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Richard Platt

Richard Platt began writing in 1983, and has since published more than 100 books specializing in children's nonfiction. His books have won the silver Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. He is the author of Eyewitness: FilmCastle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, and Eyewitness: Pirate, among others, and is the coauthor, with Stephen Biesty, of Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections.
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body Cross-Sections
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections of Everything
Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle
DK Adventures: Galactic Mission
DK Readers L4: D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion
DK Readers L3: Spies!

Books

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body Cross-Sections
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections of Everything
Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle
DK Adventures: Galactic Mission
DK Readers L4: D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion
DK Readers L3: Spies!

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