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Cover artwork is taken from The Restless Girls, written by Jessie Burton and illustrated by Angela Barrett PRESCHOOL

Lift and Look: Flowers and Plants Bugs Tracy Cottingham

Specially designed for little hands, Bloomsbury’s Lift and Look board books have large flaps on every page. Lift the flaps and discover incredible insects, fantastic flowers and amazing plants. What’s growing in the greenhouse? What’s flying around the pond?

• With bright illustrations from Tracy Cottingham, these are beautiful introductions to flowers, plants and bugs

• Short, simple and engaging text on every page to help your child learn first words

• Developed in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

MARCH 2018 BOARDBOOK | £5.99 | 12PP | 180X180MM | 0+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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Olobob Top Ted Leigh Hodgkinson Sophy Henn Welcome to the bright and brilliant world of Olobob Top! Join Ted’s adventures – lift the flaps to find out what Adventure with Tib, Lalloo, Bobble and all their friends in four he’s doing next! Toddlers will adore these chunky board new books from Bloomsbury, based on the new Cbeebies TV books packed full of little adventures from award-winning series. illustrator Sophy Henn.

• Olobob Top is a new preschool TV series with 52 episodes and • Sturdy board books with lift-the-flaps: perfect for preschoolers Bloomsbury are excited to be launching three brilliant tie-in • Stylish colours and design create must-have books with books in 2018, including a chunky flap book and an activity and Sophy’s trademark look sticker book • Eight titles available • The series features the Olobobs – Tib, Lalloo and Bobble. In each episode, they must use shapes to build a new friend to help them • Little readers will love meeting gorgeous Ted in recognisable solve a problem and join in their fun adventure settings from bedtime to dressing up

• Olobob Top is the creation of beloved illustrator Leigh • Sophy Henn is the bestselling illustrator of Where Bear? (Puffin), Hodgkinson, the talent behind Bloomsbury picture books Are You which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2015 Sitting Comfortably? and The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth. She is art director on the BAFTA award-winning series Charlie and Lola

• Full of warm humour and focusing on creativity and imaginative play, Olobob Top is perfect for pre-schoolers

• TV rights have already been secured in multiple global territories – please enquire with the Bloomsbury rights team for more information

• More Olobob Top titles to come with six tie-in board books and activity books scheduled by 2020 APRIL 2018

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BOARDBOOK | £6.99 12PP | 180 X 180MM | BOARD + FLAPS | 0+ RIGHTS SOLD: USA: PLAYTIME WITH TED, BEDTIME WITH TED APRIL 2018 BRAZIL: BEDTIME WITH TED, BOARDBOOK | £6.99 | 12PP STORY TIME WITH TED 180 X 180MM | BOARD+FLAPS | 0+ CATALAN: BEDTIME WITH TED, OCTOBER 2017 TEATIME WITH TED ACTIVITY BOOK | £5.99 SPAIN: BEDTIME WITH TED, 24PP +4PP STICKERS TEATIME WITH TED 305 X 238MM | 3+

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A Christmas Advent Story: Bobo & Co. A Lift-the-Flap Book Nicola Killen Hannah Tolson Meet Bobo and his friends! Lift-the-flap fun for preschoolers, with sweet illustrations from Nicola Killen.

Ivy Snow • Features Bobo the panda and his cast of friends – cute, relatable characters that toddlers will love to read about over and over Let’s count down to Christmas! A beautiful first Christmas Advent book with 25 flaps – one for every day of advent – designed to introduce children to • First concept books introducing colours, numbers, shapes and opposites first words as they count down to Christmas. OCTOBER 2017 • Lift-the-flap fun to engage and entertain preschoolers HARDBACK | £12.99 | 24PP | 250 X 250MM | 0+ • Each spread uncovers a new beautiful Christmas scene as we follow a little girl, boy • For fans of Tilly and Friends and Poppy Cat RIGHTS SOLD: and their dog on their countdown to Christmas Day. Scenes include: ice skating and FRANCE Christmas lights, Christmas shopping and carol singing, a gorgeous pine tree wood • Nicola Killen has created Bobo’s world to stimulate and surprise young children. and lots more She has illustrated several picture books and these are her first books for Bloomsbury • Stunning illustrations from Hannah Tolson make this book the perfect Christmas gift

• Packed with plenty of charm, in addition to discovering what is under each flap, children

will be able to spot lots of lovely things in each scene from snowflakes and Christmas ALSO AVAILABLE cards to decorations and cookies for Santa

MARCH 2018 BOARDBOOK | £6.99 | 10PP | 180 X 180MM | BOARD + FLAPS | 0+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

We’re Going on an Egg Hunt My First Bible Stories: Board Book Edition Noah’s Ark and The Nativity Laura Hughes Charlotte Guillain

Join the Easter bunnies on an exciting lift-the-flap Easter egg hunt. Perfect Lesley Grainger for fans of the classic We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Easter favourites like Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Easter Egg Hunt. Introduce little ones to two of the best-loved Bible stories: Noah’s Ark and the joyful Christmas Nativity story. Each book is a gentle introduction to these • The picture book edition of We’re Going on an Egg Hunt has sold over 55,000 well-known and beloved Bible stories, complete with charming and bright FEBRUARY 2018 copies in the UK, and now Bloomsbury are releasing a gorgeous board book edition illustrations. BOARDBOOK | £6.99 | 22PP | 179 X 179MM | 0+ • ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE Lift-the-flap Easter egg hunt fun with ten eggs to find and count. The perfect • Quality, high-end and durable board books that share the important messages Easter gift behind these special Christian stories

• ALSO AVAILABLE Bright, appealing artwork with adorable rabbit characters, not to mention an • A perfect gift – for Christmas or Christenings! abundance of other springtime animals including lambs and chicks • Two titles available • We’re Going on an Egg Hunt is rapidly becoming the classic picture book for Easter

• Activity book also available OCTOBER 2017 BOARDBOOK | £6.99 | 24PP | 180 X 180MM | 0+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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Lulu Little Baby Books Camilla Reid Mel Four Ailie Busby Beautiful, monochrome board books with bright foil on every page for reading first words to your baby, with stunning illustrations of everyday objects. Join Lulu, the ever-popular preschool character, and her range of novelty, • Monochrome, foiled board books are a popular format for learning first words picture and board books. • Coloured foil enhances the monochrome design, and highlights the first words for easier learning • Over 600,000 copies sold so far globally • With beautifully designed pages and fun illustrations • The Lulu books have been translated into 16 languages • 4 titles available • Different formats available: - Lift-the-flap board books (Lulu Loves Colours /Noises /Numbers /Shapes ) - Touch and feel and lift-the-flap novelty books (Lulu’s Shoes, Lulu’s Clothes, Lulu’s Loo, Lulu’s Christmas, Lulu’s Lunch ) - Lift-the-flap picture books (This is Lulu, Lulu and the Noisy Baby) - Standard 32pp picture book (Lulu Loves Nursery )

LIFT-THE-FLAP | £6.99 PICTURE BOOK | £6.99 20PP | 250 X 250MM 32PP | 250 X 250MM

BOARDBOOK WITH FLAPS | £5.99 | 10PP | 160 X 160MM

MULTI-NOVELTY BOOK | £6.99 (LULU’S CHRISTMAS £7.99) | 14PP | 200 X 200MM JANUARY 2018 JANUARY 2018 BOARDBOOK | £5.99 RIGHTS SOLD: 10PP | 160 X 160MM | BOARD + FOIL | 0+ BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), CATALAN, CHINA (SIMPLIFIED AND COMPLEX CHINESE), RIGHTS SOLD: DENMARK, FINLAND, FRANCE, ISRAEL, ITALY, JAPAN, SPAIN, THE NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL, TURKEY LATIN AMERICA (SPANISH)

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• The wonderful, wintery, snow-covered land of Princess Snowbelle is wrapped up in our fabulous activity and picture book range

• Children will go on adventures with Snowbelle, her friends and all her favourite animals. They can find their way PAPERBACK | £4.99 PAPERBACK | £4.99 through mazes, dress Princess Snowbelle and friends up in 24PP+4PP STICKERS 24PP +6PP STICKERS beautiful sticker clothes, and enjoy other copying, colouring, 305 X 238MM | 5+ 305 X 238MM | 5+ stickering and brilliant snow and fun-based activities

• Seven titles available, including activity books, colouring books, a picture book and a secret journal

• Complete with lots of bright stickers, so children can get creative and customise pages

• Two new titles coming in September 2018, Princess Snowbelle’s Dressing Up Sticker Activity Book and Princess Snowbelle’s Activity Bag

PAPERBACK | £4.99 PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 48PP 32PP +4PP STICKERS 210 X 148MM | 5+ 305 X 238MM | 5+

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BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 11 Panda Claus’s Christmas 123 Create Your Own Christmas and Isabel Thomas ABC Sticker Activity Books Katie Abey Meet Panda Claus! He’s a friendly panda who loves to dress up just like Get ready to take control of the most important time of the year – and create Santa Claus. This new series offers children an exciting Christmas-themed your OWN Christmas! introduction to counting and the alphabet. • A fantastically original, interactive, exciting Christmas activity book – there is nothing • Brilliant new series from Bloomsbury Activity Books, with the adorable character, else like it! Panda Claus, who children will love • Packed full of inventive, hands-on activities: send a message in a snowflake, make • Count to ten and help Panda Claus decorate his tree. Find colourful new objects hilarious 3D pop-up cards, launch a paper sleigh, build a climbing Santa and a for every letter of the alphabet on Panda Claus’s Christmas list galloping reindeer, and MUCH more OCTOBER 2017 PAPERBACK | £7.99 | 64PP • Christmas-themed introduction to counting and the alphabet that will engage • Hilarious, bright, colourful illustrations from Katie Abey 305 X 238MM | 7+ children and support early learning ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Hands-on activities to entertain BOTH boys and girls • Over 300 colourful and large stickers in each book that are easy for little hands to use

• Bright and colourful illustrations from Tracey English

Build Your Own Body Isabel Thomas Nikalas Catlow

Discover amazing science about the human body! Packed full of fun and exciting science projects which use the pages in different ways, this book will OCTOBER 2018 have you tearing, folding, cutting, experimenting and scribbling as you find out PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 24PP+4PP STICKERS how our bodies work. 276 X 216MM | 5+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Hands-on science activities for children, with easy-to-follow text and instructions, designed to make science accessible and exciting

• Illustrated throughout in two pantones and black by Nikalas Catlow JANUARY 2018 PAPERBACK | £7.99 | 64PP • Isabel Thomas is the brilliant author of over 80 books and has been shortlisted for the 305 X 238MM | 7+ Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, and the Blue Peter Book Awards RIGHTS SOLD: CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), KOREA, • Exciting and inspiring, this series will keep readers entertained for hours PORTUGAL, TURKEY OPTION PUBLISHERS: CHINA (COMPLEX CHINESE), POLAND

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• Two titles available: Fold-up Halloween Fortune Tellers and Fold-up Wildlife Facts

• A unique and original format in the Bloomsbury Activity Books range

• Includes over 25 individually designed fortune-tellers and fact finders to create

• Packed with hilarious fortunes and facts for you to uncover, as well as incomplete designs so you can write your own!

PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 64PP+2PP STICKERS 215MM X 215MM | 5+ RIGHTS SOLD: CHINA (COMPLEX CHINESE): WILDLIFE

How to Draw ... Susie Hodge

Have you ever wanted to draw incredible animals, people, nature and faces that look just like the real thing? Full of helpful tips and tricks, these books will teach you how to draw just like an artist.

• Designed for enthusiastic young artists, this easy-to-use guide will help you develop and strengthen your drawing abilities

• The simple step-by-step instructions help you first perfect the basics and then improve techniques in shading, proportion and movement

• Susie Hodge is an author and illustrator and has written over 100 books on art, art history and artistic techniques

• Four titles available, Animals and People coming February 2018, and Nature and Faces following in August 2018

FEBRUARY 2018 PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 48PP 305 X 238MM | 9+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan Neil Packer

From the author of the phenomenal bestselling The Silk Roads comes a spectacular illustrated retelling for children. Embark on an extraordinary journey in this magnificent new history of the world written by number one bestselling author and historian Peter Frankopan, lavishly illustrated by the incredible Neil Packer.

• Set your sails east with a stunningly original illustrated narration of the world’s history for children. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science, technology and more in this remarkable book about how the east married the west

• From the ancient world laws laid down by King Hammurabi and the Persian empire to the rise of Europe, The Silk Roads moves through time and history simultaneously sewing together the threads of each country and empire that constellate the world. A must-have history of the world for children

• For fans of Peter Frankopan’s number 1 bestselling adult non- fiction title: The Silk Roads, with translation rights across 16 countries and has sold over 220,000 copies in the UK since publication in 2015. It was named History Book of the Year 2015 (Daily Telegraph), Number One Non-Fiction Bestseller COVER TO BE REVEALED (The Times), Number One Bestseller (Evening Standard ), OCTOBER 2018 Number One Non-Fiction Bestseller (Sunday Times), Bestseller HARDBACK | £16.99 | 305 X 238MM | 128PP | 7+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE (New York Times), and India’s Number One Non-Fiction Bestseller

• Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He has lectured at leading universities all over the world.

• Neil Packer has illustrated many adult and children’s titles, including The Name of the Rose, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Iliad and The Odyssey

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Goddess: Migration: Incredible The Story of Athena Animal Journeys Imogen Greenberg Mike Unwin Isabel Greenberg Jenni Desmond

Discover the adventures of Athena, the Ancient Greek Imagine: you’re flying high over the Himalayan mountains, goddess of wisdom, war and courage. With illustrations on a journey filled with danger. The temperature is far below from Isabel Greenberg, this is a stunning visualisation of the freezing, the air is thin, and golden eagles swoop out of tales of strength that Athena inspired. the sky to attack you. This is just one of the 20 incredible migration stories in this beautifully illustrated non-fiction • A captivating retelling of the adventures of an ancient goddess. book for 2018. Athena is an inspirational character, relevant for our modern age of great women • 20 beautifully illustrated stories of animal migration that children will love. This is non-fiction storytelling at its best: an inspiring • Isabel Greenberg is an exciting, inspiring illustrator: in 2011 narrative, brilliant facts, and utterly beautiful artwork she won the Observer Jonathan Cape Graphic short story prize. Her first full length graphic novel The Encyclopedia of • Animals of all shapes and sizes make epic journeys across our

AUGUST 2018 Early Earth won the Best Book Award at the 2013/14 British planet in their efforts to survive. Picture the migrations of the APRIL 2018 HARDBACK | £14.99 | 305 X 238MM | 64PP | 7+ Comic Awards, and was in the New York Times Graphic Books emperor penguin through snow, ice and bitter temperatures, of HARDBACK | £12.99 | 305 X 238MM | 48PP | 7+ OPTION PUBLISHERS: bestseller list a great white shark swimming 10,000 km in search of seals, ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN of huge herds of elephants on their yearly hunt for water and of • Exceptional illustrations, including double page scenes, and millions of red crabs migrating across Christmas Island for up to graphic storyboards 18 days • A wonderful follow-up to The Story of Tutankhamun, which has • Encourages respect for our planet: environmental issues are already been translated into French, Italian and Spanish especially in the spotlight at the moment

• Written by Mike Unwin, UK Travel Writer of the Year and author of more than 20 books on the subject for both adults and children

• Brought to life through stunning illustrations by Jenni Desmond. In 2012 her debut Red Cat Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! award and in 2016 her book The Polar Bear became the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the year. Her work has been translated into over 12 languages

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Moth These Are Animals Isabel Thomas Daniel Egnéus Daniel Egnéus Journey over lands and oceans through enchanting woods, luscious rainforests and misty meadows as incredible How did the little peppered moth answer one of the animals are brought to life. See foxes jump, lions roar, deer world’s biggest questions? Dark, haunting and visually prance, bears GROWL and find out who is hiding in the dark spectacular with stunning illustrations from Daniel Egnéus, in this gorgeous book all about animals. Moth captures the struggle of animal survival against the • Beautiful first introduction to animals that children and parents background of an evolving human world in a unique and will treasure and keep coming back to atmospheric introduction to Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. • Stunning illustrations from the incredible Daniel Egnéus

• Picture book format, teamed with lyrical text, provides an • Fun, lyrical text bringing animals and their unique habits to life accessible and unique introduction to complex scientific ideas: JUNE 2018 the concept of Evolution carries the scientific underpinning of • Showcasing a range of beautiful habitats around the world that MARCH 2018 HARDBACK | £12.99 | 48PP | 250 X 250MM | 9+ readers will want to get lost in HARDBACK | £12.99 | 32PP | 250 X 250MM | 0+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE human existence RIGHTS SOLD: • A brilliant book to read out loud that will have you splashing and FRANCE • Beautiful, sophisticated and harnessed by an important message that resonates with our everyday life, this book transcends both howling, jumping and growling! the adult and children’s markets

• Paired with stunning and dramatic colour illustrations from Daniel Egnéus

• Written by award-winning author Isabel Thomas, author of Bloomsbury’s Self-Destructing Science series

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The Funny Life of Pets We Wear Pants James Campbell Katie Abey Rob Jones We Wear Pants from Katie Abey will have parents and children giggling together as they find their favourite Ever wondered what your pet is thinking? Or what they are animals wearing funny things. doing when you’re not around? Whether you love pets, want • A hilarious book all about getting dressed! Find your favourite a pet, own a pet, or you don’t like pets at all but you enjoy animals wearing pants, hats, socks, glasses, shoes, coats, laughing so much that you actually fall on the floor – THIS trousers and much more across 12 fun-filled spreads is the book for you! • Teaches the importance of independence and encourages • Uncover the funny life of cats, dogs, horses, hamsters and children to get dressed by themselves after seeing their everything else in between (and some things that have nothing favourite animals do the same to do with pets but are still funny) – according to James Campbell, comedian extraordinaire • A funny and fresh take on a spotting and pointing book JUNE 2018

• PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 260 X 260MM I 32PP | 0+ This book answers all the big questions, like: do sausage dogs eat • Interactivity adds to the fun as little ones are invited to count up sausages? Why has my cat done a poo behind my wardrobe? And, all the hats, spot the stripy socks and find the hidden animals ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE how can I persuade my parents to get me a pet? • 35 main characters appear on every spread, but watch out • A hybrid fact AND fiction book, this book is perfect for anyone for one cheeky character who is never quite wearing what he MARCH 2018 who wants to laugh so much they’ll cry should be! PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 190 X 153MM | 240PP | 7+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Incredibly funny black and white illustrations from Rob Jones, • Illustrated by the super talented Katie Abey, whose strange whose first book Bernard won The People’s Book Prize in 2015 sense of humour is perfectly suited to children’s books

• Written by the brilliant stand-up children’s comedian James Campbell

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Facts! Splat the Fact Tracey Turner Adam Frost Fatti Burke Gemma Correll Watch out! Some incorrect facts have escaped into this book … there’s one bad Have you heard of the parrotfish, which covers itself in a fact on every page, and it’s up to you to SPLAT it, spot it, catch it and reveal it as an cosy, thick layer of its own slime before it goes to sleep? imposter fact! Why not celebrate New Year’s Eve like the Estonians: tuck into seven meals to give you strength for the year ahead. • Hunt for fascinating facts and use your detective skills to uncover the untrue ‘fact’ MAY 2018 Delicious! PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 160PP • Written by Adam Frost, author of the Awesome Book of Awesomeness series. Adam 190 X 153MM | 9+ • Fascinating facts for every single day of the year: impress your Frost won the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 for the Best Book with Facts and has been ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE friends with awesome knowledge! nominated for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. His books for Bloomsbury have been translated into seven languages • Explore a world of topics, from hilarious animals, to unbelievable science facts, mind-blowing space stats, to incredible human • Packed with hilarious black and white illustrations from Gemma Correll, a cartoonist, writer, achievements. Discover a fact for everyone, everyday, in this illustrator and all-round small person. You can find her work in bookshops, on mugs, on book cards, and in many other places!

• These facts are brought to life with stylish, full colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Fatti Burke. Her charmingly

HARDBACK | £12.99 | 96PP | 278 X 200MM | 7+ beautiful artwork makes this a book to keep coming back to RIGHTS SOLD : FRANCE The Awesome Book of Space Adam Frost

Blast off into space with this next installment from the award-winning author, Adam Frost. Be blown away by hilarious, mind-fizzing, weird and wonderful facts about space!

• Find out: how many helium balloons you’d need to lift yourself into the sky, how many pairs of pants you’d need to pack to live in a space station for a year, and how many tonnes of litter humans have left on the moon – plus much, much more!

• July 2019 will mark 50 years since the moon landing. Adam Frost has a truly unique take on everything to do with space. This book is packed with brilliant, quirky facts and hilarious

illustrations SEPTEMBER 2018 PAPERBACK | £6.99 • Adam Frost won the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 for the Best Book with Facts and has 112PP | 198 X 129MM | 7+ been nominated for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. When Adam is not collecting weird OPTION PUBLISHERS: and wonderful facts, he works as a website editor and information designer for publications CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), such as The Guardian FRANCE, PORTUGAL, THE NETHERLANDS, TURKEY

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A Beginner’s Guide to Physics You Are Mighty: A Guide Tom Jackson to Changing the World Why does an astronaut bouncing on the moon weigh more than you do Caroline Paul down on earth? And what has the three bears’ porridge got to do with Earth? (It’s not too hot, not too cold, it’s just right.) In this funny and mind- Lauren Tamaki boggling introduction to physics, you’ll learn everything from basic ideas like the structure of atoms to BIG ideas like the Big Bang! Find out if time From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Gutsy Girl, an travel is really possible and do robots think like humans. inspiring, instructional and fun guide for kid activists.

• An accessible, hilarious and fun introduction to physics for primary school children • Modeled after the successful The Gutsy Girl, this features a mixture of inspiring anecdotes told in Caroline Paul’s breezy and accessible voice, smart design and • Key links to the primary school science curriculum line illustration, and a do-it-yourself activity guide. It’s clever and unlike anything JULY 2018 • Bright, colourful illustrations on every page else on the market PAPERBACK | £11.99 | 144PP | 7+ AUGUST 2018 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE PAPERBACK | £8.99 | 64PP | 260 X 210MM | 7+ • • Tackling some of the biggest (and smallest) questions in physics, A Beginner’s Activism is especially relevant at the moment, but the scope of this project is ALSO AVAILABLE ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE Guide to Physics shows how physics is all around us, and how we see, speak and broad enough to remain relevant as a backlist title with legs embrace it in our everyday life! • Buzzy up and coming illustrator Lauren Tamaki is the sister of Caldecott Honor ALSO AVAILABLE recipient Jillian Tamaki, and her art has been featured in the New York Times, Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letters newsletter, and various other publications

The National Archives: The Anti-Boredom Book The Buildings that of Brilliant Outdoor Things to Do Made London Andy Seed David Long Say goodbye to boredom with this fantastic outdoor boredom buster book! Josie Shenoy • The perfect book to get you out of the house and into the great outdoors This incredible illustrated journey around one of Europe’s most iconic cities • Includes lots of brilliant garden activities for families, encouraging children and introduces readers to the rich cultural and architectural heritage of some of families to get outdoors, get creative and have fun the buildings that make up London’s skyline.

• Find amazing indoor activities about the outdoors for really rainy days • Featuring amazing, original architectural plans of well-known London buildings from the National Archives brought to life by stunning artwork from Josie Shenoy • Andy Seed’s The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff was the winner of the Blue Peter MARCH 2018 MAY 2017 Book Award 2015 – Best Book with Facts • Along your journey you’ll spot buildings, faces, objects and much more – both HARDBACK | £14.99 | 64PP | 305 X 238MM | 9+ PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 160PP | 190 X 153MM | 5+ ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE RIGHTS SOLD : ALSO AVAILABLE new and old CATALAN, SPAIN • Visit Buckingham Palace and watch as it develops from a large town house to a beautiful and monumental Palace. Whiz past the British Museum in a double decker bus and be amazed by its towering pillars and spectacular glass roof

• With fascinating facts and incredible artwork on every page, this is the perfect book for readers of all ages

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Fantastically Great Women Be A King Kate Pankhurst Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is Bloomsbury’s Carole Boston Weatherford bestselling non-fiction title, showcasing the lives of 12 brilliant women who have helped shape the world we live in. The collection is set to grow James Ransome in 2018 with the much anticipated follow up Fantastically Great Women Everyone can “Be a King” ... readers will learn how by reliving the most famous Who Made History, along with a fantastically fun activity book and a gift actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. edition of the original bestselling title. • Inspirational picture book biography that invites everyone to “Be a King” • With 97,000 copies sold in the UK alone, and translations in 10 languages,

FEBRUARY 2018 Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World has taken the world by • Combining the talents of two well-known African-American creators, this book puts a HARDBACK | £11.99 | 32PP | 250 X 250MM | 7+ storm since publication last Autumn! Over 12,000 copies were sold in the UK fresh spin on the words and actions of Dr. King with a direct call to readers to follow in the month of March alone to coincide with International Women’s Day in his footsteps JANUARY 2018 HARDBACK | $17.99 | 280 X 215MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Four titles now available in the collection, including an activity book, a new • Similar to Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing, this inspirational book will strike a chord non-fiction picture book featuring 12 more brilliant women, and a gift edition with anyone who wants to inspire kids to greatness of the best-selling original • With a kid-friendly approach, the unique design weaves historical vignettes with • The activity book contains over 200 stickers and is packed full of short, modern day scenes to show readers what Martin Luther King Jr.’s message means fascinating facts and exciting activities offering hours of fantastically great for them today and invite them to fight injustice and inequality in their own way women fun

• Researched, written and illustrated by the incredible Kate Pankhurst, who is a descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst

• Accessible introductions to some of the most incredible female figures from throughout history and throughout the World, including some you may already know and some who you may not know but definitely should! Champion • Fantastically Great Women Who Made History includes the following fantastically great women: The Story of Muhammad Ali • Valentina Tereshkova NOVEMBER 2017 Jim Haskin • Elizabeth Blackwell PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 32PP | 305 X 238MM | 5+ • Ada Lovelace Eric Velasquez • Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley • Josephine Baker “I am the greatest! I am the king!” A freshly designed and updated reissue of • Hatshepsut an acclaimed and moving biography about the most famous boxer of all time. • Boudicca • Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo • Featuring stunning illustrations and covering his entire life from childhood through his • Sayyida al Hurra professional career to his end of life battle with Parkinson’s Syndrome, this is a moving • Pocahontas tribute to the legacy of Muhammad Ali

• Harriet Tubman JANUARY 2018 • More than 22,000 copies sold of the first edition • Qui Jin HARDBACK | $17.99 | 280 X 215MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Noor Khan • The author and illustrator are an award-winning duo: The late Jim Haskin was a Coretta Scott King Medal winning author and six-time honoree. Eric Velasquez has received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award and continues to illustrate many acclaimed books HARDBACK | £11.99 | 32PP | 250 X 250MM | 5+

RIGHTS SOLD: BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), FRANCE, PORTUGAL, CROATIA, ICELAND, ITALY, KOREA, TURKEY, USA

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What’s Worrying You? Molly Potter Sarah Jennings From best-selling author Molly Potter and illustrator Sarah Jennings comes a wonderful new book for small children with big worries. What’s Worrying You? is the perfect book for helping children deal with those trickier feelings and gain confidence in coping with everyday ups and downs.

• A new title from the best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, Will You Be My Friend? and Let’s Talk About the Birds and the Bees

• How Are You Feeling Today? has sold over 75,000 copies in FEBRUARY 2018 HARDBACK | £9.99 | 32PP | 255 X 255MM the UK alone, and has been translated into 7 languages RIGHTS SOLD: • What’s Worrying You? is a book about helping young children GREECE, FRENCH CANADA understand their worries, and what to do when they feel overwhelmed by their thoughts and feelings

• Each page takes the child through different worry scenarios, such as falling out with a friend, getting in trouble at school, or feeling like no one is listening to them. It talks about how they might feel, what they might think, and what might help to make them feel better

• Wonderful illustrations from Sarah Jennings

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Ruby’s Worry Tom Percival

Ruby loves being Ruby until, one day, she finds a worry. At first it’s not such a big worry, and that’s all right, but then it starts to grow. It gets bigger and bigger every day and it makes Ruby sad. How can Ruby get rid of it and feel like herself again? A perceptive, poignant and sensitive story from the author of Perfectly Norman.

• Treats a common theme of childhood worries in a sensitive and poignant manner. This is a book that will resonate with children the world over

• The perfect springboard for talking to children about sharing their hidden worries no matter how big or small they may be

• Atmospheric, multimedia artwork in a beautiful minimal palette with a striking cover in fluorescent yellow – a stand-out book in both style and content JULY 2018 • Tom Percival writes and illustrates his own picture books, HARDBACK | £11.99 | 300 X 237MM including Herman’s Letter, Herman’s Holiday and Perfectly OPTION PUBLISHERS: CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), DENMARK, ISRAEL, JAPAN, Norman. This is Tom’s seventh picture book for Bloomsbury RUSSIA, SPAIN and his works have now been translated into 11 languages

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The Tinywing Fairies Little Owl’s First Day Suzanne Barton Debi Gliori Fly to the treetops with the Tinywing Fairies of Dappletree Alison Brown Woods in this enchanting, magical picture book. Always looking for mysteries to solve and adventures to be had, It’s a big day for Little Owl – his first day at school. But Little the Tinywing fairies are quite the team. Join them as they Owl doesn’t want a big day. He wants to stay at home and investigate a strange night-time noise that is keeping the have fun with Mummy and Baby Owl. Could it be, however, inhabitants of Dappletree Woods awake. Whatever can it be? that school turns out to be more fun than Little Owl’s wildest dreams? • The Tinywing Fairies are charmingly fitted to their organic setting

• and rely upon teamwork and quick thinking rather than magic to Accessible, warm and funny text – perfect reassurance for little AUGUST 2018 solve problems. There’s not a frilly pink outfit to be seen! ones starting school HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM OPTION PUBLISHERS: • A fresh take on the ‘night-time noises’ theme. Will provide • Follow up to the hugely successful Little Owl’s Egg, which was CATALAN, CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), FINLAND, SEPTEMBER 2018 comfort and reassurance for wakeful children everywhere translated into 11 languages FRANCE, GAELIC, GERMANY, GREECE, ITALY, HARDBACK | £11.99 | 240 X 240MM PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, SPAIN ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • With snowy, atmospheric backdrops, Suzanne Barton’s intricate • Alison Brown’s books with Bloomsbury have been translated artwork, full of pretty pattern and texture, beautifully realises an into 16 languages ALSO AVAILABLE ALSO AVAILABLE enchanted woodland setting • Alison Brown’s I Love You Night and Day, written by Smriti • Suzanne has a strong co-edition track record: her first picture Prasadam-Halls, was an international bestseller book for Bloomsbury, The Dawn Chorus, has been translated • Debi Gliori is an internationally bestselling author. Her picture into seven languages. It was also selected by Booktrust book No Matter What has sold in 24 languages as a Bookstart book for 2015, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2015

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One Shoe, Two Shoes The Match Caryl Hart Russell Ayto Edward Underwood The man works all week in the factory. The dog waits at home. On the weekend, they both watch THE MATCH on How much fun can a pair of shoes be? The answer is television together. Results aren’t good so the dog decides to do LOTS. Find out how in this funny, clever and stylish book something about it ... A funny footballing tale seen through about shoes (lots of them!), mice (lots of them!) and one the eyes of a man and his dog. It’s ALL about THE MATCH! adorable dog. • Published to coincide with World Cup 2018 • Playful text from bestselling author Caryl Hart. Introduces • The perfect gift for football fans the world over concepts of colours and numbers • With a knowing, dry humour, perfect for fans of Wallace and • Bold and stylish – a must-have for anyone with an eye for colour Gromit and design (and a passion for shoes!) • Funny snapshot of life as an obsessive football supporter and MAY 2018 • From the author–illustrator team behind the successful Big Box the highs and lows that it brings HARDBACK | £7.99 | 170 X 170MM Little Box OPTION PUBLISHERS: CHINA (COMPLEX AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE)

AUGUST 2018 HARDBACK | £11.99 | 300 X 237MM RIGHTS SOLD: THE NETHERLANDS OPTION PUBLISHERS: TURKEY

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Princess Swashbuckle Goat’s Coat Hollie Hughes Tom Percival Deborah Allwright Christine Pym

A quirky tale of a frog princess who becomes a kind pirate – Fall in love with Alfonzo the goat and his adorable animal and discovers that treasure is found in the most unexpected friends in this beautifully illustrated, uplifting picture book that places. Illustrated by the prize-winning Deborah Allwright. is bursting with kindness and good deeds. It will bring a tear to the eye. • A story about following your dreams, Princess Swashbuckle also shows that kindness reaps its own reward! • Alfonzo is a cute character with a heart of gold – children will love reading about him • Told in effortless style by rising star Hollie Hughes, this story of a frog princess who knows her own mind will charm and delight • Excellent messages of kindness, love, friendship and helping all children, whether wannabe princesses or pirates others will resonate with parents and all gift-givers

• Immensely vibrant and appealing artwork from the hugely • Jaunty, rhyming text perfectly complements the cute illustrations – talented Deborah Allwright, illustrator of The Night Pirates a complete joy to share with children! (Egmont), which has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK. Her • Beautiful illustrations full of depth, character and detail. Christine AUGUST 2018 latest book for Bloomsbury, There Is No Dragon In This Story, HARDBACK | £11.99 | 268 X 268MM Pym’s first book, The Tail of the Whale, was shortlisted for the APRIL 2018 has been translated into 12 languages ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE Booktrust Early Years Award HARDBACK | £11.99 | 300 X 237MM RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE

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Along Came A Different Baby’s First Bank Heist Tom McLaughlin Jim Whalley Reds love being red. Stephen Collins Yellows love being yellow. And Blues love being blue. Meet Baby Frank, the world’s most unlikely criminal, as he masterminds his very own bank heist. Why? To get money The problem is this ... they just don’t like each other. for a fluffy new pet, of course.

But, one day, along comes a different and everything changes ... • Introducing a major new picture book pairing in the first of a hotly contested two-book deal

APRIL 2018 A glorious picture book that celebrates diversity, inclusivity and • Stephen Collins is an illustrator and cartoonist with a weekly HARDBACK | £11.99 | 240 X 300MM the importance of being friends. comic strip in Guardian Weekend magazine ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Demonstrates how much better things can be when everyone finds • Fresh, different and stylish – there’s nothing quite like it on the common ground and gets along market

• Bright, bold graphic art style that will appeal to fans of • It’s the equivalent of Burglar Bill for a new generation JUNE 2018 Chris Haughton HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Full of hope and positivity – this is an important book that will resonate widely

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Princess Snowbelle You Can’t Let an and the Snow Games Elephant Drive a Digger Libby Frost Patricia Cleveland-Peck It’s time for the Snow Games tournament and Princess Snowbelle is ready. David Tazzyman But who will win the glittering Ice Trophy? Join a whole host of animals in crazy situations in this riotous • With vibrant and beautiful illustrations bringing to life the magical world of follow-up to the bestselling You Can’t Take an Elephant on Frostovia the Bus. Can an elephant drive a digger? • A heart-warming story highlighting the importance of teamwork • The brilliant follow-up to the bestselling You Can’t Take an NOVEMBER 2018 PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 274 X 245MM • The second picture book featuring Snowbelle, the feisty Princess Elephant on the Bus, which has sold over 100,000 copies in ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE the UK since publication in 2016 ALSO AVAILABLE • Commercial, chaotic, quirky ... and completely brilliant! JULY 2018 • Warning: guaranteed to cause a fit of the giggles HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM OPTION PUBLISHERS: CHINA (COMPLEX AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), ALSO AVAILABLE KOREA, POLAND, TURKEY

All the Way Home Debi Gliori

Daddy Penguin has to look after the egg while Mummy is finding fish. But he wanders away from the Dad-Huddle and he and the egg are whisked up into the air by a gust of wind, landing in the Arctic. Can Daddy Penguin and Little One find their way home before Mummy realises they’re gone? A humorous and gently emotional tale from the much loved and bestselling author and illustrator Debi Gliori.

OCTOBER 2017 • Debi is a hugely successful and prolific children’s book author and illustrator, with HARDBACK | £11.99 | 245 X 274MM over 80 books published and sales totalling well over 500,000 in the UK alone. OPTION PUBLISHERS: FINLAND, RUSSIA Her modern classic No Matter What has been translated into 26 languages

• This time Debi brings a fresh art style with beautiful watercolours, capturing the wonder and atmosphere of the polar landscapes

• Children will love meeting Debi’s Arctic creatures, including an Arctic fox, a musk ox and narwhals, along with brave Daddy Penguin, and will love realising who the red-suited, black-booted S.A.N.T.A. is!

42 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 43 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS I Went Trick or Treating Grandmas from Mars Paul Howard Michelle Robinson I went to trick or treating and I scared ... Fred Blunt

When a brother and sister go trick or treating, they compete to see who can GRANDMAS FROM MARS are running riot in this hilarious and irreverent scare the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to remember all the picture book from the talented Michelle Robinson with illustrations by hair-raising creatures, everything escalates until ... rising star Fred Blunt.

• From Sainsbury’s Book Award Winner Michelle Robinson, bestselling author of It’s time for the Halloween feast! HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! SEPTEMBER 2018 A Beginner’s Guide to Bearspotting HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM • Full of Halloween mischief, this celebrates the fun of scaring your friends at Halloween • Completely crazy, furiously funny and brilliantly bonkers – it’s an alien invasion ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE and letting everyone join in the game! with a difference! Will appeal to boys, girls and grandparents (especially APRIL 2018 • Based on the much loved children’s memory game ‘I went to the shop ...’, grandmas) alike HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM this book is great fun and a guaranteed hit! ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • With illustrations that bubble with energy, dynamism and character by rising star • Colourful and commercial illustration style for Paul Howard, the bestselling illustrator Fred Blunt. There are plenty of cheeky laughs to be had on each page of the classic picture book The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark (Egmont). Follows on from I Went to the Supermarket and I Went to See Santa

I Love You Dino-Mummy Eric Makes A Splash and Emily MacKenzie I Love You Dino-Daddy Join Eric the panda as he learns to overcome his fear of swimming and Mark Sperring water – all with the help of a very brave friend. Perfect for sharing with all little worriers about to make their first splash.

Sam Lloyd • Another fabulously funny and imaginative picture book from award-winning Emily MacKenzie, creator of Wanted: Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar; Stanley the Celebrate all the great dino-mums and dino-dads on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Amazing Knitting Cat and There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream! with these dino-tastic padded hardbacks! JANUARY 2018 • Fear of swimming and getting wet is a common childhood concern. This book FEBRUARY 2018 • Whether it’s morning, noon or night, Dino-Mummy and Dino-Daddy always have time for tackles it in a fun and imaginative way, with plenty of giggles. Perfect for all HARDBACK | £11.99 | 255 X 255MM their two roaring dinos. So, say a BIG thank you to them on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day children learning how to overcome their fears OPTION PUBLISHERS: with these very special padded hardback editions ARABIC, BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), • Quirky, interesting artwork with immediate appeal – Emily’s books are classics CATALAN, CHINA (SIMPLIFIED AND COMPLEX CHINESE), GAELIC, GERMANY, • Mark Sperring worked as a printer and a bookseller before becoming an author. Mark is in the making the author of The Shape of My Heart, Dino-Mummy, Dino-Baby, Dino-Daddy and Four KOREA, LITHUANIA, THE NETHERLANDS, • Wanted: Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar was nominated for PORTUGAL, SPAIN Silly Skeletons. He lives in Bristol the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Scottish ALSO AVAILABLE

• Sam Lloyd is the bestselling illustrator of Calm Down, Boris (Templar) and has sold over half Booktrust Children’s Book Award. Stanley the Amazing a million books in the UK alone. She is also the illustrator of Dino-Baby, Dino-Mummy and Knitting Cat won the IBW Award 2016 Dino-Daddy, the Yikes! series and First Day at Bug School for Bloomsbury. Sam lives • Emily MacKenzie’s picture books have now been translated in Brighton into 13 languages

MAY 2018 PADDED HARDBACK | £7.99 216 X 135MM

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Dino Diggers: We’re Going on Dumper Truck Danger an Elf Chase Rose Impey Martha Mumford Chris Chatterton Laura Hughes

Meet the Dino Diggers – the best in Dino Town! The third book in the Join the fun as the bunnies return in this exciting lift-the-flap series for fans of dinosaurs and diggers, with a fantastic slot-together Christmas adventure from bestselling illustrator Laura Hughes. Help novelty included in each book. the bunnies chase elves, watch out for the obstacles – penguins, robins, polar bears and reindeer – and get into bed before a BIG AUGUST 2018 • A popular series from the hugely successful Rose Impey – author of the NOVEMBER 2018 SURPRISE! PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 250 X 250MM Sleepover Club books, which have sold over one million copies HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM RIGHTS SOLD: ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Exciting lift-the-flap Christmas-themed elf chase with lots of festive fun to CHINA (COMPLEX CHINESE) • Each book contains a fantastic slot-together dino AND digger novelty OPTION PUBLISHERS: spot – it’s the perfect Christmas gift FINLAND, GREECE • Bold, bright illustrations from an exciting new talent • Laura’s first picture book with Bloomsbury, We’re Going on an Egg Hunt, has ALSO AVAILABLE ALSO AVAILABLE • Funny and engaging dinosaur characters sold over 55,000 copies in the UK since publication

• Bright, appealing artwork. The adorable rabbit characters return for We’re Going on an Elf Chase, which also features an abundance of wintertime animals including penguins and reindeer

Snow Penguin Being a Princess Tony Mitton is Very Hard Work Alison Brown Sarah KilBride This little Penguin can never stay still. He’s always in search of excitement Ada Grey and thrill. When he looks at the rocks and the ice and the snow, ‘I wonder what’s out there?’, he’s eager to know. Is being a princess REALLY all it’s cracked up to be? A brilliant new picture book from the author of the bestselling Princess Evie’s Ponies series. • A gorgeously charming story of a lonely little penguin, guaranteed to melt hearts everywhere! Perfect for grubby-faced princess wannabes everywhere!

• From the author of the Princess Evie’s Ponies series, which has sold over • The second title from the bestselling duo behind Snow Bear, which has 450,000 copies NOVEMBER 2017 been translated into six languages. These wonderfully festive books make MAY 2018 HARDBACK | £9.99 | 274 X 245MM HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM the perfect Christmas and wintertime gifts • Beautiful artwork from the illustrator of the bestselling Royal Baby series RIGHTS SOLD: RIGHTS SOLD: CATALAN, FINLAND, SPAIN DENMARK • Tony Mitton is the winner of the CLPE Children’s Poetry Award 2014. This is • OPTION PUBLISHERS: A wonderfully funny rhyming text – great for reading aloud to would-be CHINA (SIMPLIFIED CHINESE), FRANCE, his second book with Bloomsbury princesses! GERMANY, KOREA • Beautifully illustrated by the exceptionally talented Alison Brown. I Love You Night and Day, illustrated by Alison and written by Smriti Prasadam- Halls, was an international bestseller. Alison’s books with Bloomsbury have been translated into 12 languages

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Car, Car, Truck, Jeep Lola Dutch Katrina Charman Kenneth Wright Nick Sharratt Sarah Jane Wright

Take one book jam-packed with things on wheels, add to that a text to Our imaginative and energetic heroine, Lola Dutch, wakes read aloud to the tune of ‘Baa, Baa, Black Sheep’ and you have the perfect each day bursting with ideas. Created by long-time Etsy preschool combination. sensation and children’s textile designer Sarah Jane Wright and her husband Kenneth, this delightfully creative character • A book bursting with things that go – from trucks and diggers to cars, planes is perfect for fans of Eloise, Fancy Nancy and Olivia. MARCH 2018 and trains HARDBACK | £11.99 | 245 X 274MM • Inspired by their own four gorgeously feisty children, Sarah Jane ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Preschool friendly rhyming text, read aloud to the familiar nursery rhyme tune of and Kenneth Wright are thrilled to introduce the unstoppable ‘Baa, Baa, Black Sheep’ – the perfect book to share Lola Dutch and her fresh, fun, commercial, character-driven • Illustrations by the bestselling and instantly recognisable Nick Sharratt series

• First book in a new series • Along with the help of her trusty animal friends, Lola Dutch will cook up a five-course feast, do very important research at the

library, paint a masterpiece ... and that’s only the beginning. Lola JANUARY 2018 might sometimes be a little bit much, but she’s got things to do! HARDBACK | $17.99 | 228 X 279MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Many children often hear that they are too intense, and Lola shines a light on the joyful aspects of a creative personality while also finding beauty in the simple things

• We are excited to continue to publish Lola’s adventures, and we Scaredy Knight Gets a Fright have a second book scheduled for winter 2019

• Sarah Jane’s Etsy shop started in 2008 and has developed into Mark Sperring a full-fledged business, with art prints, fabrics, books, wallpaper and more! Her clients include Ralph Lauren, Pop & Lolli and Ed Eaves Michael Miller Fabrics, and she has an incredibly loyal social Can you battle with dragons? Polish armour till it gleams? Can you darn media following with over 20,000 followers on Instagram alone socks that have come apart at the seams? Or is being a knave more difficult than it seems?

• By a super-commercial author and illustrator pairing with combined sales of almost 250,000 in the UK alone

• Mark Sperring is the author of numerous fantastic picture books including The Shape of My Heart, Snappy Birthday, Dino-Mummy, Dino-Daddy, JULY 2018 Dino-Baby (Bloomsbury); Captain Buckleboots on the Naughty Step (Puffin) HARDBACK | £11.99 | 274 X 245MM and The Sunflower Sword (Anderson) OPTION PUBLISHERS: FINLAND

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Bear’s Scare Pet This Book Jacob Grant Play This Book This adorable, quirky picture book features a charming odd- Jessica Young couple friendship and is the start to a new series

• Bear likes everything to be clean and tidy. He takes good care of Daniel Wiseman all his things, especially his little stuffed bear, Ursa. But one day, Bear and Ursa discover spider webs covering their home! Is it Pet the cat, wash the puppy, brush the horse’s mane, and more in Pet This possible that Bear and the spider have more in common than Book. Strum the guitar, slide the trombone, crash the cymbals, and more he realizes? Can this odd couple ever find a way to get along? in Play This Book. Each spread focuses on a different activity and readers can interact with each one by tapping, stroking, and turning the book. • A fresh and adorable picture book for fans of Peter Brown and Greg Pizzoli from up-and-coming talent Jacob Grant • This new interactive picture book line invites readers to touch and move and “play” with the book • The sweet story highlights how we must all work to understand one another better and appreciate what makes us different • Combining interaction with imagination for a completely new reading experience without relying on special features JUNE 2018 HARDBACK | $16.99 | 274 X 244MM • Sturdy format for play with thick, card-stock pages ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Fun entry to concepts and developing motor skills

• Jessica Young is a former elementary art teacher

• For fans of Press Here

MAY 2018 HARDBACK | $15.99 | 228 X 228MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Piggy: Let’s Be Friends! Trevor Lai

When moles Miles and Molly get separated underground, Miles thinks that he’s lost his friend forever. But when Miles crawls out from his hole, he finds himself in Piggy’s garden, and Piggy is not going to give up on helping Miles find his friend. Piggy knows how important friendship is, and so he suggests a plan that is sure to help Miles and Molly find each other.

Along the way, Piggy and Miles run into all sorts of furry neighbors, and they learn how much a helping hand – and a friend – can make someone happy. FEBRUARY 2018 HARDBACK | $16.99 | 255 X 255MM ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Perfect for fans of Salina Yoon and Dan Santat ALSO AVAILABLE • The Piggy in Love emoticon – the character upon which the story is based – has already been downloaded over 70 million times!

• Trevor Lai is an internationally renowned new media entrepreneur

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Here is a selection of the very best from Bloomsbury’s recently published picture books:

52 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 5–7 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 5–7 Fabio The World’s Safari Pug Greatest Flamingo Laura James Detective: The Case Églantine Ceulemans Meet the brilliant, the wonderful, the courageous ... Safari Pug! The third book of the Missing Hippo in a joyful illustrated series for fans of Claude and Squishy McFluff. When Pug and Lady Miranda have a scary run-in with a lion one night (it might be hiding Laura James under the bed), Lady M decides Pug needs to face his fears and go on safari ...

Emily Fox • Beautifully illustrated by Églantine Ceulemans with three-colour illustrations throughout

In a small town on the banks of Lake Laloozee lives the • Pugs are BIG NEWS and this charming and funny tale is guaranteed to win the hearts world’s greatest flamingo detective. His name is Fabio. He’s of dog lovers everywhere

not tall or strong, but slight and pink. And he’s very, very • This delightful adventure is perfect for kids to read alone but full of wit and humour that NOVEMBER 2017 clever. parents will enjoy too! PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 128PP RIGHTS SOLD: ALSO AVAILABLE When Fabio and his giraffe associate Gilbert (who is terrible • Captain Pug was shortlisted for the SPAIN at disguises) drop into the Hotel Royale for a lemonade Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (pink, naturally), Fabio is persuaded to judge the hotel’s in 2017 talent contest. But when the most promising contestant – MARCH 2018 Julia the jazz-singing hippopotamus – goes missing, Fabio PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 128PP must put his thinking cap back on and solve the mystery! ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • The first book in a flamingo-tastic new illustrated series by Laura James, author of Captain Pug

• Fabulously stylish three-colour illustrations by Emily Fox throughout Trouble At School • Fans of Claude and Mango & Bambang will love this hilarious mystery story for 5- to 7-year-olds Chris Higgins • Three titles in the series already under contract with Bloomsbury Emily MacKenzie • Laura James was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2017 with her debut, Captain Pug It’s Bella’s first day at her new school and, luckily for her, she’s already got a best friend who will be in the same class – Magda. Bella is determined to make a good impression, but with Magda around, things don’t always go according to plan! By the time she arrives, she’s already splattered with yoghurt and marmalade, and things are about to get much, much worse.

• A brilliantly fun new series all about friendship – perfect for young readers

• Chris Higgins is the author of the much loved My Funny Family series ALSO AVAILABLE • Fans of Kes Gray’s Daisy books and the classic JANUARY 2018 My Naughty Little Sister will love this new series PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 128PP ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

• Beautifully illustrated throughout by acclaimed illustrator Emily MacKenzie

• Perfect for reading together – or aloud for emerging readers

54 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 55 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 5–7 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 7–9 Kitty’s Magic: One Christmas Wish Sooty the Birthday Cat Katherine Rundell Ella Moonheart Emily Sutton It’s Christmas and Theo – left at home with a babysitter – Kitty is amazed to find out that Sooty, a local cat, doesn’t sees an odd-looking star out of his window and decides know what a birthday party is. So Kitty decides to throw to make a wish. He wishes that he had some friends to keep Sooty a surprise birthday party – to show her how much him company. Moments later, the Christmas decorations fun they can be! But Kitty needs to be careful as she will begin to disentangle themselves from the tree behind lose her powers forever if anyone discovers that she can him, ready to wreak a little havoc ... turn into a cat. • Award-winning author Katherine Rundell brings the magic of It’s going to be tough to keep Sooty from discovering her Christmas to life with a classic story to savour year after year, secrets! illustrated in stunning detail by Emily Sutton

• In this sixth book in the enchanting series for fans of Holly Webb • Written with generous helpings of warmth and humour, this is and Daisy Meadows, you can join Kitty and your favourite feline a story about the spirit of Christmas and treasuring the people friends from the first five books, or meet them here for the very who really matter to us first time! • Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe. OCTOBER 2017 JULY 2018 • Adorably illustrated throughout, with an irresistible sparkly cover After completing a degree in English and a doctorate on the HARDBACK | £14.99 | 64PP PAPERBACK | £4.99 |128PP literary and textual afterlives of John Donne, she is now a Fellow RIGHTS SOLD: RIGHTS SOLD: • A purrfectly magical and super-commercial series – this will of All Souls College, Oxford, where she studies Renaissance FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN FRANCE, SLOVAKIA delight all animal fans literature and climbs old buildings at night. She is the best- • Imagine being able to turn into a cat! This is every young cat selling author of The Wolf Wilder and Rooftoppers, which won lover’s dream come true the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

• Emily Sutton was born and raised in the depths of North Yorkshire and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. She is the illustrator of several children’s stories including the Clara Button books and The Tale of the Castle Mice by Michael Bond

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The Restless Girls Jessie Burton Angela Barrett

From the acclaimed internationally bestselling author • Inspired by The Twelve Dancing Princesses, this is a truly Jessie Burton comes her first story for children – a feminist magical fairytale with a feminist message that will resonate with fairytale of family, sisterhood, imagination and bravery. 21st-century readers

For her twelve daughters, Queen Laurelia’s death in a motor • Full of dancing, jazz music and sparkling lights, the alchemy car accident is a disaster beyond losing a mother. Their between Jessie Burton’s text and Angela Barrett’s illustrations is father, King Alberto, cannot bear the idea of the princesses storytelling gold

ever being in danger and decides his daughters must be • Jessie Burton is the author of two internationally bestselling kept safe at all costs. Those costs include their lessons, novels, The Miniaturist and The Muse, which have been their possessions and, most importantly, their freedom. But translated into 38 languages the eldest, Princess Frida, will not bend to his will without a fight and she still has one possession her father can’t take – • The Miniaturist has been adapted for television and is due to her power of imagination. And so, with little but wits and air on the BBC this winter ingenuity to rely on, Frida and her sisters begin their fight • The launch will be supported by a major marketing and publicity OCTOBER 2018 to be allowed to live. Author image © Harry Borden HARDBACK | £16.99 | 160PP campaign DELUXE EDITION | £29.99 | 160PP • ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE Bloomsbury will publish Jessie Burton’s second children’s story in 2020

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The Dundoodle Super Cats Mysteries: Gwyneth Rees Anyone who likes cats will love this SUPER new series – and The Chocolate wish their pet had powers too!

Factory Ghost When Tagg discovers his parents have superpowers, his life is changed forever. And just to think, all this time he thought David O’Connell he was an ordinary cat. Suddenly a whole new world opens Claire Powell up before his eyes. Tagg’s mum has the most extraordinary claws that can cut Archie McBudge knows his lucky underpants must really through anything – metal, rock, diamond – you name it. work, because when he and his mum are summoned to Tagg’s dad is super strong – he has so much power in his Honeystone Hall in the remote Scottish village of Dundoodle, back legs, he can jump higher than any other cat around. they find Archie has inherited not only the enormous hall, but He can even jump buildings! What will Tagg’s power be? He the whole of the world-famous McBudge Fudge company can’t wait to find out! from his great-uncle Archibald. But all is not well, and when Archie reads the mysterious letter his great-uncle left him • Bestselling author Gwyneth Rees returns to her heartland he learns that the secret ingredient to McBudge’s fudge is of young fiction with a super adventurous and fantastically missing ... commercial new series that will delight all animal fans Author image © Ben Turner • Fans of How To Train Your Dragon and Tilly and the Time • Perfect for fans of Holly Webb Machine will love this madcap adventure! JULY 2018 • APRIL 2018 Fully illustrated throughout PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 192PP PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 192PP • The first in a series of mysteries set in the strange and magical ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE town of Dundoodle, The Chocolate Factory Ghost is an • Gwyneth has lifetime UK BookScan sales of over three million!

adventure full of puzzles and secrets to delight any would-be • Three books already under contract, with the 1st due to publish ghost hunter in July 2018

• David O’Connell is a writer and illustrator from South London. He works mostly in children’s books (particularly humorous picture books and young fiction), writing for other illustrators or illustrating for other writers! He likes stories about magic and monsters, especially if they’re silly monsters, and loves making comics too. His favourite sweets are fizzy cola bottles

• Claire Powell is an illustrator and designer based in London. She has worked with a number of major TV and film brands including Nickelodeon, CBBC and DreamWorks. Her short animation, The Scapegoat, won best short at the British Animation Film Festival 2015

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Witch Snitch: Bad Mermaids The Inside Scoop Sibéal Pounder on the Witches Jason Cockcroft Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda are enjoying a summer of Ritzy City on land with legs when they receive a strange CRABAGRAM ordering them to return home at once. Some seriously BAD Sibéal Pounder MERMAIDS are on the loose and the girls are the only ones who can stop them. If they’re going to save the day, they’ll Laura Ellen Anderson need answers. And a clam car. Definitely piranha-print nail polish. Possibly not the talking seahorse. CAN THEY DO IT? Tiga and her friends are famous throughout Sinkville for their part in the Witch Wars competition, but there’s so Filled with magical mysteries, fabulous fashion, and a much more of Sinkville to discover! Now, Ritzy City’s Top serious piranha problem, Bad Mermaids brings a whole new Witch Peggy Pigwiggle has asked Tiga and Fran to make a twist to the underwater world of mermaids. If you enjoyed TV documentary about the most interesting witches in town The Little Mermaid, you’ll love this too! – with Fluffanora helping out as fashion adviser. But whilst Tiga enjoys making the documentary, she can’t help but feel • Stylish mermaids, evil piranha and some weird magical shells there’s something going on behind her back ... are all part of the mayhem in the first of a hilarious new series from the bestselling author of Witch Wars, Sibéal Pounder This hilarious companion story sits alongside the main series OCTOBER 2017 PAPERBACK | £5.99 |272PP • PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 288PP as a standalone title, and is full of character profiles, facts Witch Wars was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book RIGHTS SOLD: RIGHTS SOLD: and activities to fascinate fans and give them everything Prize and the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award and has been CZECH BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE) they need to create their very own Witch Wars party. translated into nine languages. It was Bloomsbury’s bestselling OPTION PUBLISHERS: children’s debut novel of 2015 and the series has sold 85,000 CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, IRAN, ITALY, • Take a behind-the-scenes look at the world of Sinkville with copies to date POLAND, ROMANIA, SPAIN, TURKEY, favourite characters Fran and Tiga as they attempt to make their THE NETHERLANDS own TV documentary • Three titles in the Bad Mermaids series already under contract with Bloomsbury • Throw your own Witch Wars party using the activities from the book

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62 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 63 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 7–9 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY UK: 7–9 Greta Zargo and the Amoeba Spy Toys: Undercover Monsters from the Middle of Mark Powers the Earth Tim Wesson A.F. Harrold When the world’s most famous chocolate factory disappears, it is up to the Spy Toys to find out the truth – and fast! If Joe Todd-Stanton the chocolate runs out, there could be riots from children everywhere!

Greta is always in search of a Big Scoop and there are plenty of strange • Toy Story meets James Bond. This series has everything: action, goings-on in her usually quiet town of Upper Lowerbridge. Not only has Greta’s humour, great characters and a missing chocolate factory! inventor aunt gone missing, but weird, wobblings blob-like monsters are slowly devouring her neighbours one by one ... • Featuring hilarious illustrations from Tim Wesson throughout, this series is perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and David • The second book in the laugh-out-loud funny series from the author of the critically Solomons’ My Brother is a Superhero MAY 2018 acclaimed The Imaginary, which has sold in 18 different languages, won the UKLA PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 256PP Book Award 2016 (7–11 years) and was longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal • Supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign – ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE including a brilliant free game app available through Apple and ALSO AVAILABLE • Perfect for fans of Chris Riddell, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntryre’s Oliver and the Seawigs Android stores to drive readers to the brand and expand the Spy Toys world between publication of each title • Chock-full of A.F. Harrold’s irresistible brand of anarchic, playful humour

• Book 3 in the series follows swiftly on from the publication of book 2 in August 2017. Spy Toys are poised to take the world by storm! FEBRUARY 2018 PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 224PP OPTION PUBLISHERS: ROMANIA

I Swapped My Brother On The Internet Jo Simmons Nathan Reed

Everyone has dreamed of getting a break from their brother or sister at one ALSO AVAILABLE time or another, but for Jonny, the dream is about to become a reality with SiblingSwap.com! What could be better?

• Perfectly placed to capture the huge appetite for highly illustrated humour-led fiction among 7+ readers

• Ideal for fans of Pamela Butchart and a brilliant stepping stone up to older fiction by David Baddiel and David Solomons JANUARY 2018 PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 240PP • Jo Simmons is the author of the Pip Street series, inspired by her own kids’ love RIGHTS SOLD: POLAND of funny fiction, as well as the two Super Loud Sam books. In addition to children’s fiction, she co-wrote a humorous parenting book, Can I Give Them Back Now?: The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting, published by Square Peg

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The Storm The Afterwards Keeper’s Island A.F. Harrold Catherine Doyle Emily Gravett

A major new global acquisition for Bloomsbury, Catherine A powerful and poignant story about friendship from the Doyle’s stunning first novel for middle-grade readers is a magnificent creators of the critically acclaimed and award- magical adventure set to become an instant classic. winning The Imaginary.

Fionn Boyle and his older sister Tara have been sent to stay Fact: Ember and Ness are best friends. Nothing can change with their grandfather on the remote island of Arranmore for that. the summer. Though Fionn has never met his grandfather before – an eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage But then Ness dies. It is sudden, unexpected and leaves filled to the brim with candles – he knows he comes from Ember completely empty. When Ember finds a way into the a long line of brave lifeboat men, who wear the sea behind Afterworld, she determines to bring Ness back. Because their eyes. that’s what friends do, isn’t it? They rescue each other. They never give up. Ember and Ness – nothing changes that ... Fionn is scared of the sea. He has no interest in adventure • The extraordinary new novel from the incredible imagination of NOVEMBER 2018 or shipwrecks or the restless wind that rustles through the A.F. Harrold: a story of friendship, acceptance and moving on. island, as though in search of something. HARDBACK | £12.99 | 224PP Comic, scary and deeply moving, this is an unforgettable read ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

But an old magic is stirring deep inside the layers of • A stunning and collectable package – exquisitely illustrated Arranmore, and it is calling out to Fionn. A dark storm is throughout by award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett JULY 2018 PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 304PP coming, through time and over sea, the same storm that • The Imaginary has sold in 18 languages and was longlisted for ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE took his father twelve years ago. To protect his family, Fionn the 2016 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals must embrace his destiny as the Storm Keeper’s heir and face the fear that has haunted him for as long as he can • Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few remember. qualifications, she spent eight years living on the road before getting a place on the BA Illustration course at Brighton University. • Catherine Doyle’s stunning first novel for middle-grade readers She won the Macmillan Prize for Illustration with Wolves, which is a magical adventure about a boy discovering his past and was published to great acclaim in August 2005, marking the his destiny beginning of her international career creating extraordinary books • With shades of The Dark is Rising, this is sure to become an for children. She lives in Brighton with her daughter, partner and instant classic with huge prize-winning potential two rats

• Perfect for fans of Susan Cooper, Philippa Pearce and Katherine Rundell

• The novel is inspired by the author’s own family history of lifeboat rescues on the real island of Arranmore ALSO AVAILABLE • Catherine is a super promotable author and the launch will be supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign

• Book 2 will publish in July 2019

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Kid Normal and Maudlin Towers: the Rogue Heroes Curse of the Greg James and Chris Smith Werewolf Boy Illustrated by Erica Salcedo Chris Priestley

Running a team of crime-fighting superheroes is a Maudlin Towers is a gloomy, Gothic, gargoyle-infested pile complicated business – especially when your mum’s not of a school. But Arthur Mildew’s day suddenly gets much allowed to know that you’re doing it. But Murph Cooper is more exciting when he spots what appears to be a Viking, making it work: he’s a schoolkid by day and a member of the holding a double-headed axe, making his way through the top-secret Heroes’ Alliance by night, and his achievements school grounds ... Later that morning, in assembly, the boys have caught the attention of at least one person ... are told that there has been a theft. Will Arthur Mildew be able to solve the crime? Was it the Viking? Far away in a maximum security prison, the world’s most notorious supervillain, Magpie, has just broken a 30-year • Featuring time travel, werewolves and adventures galore, silence. Magpie’s special power? Draining heroes of their Maudlin Towers is everything that Chris Priestley does brilliantly: Capabilities and taking them for his own. And his first gothic, mysterious, wickedly humorous and ever so slightly words? ‘Bring Murph Cooper to me ...’ creepy!

• Perfect for 8+ fans of Lemony Snicket and Chris Riddell, this is • The second huge, heroic and hilarious adventure starring Murph Cooper and the Super Zeroes from Greg James Chris Priestley at his most commercial

MARCH 2018 and Chris Smith. Perfect for readers of David Baddiel, • Following on from the relaunch of his Tales of Terror, the Maudlin OCTOBER 2017 PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 240PP David Solomons and Danny Wallace Towers series will introduce a whole new generation of younger RIGHTS SOLD: PAPERBACK | £6.99 | 320PP readers to Chris’s thrilling writing RIGHTS SOLD: CATALAN, CZECH, FRANCE, GERMANY, • Rights licensed in 11 languages pre-publication PORTUGAL, SPAIN, TURKEY, ITALY, ROMANIA, GERMANY • Fully illustrated by the author throughout, in a stunning and BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGESE), SLOVENIA • A brilliant new author duo whose writing style is as warm and charming as it is fun, commercial and action-packed – Greg commercial package and Chris are an unstoppable team

• Featuring fresh, funny black and white illustrations from Erica Salcedo throughout

• Publication will be supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign

• Kid Normal was the number one children’s fiction debut of 2017 within five weeks of publication

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Skylarks The Wren Hunt Karen Gregory Mary Watson

Karen Gregory’s heartfelt, stirring novel about love against the Part thriller, part love story, this captivating debut novel odds is perfect for readers of Lisa Williamson, Sara Barnard about a girl caught in a battle of two ancient magics will and Sarah Crossan. appeal to readers of Caraval, Ink and The Graces.

When she was little, Joni used to have dreams that she Every year on St Stephen’s Day, Wren Silke is chased could fly. But these days her feet are firmly on the ground – through the forest in a warped version of a childhood they have to be when money’s tight and her dad can’t work game. Her pursuers are judges – a group of powerful and and the whole family has to pull together to keep afloat. But frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If then she meets Annabel. Annabel is everything Joni isn’t. they knew she was an augur – their sworn enemy – the Her dad owns half the town and money has never been a game would be up. worry. But despite being different, there’s a spark between them. Though Joni barely believes it at first, she thinks they This year the enmity between augurs and judges has might be falling in love ... reached breaking point. Wren’s survival, and that of her family, depends on her becoming a spy in the midst of these • The captivating and thought-provoking second novel from boys she fears most and using her talent, her magic, to steal Karen Gregory, a powerful and authentic new voice in YA fiction an ancient treasure that will restore her family’s former

• Karen deals with hard-hitting issues with pitch-perfect sensitivity, power for good. But Wren’s talent comes with a price. The a deft lightness of touch and an irresistible wry humour that more she uses it, the more she loses her grip on reality readers will fall in love with and soon she’s questioning everything she’s ever known about her family, about augurs and judges, and about the MAY 2018 FEBRUARY 2018 • Touches on important and pertinent subjects accesssibly and dangerous tattooed stranger who is most definitely not on PAPERBACK | £7.99 |432PP PAPERBACK | £7.99 | 272PP with authenticity – diverse relationships, social injustice and the OPTION PUBLISHERS: her side ... ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE POLAND poverty gap and how it affects teenagers • Thrilling, atmospheric and filled with ancient magic, this captivating YA debut by prize-winning adult author Mary Watson is perfect for readers of The Graces and The Essex Serpent

• An astonishing YA debut by a prize-winning adult author

• A mesmerising story and darkly atmospheric writing will leave readers spellbound

• Mary Watson was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing, and was included on the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of influential writers from sub-Saharan Africa

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We See Everything The Weight of a William Sutcliffe Thousand Feathers Lex lives on The Strip – the overcrowded, closed-off, bombed-out shell of Brian Conaghan London. He’s used to the watchful enemy drones that buzz in the air above him. Who is Bobby Seed? He’s just your average 16-year-old – same wants, Alan’s talent as a gamer has landed him the job of his dreams. At a military base same fears, same hang-ups. Same, same, same. Dull, dull, dull. But then in a secret location, he is about to start work as a drone pilot. there’s the Bobby Seed who’s a world away from average. The Bobby Seed who has to wipe his mum’s backside, sponge her clean three times These two young men will never meet, but their lives are destined to collide. a week, try to soothe her pain. The Bobby Seed whose job it is to provide Because Alan has just been assigned a high-profile target. Alan knows him only for his younger brother, Danny. That’s Bobby Seed. Same, same, same, yet JANUARY 2018 as #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. different, different, different ... Angry and irreverent, tender and poignant – HARDBACK | £12.99 | 320PP this is a bold exploration of the lengths to which we’ll go for the ones we love. OPTION PUBLISHERS: • The hard-hitting and emotionally compelling new YA novel from critically acclaimed BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, ESTONIA, and internationally bestselling author William Sutcliffe • The hugely powerful new novel from an award-winning author whose writing is as GERMANY, KOREA, TURKEY HARDBACK | £12.99 | 272PP humane as it is irreverent. Brian Conaghan is a master at showing you the world • William Sutcliffe is a master at exploring hot-button topics in an accessible, gripping RIGHTS SOLD: through different eyes ALSO AVAILABLE FRANCE, GERMANY and highly relevant way – and here he turns his expert eye to the morality of drone warfare and surveillance • Brian won the Costa Children’s Book Award 2016 for The Bombs That Brought Us Together, and his debut, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie • Accessible, commercial YA with huge prize appeal – Will was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie medal in 2014 for The Wall and for the YA Book Prize in 2016 for Medal

Concentr8 • Packed with talking points and powerful moral questions – exploring the world of young carers and the lengths to which we’ll go for the ones we love • Ideal for fans of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman

We Come Apart Benjamin Zephaniah Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan Benjamin Zephaniah is one of the most high-profile international authors writing today, with an enormous breadth of appeal, equally popular Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn’t left her in the lurch. with adults and children. Well known for his performance poetry with He’s so not her type and appearances matter to Jess – she’s got a lot to hide. a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children, Benjamin has also written several urban novels for teenagers. Nicu thinks Jess is beautiful. His dad brought Nicu and his mum here for a Benjamin has his own rap/reggae band and has appeared on Desert better life, but now all they talk about is going back home to find Nicu a wife. Island Discs. He travels the world speaking about his books and poetry. Nicu wants to get educated, do better, stay here in England. But his dad’s fists are the most powerful force in Nicu’s life ... • A fresh, striking new cover look and package for Benjamin Zephaniah’s As Nicu and Jess get closer, their secrets come to the surface like bruises. The only acclaimed YA novels

safe place they have is with each other. But they can’t be together, forever, and stay • As an internationally respected performance poet and novelist, Benjamin safe – can they? Zephaniah has been breaking new ground for BAME writers for decades

• Two of the most important voices in YA come together to break your heart – We Come • Perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Malorie Blackman and Nikesh Shukla Apart is a contemporary Romeo and Juliet, a story of two teenagers brought together HARDBACK | £12.99 | 320PP • Benjamin’s YA novels explore diversity, prejudice and tolerance with RIGHTS SOLD: by circumstance, ripped apart by fate ... GERMANY, LATAM (SPANISH), TURKEY authority, nuance and clarity. Their messages are as compelling and vital • This brilliant partnership between Carnegie and Costa winning authors Brian Conaghan now as when they were first published (When Mr Dog Bites ) and Sarah Crossan (One) is unforgettable

• A heartbreaking story about forbidden love and understanding people different from PAPERBACK | £7.99 yourself, with powerful themes and strong emotional impact RIGHTS SOLD: TURKEY

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Wallace and Grace and the Lost Puppy Heather Alexander Laura Zarrin

Another exciting addition to the Read & Bloom line! This charming mystery series will be the perfect pathway to popular chapter books like Cam Jansen or Fancy Nancy,

Super Sleuth. PAPER OVER BOARD | $9.99 |80PP ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • This early chapter book series features an owl-detective agency

• Aimed at readers who are ready to read independently, but not ready for longer chapter books. These early reader chapter books are 80-pages and include full-colour illustrations, formatted to help independent readers on their way to a lifetime love of reading ALSO AVAILABLE • Heather Alexander has worked in publishing for years and launched her first chapter book line under her own name with Scholastic in 2015. Laura Zarrin is well-connected on social media to other well-known illustrators

• Charming mysteries with gentle cliffhangers: Wallace and Grace are the perfect introduction to mystery storytelling, as they seek out clues and keep readers guessing

The Adventures of Caveboy Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Eric Wight

One of Caveboy’s absolute favorite things to do is playing baseskull, so he decides to join a baseskull team! But when his best friend Mags wants to try out as well, he learns that she isn’t very good. Should Caveboy stay with his friend and be stuck on a losing team, or leave her to be on the better team?

DECEMBER 2017 • A hilarious series in the Read & Bloom line, perfect for newly-independent readers and fans PAPER OVER BOARD | $9.99 | 80PP of Fly Guy ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

• Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and Eric Wight are bringing their strong picture book and chapter book tracks together to create an exciting new series

• Funny, boy-friendly storytelling: Caveboy is charming in his own special way and will leave young readers chanting “Ooga booga!” alongside him ALSO AVAILABLE

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Butterfly Wishes Unicorn Princesses Jennifer Castle Emily Bliss Sisters Addie and Clara have just moved to a new house in the country, where they discover that their backyard is a Sydney Hanson gateway to the enchanted realm of magical butterflies with the power to make wishes come true! This sweet commercial chapter book series features sparkly, magical unicorn • Perfect for the Princess Ponies audience comes a commercial new chapter book series featuring magical butterflies princesses and the human girl who befriends them. • A winning combination of magic, animals, and friendship for the chapter book market, perfect for fans of our own Princess Ponies • A commercial new chapter book series with unicorns! and Magic Animal Rescue series, and other popular series like Rainbow Magic, Magic Animal Friends, and Magic Ponies • A winning combination of magic and adventure, this is a great addition to Bloomsbury’s • The colorful, glittery, and girly package, with black and white illustrations throughout, will make these books jump off the shelves growing list of adorable chapter book series, like the very successful Princess Ponies • Bloomsbury will be launching with the first two titles simultaneously in December 2017, with two more to follow in early 2018, series and more to come! • Sparkly, girly package with interior illustrations – these unicorns are colourful and

HARDBACK | $15.99 |128PP gem-bedecked, calling for bright covers that feature foil and glitter and will jump off ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE the shelves DECEMBER 2017

• Black-and-white illustrations throughout from Sydney Hanson

• Emily Bliss is a debut with natural charm and talent. We’re glad to be launching her with this fabulously fun and magical series

• Eight titles already under contract with Bloomsbury

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Magic Animal Rescue DECEMBER 2017 E.D. Baker A new, commercial illustrated chapter book series from our mega-selling middle-grade author E. D. Baker, Magic Animal Rescue is a winning combination of magic, animals, and a girl protagonist to root for.

DECEMBER 2017 • With over a million books in print across her series, E. D. Baker is a pillar of the Bloomsbury list

• Magical creatures galore: Unicorns, griffins, flying horses, talking fish, trolls, goblins, and so much more! This series has reader appeal written all over it

• Black-and-white illustrations throughout bring the lively text to life, while the bright, colourful covers with special effects will stand out among similar chapter books

• 4 titles already under contract with Bloomsbury

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Ellie, Engineer The Exact Location of Home Jackson Pearce Kate Messner

A charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl Kate Messner pens a new heart-warming tale of family and friendship about a who is an engineer—the kind that builds things! Perfect tech-savvy boy searching for his father during tough times. creative fun for girls who have interests in how things work. • Brimming with warmth that will capture readers’ hearts, The Exact Location of Home • This delightful new character meets today’s need for books is a must read for middle-graders that is receiving great reviews that feature girls interested in science and technology. Ellie Bell • Kate Messner has found her sweet spot with heartwarming, real-world stories that shows that girls don’t have to choose between being “girly” or shine light on important issues. This new story is perfect for fans of All the Answers being a tomboy – they can be both! – and their creative ideas and The Seventh Wish are important • Kate’s Ranger in Time series with Scholastic was just renewed with four more titles • Picture books about girl engineers and inventors like Rosie and she has forthcoming picture books with Chronicle Revere, Engineer and The Most Magnificent Thing have been

extremely successful, and Ellie is a great new role model for • ALSO AVAILABLE We have an exciting middle-grade novel lined up for Winter HARDBACK | $16.99 | 256PP middle grade readers 2018, following the release of The Exact Location of Home ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

• Jackson Pearce has captured this young, laugh-out-loud, endearing voice perfectly for new middle grade readers. She has lots of ideas and plans for expanding the world and reach for her young girl engineer, with extra materials and stories online. We have a second Ellie, Engineer book scheduled for

JANUARY 2018 November 2018 HARDBACK | $15.99 | 192PP • ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE The book features Ellie’s engineering sketches and plans, with black and white illustrations throughout The Kindness Club : Designed by Lucy Courtney Sheinmel

Kindness is totally cool in this fun, character-driven series perfect for fans of Meg Cabot or Sarah Mlynowski.

• Award-winning author Courtney Sheinmel makes kindness shine in the second book of this kid-friendly series. Inspired by real-life anti-bullying campaigns, these lovable characters will motivate all readers to think kind!

• Courtney’s school visits inspired the idea for The Kindness Club, after she saw posters and signs in schools about being kind. We can encourage readers to start their own Kindness Clubs! ALSO AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2017 • Courtney’s Stella Batts chapter book series has done nicely, HARDBACK | $15.99 | 176PP and this series takes her into middle-grade territory with an ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE appealing, buzzworthy topic

78 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2017 79 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY US: 9–11 FICTION FROM BLOOMSBURY US: 9–11 Seeker of the Crown: Time Stoppers: A Prisoner of Ice and Snow Novel Escape from the Badlands Ruth Lauren Carrie Jones The second book in a fresh, thrilling middle-grade fantasy series that’s Percy Jackson meets Frozen. In the exhilarating conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones’s sweeping middle-grade fantasy trilogy, Time Stopper Annie and her • This thrilling sequel to the buzzy Prisoner of Ice and Snow is just as unputdownable friends venture into the Badlands to stop the wicked Raiff once and for all. as its predecessor, sweeping readers back into the vivid world of unforgettable protagonist Valor and her home of Demidova • This charming, action-packed trilogy, recommended for fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, comes to a satisfying and epic end in this third volume • Picking up right where the first book left off, this is a compelling, pacy middle-grade fantasy read that combines an action-packed, twisty plot with a voice-y narration filled • This final book offers a thrilling and ALSO AVAILABLE with heart satisfying conclusion to the plot threads Carrie set up in the first two books • The vast, unique Russian-inspired queendom of Demidova is prime for exploring in a APRIL 2018 – including the truth behind Jamie’s AUGUST 2018 HARDBACK | $16.99 |288PP series arc heritage! HARDBACK | $16.99 | 272PP OPTION PUBLISHERS: ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • GERMANY, ITALY, TURKEY We won World Rights for this book in an auction with three other houses, and now we • Carrie expands her rich, magical world plan to co-publish and break this out globally. With Italian, German and Turkish rights even further with a pitch perfect middle- ALSO AVAILABLE already sold, we can’t wait to launch this series internationally! grade voice that manages to feel both

• Prisoner of Ice and Snow has received early buzz, including two blurbs from Jennifer classic and brand new A. Nielsen and Aimée Carter, as well as a starred review from School Library Journal! It was also chosen as a Spring Kids Indie Next List Pick Pennybaker School is Headed for Disaster Jennifer Brown

The Rose Legacy For fans of authors like Gordon Korman and Stuart Gibbs, acclaimed author Jennifer Brown has created a humorous and fun new middle-grade series Jessica Day George about the adventures of normal kids with extraordinary talents.

Best-selling author Jessica Day George imagines a rich, classically-inspired • Jennifer Brown is the author of the middle-grade novels How Lunchbox Jones Saved new series about a girl who can communicate with horses. Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel and Life on Mars, a 2015 CCBC Best- of-the-Year Pick. She’s also the author of the highly-acclaimed YA novels Hate List, • A sweeping, emotionally-resonant fantasy middle-grade series from beloved author Bitter End, Perfect Escape,Thousand Words, and Torn Away Jessica Day George ALSO AVAILABLE • Two-book series • Jessica has created a new rich and magical world with a bold young heroine that her JULY 2018 ever-growing audience will love • Black-and-white art throughout to HARDBACK | $16.99 | 272PP supplement the hilarious text and make OPTION PUBLISHERS: • Perfect for horse fans – the ability to communicate with horses is a dream come true this a special package GERMANY, ROMANIA for many young girls! Fans of Princess Academy and Black Beauty will love this story

• Jessica Day George is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tuesdays at the

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Princess Before Dawn The Fairy-Tale E.D. Baker Matchmaker: Annie’s beloved kingdom is threatened to be overtaken in the seventh book in the Wide-Awake Princess series. The Magical Match

• E.D. Baker’s Wide-Awake Princess series has sold more than E.D. Baker 225,000 net copies in all editions combined! The Wide Awake Princess titles continue to sell steadily in hardcover, paperback, From acclaimed author E.D. Baker comes the fourth book in and electronic The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker series that casts beloved fairy- tale characters in a whole new light. • Bestselling author: With over a million books in print across her series E.D. Baker is a pillar of the Bloomsbury list • The fourth installment of E.D. Baker’s charming Fairy-Tale Matchmaker series: Cory Feathering is here to help beloved • Readers can trust E.D. Baker stories for their clean romance and fairy tale characters find their perfect match in this magical, adventure, perfect for children of a wide age range. Combines funny, and heartwarming series from a house favorite author humor and magic for a lighthearted story featuring beloved with an impressively strong sales track characters like you’ve never seen them before • Over a million copies sold! Between the print and electronic • Continuing to grow and expand author: With a new chapter editions of all her middle-grade series, E. D. Baker continues to top book series for younger readers going strong and a fresh our list for front and backlist sales middle grade series launching in Fall 2018 we are committed to growing E.D. Baker’s sales many times over • Robust pub schedule: Starting in Winter 2017, we’ve built E.D. Baker’s pub plan around three books a year, allowing her shelf- presence to thrive MARCH 2018 OCTOBER 2017 HARDBACK | $16.99 | 272PP HARDBACK | $16.99 | 288PP OPTION PUBLISHERS: ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE CANADA (FRENCH CANADIAN), TURKEY

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More Than We Can Tell Ophelia Brigid Kemmerer Lisa Klein

From the author of Letters to the Lost comes a new must- She is young, beautiful, and desperately in love with a man read story of two teens struggling under the burden of who cannot return her affections without arousing suspicion. secrets, and the love that sets them free. And so they meet in secret – embracing in stairwells and castle turrets, murmuring each other’s names in hushed • A new heart-wrenching contemporary romance by the author of voices, reaching passionately for each other under the cover Letters to the Lost of darkness. His name is Hamlet; her name is Ophelia; and • After selling in fifteen territories, Brigid’s first contemporary novel this is their untold story. When bloody deeds turn the court has been generating lots of buzz, and this one delivers with of Elsinore into a place of treachery and madness, the young more romance and issue-driven angst lovers will devise a plan for revenge - and for escape. Part of their plan calls for Ophelia to cast herself into dark waters. • This compulsively readable YA is perfect for fans of Jennifer But instead of drowning, she will flee with nothing more than Niven and Nicola Yoon the clothes on her back, and one very dangerous secret.

• We’ll be publishing two books a year from Brigid, including her • First published 2006 by Bloomsbury USA, Ophelia is now being contemporary and fantasy storytelling, after winning an hotly- turned into a film, starring Daisy Ridley (of Star Wars fame) as contested auction for Brigid’s fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Ophelia, Naomi Watts as Gertrude, Clive Owen as Claudius, Beast that publishes in January 2019 George McKay as Hamlet

• Lisa Klein was always dissatisfied with interpretations of Ophelia and so took it upon herself to breathe new life into the story APRIL 2018 of Ophelia. She is a former professor of English who lives in DATE 2018 HARDBACK | $17.99 | 304PP Columbus, Ohio with her husband and two sons. This is her first HARDBACK | $16.95 | 336PP RIGHTS SOLD: RIGHTS SOLD: BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), GERMANY, work of fiction CATALAN, GERMANY, HUNGARY, LATIN AMERICA (SPANISH) ITALY, SPAIN • Rights already licensed in five languages on the back of the film OPTION PUBLISHERS: BULGARIA, DENMARK, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, POLAND, announcement PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SPAIN, TURKEY, CZECH

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The Opposite of Here Reign the Earth Tara Altebrando A.C. Gaughen

From the author of The Leaving and The Possible, another With unique magic that moves earth, air, fire, and water, dangerously cunning twisty psychological suspense about coming back from grief royalty, and heart-stopping romance, this start to a sweeping fantasy series is and the power of suggestion with a Hitchcock-esque twist. perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas or Sabaa Tahir.

• Haunting, commercial storytelling from an author to watch – • A.C. Gaughen is diving into high fantasy and has already been compared to Tamora Tara Altebrando’s first book with Bloomsbury, The Leaving¸ Pierce by reviewers. This new series is set in a fascinating world and focuses on four secured a range of starred reviews for its suspense, plot heroines – one per book. Each female character has an ability to control an element twists, and stellar writing. We have sold 40,000 copies since – earth, air, fire, and water – that thrives off of a specific emotion publication last year! • With an inspiring, kick-butt heroine, this is perfect for Sarah J. Maas fans. Shalia joins • The cruise ship has a great “Titanic” or Hitchcock’s Lifeboat feel, the ranks of strong young women like Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior, and she is a an air of adventure and romance, plus the limited environment character that Scarlet fans and fantasy readers will love helps increase the tension of the mystery • We’ve already received a great blurb from Erin Bowman, author of Vengeance Road, JANUARY 2018 HARDBACK | $17.99 | 448PP • Altebrando writes books that are the perfect blend of praising its ‘clever, strong-willed heroine, a downright terrifying villain, and complex ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE commercial and literary – in addition to crafting buzzy concepts, relationships that leap off the page.’ Tara consistently gets starred reviews and makes lists for her amazing writing

JUNE 2018 HARDBACK | $17.99 | 304PP OPTION PUBLISHERS: HUNGARY, TURKEY, LATIN AMERICA (SPANISH), When Light Left Us THE NETHERLANDS Leah Thomas

Acclaimed author Leah Thomas’s captivating writing shines in an emotionally compelling story about the aftermath of a family’s extraterrestrial experience.

• Leah has written another original and stunning story that has a premise perfect for fans of Stranger Things and The Leftovers–how does a family cope after an extraterrestrial comes and goes?

• Leah’s debut Because You’ll Never Meet Me is a William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist, a Carnegie Award nominee, a 2015 Indies Introduce pick, and received fantastic reviews, including a star. Its sequel Nowhere Near You has also received great acclaim and two starred reviews ALSO AVAILABLE • Leah is a master at blending sci-fi elements with coming-of-age themes in a voicy, literary way. This story has a really fascinating hook that is easy to pitch and sure to FEBRUARY 2018 pique lots of interest HARDBACK | $17.99 | 416PP ALSO AVAILABLE OPTION PUBLISHERS: BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), • This will be Leah’s first book beyond the world of Ollie and Moritz in BULGARIA, TURKEY Because You’ll Never Meet Me and Nowhere Near You, and we will continue to grow her profile as a truly unique, award-worthy author

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Tower of Dawn A Court of Sarah J. Maas Wings and Ruin In this parallel novel to Empire of Storms in the New York Sarah J. Maas Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, follow Chaol on his own new adventure. Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering Thorns and Roses series. loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times and USA shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King Today bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the broken. one thing that could destroy them all.

• Sarah’s Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of series are global successes, published in 36 languages with the Torre Cesme in Antica–the stronghold of the southern more than 4.2 million copies sold. Sarah’s books have been on continent’s mighty empire. And with war looming over the New York Times bestseller list 59 times Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them. • A Court of Mist and Fury debuted at #1 on the New York Times Young Adult hardcover and eBook bestsellers lists, and has But what they discover in Antica will change them both–and been on the list for 20 weeks. It was also chosen by Goodreads be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. users as the Best YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel of 2016!

HARDBACK | $18.99 | 672PP HARDBACK | $18.99 | 720PP • Throne of Glass has sold in 36 languages and Sarah’s books • High-fantasy with adult crossover appeal, this series is perfect RIGHTS SOLD: for teens and adults RIGHTS SOLD: BULGARIA, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, SLOVAKIA have sold more than three million copies BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), BULGARIA, DENMARK, OPTION PUBLISHERS: GERMANY, HUNGARY, THE NETHERLANDS, POLAND, ROMANIA, • #1 New York Times bestselling author: Sarah’s latest book, • The A Court of Thorns and Roses series has been optioned for BOSNIA, BRAZIL (BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE), CHINA SPAIN, TURKEY (COMPLEX CHINESE), CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, A Court of Wings and Ruin debuted the series at #1 on the film by Tempo Productions OPTION PUBLISHERS: DENMARK, ESTONIA, FRANCE, GEORGIA, GREECE, New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for seven BOSNIA, CHINA (COMPLEX CHINESE), CROATIA, CZECH HUNGARY, INDONESIA, ISRAEL, IRAN, ITALY, JAPAN, KOREA, weeks. REPUBLIC, ESTONIA, FRANCE, GEORGIA, GREECE, INDONESIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, ISRAEL, IRAN, ITALY, JAPAN, KOREA, LITHUANIA, PORTUGAL, SERBIA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, THAILAND, TURKEY, VIETNAM • Publishing in anticipation of the stunning conclusion to the RUSSIA, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, SWEDEN, THAILAND, VIETNAM Throne of Glass series: With the hotly anticipated final book in the Throne of Glass series publishing in September ‘18, fan frenzy will be at its highest

ALSO AVAILABLE • TV and film option: The Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses series have been optioned by the Mark Gordon Company ALSO AVAILABLE

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Sherlock Holmes meets ancient Greece in this thrilling adventure by bestselling author Saviour Pirotta. Nico and Thrax are back for another adventure ... but can they escape from the terror of the seas?

• This is the third book in Saviour Pirotta’s fantastic Ancient Greek Mysteries series – we have four titles under contract!

• Flashbacks offer dramatic stories set in key moments in history, perfect for introducing children to historical topics

• Accessible, thrilling mystery story, perfect for getting children excited about history

• Saviour Pirotta is the author of the bestselling Orchard First Book of Greek Myths

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Lottie Lipton Adventures Class Six and Dan Metcalf the Eel of Fortune Meet Lottie Lipton, nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Her home Sally Prue in the British Museum means she is never far away from mystery and exciting adventures. With interactive clues throughout, can the reader Class Six are back, and they’re on a mission: to keep nosy Mrs Knowall from help solve the mysteries? finding out that their school is magic. But with their beloved teacher Miss Broom sent back to teacher training, and the school in need of funds for magical • Action packed historical adventures, full of fun and excitement supplies, Class Six will have to work together to make this year’s school fete • A sparky, inspiring heroine who is always on the case the best yet. And everyone knows that no fair is complete without an eel that can see the future ... • Full of historical information about ancient Egypt and Rome, featuring puzzles for the reader to help solve the mystery • Laugh-out-loud school comedy, packed with hilarious, loveable characters and witty dialogue • Fast-paced stories and wonderful characters will have readers gripped ALSO AVAILABLE • Carnegie-nominated and well-known author has great experience writing for and working with children in primary PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 128PP | 9–11 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE schools

• Sequel to the hilarious Class Six and the Nits of Doom

• Compelling, fast-paced read – a stepping stone to reading confidence

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Codebusters Franklin’s Emporium Dan Metcalf Gill Vickery Welcome to Franklin’s Emporium – the Jackson wanted to fit in at his new school but now everyone knows he’s a department store where there’s magic on maths whizz. Even worse, he’s been asked to join a secret (and totally uncool) every floor! Alex soon finds out what you take group: the Codebusters. Their mission is to solve mysteries and fight crime. home from Franklin’s isn’t always what you So far, they’ve only found a missing hamster. But now, someone has stolen meant to buy ... the school’s maths prize from the trophy cabinet. This looks like a case for the Codebusters! • Designed to get children reading, these page- turning stories encourage children to tackle • Part of the Black Cats series – compelling and fast-paced reads that provide the longer stories stepping stones to reading confidence • Wonderful, atmospheric illustrations from • Includes exciting illustrations by Gary Cherrington to capture kids’ attention Aleksei Bitskoff • A thrilling mystery full of mind-boggling codes, perfect for budding detectives! • Funny, exciting stories, perfect for fans of magic PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 144PP | 9–11 • By the author of the popular Lottie Lipton series and fantasy ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE • Part of the Black Cats series – compelling,

fast-paced reads that provide the stepping PAPERBACK | £4.99 | 104PP | 9-11 stones to reading confidence ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support children’s reading by providing gripping, Skate Monkey age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers. These high interest age, low reading age titles are carefully tailored to suit the needs of those with reading difficulties Paul Mason Monkey and his friends lived in the Jade Emperor’s Cloud Palace. But they played all sorts of tricks on people, so, as a punishment, the Jade Emperor sent them down to Earth. They can only return if they prove that they can use their magical The Football Trials powers for good. Adventure is never far away!

• Four titles now available in Paul Mason’s high action Skate Monkey JANUARY 2018 John Hickman series Published in time to coincide with the Football World Cup, this new coming of age series follows a boy from a tower block • Skate Monkey is aimed at readers aged 8+ and has a manageable as he joins a Premier League football academy. length (72 pages) and reading age (7+). This collection of stories

• Join Jackson in these four exciting football stories as he struggles with the trials of football and family can be read in any order

• The Football Trials is aimed at readers aged 12+ and has a manageable length (80 pages) and reading age (9+)

• Four titles available, all due to publish in 2018 PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 72PP ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE INTEREST AGE 8+ READING AGE 7+

The Street Judy Waite Join four friends as they struggle with friendship, family and growing up. These gritty real-life stories are perfect for older children who struggle with reading. APRIL 2018/JUNE 2018 PAPERBACK | £5.99 | 80PP • Four titles now available in Judy Waite’s dramatic series, featuring a ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE diverse range of characters INTEREST AGE 12+ READING AGE 9+ OCTOBER 2017 • The Street is aimed at readers aged 12+ and has a manageable length (96 pages) and reading age (9+). This collection of stories can be read in any order

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