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Told in gentle rhyme with lots of fun, this is a great series for discussing good manners and behaviour with your little ones. But, for the purposes of this month's Imagining History Recommends, it is the adventures of Albie that caught our eye.Personally, I sometimes find fact books difficult to digest and the information hard to read about and remember. Christopher Edge’s warm hearted writing sucks you in from the start with a sparkling take on parallel worlds, fuelled by a delightfully fresh understanding of quantum physics and a fearless ability to take on life, loss and dreaming big while never talking down to his readers. Alba is a gentle, perceptive girl in a wheelchair who’s far more clued-up on quantum physics than he is. The most famous and feared pirate on the high seas was Blackbeard, who was known for setting prisoners’ beards on fire!

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It shows Neanderthal – or stone age – people sewing hides, carving a bear and playing a bone flute, as well as Albie and his new friend Thorn painting their adventure on the cave wall. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

For ten years, Whiffy Wilson has been delighting children and grown ups with his funny refusals and cheeky behaviour. The Many Worlds of Albie Bright,from UK author Christopher Edge, is an outstanding novel aimed at readers aged 8-12. I like to focus on what it was like to live and play in those times, what people ate, what they did in their spare time, what they were afraid of and what they looked forward to. After the publication of I Don't Like Books and This Book Has Alpacas and Bears, she ventured outdoors with two books celebrating being outside - Puddling!