Indie Book of the Month April 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop View this post on Instagram A post shared by 🌻Magenta Fox🌻 (@madge_fox) Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit – and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A joyful celebration of nature and the wonder of the world around us by legendary poet and performer Benjamin Zephaniah. At the bottom of my garden, there’s a hedgehog and a frog, And a lot of creepy-crawlies living underneath a log… All around us, from parks to gardens and flowerpots to pavements, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Written by the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize-winning Julia Golding, The Queen’s Wardrobe is packed with fascinating stories and astounding facts about our record-breaking Queen. The detailed, humorous and colourful artwork from bestselling Kate Hindley shows what it’s really like to grow up as a princess. The story of the life of Queen […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Mar 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Beginning with advice for young readers on how to differentiate between (adult) hens and roosters and identify different types and colorations and feathers and a survey of the inner and outer anatomy of a chicken, the book is a cheerful, if not scientific, overview […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Polly Dunbar is an award-winning illustrator who usually draws for children rather than adults, but when she had her own sons, she started recording the beautiful and maddening moments of parenthood with a doodle. Hello, Mum is her visual diary of the magical highs and absurd lows that many parents will recognise […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop For fans of Netflix’s hit animated Hilda series, this gorgeous illustrated guide to magical beings from the Wood Man to giant hounds will keep young adventurers spellbound. Stunning paintings of each beast or spirit are paired with surprising information and extra detail about their lives and habits. Deep in the Trolberg Library […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 12 Feb 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A treasury of stories celebrating the wonders of winter, and the qualities within that warm our hearts through the long cold. Particularly relevant in the week of its selection as Book of the Day, with the UK gripped in an icy blast. The book, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Why are animals so amazingly colourful? Find out in this kaleidoscopic look at the technicolour world of animals. Meet animals of every colour of the rainbow and find out why they are the colours and patterns they are. Discover the reason why some animals are stripy and others are spotty. Why do […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The Bad Beginning was the first book in the globally bestselling series A Series of Unfortunate Events. This exclusive gold foiled 20th anniversary hardback gift edition commemorates the miserable fact that every child in the world has wanted this brilliantly funny book for twenty years.
BookTrust Book of the Day 26 Jan 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Enchantaing, lush & mysterious” BookTrust A beautiful and lyrical contemporary fairy tale about difference, trust and the power of friendship to overcome any obstacle, stunningly illustrated in rich autumnal colours by Julia Sarda. Dahman and Digard’s fable about a fearsome wolf secretly desperate for […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 23 Dec 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop John Masefield’s fantasy novel The Box of Delights is an enduring Christmas classic. It has a unique place in children’s literature and continues to inspire and engage modern readers with its timeless adventure of ancient magic, good vanquishing evil, and Christmas miracles. For many, […]
The Times Best Children’s Books of the Year List, 2020 A fun and accessible financial handbook helping boys and girls build their confidence and develop a positive money mindset. Having some dosh in your pocket can be really exciting. And when it’s used as a force for good, those pennies have the power to change […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Dec 2020 “The true pleasure of this retrospective is that it highlights key moments from the books, in chronological order, and compares the various illustrators’ ways of depicting them. We see the same sequence drawn in different eras (with different fashions and hairstyles); we see varying unscripted reactions on […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Dec 2020 “This comprehensive, deeply informative educational resource doubles as an arty coffee-table book, the kind science-minded readers and fact-finders love to pore over. Its design motif of bright neon-hued icons against a night-black background had me fantasizing that the illustrator, Sara Gillingham, had included in her palette rubidium, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 30 Nov 2020 The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well … pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher’s is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what’s actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like: Are bogies safe to […]
“Gorgeous illustrations make this one sure to fly off shelves” KIRKUS Now in paperback… Discover the magical story of Dasher, Santa’s very first reindeer, in a Christmas gift-book to treasure year after year. Dasher is a little doe with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Nov 2020 A girl journeys across unknown lands to rescue her friend from the clutches of The Snow Queen, who has imprisoned his heart in ice. A sister struggles to break the spell that has turned her ten princely brothers into swans. A mermaid decides to leave her underwater […]
The first official tie-in for the TV comedy series. In the manner of the very best TV comedy books, Erin’s Diary is a hilarious ‘in world’ publication that extends the laugh-out-loud humour of Derry Girls onto the page. With Erin’s inner take on everything that has happened so far, this book will both dive deeper […]
In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it’s Christmas Eve and there’s one very important question on everyone’s mind – have YOU been good this year? For twins Sam and Charlie this is a big worry. Charlie has been especially naughty and […]
A stunning counting book full of gorgeous baby animals, with amazing flaps to lift and holes to peep through. From a leopard with her cubs to a frog and its tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each creature’s babies and seeing where they live. With rhyming text and a surprise search-and-find game, this is […]
Northern Lights: the Illustrated Edition – His Dark Materials 1 by Philip Pullman ill. Chris Wormell
ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Nov 2020 A stunning full-colour illustrated gift hardback to celebrate the 25th anniversary of NORTHERN LIGHTS, with breathtaking art throughout by Chris Wormell, who also illustrated the covers for The Book of Dust (2017) and The Secret Commonwealth (2019). First published in 1995, this first book in the His […]
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present, this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for […]