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 ...

Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize & the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. A deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. ...

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 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. ...

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. Supplied as a pack of 30 books. ...

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. Supplied as a pack of six books. ...