Practical pranksters George Beard & Harold Hutchins are back with br&-new adventures starring everyone’s favourite Waistband Warrior, Captain Underpants! Spend some quality time with the new cast of characters at Jerome Horwitz Elementary – like Melvinborg & Sergeant Boxers. Plus, meet all of the villains terrorizing Piqua, including Queen Zombee with two ‘e’s & Splotch, Captain Underpants’s evil doppelganger! This is your must-have guide to all of the laffs, action & comics in season 2 of the hilarious hit TV show!  ...

It’s official: the Captain is taking over the world, from your bookshelf to the cinema screen – & now Netflix TV as well! It’s lucky he’s a good guy, not a super-evil villain. (Phew.) But don’t relax just yet – the super-evil baddies are out there too! Catch up with the latest from the Captain’s world in this cool new handbook, which brings you the lowdown on his TV show. Oh, & did we mention that it comes with a rather nifty poster? It’s a wedgie bonanza! Hold onto your underwear! The official guide to the Captain Underpants TV show The perfect companion to the exciting new Netflix series Bursting with facts, laughs, colour art & a cool poster Bestselling series with over 50 million copies in print ...

Discover what can happen when science, technology, engineering, art & maths come together. From the types of energy on our planet or the physics behind sound waves to creative thinking & groundbreaking technology, the basic principles in this book will spark a lifelong passion for STEAM. ...

A sensational YA debut about toxic masculinity & gendered violence ...

Eleven year old Olly has a very special delivery – a 3D printing machine, stamped with PROPERTY OF M.O.D & BRITISH SPACE AGENCY. WARNING. DO NOT TAMPER, which has magical powers… It has a name, it speaks, & it can print ANYTHING Olly asks it to – the coolest new toy, a room full of chocolate cake – but what Olly really wants is… his dad. ...

Winner of the Costa Award! A glorious Amazon adventure by the author of Rooftoppers: massive snakes, ruined cities, deadly fun. ...

The killer critters of Jurassic Park. The dystopian drama of The Hunger Games. What do you get if you mash them up? These books! Stormchaser dreams of escaping her starved grey life. Lincoln wants to save his dying sister. But poor folk like them have no chance – except one. The Extinction Trials. It’s hardly a chance. It’s a glimmer of hope in hell. An expedition to a forsaken country, to steal the eggs of vicious dinosaurs. If Storm & Lincoln triumph, their reward will be a new life of riches. But in a land of monsters – both human & reptilian – only the ruthless survive… An unstoppableseries full of dystopian danger Prehistoric monsters in a brutal futuristic society Seriously addictive reading with a killer hook Mix of fast-paced action & superb imagination“A fast-paced, high-stakes adventure that I couldn’t put down.” Amy Alward, author of The Potion Diaries ...

George helps out at Wormestall Farm, a hidden sanctuary for extinctly strange animals that shouldn’t be here: dodos, dragons & dinosaurs. But if evil animal-stuffer Diamond Pye gets her way they won’t be alive for much longer … ...

When stars fill the sky at the end of the day, the Fabulous Flapdoodles come out to play! They zoom round your room on a magical broom. They hide socks, & jiggle the hands on your clocks! But they also make sure children don’t get a fright from all the things that go BUMP in the night. & while the Flapdoodles prance & play, they’re busy scaring ghouls & monsters away… Banish bedtime fears with this magical & lyrical rhyming story, full of whimsical humour & quirky art. Praise for The Loon on the Moon: “A beautiful book from cover to back. It sparkles & winkles & enchants.” The Scotsman books-for-bedtime ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set 8 Sound Focus: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Book Band: Blue This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, & are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. The series

Includes:: a wide selection of diverse & inclusive stories, accompanied by bright, contemporary & humorous illustrations that will engage & inspire young readers with a ‘find the character’ feature on each spread. The artwork is detailed so as not to provide picture cues & prompting. Each book also contains parent’s notes & a ‘retell the story’ task to support children’s oracy, vocabulary & comprehension skills. Thirteen sets of books covering groups of sounds to allow for progression. The stories in this set focus on the sounds found in Scholastic Set 8 & revise the sounds found in previous sets. There are thirteen sets in total, covering: Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d Phase 2 Set 2: g oC k ck e u r h b f l Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn) Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw) Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup) Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor) Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more) Have you got them all?

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