Dylan was six when The End came back in 2018; when the electricity switched off, & the world he knew disappeared. Now he’s 14 & he & his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales, where mother & son confide their experiences & memories in a found notebook – the Blue Book. ...

When two small sisters go fishing in the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt: a bog baby. He’s little & blue with wings like a dragon, & the girls decide to make him their secret. Pssst! I won’t tell if you won’t! But the bog baby is a wild thing, & when he becomes poorly, the girls realise they must tell Mum. & she teaches them the greatest lesson of all – if you really love something, you have to let it go. A touching & beautiful tale of magic, loss & friendship, which won the Booktrust Pre-School Award in 2008. “A rather old-fashioned story, beautifully moving, which tells about friendship, family life & having to accept that animals have to live in different places” Wendy Cooling, Booktrust Award judge ...

Hilarious stuff from Julian Clary. The Bolds are a jolly normal suburban family – or are they? Have you guessed their secret yet? ...

Hilarious stuff from Julian Clary. The Bolds are a jolly normal suburban family – or are they? Have you guessed their secret yet? ...

Forget the scary hyenas you’ve seen in The Lion King. The Bolds are the friendliest hyenas in town! & we do mean a town. These hyenas don’t live on the African prairie. They live like humans, in a suburban house. Here are a few things to know about the Bolds. 1) Tell them a joke. Like all hyenas, they love laughing. 2) They’re pretending to be humans. Psst – don’t tell anyone. 3) They’re so nice they can never turn away a critter in need. That’s why’s there a crocodile in the loo & a sheep in the front room. But when two racehorses come to stay, is the Bolds’ secret about to get out? A hilarious romp by best-loved comedian Julian Clary Sequel to The Bolds, nominated for the Carnegie Medal Laugh-out-loud fun with a message about being different “ Delightfully silly, full of fun” – School Librarian ...

Two girl treasure hunters. One sleeping prince. A hundred-year-old curse & one very angry witch. Fantasy with m/f & f/f romance for fans of CINDERELLA IS DEAD. A pacey, fractured twist on a classic fairy tale! ...

The days between Christmas & New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam & magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A lot can happen in the dead days. There is a magician called Valerian who must save his own life, or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But will alchemy & sorcery be any match against the demonic power pursuing him? Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name & no past. Watching their fortune, mapping their destinies… is Fate. Set in the dark, dangerous cities & frozen countryside of a distant time & place, Marcus Sedgwick’s beautifully evoked & dramatic novel conjures a spellbinding story of power, corruption & desperate magic. “A haunting ride into a world of compelling darkness.” Dreamwatch worldbookday 2015 hp-rr ...

The heart-stopping prequel. Read it first or read it last. Just read it. ...

Twenty years have passed since the events of La Belle Sauvage saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra & the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue once more. & she is no longer a child… This new adventure sees Lyra, now twenty years old, & her daemon Pantalaimon drawn into the complex & dangerous factions of a world they never knew existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat, now a dutiful man with a strong desire to do what is right. All of them must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe & deep into Asia, in search of a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, & the mystery of the elusive Dust… The eagerly awaited second book in the Book of Dust sequence A dazzlingly rich new adventure by one of our greatest writers Picks up Lyra’s story ten years after The Amber Spyglass ended His Dark Materials forever changed the face of children’s fantasy Philip Pullman has won the Carnegie Medal & Guardian Prize ...

A riotous celebration of words & a modern take on cautionary tales – featuring advice on parrots, gravy, mathematics, castles (bouncy), spiders, vegetables (various), breakfast, cakes, & removing ducks from soup. Advice comes in many shapes. Poems come in many shapes. & so, it follows, poems of advice come in many shapes too. Sometimes they look you in the eye & say, ‘ Do this! Don’t do that!’ Sometimes they sidle up beside you & whisper, ‘ Have you ever thought about … ?’ Not everything in this book is necessarily good advice, & not all of it is sensible advice. (But if you take the bad or un-sensible advice & don’t follow it, then it may become useful advice in its own way.) Filled with colour illustrations & packed with silly rhymes, witty wordplay & thought-provoking story poems, this collection will delight children of all ages. ...