The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (Classic Edition #17)

Beatrix Potter

THE TALE OF THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (originally, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a d...

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (PB)

Randall Munroe

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good ...