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The Week Junior: Guide to Politics

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Pub Date 31 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2025

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The ultimate guide to understanding politics from multi-award-winning children's magazine The Week Junior, perfect for helping children make sense of the world around them.

Who put politicians in charge? How do we organise our societies to be fair? How should we pay for schools and hospitals? And what do governments actually do anyway?!

Find the answers to all of these questions and more in this essential guide for any young reader wanting to get their head around politics – what it is, how it affects us and how we can get involved. The Week Junior Guide to Politics covers everything from what power really means to how governments work around the world, and from how you can make a change in your local area to political parties and divisive issues. Packed with colour illustrations and photographs, this is the ultimate child-friendly companion to current affairs.

The ultimate guide to understanding politics from multi-award-winning children's magazine The Week Junior, perfect for helping children make sense of the world around them.

Who put politicians in...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781801995306
PRICE £7.99 (GBP)
PAGES 128

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A really useful book that goes through more than just the basics of politics. Its focus is often on the UK and our style of politics, but there is also a lot in there about different countries around the world. The history of different political systems is looked at, and there are some great 'You can do it!' features as well, which encourage the reader to get involved with political activism.

The tone of the book isn't hectoring or judgey of political institutions, but it does do a good job of looking at the pros and cons of different ways of politics and governance.

The style and presentation is bright and colourful. The information is presented in smallish chunks but doesn't talk down to the reader.

I'd recommend it for curious children (and perhaps to those of us adults who sometimes don't want to admit that we don't understand as much about politics as we pretend to!).

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Guide to Politics explains many political concepts and terms and makes them accessible to young audiences who wish to understand the world and the politics of the adults better (pun intended).
The information is laid out in an engaging way that allows for focusing and consideration.
Will purchase for our library and recommend to teacher friends.

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