Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Gripping stories of myth, folklore and magic:Two step-brothers share one nightmare; red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you; and a ghost in the rain… An expert storyteller weaves nine spells. Fear mixed with wit, heart and magic.
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Spooky storytelling at its spine-chilling best with a plot so powerful it has the ability to completely enchant you… a chain of chilling events build to a blistering conclusion with terrifying consequences – you really will be looking over your shoulder throughout.” Primary Teacher […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new Barrington Stoke title from the UK’s master of scary words and illustrations… When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters uncover long-buried bodies and ghostly […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Powerful historical fiction inspired by reality, by the lives of those whose bravery we cannot begin to imagine and whose dedication we should never forget. This is a World War 2 story told with respect and skill prompting emotions from sorrow to admiration as the reader become engrossed in this tense and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Sep 2o021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Simultaneously bleak, moving, and unsettling, Walker’s immersive story slowly reveals its secrets, using tension as a lever to tip the reader deep into the Ash House’s mysteries.” Publishers Weekly “An unexpected—and pleasing—combination of propitious and disquieting.” KIRKUS The debut novel has been described as […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Delightful and heart-warming debut fiction from the illustrator of the Horrible History series. A long, long time ago, a girl lived with her tribe in a cave. As she had no parents of her own, her pet cave bear was her best friend. He followed her everywhere and comforted her whenever she […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Staying with her grandparents in the Scottish Highlands, Lara is fascinated by the rare white snowy owl her grandad has spotted flying nearby. And when she follows the beautiful bird into the woods, it leads her on a magical adventure… Transported a century back in time, Lara befriends Amelia, who confides in […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “An outstanding fantasy adventure that is complex, exciting and absolutely unputdownable.” BookTrust Published in hardback earlier in the year, but, perversely, not listed on ACHUKA until now. This paperback issue is the time to put that right. Run wild with Wolf Brother in a Stone Age world we all want to be […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The third book in this MG mystery series. A creepy magician with a shadowy act. A legend that goes back to the dawn of time. Eerie-on-Sea just got stranger. And darker… A mysterious stage magician has set up in the theatre at the end of the pier, with an act so hypnotic […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 6 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Atmospherically heartfelt and cathartic.” KIRKUS A new book from the creator of Thornhiill, The Hideaway tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An anthology including the work of twenty-eight Black British authors and illustrators. Speaking to The Bookseller ahead of publication, Brinkhurst-Cuff said, “After an incredibly tough year, Black Joy will be an all-too-rare opportunity for Black British writers to be able to focus on the parts of their race and identity that aren’t […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Bea Black has just moved to Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. When her dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with some interesting new classes, like, NOW! Also on her to do list? Make friends, look after the grumpy class frog […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 31 Jul 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Reminded me of Tim Burton’s films in which the ordinary people out-odd the oddballs, but the outsider always retains the moral high ground.” Alex O’Connell, The Times This is the debut novel by a fresh new voice in children’s fiction and the winner […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A mesmerising third novel from one of the most exciting writers of middle-grade fiction with themes of identity, faith and belonging with a stunning twist in an evocative and remote Scottish island setting. Aarti has lived on the island with Aunt for as long as she can remember. Like the weather, Aunt […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A delightfully quirky philosophical novel.” Publishers Weekly A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious children and adults alike. For more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket has led millions of young readers through a mysterious world of bewildering questions […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Follow Mr Penguin and his trusty sidekick Colin (the spider) as they head into the desert! When their good friend Edith is kidnapped, they’re on their most important mission yet. Can they survive a perilous train journey to the great pyramids? Will Mr Penguin complete the three impossible tasks – and get […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Prequel to the author’s The Last Wild trilogy… One frosty winter’s night, a pure white calf is born on an ordinary muddy farm by the light of a silver moon. This is the legendary Mooncalf, whose arrival has been foretold since the dawn of time. According to a dream passed down from animal […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 28 Aug 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Millwood Hargrave has a light touch, complemented by De Freston’s wonderfully affecting pen illustrations, and captures a complicated mother-daughter relationship and the effects of mental illness on a family without it feeling like the script of a school assembly.” The Times A captivating […]
Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month September 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Bastien Bonlivre is a boy with a big imagination, determined to finish the story his parents started, left to him in a red notebook. On the other side of Paris, bestselling author Olivier Odieux is struggling to complete his latest novel. Along with his […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 7 Aug 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Carroll’s research is exemplary; we are reminded how, arguably, the shooting down of a US air force pilot stopped a nuclear catastrophe. Yet she never lets a history lesson get in the way of a stonking plot. Although the book is set in […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon One of ACHUKA’s favourite illustrators and picture book creators tries her hand at chapter book fiction for 6+ with, as you might imagine, great success. This hardback makes a lovely gift. Not sure (at the time of listing) when the paperback is due. Polly Pecorino […]
Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month, September 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip through the cracks. Sometimes then, so the stories went, enchanted islands would appear in the empty ocean to the west […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The first title in a new adventure series for 8+. Fizzing with magic, danger, friendship and art, this exciting, funny, middle-grade debut is from the bestselling creative genius behind #DrawWithRob. Some legends are born, some are drawn . . . Drawing feels like magic to Peanut Jones. But art can’t fix her problems. […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Aug 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The solid larger style hardback with its beautiful cover is both eye-catching and evocative of the story within. Clara Vulliamy’s delightful illustrations encourage the reader to linger and look more closely and convey both the joyful exuberance of the young cats and life in […]