An enchanting picture book story, and an ideal Christmas gift stocking filler, from the creator of Ella’s Night Lights and Lily the Pond Mermaid about facing change, learning to voice difficult emotions and taking a leap into the unknown. Oak is the teensy little, magical leaf girl, who lives in the middle of the woods. When summer turns to autumn and leaves begin to change - Oak and her family must leave their tree.It is time for them to float down to the ground where they c...
The next gripping, must-read, YA crime mystery for readers of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus, and fans of The Secret History and Ace of Spades. Eva has set her sights on studying English at Oxford University. Atmospheric old libraries; secret societies; eccentric professors – it’s the stuff of her dreams.When she and her best friend (who she’s also secretly in love with), George, are invited to Interview Week, it seems like those dreams are coming true. But only a day in, Ge...
Michael Rosen is one of the most popular authors of stories and poems for children. His bestselling titles, published by Walker Books, include Little Rabbit Foo Foo, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, This Is Our House, Tiny Little Fly, Dear Mother Goose and its sequel Dear Fairy Godmother. Michael received the Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1997, and was the Children’s Laureate from 2007 to 2009. He is a distinguished critic and academic, co-directing an MA in Children’s Literature at Birk...
Chloe Savage is the author-illustrator of The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2024: Best Illustrated Book, and shortlisted for a Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2024. She is also the author-illustrator of The Search for Carmella. She has an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from The Cambridge School of Art and has worked for a number of years in opera, film and television. While doodling on call sheets Chloe found h...
Neal Shusterman is an award-winning author whose books include the New York Times bestselling Unwind series and Challenger Deep, which won a National Book Award. He also writes screenplays for film and television, for shows such as Goosebumps and Animorphs. He lives in Florida and has four children. Follow him on Twitter: @NealShusterman
Sam McBratney, author of one of the world's bestselling and most adored picture books, Guess How Much I Love You, won the Bass Ireland Arts Prize and the Bisto Award, twice. He also wrote the bestselling You're All My Favourites, Will You Be My Friend? and many other books for children.Now considered a children’s book classic, Guess How Much I Love You has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and been translated into 57 languages. The phrase “I love you to the moon and ...
Cassandra Clare is the author of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Bane Chronicles, The Shadowhunter’s Codex and Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. Her Shadowhunter world has captivated 40 million readers. The books have been translated into over 35 languages and have appeared globally on bestseller lists. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a major movie and Shadowhunters is airing on Netflix. Cassandra lives in Massachusett...
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, the New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun. "I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." – Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaWelcome to Paradise Springs, Northern California – a hot, dusty, half-magical, wine-country town where there are...
*CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS (CBA) OVERALL WINNER 2025**WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDS WINNER 2024**THE CARNEGIE MEDAL NOMINEE 2025**SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2025**FCBG CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2025*A heart-warming adventure about the unbreakable bond between a dog and his human from a beloved and twice Costa-shortlisted author. "A beautiful, heartfelt adventure." Sophie Anderson“I’m Tom’s dog, and he’s my human. We belong to each other.” Re...
The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. "A true successor to The Hunger Games" Maggie Stiefvater, bestselling author of Shiver and The Raven Boys, on Scythe. It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are teste...
NOW A MAJOR MOVIE ON AMAZON PRIME!The bestselling novel and major movie about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.But it isn’t the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... This monster is something different.Someth...
FROM THE BESTSELLING MYSTERY-THRILLER AUTHOR, ANTHONY HOROWITZ, READ THE FIRST BOOK IN THE ORIGINAL YOUNG SPY SERIES THAT’S NOW A GLOBAL SENSATION. ‘Everything that a spy novel should be: action-packed, impossible to put down, fast-paced and yet lined with plot twists aplenty’ – GuardianNothing prepares 14-year-old Alex Rider for the news that the uncle he thought he knew was really a spy for MI6 – Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Forcibly recruited into MI6 himself,...
Funny and poignant, this 2001 Newbery Honor novel captures life in a quirky Southern town as Opal and her mangy dog, Winn-Dixie, strike up friendships among the locals. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog.It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mo...
From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on our planet. Featuring more than 35 stunning pop-ups and fascinating, up-to-the-minute information about popular dinosaurs as well as many lesser-known varieties, this is an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most celebrated extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign of our planet....
If happiness were a virus, who would search for a cure?A heart-pounding dystopian YA thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Scythe. "[The] epic biological thriller ... enigmatic, jaw-dropping" Publishers WeeklyA deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading.But those who survive it experience long-term effects no one has ever seen before: utter contentment. Soon after infection, people find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that used to ...
Welcome to the magical school where you’ll learn spells, potions and everything you need to know about Unicorns! Claudia is excited to start her first day at the Unicornia Academy of Magic, where she'll even be able to fly on her very own unicorn! But first she has to pass a flying test. Claudia is super nervous, but luckily her new friends are here to help. With colour illustrations, this magical chapter-book series is great for building confidence in newly independent re...
Now a major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg No. 1 New York Times bestseller Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · National Book Award Longlist · British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year · Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the YearSixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered whe...
A beautifully illustrated look inside the fascinating world of creepy-crawlies, with stunning three-dimensional pop-ups.Larger-than-life bugs spring from the pages, peek out from behind flaps and hide under tabs, inviting young entomologists to marvel at the mind-boggling variety of arthropod life. What reader can resist a chance to look inside a cockroach’s body to see how it works or open a wasps’ nest to see what’s inside? Useful information (why does the world need bees?)...
Louie Stowell writes books about magic, gods and monsters (mostly). She has written carefully researched books about space, ancient Egypt, politics and science but eventually lapsed into just making stuff up. She has written fiction for 8–12 (Nosy Crow and Walker Books US), but Loki: A Bad God's Guide series is her first as both author and illustrator, inspired by her research into Norse myths.Louie writes full time in London, where she lives with her wife Karen, her dog Buff...
Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Release. John Green has described him as "an insanely beautiful writer". He has won every major prize in children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He has written the screenplay for the film of A Monster Calls and the BBC Dr Who spin-off, Class. The first Chaos Walking film is slated for release in 2020. He lives in Los Angeles.
Martin Handford's earliest influences were cinema epics and playing with toy soldiers, and at art college he loved to draw busy, militarily correct battle scenes. Each picture in his Where's Wally? books takes him months to draw. "As I work my way through a picture, I add Wally when I come to what I feel is a good place to hide him," he says.
Two bestselling book creators bring prehistoric sea beasts to life in this spectacular pop-up masterpiece!While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans – most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. Full of captivating facts and more than thirty-five breathtaking pop-ups, this incredible companion volume to the bestselling Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs explores the prehistoric underw...
