Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Humor, often stemming from Roger’s lively antics, is balanced with serious, thoughtful moments in this hopeful story that explores the reality of hardship and mistakes amid themes of forgiveness and resilience.” Publishers Weekly “Quietly and emotionally intelligent.” KIRKUS A summer ant farm grows into a learning experience for the entire family in […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The exciting conclusion to the Brightstorm twins’ adventure-packed story! Arthur, Maudie, and the rest of the Aurora crew are going on a mission to the Volcanic North, where years before their parents discovered the moth that is their family symbol. But their scheming, ambitious aunt, Eudora Vane, is still dedicated to destroying […]
Blackwells Children’s Book of the Month, March 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The narrative is absorbing, tense and poignant.” BfK 5-star review “‘Furthermoor’ is Darren Simpson’s best yet: raw, daring and beautiful, in form and content it is a highly immersive, emotive and startling read.” Chris Soul The real world is a hostile place for twelve-year-old […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The novel has the deceptive simplicity of a folk-tale; readers accustomed to the frenetic pace and fickle relationships of much contemporary YA fiction will find themselves in a very different narrative world.” BfK 5-star review “Tree-ear’s story conveys a time and place far away and long ago, but with a simplicity and […]
Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, March 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop BfK 5-star review A heartwarming story about family, friendship and finding your inner fire. Between bullies at school and changes at home, Charlie Challinor finds life a bit scary. And when he’s made guardian of a furry fox cub called Cadno, things get a whole […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop [Cover art by Portuguese artist and animator Pypah Santos] It’s not every day that you find a famous weather woman bound by magic to a tree deep in the woods. Or discover that the weatherwoman is in fact Sunna, the Norse Goddess of the Sun, and one of the seven day guardians […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 May 2022 Waterstones Amazon Ann Sei Lin’s debut children’s book—the first part of a trilogy—is a pacy Ghibli-style Asian fantasy based on the Meiji era, full of origami magic, powerful shikigami, and sky cities. Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant on board the Midori, but […]
Waterstones Amazon (Kindle) Bookshop Istanbul, 1593- returning from their previous mission with the death of their Commander weighing heavily upon them, there is no respite for the Ruzgar unit, as they are declared traitors to the Ottoman Empire and banished from the legendary Janissary order. Even the recovery of the fabled Armour of David, so […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Victoria Stitch has escaped from the confines of Wiskling Wood and flown into the human world. Here, she breaks the most sacred of all wiskling laws and speaks to a human. Where she is feared and disgraced in Wiskling Wood, she is adored and revered in the human world. But the net […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Frygea Forest. An ancient and mysterious place where trolls lurk in the mossy spaces between tree trunks and changelings scamper about, causing mischief. A place that Kyra and her sisters Margot and Janna return to every year to spend the summer at their grandma’s farm: toasting marshmallows, catching frogs and befriending tiny, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Containing all three classic Pippi Longstocking adventures in one fabulous edition, this book will introduce Pippi’s adventurous spirit to a whole new generation of readers. Pippi is nine years old. She lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A fantastical, botanical adventure about friendship, bravery – and finding home in a new place. Fern has spent her whole life in the rainforest, and loves nothing more than climbing, exploring and talking to the trees. When she suddenly has to leave all that behind and move to London, with only an […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Follow the big blue’. That was the last thing Cam’s father said to him. Cam follows Big Blue – everybody does on the island of Cetacea. Their lives take place within his rules, delivered to them by enigmatic whale-talker, Byron Vos. Byron was once […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Recommended background reading for information about the author and the record-breaking publication deal. And here. “Wild, unbonded unicorns are immortal in death—murderous, rotting, and forever dying. It is these terrifying details, plus a terrible betrayal, that keep readers on knife’s edge even as Skandar’s bond with his unicorn deepens and his friendship […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A fresh, funny and contemporary story of friendship, told in the captivating voices of Ade and Shanice — two utterly unforgettable Year 8 girls. Ade is about to start at a new school. She is NOT happy with her stepdad for making them move here. Shanice has been at the school for […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Apr 2022 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 1 May 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The outstanding world-building, inspired language and masterful storytelling plunge readers headfirst into the customs and visceral experience of a life lost to history.” BookTust Grand finale to the prize-winning adventure series that launched in […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 26 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “It’s rather like Emil And The Detectives transposed from Berlin to Mumbai—you feel these children could and should rule the world…” The Times A high-stakes adventure story full of heart from debut author Varsha Shah, who won the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction competition […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Rigatoni is a pasta cat. He loves pasta, any kind of pasta: spaghetti, penne, fusilli, with pesto, in soup, in lasagne, any whichever way his owners, Ruth and Tina, will serve it. Then one day Ruth and Tina go away and leave George in charge. And the pasta is replaced with yucky […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 21 Apr 2020 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 10 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Fans of Creech’s hallmark beautiful writing won’t be disappointed…” KIRKUS “Creech’s prose is inviting, and the introspective reader will easily relate to Gina’s observations of her world; but the book also holds appeal for […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Classic comic-style art is effectively deployed to show intense emotion and fast-paced action, and in addition to being nonhuman, the characters represent a diverse group of racial and gender identities that are generally background to the plot. A satisfying climax… makes this a fun choice ideal for a middle-grade audience with a […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, ten-year-old Kara must discover where they’ve come from – and who they belong to. They lead Kara to Rebecca, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and her younger brother Samuel. Kara realises they are refugees – from another time, World War Two – and are trying […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Apr 2022 2021 German Youth Literature Prize for Best Children’s Book Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Hints of the Norwegian setting come through in this translation that sheds light on socio-economic disparities. The resolution is satisfyingly happy. Absorbing relationship drama with a convincing protagonist.” KIRKUS Ina has no plans for the summer. […]