Read DK Books and content in Purple Mash and Serial Mash

Aug. 19, 2025

Have you explored our DK Learning partnership yet? It allows us to share even more high-quality books and content within both Purple Mash and Serial Mash, perfect for expanding knowledge and research in school and at home. The combination of DK Learning’s inspirational and imaginative content alongside our creative online learning platforms brings exciting, curriculum-led resources into schools.

Non-fiction texts in Purple Mash

Each term in Purple Mash, 8 new content pieces (short eBooks) are added. These are all linked to popular curriculum topics, making them perfect for supporting children’s topic research in school and at home.

Alongside each text there's also a quiz to put readers' new knowledge to the test, writing projects and other activities.

Some of the titles already within Purple Mash are:

  • The Lifespan of a Plant
  • A World Full of Animals
  • Curious Underwater Creatures
  • How Do You Spot a Big Cat?
  • What Can We Learn from Fossils?
  • Great American Civilisations: The Maya, Incas and Aztecs
  • Life in the Stone Age
  • World War II Leaders of Nations
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This is all in addition to the 300 plus images from DK that are already available within Purple Mash - these can be used in applications adding more value to your subscription.

DK Learning books in Serial Mash

Subscribers to Serial Mash have access to 6 new, full-length, non-fiction DK books every term. Every book is accessible to children online and from home via Serial Mash, the online guided-reading library.

Here's just some of the titles:

  • Ada Lovelace
  • I Feel Happy
  • Knowledge Encyclopaedia Dinosaur!
  • Solar System
  • Stone Age
  • The Ugly Duckling
  • First Fact Bugs
  • I feel Brave I Feel Brave
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Anne Frank
  • Martin Luther King
  • Gross and Ghastly Human Body
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