epic wins and glorious goals from around the globe.
Wonderfully illustrated - bringing soccer's history back to life - Soccer Rules the World is packed with plenty of jokes, funny characters, as well as the facts and stats that fans of Soccer Superstars have come to know and love.

Filled with quizzes, stats and little known facts, plus illustrated and told with all the fun of a Tom Gates novel, the Soccer Superstars series is perfect for young readers five and up.

Is Kylian Mbappé your ultimate soccer hero? His quick feet and shooting skills have made him one of the world's top forwards and the youngest ever player to score 16 goals in the Champions League.

Mbappé started playing at the age of six and his first coach was his dad. Find out how he went from playing on the pitch he created in his living room to becoming the second teenager in history to score in a World Cup final.

Soccer Superstars is a series aimed at building a love of reading from a young age, with fun cartoons, inspirational stories, a simple narrative style and a cast of characters chipping in with quotes, jokes and comments.

A fun book for younger children who love anything related to cars and wheels! Each double-page spread features a different group of fascinating vehicles to pore over, such as trains, race cars, emergency vehicles, and even some at a junk yard.

Filled with hundreds of different trucks and other vehicles from around the world, even the most avid young transportation fanatic will discover surprising new machines they haven't seen before!

Chess is the ultimate fun strategy game - and this is the perfect introduction to chess, whether you're a budding master or you've never played before.
In simple, fun stages, readers will learn what every piece can do, and how to use them on the board. Clear, original board diagrams make the action easy to understand. Readers will also discover the best tactics to use against their opponent, from how to counter the Queen's Gambit to how to avoid the Fool's Mate. There's plenty to discover about the wider world of chess too - including unusual trivia and unbelievable true chess stories from history. You'll also find a full glossary of chess terms and profiles of some of the world's greatest players inside.
Written with clarity and humour, this is the only guide any young chess player will need.

Minecraft gives everyone so many opportunities for open-ended play... but when you have the whole world to explore what do you do?
This book solves that problem, with 101 amazing ideas for fun challenges and quests in Minecraft. From finding every animal to making your own food factory, creating the ultimate underwater base to challenging your friends to an online dance-off, you won't believe the crazy tasks within. In-game activities range from combat quests to building challenges, and even mad stunts. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to increase their Minecraft fun 101 times over!

Don't like endless digging and weeding? Don't let that stop you from gardening with your kids!

This ambitious, attractively presented book encourages children to become not only gardeners, but also nature observers, scientists, and data collectors.--Kirkus Reviews

The simple and achievable gardening projects in this book are perfect for parents and young children to do together. All are based on Charles Dowding's trademark no-dig technique, which perfectly lends itself to gardening with little ones who can't manage heavy digging and who will quickly grow bored of endless weeding.

Projects are broken down into easy, step-by-step processes, designed to be carried out by children. Attractive, full-bleed photography is supplemented with fun illustration and fully illustrated factual spreads. Running throughout the gardening projects are extra little facts about plants and wildlife, as well as things to look out for when you are outdoors.

This newly updated edition of The Soccer Encyclopedia (FIFA) will make you an expert of the most popular game in the world.
The pages are brimming with the latest facts, stats and records, plus punchy profiles of the best international teams on the planet, as well as essential info about the top leagues and tournaments in world soccer. What's more, you can get the lowdown on all the FIFA competitions from the World Cup to the eWorld Cup and the latest recipients of the FIFA awards. With a comprehensive list of honours citing every international and intercontinental competition, FIFA's The Soccer Encyclopedia is a must-have for every young fan of the sport.

If you're playing Minecraft online with friends, you need this cool new collection of amazing Minecraft challenges! This book gives you simple, step-by-step instructions for building amazing arenas, setting up fun quests, and organising server-wide games.
Difficulty levels range from easy-to-play games like hide-and-seek and racing, to fun building challenges, and all the way up to huge epic tasks involving all your friends. Best of all, you don't need to mod your copy of Minecraft-all the challenges here can be shared with your friends without any extra downloads or alterations to regular Minecraft. If you're looking to create some spectacular challenges to amuse and amaze your friends, look no further!

Take to the water with this fun, visual miscellany for children who love anything boat related! Each double-page spread features a different group of boats and other watercraft to explore, such as helpful lifeboats, racing dragon boats and super submarines. Discover rowing, fishing and record-breaking boats from around the world, plus hard-working ships such as icebreakers and fireboats. Explore inside a car ferry, visit the floating market and find out how a boat floats.

Filled with hundreds of different boats, ships, subs, and other wonderful watercraft, even the most avid young boat fanatic will discover new vessels they haven't seen before!

There are over 3 million shipwrecks on Earth. They are many things at once: memorials to lives lost, science experiments, treasure chests, works of art, and home to millions of living creatures.

They are time machines, allowing modern explorers a glimpse into the past.

From spacecraft and fighter planes to exploration vessels, merchant ships and cruise liners, discover the gripping stories of conflict and courage behind some of the world's most iconic shipwrecks.

Contains the following shipwrecks: The SS Eduard Bohlen, Endurance, USS Kittiwake, Nan Hai, Cotilda, Titanic, The Odysseus, HMS Victoria, HMAS Sydney and Cormoran, Vasa.

Meet 80 endangered animals on a journey around the planet. Cross vast deserts with caring scorpions, swim deep oceans with gentle whale sharks, hang out in a tropical rainforest with the slow loris and skip across the ice floes with a polar bear. Your wild animal adventure starts here!

Jam-packed with facts about 80 of the world's most endangered animals, including the reasons they are endangered and what is being done right now to help them. With a glorious pull-out poster on biodiversity and the roles each creature plays to keep our planet healthy.

Our planet is covered in water, but most of the ocean is a mystery - until now. It's time to voyage with seabirds, surf the waves, dodge a polar bear and dive in a submersible - there's a deep blue world to explore.

Waterworlds is a book full of incredible cross-curricular information, fun activities, and beautiful illustrated scenes to enjoy. Discover why the sea is blue, how boats float, and the rhythm of the tides, before flipping the book to read about the hidden world beneath the waves. Find out what lives in the darkest depths of the ocean, how to make your own shipwreck treasure and explore the wonders of a coral reef.