The crayons are on strike! When Duncan opens his crayon box, all he finds is notes that say “ We quit”. Orange & Yellow are bitter rivals. Blue is sick of water. Beige feels unloved. Will they ever draw pictures together again? Star illustrator Oliver Jeffers teams up with hot new talent Drew Daywalt in a book full of quirky wit. An instant bestseller that will make you use your art kit in a whole new way. Thank goodness Oliver’s crayons didn’t quit until he finished it. Hugely popular no. 1 New York Times bestseller Quirky look at life from a crayon’s point of view Fantastic pictures by top illustrator Oliver Jeffers“ Hilarious picture book brilliance” – Books for Keeps Supplied as a pack of six copies. page-turners-year-2 piecorbettpageturners pm 19-offer ...

A powerful & necessary picture book – the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long & difficult journey – all alone. Imagine finding no welcome at the end of it. Then imagine a child who gives you something small but very, very precious… When the government refused to allow 3000 child refugees to enter this country in 2016, Nicola Davies was so angry she wrote a poem. It started a campaign for which artists contributed drawings of chairs, symbolising a seat in a classroom, education, kindness, the hope of a future. The poem has become this book, movingly illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, which should prove a powerful aid for explaining the ongoing refugee crisis to younger readers. ...

Action-packed, laugh-out-loud, high-energy middle grade for boys & girls celebrating family, friendship & brotherhood, & starring a time-travelling supercar. From TV personalities & street dance superstars, brothers Ashley & Jordan Banjo. ...

Could you stay in a house where someone was murdered? What if the victims were your own family? After years in Cornwall, Lauren is returning to London. Going back to the site of a terrible tragedy, & a house full of ghosts. When Lauren was six, her mum & little sister were murdered. Her father was jailed for the crime. Now Lauren is back a stone&8217;s throw away from the house where it all happened. Despite her horror, she is curious too. Who lives there now? How will the house make her feel? When she befriends Nathan, the son of the new owners, Lauren gets to find out. She blocked out a lot of that fateful day: lots of nightmarish memories. But now they are coming back. & so is a hidden truth. ...

When orphaned Michael is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large & desolate country house, his instincts tell him that something is not right. First he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. & then there is the uneasy solitude of the house itself, where he roams the silent corridors seeking distraction. But lonely doesn&8217;t mean alone, as Michael soon discovers. The house & its grounds harbour terrible secrets, & Michael must unravel them all&8230; ...

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist & romantic – this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. ...

Stevie is eleven she’s been best friends with Andrew since forever. Stevie’s mum teases her that someday they’ll get married, but Stevie knows that won’t ever happen. There’s a girl at school that she likes more. Actually, she’s a bit confused about how much she likes her. A beautiful & warm verse novel about the discovery of sexuality. ...

Something weird is happening at school. The children are too well behaved – almost like robots. What strange power does the eerie headmaster hold over them, & can anyone resist? Or are Dinah, Lloyd, & Harvey doomed to become part of the Demon Headmaster’s dark plan? ...

The Junior Computer Brain of the Year competition is sending ripples of excitement through the school & when Dinah makes it to the final, she’s over the moon. But too late she realizes that she’s being used to access the private computer of the Prime Minister... the daring new target of the Demon Headmaster! ...

When Ingrid turns up at a SPLAT meeting she is raving about Hunky Parker, a new TV show. It’s the latest craze, she says, & soon everyone will be hooked. The other SPLAT members disagree – until they watch for themselves & something weird happens... & it could involve the Demon Headmaster! ...