Monsters Inc meets Alice In Wonderland in this fantastically imaginative adventure. Joey has little self-belief. She's sure, as a group from her school set off on a trip to a local museum, that she's destroyed her team's chances of winning a ...
Blog Tour: Dream Hunters by Nazima Pathan
The Dream Hunters is set in India - but in an India where dream magic is real and dream workers live inside the Citadel which has been closed off from the outside world for some years. Dream Hunters are accompanied by magical creatures who go out ...
Blog Tour: Storm Child by Ele Fountain
Maya loves surfing, spending time on the beach with her friends, and her family's home at Penrose Point. When she hears that a developer has offered her parents a large sum of money for the house and the land - including the beach - she is fright ...
Blog Tour: Culhwch and Olwen by Catherine Fisher
Culhwch and Olwen is a retelling of a story from the Mabinogion set in Arthurian times. It comes from Cadno - a new imprint Graffeg that aims to publish books in English with a strong Welsh content. This story begins with Culhwch's birth ...
Blog Tour: Solstice by Jen Breach. Illustrated by 14 Global Artists
Follow 14 fictional children as they watch the sun rise in 14 locations around the world during the solstice. From Winter Solstice at the South Pole to Summer Solstice in Norway, readers can travel the globe and celebrate with their new fictional ...
One Day On Our Prehistoric Planet by Ella Bailey
One day, on a prehistoric continent, a diplodocus goes for a walk. She has just grown big enough to leave the safety of her hiding place but she is still small. As much as she is excited by all the things she sees she needs to find a herd of dipl ...
Blog Tour: Bite Risk Caught Dead by S.J. Wills
Sel and the gang are back. Set five or six months after the events of Bite Risk, this sequel finds out what happens once the resiedents of Tremorglade have been liberated and the rest of the world has learned about the Rippers - those who turn in ...
Tales Of World War II by Dr Hattie Hearn and Margarida Esteves
At last - an illustrated non-fiction book about WWII that helps children to understand the chronology and the events on different parts of the world stage whilst remaining comprehensible and fascinating for 8 - 14 year-olds. As a child I used to watc ...
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
When Christopher goes to stay with the grandfather he has never met before, he discovers that there is a portal to another world in the back garden. While the creatures in our world are dying due to a human-caused climate crisis, the creatures of the ...
Review: A Whale Of A Time – A Funny Poem For Every Day Of The Year. Selected by Lou Peacock. Illustrated by Matt Hunt.
A Whale Of A Time is a weighty yet witty tome of poetry aimed at younger children. Editor Lou Peacock has selected the contents brilliantly for readers who may be encountering poetry for the first time. The volume follows on from other popular titles ...