
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Limpet’s mum is opening an ice-cream shop, full of her favourite new flavours: mushroom and tuna ice cream, anyone? Roast parsnip and gravy? Limpet’s not sure about this. He likes a nice, safe life. His favourite ice-cream flavour is vanilla. But when wicked Mr Fluffy arrives with his Mega Emporium of Amazing and […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Leeza’s parents are ordinary. Unfit, grumpy, a bit embarrassing. Totally normal, right? Until today. Today they are jogging. Eating salads and enjoying them. Smiling all the time. They’re happy. Really, really happy. Who could complain about that? Leeza, that’s who. Because it looks like someone’s brainwashing everyone in town. Who’s going to […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop With thrills and spills, and jokes on every page, a new Diamond Brothers novel… Private investigators Tim and Nick Diamond haven’t had a case for three months and are down to their last cornflake. So when a glamorous woman comes into their office offering them a pile of cash to find her […]

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 19 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Third instalment in the graphic novel adventure series from the creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. The comic club is going in different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich […]

ACHUKA Book of the Day 11 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon From the Publisher The country’s best — and shockingly undervalued — nonsense poet has compiled a collection of his most popular poems and added new illustrations to help out a children’s literature charity (see below). The result is just under a hundred pages of unrivalled […]

ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Cleanly rendered illustrations show the family dutifully following orders while things go hilariously wrong. Roberts’s precise pencil and watercolor illustrations go beyond the entertaining premise to matter-of-factly portray a family at the intersection of a number of identities.” Horn Book “The colourful illustrations are […]

Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month February 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Wry, witty and very funny diary-style story packed with doodles and comic strips about the frustration trickster god Loki feels at having to live trapped in the body of a weedy eleven-year-old boy. After one trick too many, Loki is banished to live on […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new book in the Bunny vs Monkey series! Some of the comics in this book were originally published as Bunny vs Monkey: The Floating Cow Catastrophe. There’s a new animal joining Bunny and the gang. Ai – a supersonic, super-fast aye-aye! But how will Ai fit in to the Woods? What mischievous […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Tenth-generation monster-hunter Grace has a unique way of bumping off monsters. She and her sister run a bakery, Cake Hunters, where they make fabulous creations full of a special exploding baking powder that will get rid of any troublesome monster! And now Grace has a new and unlikely partner in crime – […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestsetlling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just don’t mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he’s officially retired. But after his mom urges […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A gloriously daft toddler odyssey, with an unforgettable protagonist, a bone-dry comic voice, and a memorable escape on a mobility scooter.” GUARDIAN Rita Jeffries is two years old, alone and on the run! She may be a toddler, but she has the mind (and attitude) of a teenager. She knows something’s not […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Hilarious and action-packed middle grade adventure from well-known comedian Paul O’Grady. Unbeknownst to anyone, somewhat-unhappy and never-quite-fitting in 10-year-old Eddie Albert can speak to animals, including his pet dog Butch, his hamster and his two goldfish (who claim they were once pirates). But when Eddie is sent to stay with his eccentric […]

Times Children’s Book of the Week 23 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Fox cub siblings Ted and Nancy are on the run from Princess Buttons, the scariest street cat in the Big City. They flee for Grimwood, expecting to find refuge in the peaceful countryside. Instead, they are met with thieving eagles, dramatic ducks, riotous […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Rejacketed new release of this hilarious novel about how to fit in when you don’t want to conform, with brilliant illustrations throughout by Gemma Correll. Perfect for fans of Louise Rennison and Holly Smale. Petunia Perry has decided to write her memoirs. She wants the world to know what it’s like to […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This funny, moving novel brilliantly combines humour and empathy to give children a realistic but hopeful depiction of parental depression that they can understand and discuss with others.” BfK 5-star review A record-smashing, feel-good adventure packed with heart, humour and Guinness World Records from Costa Award-shortlisted Jenny Pearson, and Kid Normal illustrator […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to drama and running around and even some fainting! Izzy and her friends are on a school trip to a big lake. Gary Petrie is excited because the lodges where they’re staying have robes and slippers! The lake is dark and deep and a bit scary. But […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A funny, big-hearted story about family, friendship and how far one boy will go to get a laugh. For thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor, life is one big joke – in a good way. He just can’t understand why no one else seems to find everything as funny as he does. When Car accidentally […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Rex’s parents have split up and, to make matters worse, he has to spend his summer holiday on a remote and rainy Irish island – with only unruly sheep for company. The only upside: he’ll be staying with his strange and brilliant Uncle Derm. Thenhttps://www.waterstones.com/book/the-summer-i-robbed-a-bank/david-odoherty/9780241362235 Rex discovers Uncle Derm is about to execute his […]

Scarlett Fife has BIG feelings. And she’s about to get into BIG trouble. From the bestselling Maz Evans comes a heartfelt and hilarious new series, perfect for fans of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Scarlett’s in big trouble after a BIG FEELINGS episode leads to a runaway hamster getting into the vicar’s trousers at her aunty’s engagement […]

Waterstones Amazon Bookshop These are the memoirs of ME, Holly Hopkinson, aged almost ten, except without any of the rubbish adults usually put in, thank you very much. My dad just lost his job, which means me and the rest of my family have to leave London and move to the middle of nowhere, which is […]