All aboard for a magical getaway! But where will this impossible train take Suzy? Our heroine is at home one night, just being, you know, normal, when she starts seeing weird flashes of green lightning in the living room. Then she’s woken in the night by a strange noise. So she creeps downstairs, & finds a train roaring through her house! Is she dreaming? Nope. This is the Impossible Postal Express – the trusty delivery service of the Union of Impossible Places! & when a grumpy troll drags Suzy aboard, recruiting her to deliver a cursed package, it looks like the fate of all those impossible places might just lie in her hands… Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019A rollicking fantasy adventure full of magic & mayhem For fans of Eva Ibbotson, Sylvia Bishop & Anna James Highly acclaimed young fiction full of classic appeal“ Great fun!” Philip Reeve, author of Mortal Engines “A harum-scarum fantasy adventure crammed with quirky action.” Observer “ Endlessly imaginative, highly inventive … a plot every bit as unpredictable as the train itself.” The Bookseller Supplied as a pack of 30 copies. ...

All aboard for a magical getaway! But where will this impossible train take Suzy? Our heroine is at home one night, just being, you know, normal, when she starts seeing weird flashes of green lightning in the living room. Then she’s woken in the night by a strange noise. So she creeps downstairs, & finds a train roaring through her house! Is she dreaming? Nope. This is the Impossible Postal Express – the trusty delivery service of the Union of Impossible Places! & when a grumpy troll drags Suzy aboard, recruiting her to deliver a cursed package, it looks like the fate of all those impossible places might just lie in her hands… Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019A rollicking fantasy adventure full of magic & mayhem For fans of Eva Ibbotson, Sylvia Bishop & Anna James Highly acclaimed young fiction full of classic appeal“ Great fun!” Philip Reeve, author of Mortal Engines “A harum-scarum fantasy adventure crammed with quirky action.” Observer “ Endlessly imaginative, highly inventive … a plot every bit as unpredictable as the train itself.” The Bookseller Supplied as a pack of six copies. ...

A twisty murder mystery, a pulse-pounding thriller, a contemporary setting with a breath-taking speculative twist: this is YA fiction at its absolute finest. ...

Amelia’s puppy Poppet has fallen down an old mine! Can she find a way to get Poppet out safely? ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set 7 Sound Focus: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Book Band: Yellow 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 7 & 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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Frank Cottrell Boyce’s MILLIONS meets classic movie THE GOONIES – a twisty mystery with an exciting treasure hunt. ...

A Loch Ness Monster story inspired by local folklore which has become the classic Nessie story. This stunning picture book ...

A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind – & our impact on the natural world – from a Caldecott Honor-winning master of the wordless form. For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civilizations. Borrowing from multiple cultures & architectural styles to craft astonishing new humanscapes, Aaron Becker tracks the evolution of our species – & its toll on the Earth – through the fates of a lone tree & an enduring river. River & tree bear silent witness over time as people arrive to harness water, wind, & animals; devise technology & transportation; redirect rivers; & reshape the l&. Timely & ultimately hopeful, this wordless epic invites readers to pore over spreads densely packed with visual drama. Fans of Journey, Quest, & Return will leap at a new chance to uncover sophisticated layers of meaning, marvel at intricate details – from holographic billboards to flying machines – & see our precious shared world through fresh eyes. ...

A thrilling story about a girl who can see the world through a rainbow of colours not visible to others – & the spooky adventure she must go on full of witches, ghosts & other things lurking around the corners of her not-so-ordinary-after-all town… For fans of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book & Sophie Anderson’s The House with Chicken Legs. ...

We’ve heard of sugar mice. Now make friends with Holly’s truffle mouse: truly as sweet as chocolate. We all know chocolate can lift your mood. But what about a tiny brown mouse? Alice has had a tough time since her parents split up. They’re both so busy, they hardly notice Alice at all. What she needs is a friend. But when Mum takes her to the pet shop to buy a hamster, she spies a tiny brown mouse hiding at the back of the cage. Alice names him Truffle – & just like chocolate, he somehow makes everything sweeter… A heartwarming new animal story by Holly Webb Real-life family themes which strike an instant chord Holly Webb was a 2012 World Book Day author Her animal stories have sold over a million copies ...