Law for Beginners
By (Author) Lara Bryan
By (author) Rose Hall
Illustrated by Anna Hardinge
Illustrated by Miguel Bustos
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Usborne Publishing Ltd
6th July 2021
27th May 2021
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Educational: Citizenship and social education
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Law, police and crime
340
Long-listed for SLA Information Book Award 2022 (UK)
Hardback
128
Width 178mm, Height 250mm, Spine 17mm
520g
An accessible introduction to the world of law, for complete novices.
An entertaining and thought-provoking guide to what laws are, who makes them and how people enforce them. It covers crime and punishment as well as social and citizenship issues such as politics and international law, using a mixture of debates, cartoon strips and clear diagrams.
Lara has been learning how to grow a book since 2016, following a degree in English and Italian at Oxford and teaching jobs in Italy and Myanmar. From explaining how economics works, to inventing boredom-busting activities, to telling a good dragon yarn, she's enjoyed every minute of the job. Rose grew up in Northumberland, studied Physiology at Oxford and looked after orphaned orangutans for a bit. She worked in the charity sector for ten years, writing about issues from renewable energy, to the safety of workers in Bangladesh. For Usborne, she's written books about engineering, business, computers and the environment.