Page 103 - Sterling 2020

History

Stranger Places FEBRUARY 2020

Take a Trip to the World’s Weirdest Locations! ISBN 9781783125036
$9.95 PB
by Hannah Wilson 48 PP (all in color)
10 5/16 × 9
Get ready to visit the world’s strangest and most surprising places! Ages 7 and UP • CQ 60
From animal islands filled with deadly snakes to terrifying towns US Only • Carlton Kids
and decaying buildings, these natural features and man-made
structures will blow your mind. Journey to a giant blue hole in
Belize that’s filled with toxic gases and sea-creature skeletons, a
lake in Tanzania that runs red, a town so overrun with spiders its
residents are forced to eat them, and a vast 226-foot-wide crater
that is always on fire. You won’t believe your eyes!

Pirates: True Stories of Seafaring Rogues MAY 2020

Incredible Facts, Maps & True Stories ISBN 9781783124435
$14.95 PB • 64 PP
About Life on the High Seas (all in color) • 9 1/16 × 10 7/8
by Anne Rooney, illustrated by Joe Wilson Ages 9 and UP • CQ 50
US Only • Carlton Kids
Come face to face with some of the most villainous and scurri-
lous rogues ever to sail the seven seas! Travel from North Africa to
the China Seas to meet such notorious figures as Blackbeard, the
Barbarossa brothers, and women pirates Mary Read, Anne Bonny,
and Zheng Shi. With plenty of maps, themed spreads, and true tales
of a pirate’s daily life, this book takes you on an epic adventure.

Wonders of the World MARCH 2020

Text by Daniela Celli, ISBN 9788854415522
$16.95 ($22.95 CAN) • HC
illustrations by Giulia Lombardo 96 PP (all in color)
10 1/2 × 14 • Ages 8 and UP
A world of wonders awaits children in this book! From the Palace CQ 12 • US/Can
White Star Publishers
of Versailles to Mount Rushmore, it presents some of history’s
greatest monuments, along with their location, size, and fun facts
and features. Each one is marvelously illustrated, and introduced
by a character connected to its legend—including Antoni Gaudi,
designer of the Sagrada Familia church, and Jane Percy, Duchess
of Northumberland, whose family lives in Alnwick Castle, where
scenes from the Harry Potter movies were filmed.

The Atlas of Women Explorers MAY 2020
by Riccardo Francaviglia, ISBN 9788854416673
$16.95 ($22.95 CAN) • HC
illustrated by Margherita Sgarlata 96 PP (all in color)
8 1/4 × 11 Ages 8 and UP
From Amelia Earhart to Isabelle Bird, Freya Stark to Laura Dekker, CQ 14 • US/Can
these 18 women broke the rules, took the road less traveled, and White Star Kids
went that extra mile to win their own freedom. This beautifully
illustrated and information-packed atlas tells their stories,
following them across the globe on bike or sailboat, planes and
trains, as they pass through Australian deserts, Asian tundra,
to the mountaintops, and even into space. Among the daring,
audacious voyagers:

Spring 2020 ❚ Sterling Publishing ❚ 101 ❚