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There once was a little girl, born a princess. While she was still a young woman, she became a queen, our Queen Elizabeth. Now, seventy years later, her reign as the longest serving female monarch in history has seen her stand steadfast through triumph and tribulation, and through the monumental changes that have shaped our world.

Who needs a Prince Charming when you're busy running the world?

Fabulously Feisty Queens explores the lives and legacies of history's most powerful women.

Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold Northern coast.

In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building.

When her valley is devastated by floods, Cari gets involved with a project to reintroduce beavers to the area but must win over her neighbours.

Just like us, animals need a place to call home. From a lemur's nest high up in a tree to a porcupine's burrow deep underground, discover the incredible homes of some amazing creatures from all over the world.

When his family's farm is taken by a global company, a young boy sets out rescue it but doesn't count on ending up deep in the Amazon rainforest.

Amazing Rivers takes readers on a tour of the world's waterways, revealing the animals that call them home, the societies that rely on them and the environmental issues threatening them along the way.