How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot an…
Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holme…
Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So , now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die.…
Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, a…
In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a …
What can you do in New York? Everything! You can go to some of the world's most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in Central Park, eat a sandwich in…
Look at desert, and what do you see? Nothing much - just a hot, flat, dry place, with lots of sand, and no animals or people. But look again. There are deserts with mountains, and deserts with snow…
'It's good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there in t…
Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great sh…
On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundred of stars. Behind the ship, an iceberg - a great mountain of ice -…
People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. Bu…
'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago,…
Everyone knows about Brazil's beautiful beaches, the Amazon Rainforest, and the wonderful Carnival of Rio de Janeiro. But where is a lot more to Brazil than this: here you can find interesting old …
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits net to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to si…
What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter …
Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win racea, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for…
A woman and a man...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her...It's an ol…
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in an family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister M…
I can see wonderful things!' said Howard Carter, when he opened the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, in 1922. In the tomb were gold chariots, statues, and Tutankhamun's 3000-year-old body…
I'm afraid to look in the storeroom, All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, th…