The Knowledge (book series)
Encyclopedia
The Knowledge, one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories
, is a UK book series for children, written by many different writers. It provides factual information on many subjects and originates from the Scholastic publishing company. Many of them teach children what to do in order to get a kind of job in the future.
Its many writers include Terry Deary (author of the Horrible Histories
), Nick Arnold (author of the Horrible Science
) and Kjartan Poskitt (author of the Murderous Maths
).
The series has been recently renamed to "Totally" http://www5.scholastic.co.uk/zone/book_totally.htm.
series. Due to this, these two books don't have The Knowledge logo at the top any more and are now officially part of the Murderous Maths series. To avoid further confusion, Poskitt has recently renamed the two books with more catchy, unique titles. The same sort of incident has occurred with one The Knowledge book known as Foul Football, which has sparked a whole series of its own as well, called Foul Football
.
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to engage children in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms...
, is a UK book series for children, written by many different writers. It provides factual information on many subjects and originates from the Scholastic publishing company. Many of them teach children what to do in order to get a kind of job in the future.
Its many writers include Terry Deary (author of the Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to engage children in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms...
), Nick Arnold (author of the Horrible Science
Horrible Science
Horrible Science is a spin-off series of books of Horrible Histories written by Nick Arnold , illustrated by Tony de Saulles and published in the UK and India by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in science by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant...
) and Kjartan Poskitt (author of the Murderous Maths
Murderous Maths
Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator and author Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The 5ecret L1fe of Code5", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything",...
).
The series has been recently renamed to "Totally" http://www5.scholastic.co.uk/zone/book_totally.htm.
Book list
Note: Publication dates refer to the earliest release.| Title | Author | Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awesome Archeology | Nick Arnold Nick Arnold Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he... |
2001 | Archeology | |
| Awful Art | Michael Cox Michael Cox Michael Cox may refer to:* Michael Cox , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics* Michael Cox , Irish Palmarian Archbishop... |
1997 | Art Art Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect.... |
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| Cracking Codes | Diana Kimpton | 2003 | Codes | |
| Crafty Crime-Busting | Rachel Wright | 2003 | Detectives and Crime Crime Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction... solving |
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| Crashing Computers | Michael Coleman Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal... |
1999 | Computers | |
| Dead Dinosaurs | Martin Oliver Martin Oliver Martin Oliver is a British author of children's books.-Usborne Puzzle Adventure series:* The Intergalactic Bus Trip * Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey * Search for the Sunken City * Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure... |
2000 | Dinosaurs | |
| Dreadful Drama | Rachel Wright | 2000 | Drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a... and Theatre Theatre Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance... |
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| Fantastic Future | Dr. Mike Goldsmith | 2004 | Forecasting Forecasting Forecasting is the process of making statements about events whose actual outcomes have not yet been observed. A commonplace example might be estimation for some variable of interest at some specified future date. Prediction is a similar, but more general term... and Futurology Futurology Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of... |
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| Flaming Olympics | Michael Coleman Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal... |
2000 | The Olympics | Special editions released for Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. |
| Flaming Olympics Quiz Book | Michael Coleman Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal... |
2004 | Questions on The Olympics | |
| Foul Football | Michael Coleman Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal... |
1997 | Football | Transferred to the Foul Football Foul Football Foul Football is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Michael Coleman and explains everything you need to know about football .-Book Titles:Here is a list of all the books in the Foul Football series:... series. |
| The Gobsmacking Galaxy | Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books.- Background :Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham.- Writing :... |
1997 | The Milky Way Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Solar System. This name derives from its appearance as a dim un-resolved "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky... and other Galaxies |
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| Groovy Movies | Martin Oliver Martin Oliver Martin Oliver is a British author of children's books.-Usborne Puzzle Adventure series:* The Intergalactic Bus Trip * Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey * Search for the Sunken City * Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure... |
1998 | Films and the Movie industry | |
| The Incredible Internet | Michael Cox Michael Cox Michael Cox may refer to:* Michael Cox , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics* Michael Cox , Irish Palmarian Archbishop... |
2002 | The Internet | |
| Mind-Blowing Music | Michael Cox Michael Cox Michael Cox may refer to:* Michael Cox , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics* Michael Cox , Irish Palmarian Archbishop... |
1997 | Music Music Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture... |
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| Mind-Boggling Buildings | Michael Cox Michael Cox Michael Cox may refer to:* Michael Cox , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics* Michael Cox , Irish Palmarian Archbishop... |
1998 | Buildings | |
| More Murderous Maths | Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books.- Background :Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham.- Writing :... |
1998 | Maths | Transferred to the Murderous Maths Murderous Maths Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator and author Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The 5ecret L1fe of Code5", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything",... series and retitled Guaranteed to Mash your Mind. |
| Murderous Maths | Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt Kjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books.- Background :Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham.- Writing :... |
1997 | Maths | Transferred to the Murderous Maths Murderous Maths Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator and author Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The 5ecret L1fe of Code5", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything",... series and retitled Guaranteed to Bend your Brain. |
| Mystical Magic | Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker | 2003 | Magic Magic (illusion) Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means... |
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| Potty Politics | Terry Deary Terry Deary Terry Deary is a children's author now living in Burnhope, County Durham, England.A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29... |
1999 | Politics Politics Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the... |
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| Riotous Robots | Dr. Mike Goldsmith | 2003 | Robots | |
| Smashin' Fashion | Michael Cox Michael Cox Michael Cox may refer to:* Michael Cox , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics* Michael Cox , Irish Palmarian Archbishop... |
1998 | Fashion Fashion Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person... |
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| Spectacular Special Effects | Diana Kimpton | 2003 | Special Effects | |
| Spoilt Royals | Alan MacDonald Alan MacDonald Alan MacDonald is a children's writer living in Nottingham, England.- Writing :He has worked in a team of writers on TV shows such as Tweenies, Horrid Henry, Fimbles and Oggy and the Cockroaches... |
1999 | Monarchs and Royalty Royal family A royal family is the extended family of a king or queen regnant. The term imperial family appropriately describes the extended family of an emperor or empress, while the terms "ducal family", "grand ducal family" or "princely family" are more appropriate to describe the relatives of a reigning... |
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| Triffic Chocolate | Alan MacDonald Alan MacDonald Alan MacDonald is a children's writer living in Nottingham, England.- Writing :He has worked in a team of writers on TV shows such as Tweenies, Horrid Henry, Fimbles and Oggy and the Cockroaches... |
2000 | Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC... |
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| Wicked World Cup | Michael Coleman Michael Coleman Michael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal... |
1998 | The World Cup FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body... |
Transferred to the Foul Football Foul Football Foul Football is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Michael Coleman and explains everything you need to know about football .-Book Titles:Here is a list of all the books in the Foul Football series:... series. |
Book Makeover
It appears that Scholastic is slowly reprinting all of the books in The Knowledge category under the Totally category (phasing out The Knowledge category).Murderous Maths and Foul Football
Two books in The Knowledge series are Murderous Maths and More Murderous Maths . However, Kjartan Poskitt incorporated these two books and many others into their own Murderous MathsMurderous Maths
Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator and author Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The 5ecret L1fe of Code5", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything",...
series. Due to this, these two books don't have The Knowledge logo at the top any more and are now officially part of the Murderous Maths series. To avoid further confusion, Poskitt has recently renamed the two books with more catchy, unique titles. The same sort of incident has occurred with one The Knowledge book known as Foul Football, which has sparked a whole series of its own as well, called Foul Football
Foul Football
Foul Football is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Michael Coleman and explains everything you need to know about football .-Book Titles:Here is a list of all the books in the Foul Football series:...
.
See also
- Horrible HistoriesHorrible HistoriesHorrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to engage children in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms...
- Foul FootballFoul FootballFoul Football is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Michael Coleman and explains everything you need to know about football .-Book Titles:Here is a list of all the books in the Foul Football series:...
- Murderous MathsMurderous MathsMurderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator and author Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The 5ecret L1fe of Code5", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything",...
- Kjartan PoskittKjartan PoskittKjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books.- Background :Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham.- Writing :...
- Michael ColemanMichael ColemanMichael Coleman may refer to:*Michael Coleman , Canadian performer, voice of numerous anime characters*Michael Coleman , English writer of books for children and young adults; candidate for the 1996 Carnegie Medal...
- Nick ArnoldNick ArnoldNick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he...
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