ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Aug 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Leo loves numbers. Everywhere he looks he sees things to count. His classmates don’t understand counting like he does. A new girl, Lea, loves patterns. She loves to draw. Could she be a friend for Leo? With sensitivity and nuance, this story of a […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Aug 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This is a remarkable story told well and also told with understanding and care of the people involved. Tom Palmer has a knack for conveying great depth of emotion in a few words which I think increases the impact. What he could never have […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A gloriously positive and inclusive celebration of grandmothers — the true queens of the family. They may not live in grand palaces, wear gold crowns, or attend fancy balls, but for many of us, grannies are the queens of the family. Showing 11 different families, from Nana and her ‘royal pooches’ […]
ACHUKA Book of the Tower 3 Aug 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A contemporary fable that shows the children of a tower block travelling to a strange, magical world inside a tree and meeting an old man with supernatural powers, only to realise that the magic they’d been looking for had been in their tower all along. […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 Aug 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “If you’re looking for a gentle, beautifully written and witty book to take on your holidays then you won’t go far wrong with Elizabeth Laird’s The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown – you might, once you’ve devoured it, even pass it on to the children!” […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Aug 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Fred turns out to be tougher than his generic child’s body and blandly cheery expression would suggest. In fact, from the moment he crawls out of the rubble of a former toy store, he begins working changes on everyone he encounters: “Wow! I really […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Jul 2022 Times Children’s Book of the Week 18 Jun 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The art is sometimes spare and monochrome before shifting to a bright and striking palette as Griffin deploys aesthetics that enliven the rich flow and rhythm of Reynolds’ words. The two skillfully go back and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 27 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A fresh and irreverent comedy starring a cast of neurodiverse characters. Cover illustration by Russell Cobb. Inside illustrations by Thy Bui. Leon John Crothers is 4779 days old (thirteen years and one month, if you’re mathematically challenged). He has been ‘moved on’ from […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Debut title as author/illustrator. [Adam Beer is currently shortlisted for the 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize for his illustrations in Mammoth by Anna Kemp.] Meet Solo the dog. This is his island – and these are his things and his humans. So when a group of […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father’s absence. A powerfully evoked collaboration between one of Seden’s leading contemporary writers and an illustrator whose earlier book The Bird Within Me was an ACHUKA Book of the Day in March 2020. Zoe’s dad isn’t home. She still sees him […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 22 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An apprentice geographer and cartographer guides children in the discovery of one of the fundamental themes of geographical knowledge: maps. White Star is an Italian publisher of illustrated books. This title will be of special interest to primary school teachers but is appealing enough […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 21 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A genre-bending YA that weaves together inner-city life and a wildly dangerous fairytale universe. Cover illustration by Alex Cabal. Rapunzella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her own Afro and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable. But is it? […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop One of ACHUKA’s favourite poets. One of our favourite collections, now available in a new edition. Presented in a unique scrapbook style, with the author’s own drawings, this is a hilarious and exciting poetry book – even for those who think they don’t like […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 19 Jul 2022 Times Children’s Book of the Week 16 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Deep, dark and indelible.” The Times “Steeped in themes of growth and acceptance, a solid continuation of an impactful first installment.” KIRKUS “An exceptional sequel.” Publishers Weekly “I write without a map. I never know […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new book from the team behind 2020 Little Rebels Award winning The Boy Who Loved Everything. Stella is a great detective. She can’t help noticing everything around her – clouds shaped like horses, wheelie bins with faces, a lonely glove on a fence, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Jul 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop For the very first time, all three books in Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft’s Amazing Animal series have been brought together to create the perfect animal treasury for young nature lovers. Our world is home to billions of animal species, and each one has […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon “Unapologetically tackles biphobia, generational trauma, misogyny, and slut-shaming… this intensely personal and moving narrative adeptly captures the often nerve-wracking complexity of queer adolescence.” Publishers Weekly “A story about intergenerational love; understanding ghosts, both internal and external; and becoming a person who will allow others to love […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Funny, sure-handed, wise.” KIRKUS Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his dad; he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for ‘salvageable’ junk and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 12 Jul 2o22 Waterstones Amazon “Each spread bursts with colour against dark suggestive backdrops. The suspense is skilfully built with the help of the drama in flicking through the pages. Underwater scenes and waves surge, stretching the imagination. The reader is invited to descend to the depths and be dragged […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Trixie loves art and hates bullies – and so decides to become an Art Avenger, righting wrongs at her school through art. She uses Picasso, Pollock and Ofili to teach bullies a lesson, get out of lessons and help those in need, like an […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Thu 7 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “An ideal summer read. Intertwining the magic of Celtic and Norse mythology with the contemporary experience, this is a unique tale. In a dark cave Ailsa discovers Hefring, a daughter of the waves. With the help of new friend Camilla, the two work […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A genuinely funny, rhyming tale of rivalry, boasting and custardy chaos. When a flea, a grasshopper and a frog compete to show the King who can jump the highest, it causes CHAOS in the royal dining hall. Who can jump the highest? Can the clever leap-frog use his wits to win? And […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “LaDelle does a fantastic job of bringing the complex, dynamic personalities and relationships of her characters to life while highlighting romantic, familial, and platonic love as well as self-love. Strong pacing allows the storylines to flow organically. Readers will find themselves hooked from the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop From the author of Starboard, Storm and Bloom. A daring, thrilling, darkly comic story about staying true to yourself, and to the people you love, even if that means tearing everything down… There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Minnie’s island. Nothing, that is, apart from the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Jul 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The artistry and scope of the images, balanced by spare, understated and poetic language, make this a book to return to again and again, both to relish the delicate beauty of the images and to appreciate the way Paula White captures a sense of […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Jun 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A haunting, lyrical, original tale that leans into the magic and mystery of the Emerald Isle.” KIRKUS “Delicately worked watercolors by Marks (Daring Dozen) capture the dance of land and sea: frothy waves, shrouds of mist, and, with just a hint of menace, the […]
2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Honor Book Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Hidden throughout this moving novel in verse, old stories are discovered like buried treasures.” KIRKUS “Bruchac , who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 28 Jun 2022 Shortlisted 2022 YA Book Prize Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Month 5 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Fadugba’s debut dazzles, particularly when it comes to dialogue—the London slang flows with ease, adding to the sense of place. Themes of code-switching, found families, and loss resonate strongly […]