Item category 2: Book Box

Subject: Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. In 1355 after almost 30 years of travel and 75000 miles he told his story to the Moroccan Court secretary who wrote it down in arabic

Subject: A new poetry collection from renowned performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrating the diversity of British society. A unique portrait of British children, Benjamin has written 12 poems, each one about a child in his or her home environment. The children are from a range of backgroun...

Subject: Highlights the significant but little known contribution made by Britain's ethnic minorities to defence over the past two hundred and fifty years.

Subject: A Grandfather explains to his granddaughter why he named her father after the boxer Joe Louis

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. This book is a biography of h...

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, she sh...