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. ...

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. ...

Ever wondered how bubbles get into fizzy drinks? Or how we know what the dinosaurs looked like? & just how many ants can an anteater eat? This book answers a wide range of exciting &8216;why?&8217; questions, & offers extra information in fun-filled facts. Appealing pictures help to explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge on subjects of every kind. A brilliant way to fend off all those awkward questions while encouraging children to discover more with books! ...

Ever wondered where it is night all the time? Or where the Twilight Zone is? & just where does chocolate grow on trees? This book answers a wide range of exciting &8216;why?&8217; questions, & offers extra information in fun-filled facts. Appealing pictures help to explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge on subjects of every kind. A brilliant way to fend off all those awkward questions while encouraging children to discover more with books! ...

Ever wondered which is the hottest planet? Or which bird can fly underwater? & just which city is in the sky? This book answers a wide range of exciting &8216;why?&8217; questions, & offers extra information in fun-filled facts. Appealing pictures help to explain the answers, allowing children to build up their knowledge on subjects of every kind. A brilliant way to fend off all those awkward questions while encouraging children to discover more with books! ...

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook. So begins Liesel’s love affair with books & words. But when Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. ...