Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Discover the healing power of nature in one boy’s heartbreaking and hopeful journey back from the wilderness. Bird fact no. 30: a nightingale song is one of the most beautiful sounds on the planet. Ten-year-old Jasper has been waiting all spring for his beloved nightingale to return to his garden and sing. […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Lucy, Max, Charlie and Joe aren’t looking for new friends – they have too many of their own problems to worry about. But when the four of them, and Charlie’s faithful dog, Sherlock, spot a phantom figure on Southwold beach one winter’s night, they are thrown together to unravel a mystery that […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Highly recommended timeslip adventure series. This 4 book timeslip middle grade series quietly concluded at the end of last year. All four highly-readable illustrated adventures can be strongly recommended for newly confident readers and are sure to be regularly borrowed from primary school and […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The mystery is growing at Dunwick Farm and it all started with a plane crash … Crooked Oak’s mystery-solving team return with another spine-tingling adventure, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Crater Lake. Follow the author on Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dan Smith […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Meg treasures every moment that she gets to spend riding, and she has always longed for a pony of her own. She knows Mum and Dad can’t afford a pony – they can’t even afford her weekly riding lessons any more. But on the morning of her tenth birthday, Meg looks out the […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “I love this book. This is a big story and brings up much-needed discussion about the importance of community, history, and truth.” Rita Williams-Garcia, Newbery Honor-winning author of One Crazy Summer Packed with surprises, heart, and stories within stories, this irresistible novel from an award-winning author celebrates food, fortune, and family. Maizy […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 8 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “We need a follow-up.” Alex O’Connell, The Times History and myth entwine in this atmospheric tale of freedom and friendship from bestselling author Lucy Strange and acclaimed illustrator Pam Smy. Bess has left the London workhouse behind for a job at a rural […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Mike and his dog Bowow are relaxing in the Chocolate Hills when the ground starts to tremble and the next moment a gaping hole appears. Before Mike can stop him, Bowow jumps into the hole. Then a note floats up… Party. Come now. Just fall up. There’s no time to wonder what […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Harley Hitch is back with another inventive adventure. When the circus comes to town, Harley’s curiosity get the better of her – and she accidentally breaks a cabinet that makes things magically disappear. Soon after, everyone realizes that the Moon has gone missing. Time is speeding up, wildlife is getting disorientated by the […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Elsa, Leo and Max have always been best friends, a special team of three. Then the Nazis come. As a growing darkness descends around them, Leo and Elsa run for their lives, taking two very different paths across Europe. And Max, once their closest friend, now becomes the enemy as he is […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 Jan 2022 Indie Book of the Month, January 2022 Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month, January 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Owolabi lived in the flat above mine and was the most annoying boy – no, scratch that – person I had ever met. I was sure Caro’s cockerel agreed […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A brand new novel from Susanna Bailey – the bestselling author of Snow Foal and a new star of middle grade contemporary fiction. Ever since Billie’s kind and nature-loving dad went to prison, her life has lost its shine. And now, Mum’s new boyfriend has moved in and home is full of […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 9 Dec 2o21 Waterstones Amazon Bags of Books “Ant’s father is an alcoholic and gambler with a lot of reductive opinions on masculinity that confuse the naturally compassionate and thoughtful Ant. Spades becomes a way for Ant to prove himself to his father and hopefully mend some familial wounds, as […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A striking and moving story of love and healing.” Children’s Book Council of Australia “A magical story about facing your fears and finding the courage to share.” Readings “A powerful and heart-warming book with an import message.” Canberra Times A moving story of friendship, family and finding […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop To Orla, Christmas means Gran, so when it looks like Gran won’t make it this year, everything feels a lot less festive. And with Christmas spirit everywhere at an all-time low, the whole of Dublin is in darkness. But then the fairy lights on Orla’s Christmas tree come to life and take her […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world in a sumptuous gift book presentation. Olive’s best friend is a four-hundred-year-old oak tree, and it is in danger. As she tumbles into its magic […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 25 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This is a wonderful story about friendship, family and also being open to new ideas and accepting others who are very different. Alexandra Page has created a new Christmas classic.” BfK 5-star review “A truly mesmerising, heartfelt story with a classic feel.” BookCraic It’s 1952 […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Lovers of bloody fantasy epics will be glad to have another. ” KIRKUS Set in the snowy northern forests of an imagined prehistoric world, Fireborn is the middle-grade debut of the decade. At turns exciting, funny and heart wrenchingly sad, it marks the introduction of an unstoppable new voice in children’s storytelling. Twelve has spoken […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Skellig re-imagined by Mary Shelley or the Brothers Grimm.” Chris Soul “Simply blew me away.” Bookseller, Tales On Moonlane Ramsgate A dark, gothic adventure set deep in a Bavarian forest, with angels and owls and magic and a boy who isn’t all that he […]