A moving, witty and magical tale about love and sadness, delectably illustrated…
Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times
Ultimate Slime by Alyssa Jagan
Taking home science projects to a whole new level
Colourfully and enticingly produced
Presented by 15 year old Canadian Instagram star Alyssa Jagan – on Instagram as @craftyslimecreator
The book is labelled Totally Borax Free
Paddington 2, The Movie Storybook
See the movie then relive the magic in this glossy tie-in storybook retelling for younger readers.
Waterstones Book of the Year 2017 – special gift edition available
The first volume of the Box of Dust, La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman as been chosen as Waterstones Book of the Year for 2017.
“This is a winner that is going to bring a lot of pleasure to an ever-widening audience,” declared James Daunt, “and we could not be more pleased to play our part in its success.”
Set in the world so masterfully established by Philip Pullman in his trilogy His Dark Materials, La Belle Sauvage is a story of survival, where two children, with everything at stake, find themselves pursued by a terrifying evil. In their care is a tiny child, and in that child lies the fate of the future.
To celebrate Philip Pullman’s win, Waterstones is presenting a very special edition of the book. The volume arrives in an exclusive cloth jacket, enhanced by gold foil and embossed finishes, a gold ribbon marker and endpapers of the London and Oxford skylines.
Designed by illustrator Chris Wormell, each special edition of La Belle Sauvage contains one of six Ex Libris daemon bookplates, featuring key daemons from the text. Which daemon will be yours?
The special edition is priced £25
All Aboard The Discovery Express by Emily Hawkins and Tom Adams ill. Tom Clohoshy-Cole
On your time-travelling adventure voyage you will cross the world, see some of the most important moments in the history of transport and meet the brilliant engineers who made these moments happen. The full-bleed illustrations include both visible information and much more concealed behind more than 50 flaps.
Legendary Journeys: TRAINS by Philip Steele ill Sebastian Quiugley
Here the pull-out pages are even more effective than in the companion volume SPACE.
Especially so when they combine on left-hand and right out pages to produce a full train-length panoramic effect.
Share the experience of passengers travelling the world’s great railways, including the civil engineer Robert Stephenson and crime writer Agatha Christie – can you spot the other famous people on board? In addition to the history of the railway, this unique guide contains activities and has clever features that pull out to reveal amazing details of the world’s iconic trains and their inner workings.
Moon Calendar 2018
Invisible Child Moomin Tote Bag
This Tote Bag featuring artwork based on the book The Invisible Child is part of a special partnership between Oxfam and The Moomins to raise funds for Oxfam projects supporting women and girls worldwide.
Star Editions will donate 50p from the sale of this tote bag to help Oxfam in their work to end poverty.
The Night Of Wishes by Michael Ende tr. Heike Scwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian, ill. Regina Keen
The latest release from The New York Review Children’s Collection, a highly recommended series of red-cloth-spined hardbacks.
Originally published in 1989 as Der satanarchaolugenialkohllische Wunschpunsch this is both a fast-paced fantasy and a whimsical satire of bureaucracy and its discontents. It’s estimated that Ende’s books have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Let It Glow – A Winter’s Walk by Owen Gildersleeve
A book designed to be shared in warm lowlight surroundings. With each turn of the page 5 bright white lights in different permutations shine through the pages.
Very Chirstmassy 🙂