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Bunny vs Monkey And The Human Invasion by Jamie Smart

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Mar 20201

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Big thick bumper edition – super value!

This brand new remastered book collects together Bunny vs Monkey 3: The Stench and Bunny vs Monkey 4: The Wobbles for the first time. Since he crash-landed to Earth in a rocket, Monkey has been causing absolute mayhem! Bunny and the gang (Squirrel, Pig [the Pig], Action Beaver, and Skunky the Inventor) have almost had enough. In this rollicking comic extravaganza, the pint-sized friends must tackle a helliphant, rocket-powered hot air balloons, and the most mind-boggling creatures of all… hew-mans…

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Beauty And The Bin by Joanne O’Connell

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Laurie’s home-made beauty recipes are no secret. The secret is that her eco-warrior family get their ingredients from the bin.

Laurie loves her family and she wants to join them in making the world a better place, one home-made bath bomb at a time. But right now, she doesn’t want to be fishing her food out the bin. She just wants to go for a hot chocolate with her friends after school and be a normal kid. So when a competition comes to Silverdale High looking for the next best ‘Business with a difference’, and the most popular girl in school, wants to team up to sell Laurie’s lotions and potions, she can hardly believe her luck. But can she find success and popularity without losing sight of her true self?

A fresh and funny debut.

Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow by Benjamin Dean ill. Sandhya Prabhat

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Feb 2021
Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month February 2021

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‘One of the most joyful books you’ll read this year.’ – The Bookseller

Things aren’t going great for Archie Albright. His dad’s acting weird, his mum too, and he all he wants is for everything to go back to normal, to three months before when his parents were happy and still lived together. When Archie sees a colourful, crumpled flyer fall out of Dad’s pocket, he thinks he may have found the answer. Only problem? The answer might just lie at the end of the rainbow, an adventure away.

Together with his best friends, Bell and Seb, Archie sets off on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey to try and fix his family, even if he has to break a few rules to do it…

Follow the illustrator on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sandhyaprabhat/ – also illustrator of I Am Brown

The Big Freeze by Pippa Curnick

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Feb 2021

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Shama and Bahama Llama can’t wait for winter – skating, snowballs, hot chocolate . . . and best of all, the Winter Woolly Party! But when The Big Freeze suddenly arrives they discover that their jumpers are in a sorry state! Cue a MAJOR PANIC as everyone sets out on a wild race to Granny Brock’s Jumper Shop to nab the perfect woolly jumpers. Will they make it to the top of the queue before she sells out? Or will they learn that sometimes the only way to get what you want is to work together?

A laugh-out-loud funny, gloriously illustrated tale with a gentle message about learning to work as a team.

Follow Pippa Curnick on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippa_curnick_illustrator/

Here Be Dragons by Susannah Lloyd ill. Paddy Donnelly

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This book is about a knight on a mission: to find and slay a dragon. The other knights have told him that there’s no such thing as dragons, but he doesn’t care. For he has a map, and the map says: “HERE BE DRAGONS.” He travels right to the spot marked ‘X’, past treasure, suspicious bones and many signs telling him to turn back. He wanders up and down a huge, spiky hill (the dragon’s back) shouts into a burrow (the dragon’s nose) and eventually walks into a cave (the dragon’s mouth)… Will the hapless knight see the dragon before it’s too late?!

Young readers will love spotting the dragon in the background in this laugh-out-loud story.

Two Terrible Vikings by Francesca Simon ill. Steve May

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This viking duo will give Horrid Henry a run for his money! What if your parents WANTED you to behave badly? Set in the snowy fjords of a Viking kingdom, the terrible twins, Hack and Whack, are proud to be the best worst vikings. Nothing stops the marauding pair as they steal boats, loot a birthday party, track a troll and sail off to raid Bad Island with their friends Twisty Pants and Dirty Ulf. Well, almost nothing . . .

With whip-smart dialogue, and accompanied by Dennis the Menace style anarchic cartoon imagery, this series is as sharp, funny and compelling as you would expect.

Large double-spaced print for emerging readers.

Follow the illustrator, Steve May, on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemaythe1st/

Chocolate Milk, X-Ray Specs & Me! by Bethany Walker ill. Jack Noel

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 28 Jan 2021

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In this hilarious, fantastic debut by Bethany Walker. 10-year-old Freddy Spicer writes letters to his parents – who he believes are working at a Brussels-sprouts farm in Outer Castonga, with no internet or phone access. In fact, Freddy’s parents are secret agents out of the country on a highly classified mission – but Freddy has NO IDEA! Throw in: Grandad’s X-Ray specs; A laser blaster that accidentally destroys the shed; A strange new neighbour flirting with grandad; and Suspicious goings-on at school . . . Laugh-out-loud, high energy, fully illustrated fun for young readers!

Read an interview with the author on the Scholastic website.

Uma and the Answer to Absolutely Everything by Sam Copeland ill.Sarah Horne

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The hilarious and moving new book from funny fiction superstar Sam Copeland, author of the bestselling Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.

Uma Gnudersonn has a head full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma’s life has been short on answers. Then she finds a genius artificial intelligence called Athena who knows everything. Suddenly Uma has the answer to any question she can imagine – from the capital of Mozambique to the colour of her headteacher’s underpants – and she’s going to use them to save her home and her father.  Along the way, Uma will have to confront the sinister inventor who will stop at nothing to get Athena back – and face up to the fact that not all questions have answers . . .


 

Freddy vs School – The Awesome Robot Chronicles 1 by Neill Cameron

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 21 Jan 2o21

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A fully illustrated novel from comics creator Neill Cameron – the first title in a new series from David Fickling Books.

POW! PEW! FWOOSH! Meet Freddy – the most super-amazing superhero robot EVER. His unbelievably Amazing Robotic Abilities are mind-blowingly cool. But it turns out that teachers get really angry when you use your rocket boosters in class. Which is rather a problem for Freddy…

Adored comics creator Neill Cameron has written and illustrated a hilarious, heartfelt novel, with an unforgettable protagonist. Freddy vs School is guaranteed to make readers of all ages laugh out loud, while also providing an insightful look at diversity and celebrating children who are different. Fully integrated illustrations make the book perfect for more reluctant readers. This is the story of one superhero robot’s quest to stay in school, save his friends from disaster, and – hardest of all – stay true to himself.

See also:
How To Make Awesome Comics
Tamsin And The Dark

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