An extraordinary story about friendship & betrayal. Of revenge & retribution but also redemption. Perfect for 11+ readers who enjoy Stranger Things. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration in 2023. Hex never meant for the girl to follow him & his friend Tommo into the woods. He never meant for her to fall off the rope swing & break her arm. When the finger of blame is pointed at him, Hex runs deep into the woods & his fierce sense of injustice leads him to a strange clearing in the woods – a clearing that has never been there before – where an old lady in a cottage offers him a deal. She’ll rid the world of those who wronged him & Hex can carry on his life with them all forgotten & as if nothing ever happened. But what Hex doesn’t know is someone else has been offered the same deal. When Hex’s best friend Tommo wakes up the next day, he is in a completely different world but he only has murmurs of memories of the world before. Moments of deja vu that feel like Tommo’s lived this day before. Can Tommo put the world right again? Back to how it was? Or can he find a way to make a new world that could be better for them all? ...

. ‘ Funny, sweet & very useful for opening conversations with anxious children’ – Guardian Everyone feels worried sometimes. But what if your worries came to life & started following you around? Sohal worries about a lot of things: the dark, mutant sheep, being alone – you name it, he worries about it! So one night he tries drawing his worries to make himself feel better – & somehow they look a lot less worrying once they’re scribbled down. But then imagine Sohal’s surprise when he wakes up the next morning to find a set of funny, furry friends at the end of his bed! His worries have come to life, & it’s not long before Hurt, Fail, Anger, Big & Alone have turned his world upside down. Now it’s up to Sohal to work out how to keep his worries under control – & have some serious fun while he’s at it! The Truth Pixie meets Inside Out in this hilarious, highly illustrated new series, perfect for helping children gently work through their worries & concentrate on having fun. ...

A fun & reassuring tale about dealing with worries from the author of the bestselling The Lion Inside. ...

‘ Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases… a great cheer-up book’ The Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry. Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING & it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it. But best friends Stanley & Manjit didn’t LITERALLY mean to let flying MINIBEASTS free in the classroom. & they really didn’t LITERALLY mean to do a series of dares to become the Overlord of the Universe. These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all. Highly illustrated & featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these stories are just right for children ready for their first chapter books. ...

‘ Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases… a great cheer-up book’ The Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry. Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING & it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it. But best friends Stanley & Manjit didn’t LITERALLY mean to swap Killer for a War of Wizard’s playing card & set him loose in school. & they really didn’t LITERALLY mean to EXPLODE fizzy foam all over the classroom & all over Mrs Bottomley-Blunt. These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all. Highly illustrated & featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these stories are just right for children ready for their first chapter books. ...

When clumsy witch Mildred Hubble starts school at Miss Cackle’s Academy, chaos soon begins… screen-gaming-17 ...

Hubble bubble trouble! More laughs from the original school for witches. ...

It’s back to school for Mildred, & this term she’s vowed to be a good student. Bad luck… ...

Hang on to your broomstick for a gorgeous colour paperback edition of The Worst Witch! Written & illustrated by Jill Murphy when she was only sixteen, disaster-prone Mildred Hubble – the worst witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy – has been casting her spell for over forty years, enchanting millions of young readers. For this special edition, Jill Murphy has reproduced her original illustrations entirely in gorgeous full colour, & has written a special letter to her readers. Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches, but she’s making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong & crashing her broomstick. & when she turns Ethel, the teacher’s pet into her worst enemy, chaos ensues… ‘ Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy’s Worst Witch’ – Sunday Express Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. From a very early age she was drawing & writing stories, & was already putting books together (literally, with a stapler) by the time she was six. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon & Camberwell Schools of Art. Jill worked in a children’s home for four years & as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer & illustrator. The Worst Witch stories, of which this is the first, are some of Puffin’s most successful titles. ...

Fourth in the classic series about a school for witches: the books they say inspired Harry Potter. Devoted fans all over the world (including us) & over 4 million copies sold. Just how magical is that? In this adventure, Mildred is in deep water on the school trip! The class has gone to the seaside for a week, but Mildred can’t bear to leave her beloved cat, Tabby, behind. One cat. One muddled-up witch. One huge ocean. Surely a recipe for (a very funny) disaster… ...