Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Did you ever wish to feast with fairies, live in a tree, or ride a unicorn across the sun-lit sky? In the O’Hara sisters’ magical world, you can. You can choose to be a clever princess, or a curious gingerbread man, or perhaps a gentle knight. Maybe you’ll live in a tree, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 Jun 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “[Wilson] is to be praised for this superb distillation, which is much more perceptive than the lumpy official biographies.” Telegraph “Packed with detail and conversations that bring to life all those who have been most important to her.” Daily Mail An admirably brief and accessible […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A welcome antidote to stale ‘must-read’ lists.” Guardian An inspiring collection of over 100 pieces of writing – poems, prose, letters, speeches, song lyrics, quotations, and more – from Shakespeare to Stephen Hawking; Greta Thunberg to Galileo; Malala to Martin Luther King; Lin-Manuel Miranda to Lord Tennyson – which are in turn […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 May 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop This special collector’s edition contains the first two books in the Hilda graphic novel series — Hilda and the Troll & Hilda and the Midnight Giant — which inspired the award-winning Hilda animated series on Netflix. The plan is for the other four Hilda […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop First published in 1807, by literary siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, this book has never been out of print, though it seems that Mary did not get her name on the title page till the seventh edition in 1838. Puffin Clothbound Classics is a series of […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 17 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A gorgeous, moving look at motherhood from different cultures and eras. Each of Greban’s breath-taking pencil and watercolor illustrations of a mother and child is paired with a free form poem by Delforge imagining the experience and thoughts of that mother. A wonderfully diverse […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 12 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Paddington is excited to be organising an Easter egg hunt for his neighbours. But, from finding empty supermarket shelves, to buying a box of broken Easter eggs, Paddington wonders if the hunt can ever go ahead. That is, until Mr Gruber’s book on […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “It feels rescued from a fairy tale sea or an enchanted castle flooded by a spell. Its contents include never-before-seen paintings that look as if they too had dodged if not ruin then being forgotten — as well as family photos, sketchbooks, memorabilia, speeches and personal appreciations that document the life and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It is with deepest sorrow that we announce that Shirley died peacefully in her sleep at home on Friday 25th February. Ed, Tom and Clara Shirley’s children Photo credit Lizzie Mayson pic.twitter.com/INWppaf9vB — Shirley Hughes (@ShirleyHughes_) March 2, 2022 In honour of Shirley Hughes, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Nicholas Jubber’s The Fairy Tellers is billed as “A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales”. It focuses on half a dozen identifiable individuals who gave us most of the well-known stories. There’s the Neapolitan Gianbattista Basile, who wrote the first western European […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “We hope this translation will lead a new generation of readers to discover Salten’s book. It’s certainly accessible to children, but adults are more likely to fully appreciate the book’s moving and carefully observed depictions of the natural world, the cycle of life and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Meet helpful dwarfs, mischievous gnomes and powerful fairy folk in this sumptuously illustrated storybook anthology of classic European folk tales. Much-loved stories such as ‘Kate Crackernuts’, ‘Tom Tit Tot’ and ‘The Griffin’ take readers on a journey through Europe as they climb snowy mountains, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Dec 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This is a book about quantum physics as well as ancient lore. Garner has always suggested that there is essentially just one story, and this novel, published in his 87th year, contains all the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An exquisite edition of The History of the World in 100 Animals by author and journalist Simon Barnes, adapted and abridged for younger readers, with superb illustrations by award-winning artist, Frann Preston-Gannon, illustrator of I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree. This outstanding gift book proposes the 100 animals who have […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Dec 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop This is a highly liftable large-format hardback with a stunning neon cover, featuring 25 beautifully illustrated city maps from all over the world, from ancient history to the present day. Produced in consultation with specialist curators at the British Museum, readers can visit cities […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 24 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “An excellent information book with a good balance of general information and detail using varied layouts to convey information and tell the story in an accessible and interesting way.” BfK 5-star review “The shelves of Titanic literature are full of mistakes made, drills missed, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 23 Nov 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 20 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Crossley-Holland writes like a dream and has the knack of making these stories, which could have felt stuffy in less elegant hands, feel fresh and relevant, while Riddell’s stunning, colourful illustrations — showing handsome warriors, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Dive into this collection of more than 100 intriguing items from the natural world and discover the stories behind them. Learn how bristly mouths help huge whales capture tiny animals, how minute scales make butterflies shine in the sunlight, and how studying a leaf skeleton can tell us how it transports food. […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It’s Up to Us is based on the Terra Carta, a roadmap to sustainability issued by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and his Sustainable Markets Initiative. The story explains in lyrical text how Nature operates in a world without humans. It then shows the damaging impact People have had on […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Join the one and only Clarice Bean and ‘Think Like an Elf’ in this irresistible and spectacularly sparkling Christmas story from the inimitable Lauren Child. Clarice Bean usually looks forward to Christmas. Except this year it is going to be a quiet-ish Christmas in her house, which doesn’t feel right because Christmas is […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop This gift-book contains over a hundred poems, chosen by creator of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart, and illustrated by Emily Sutton. Divided into four thoughtfully-curated sections, including Poems to Make You Smile, Poems to Move You, Poems to Give You Hope and Poems to Calm and Connect You, the poems […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo’s poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals – a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens. Building on this classic framework, Michael has added many more animals – they speak in their own voices, full of humour and brio, to […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “An excellent resource for classrooms, libraries and home collections, a volume to study, dip into and revisit.” BfK 5-Star review The inspiring stories of 50 key figures in Great Britain’s history, who had an impact on the ways we live, think and feel today. Throughout the centuries, the history of this small […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Why do elephants have trunks? Why are clouds different shapes? Why does popcorn pop? Why does my tummy rumble? Why do we flush the toilet? This magnificent book features chapters on Bugs, Pets, Wild Animals, the Body, Food, Machines and Space and also includes some of the mysteries which experts are still […]