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The Extraordinary Elements The Extraordinary from Cover illustration copyright © 2020 by Ximo Abadía copyright illustration Cover CONTENTS 3 17 37 43 Hot Key Books 50 Contacts Big Picture Press Piccadilly Press Templar Books Fungarium Ester Gaya & Katie Scott

Welcome to the Fungarium! A BIG HELLO Step into the world of fungi and JULY learn all about these strange and fascinating life forms.

Illustrator Katie Scott returns to the Welcome to the Museum series with exquisite, detailed images of some of the most fascinating living organisms on this planet - fungi. From the Big Picture Press books are objects to be Piccadilly Press books are fun, family- fungi we see on supermarket shelves pored over and then returned to again and orientated stories in any genre, that possess to fungi like penicillium that have again, created by and made for the incurably the ability to capture readers’ imagination shaped human history, this is the curious. Having made an indelible mark on and inspire them to develop a life-long love definitive introduction to what fungi the children’s non-fiction market with their of reading. Our titles can be standalone are and just how vital they are to boutique range of illustrated gift books, they stories or part of a series, using design and the world's ecosystem. Created in create visually inspiring books for readers of illustration that is integral to the content collaboration with the Royal Botanic all ages around the world. when appropriate. We aim to create future Gardens, Kew. classics for 5 – 12 year olds, in hardback, Pub date: 09 July 20 Genre: Non-fiction [email protected] ISBN: 9781787415355 Format: Hardback paperback, ebook and audio formats. Pub price: £20.00 H x W: 370 x 272mm Ester Gaya is a senior research leader at www.templarco.co.uk/big-picture-press Extent: 80pp [email protected] Kew. She began her career in mycology @BigPicturePress in Spain and after some time in the USA piccadillypress.co.uk decided to settle in the UK. She has spent the past 20 years researching fungi. She is @piccadillypress especially fascinated by lichens and tries to understand their evolution.

Katie Scott graduated from University of Brighton in 2011. Her work draws influences from traditional medical and botanical illustration, both in aesthetic and subject matter. Her work plays with the ideas of scientific uncertainty and Founded in 1978, Templar has become one The content of a Hot Key book is defined speculation, fabricating the inner and outer of the world’s most respected publishers of by originality of voice and challenging, workings of the world. Her illustrations illustrated children’s non-fiction, picture thought-provoking stories that resonate depict a familiar yet fantasy vision of books, fiction, gift and novelty books for on a global stage. Always memorable and plants, humans and minerals. all ages. With a reputation for innovation stimulating, these books can create new Other available titles and creativity, Templar delivers cleverly waves in any genre. We publish in hardback, conceived publishing with an emphasis paperback, ebook and audio formats. For on paper innovation, stylish design and teen and older readers. contemporary illustration for a high-end, [email protected] international audience. hotkeybooks.com [email protected] @HotKeyBooksYA www.templarco.co.uk Anatomicum Botanicum @HotKeyBooksTeen ISBN: 9781787414921 ISBN: 9781783703944 @templarbooks 2 Most fiction can also be found in a digital Pub price: £25.00 Pub price: £25.00 3 audio edition. Meet the MAPS Purple Edition Ancient Greeks Aleksandra Mizielińska & Meet the Pirates Daniel Mizieliński

James Davies See the sights of the world, JULY sample the tastiest dishes, meet JULY With vibrant, playful artwork and people from different cultures snappy text, learning about ancient and encounter amazing history has never been cooler. wildlife in this collection of maps from 66 countries and 6 continents, each packed Two new flexiback editions in the with details and beautiful successful Meet the… series. There’s so illustrations. A new edition Pub date: 09 July 20 Genre: Non-fiction much to digest when is comes to history ISBN: 9781787417625 Format: Flexiback – how do you know where to start? These containing even more maps. Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 200 x 200mm Extent: 72pp short introductions are just the thing for beginners. Get to know the basics on You’ll see fjords in Norway and Ancient Greece, from religious ceremonies gorillas in the Congolese jungle. to day to day life, and Pirates, from famous You’ll dance the rumba in Cuba and looters to scurvy. These books contain easy- taste hundred-year-old eggs in China. to-digest, humorous text that is reminiscent of the bestselling Horrible Histories series. This book is a celebration of the world, from the big to the small – James Davies is an illustrator and author from and everything in between! Wales, now living in Bristol. He has recently returned to illustration with a uniquely bold graphic Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel style, influenced by old cartoons and retro picture Mizieliński graduated from the Academy of books, and is the author and illustrator of the Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2007. In 2010 they bestselling Meet the... series. His first picture book, were nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Long Dog, was published in 2018. James’s favourite Award and have since been nominated for food group is carbs and his worst enemy is a bald Pub date: 09 July 20 Genre: Non-fiction the IBBY Honour List (2010). chihuahua. ISBN: 9781787417199 Format: Hardback Pub price: £30.00 H x W: 370 x 272mm Extent:160pp

Pub date: 09 July 20 Genre: Non-fiction ISBN: 9781787417632 Format: Flexiback Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 200 x 200mm Extent: 72pp

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Meet the Ancient Meet the Ancient Meet the Ancient Meet the Pirates Egyptians (HB) Romans (HB) Greeks (HB) (HB) ISBN: 9781787410367 ISBN: 9781787410527 ISBN: 9781787412750 ISBN: 9781787412743 4 Pub price: £9.99 Pub price: £9.99 Pub price: £9.99 Pub price: £9.99 5 The Extraordinary Elements: Anatomicum Junior A Mini Companion Guide Jennifer Z Paxton & Katy Wiedemann Colin Stuart & Ximo Abadía With specially written text for younger readers, step inside the AUGUST Rock out with Roentgenium or museum to explore the incredible AUGUST get fizzy with Francium in this human body. lively periodic table book that presents the extraordinary elements as you've never seen Welcome to Anatomicum. This museum is open all hours and will take you on them before. an incredible journey right around the human body, from the intricate workings With the help of Alice Cooper, of the brain to the tiny muscles used to Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain and a show emotion. Have you ever wondered whole host of weird and wonderful how each life starts with just one cell, or characters both real and imagined, how many blood cells there are in your The Extraordinary Elements presents body? Then this is the book for you. the periodic table as never before. Gripping facts and easy-to-access Anatomicum Junior is a reduced- information accompany stunning age-range follow-on from the original infographics and the personified Anatomicum. The text has been elements, making for a read as carefully simplified to make it appealing entertaining as it is informative. to younger readers, while retaining Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Non-fiction the dynamic style and fascinating ISBN: 9781787417342 Format: Hardback Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 200 x 200mm Colin Stuart is a renowned astronomy information of the original. Extent: 136pp speaker and author whose books have Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Non-fiction sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. ISBN: 9781787416543 Format: Hardback Jennifer Z Paxton is Lecturer in Anatomy at A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 246 x 189mm the University of Edinburgh and Principal Extent: 80pp Society and a runner-up for the European Investigator of the Paxton Lab, a tissue Astronomy Journalism Prize 2014, Colin engineering laboratory. Jennifer has won the has also written publications featured in Wellcome Trust 'I'm a Scientist' competition , New Scientist, BBC Focus twice (2013, 2018). She loves bringing the and the Observer, and has spoken about the science of anatomy to a wider audience and wonders of the universe on Sky News, BBC working with primary schools to engage more News and BBC Radio 5 Live. children with the subject.

Ximo Abadía is a highly acclaimed artist, Katy Wiedemann is an illustrator and tattoo living and working in Spain. He has artist in Philadelphia, USA. Her work explores illustrated numerous publications including the field of scientific illustration, particularly The Speed of Starlight, and his work that of anatomy. Working in ink and was selected for the Bologna Children’s watercolour, Katy uses traditional techniques Illustrators Exhibition in 2017. Other available titles to blend realism and scientific understanding. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has an MA in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art.

Anatomicum ISBN: 9781787414921 6 Pub price: £25.00 7 Beneath the Waves Costumes of the World Lily Murray & Helen Ahpornsiri Johnna Rizzo & Chaaya Prabhat

The world’s oceans are brought A colourful celebration of to life in art made from hand- costumes and cultures from AUGUST pressed seaweed and coastal around the world. AUGUST flowers. A stunning exhibition of national Artist Helen Ahpornsiri transforms dress from around the world, curated silky seaweeds, feathery algae and and beautifully illustrated by Indian bright coastal blooms into playful illustrator Chaaya Prabhat. Explore penguins, scuttling crabs and schools how traditional dress is an important of silvery sharks. Turn the page to part of a region’s identity and the explore each corner of the oceans, meanings behind the intricate details from hidden rock pools to the darkest and symbols clothes feature. This depths. Marvel as plants transform book will take readers on a colourful into marvellous creatures, and journey around the world, visiting 30 discover the magic and beauty that different countries. lies beneath the waves… Johnna Rizzo is a former staff writer at Lily Murray grew up in the wilds of snowy National Geographic magazine and an nowhere, spending much of her time editor at National Geographic Books talking to animals and making up stories. and the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler She has continued to do this in her adult galleries. She is a frequent contributor life, and now writes both fiction and non- to National Geographic Kids, has written fiction books for children. Her titles include for Scientific American, Newsweek and big books about dinosaurs, rhyming the Washington Post and is the author of Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Non-fiction Ocean Animals: Who’s Who in the Deep Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Non-fiction books about dinosaurs and stories about ISBN: 9781787411609 Format: Hardback Blue (National Geographic Society). ISBN: 9781787417182 Format: Paperback escapee hot dogs. Her books for STUDIO Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 302 x 241mm Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 300 x 235mm PRESS include the bestselling No Worries Extent: 80pp Extent: 64pp and the Disney Animated Classics series. Chaaya Prabhat is a graphic designer, Follow Lily on Instagram and Twitter @ illustrator and lettering artist. After lilymurraybooks completing her MA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, she Helen Ahpornsiri creates intricate collages is now working independently in Chennai, using real flora and foliage. Each illustration India. She has worked with clients is made up of hundreds of leaves and including Snapchat, Facebook, Google and flowers which are foraged or grown, then The Obama Foundation. preserved with traditional flower-pressing methods. The plants are organised by species or colour before being cut and delicately arranged to form birds, insects Other available titles and other creatures, all filled with tiny patterns and tangles of plant life. Helen lives in Eastbourne, Sussex, in the UK.

A Year in the Wild Beneath the Waves (hb) ISBN: 9781787416659 ISBN: 9781787413801 8 Pub price: £9.99 Pub price: £12.99 9 There Are Reptiles Everywhere Balloon to the Moon Britta Teckentrup & Camilla de la Gill Arbuthnott & Chris Nielsen Bedoyere A fascinating countdown of Bestselling illustrator Britta the technologies, innovations SEPTEMBER Teckentrup explores the world and stories that led humans OCTOBER of reptiles in a sumptuously from the hot air balloon to illustrated non-fiction book. walking on the Moon. Winner of a British Book Design & Production Award, 2019. There are reptiles everywhere! Some of them live in jungles, some in the savannah, and some may be in your Long before anyone had designed a back garden! rocket, the Montgolfier brothers were making hot air balloons. In October There Are Reptiles Everywhere is 1783, they became the first people to the third in a series of non-fiction experience controlled flight. Balloon books from Britta Teckentrup. Young to the Moon starts there and leads readers will learn where in the world to Neil Armstrong’s ‘small step’ and all sorts of reptiles can be found, and beyond. But why stop there? the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were Learn about the great innovations true. This is non-fiction with spark of the past, and then get ready for and personality from a much-loved BLAST OFF into an unknown but illustrator. exciting future.

Britta Teckentrup is a fine artist who has Gill Arbuthnott lives in Edinburgh and has Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Non-fiction written and illustrated many well-loved ISBN: 9781787417748 Format: Paperback been a published author since 2003. She Pub date: 17 Sep 20 Genre: Non-fiction books for children, including the Odd One Pub price: £10.99 H x W: 280 x 216mm writes fiction and non-fiction and reckons ISBN: 9781787416536 Format: Hardback Out series. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Extent: 80pp that being a children’s author is probably Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 300 x 235mm the best job in the world. Her books Dark Extent: 32pp she has studied at St Martin’s College of Art and the Royal College of Art in . Spell, Beneath and What Makes You You? have been shortlisted for major UK book Camilla de la Bedoyere has an academic awards. A former science teacher, she background in zoology and has written loves mixing scientific fact with wonderful more than 200 books for children and anecdotes of people and places. adults. She lives in London with her family and is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of Chris Nielsen is an award-winning Sydney- London. based illustrator. His work flows from a love of vintage design. Tin toys, Mexican wrestlers, matchboxes, medical charts and Other available titles Other available titles Indian goddesses all jostle for attention among the flotsam and jetsam in his flip- top head.

There are Bugs There are Fish Balloon to the Moon Everywhere Everywhere (hb) ISBN: 9781787415003 ISBN: 9781787410763 ISBN: 9781787413542 Pub price: £12.99 10 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £16.99 11 Small Worlds: Earth Herbert’s Garden Lara Hawthorne & Camilla Lara Hawthorne de la Bedoyere A delightful story about appreciating the beauty in OCTOBER Small Worlds: Water nature and discovering your OCTOBER Lara Hawthorne & Lily creativity.

Murray Each creature in the garden has something special to offer, but what about a slug? Slow, slimy and greedy, This beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap Herbert wishes he could weave series lets children explore small worlds shimmering webs like spiders, or

Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: non-fiction in nature close-up. create wonderful underground worlds ISBN: 9781787415638 novelty like ants. But when his lonely night- Pub price: £12.99 Format: Hardback H x W: 260 x 236 mm What will you find when you explore these time wanderings through the garden Extent: 18pp small worlds? Prepare to be surprised by the take him up to the treetops, he and variety of life on each page of this gorgeous lift- the other creatures are astonished at the-flap book. A fascinating exploration of the the beauty he has created. Spotting life and cycles in nature’s small worlds. spreads plus helpful hints on how to look after the creatures in your Camilla de la Bedoyere has an academic background own garden add to this non-fiction- in zoology and has written more than 200 books for inspired tale. children and adults, many of which explore the natural world. She has also worked as a journalist, editing A stunningly illustrated story a children’s page in a national newspaper, and is a about recognising your talents and specialist reading teacher. She lives in London with Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Picture book celebrating each individual, this is a her family and is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of ISBN: 9781787417731 Format: Paperback London. Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 280 x 216mm beautiful picture book by the author Extent: 32pp and illustrator of The Night Flower. Lara Hawthorne graduated from Falmouth University in 2013. Her first picture book,Herb , was published Lara Hawthorne graduated from Falmouth in 2014 and she was selected to illustrate Carol Ann University in 2013. Her first picture book, Duffy’s The King of Christmas (Picador, 2016). Herb, was published in 2014 and she was Inspired by nature, myths and legends, Lara creates selected to illustrate Carol Ann Duffy’s wonderful small worlds with her distinct watercolour The King of Christmas (Picador, 2016). Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: non-fiction style. She currently lives in Bristol, UK. Inspired by nature, myths and legends, ISBN: 9781787415621 novelty Lara creates wonderful small worlds with Pub price: £12.99 Format: Board Book H x W: 260 x 236 mm her distinct watercolour style. She currently Extent: 18pp lives in Bristol, UK.

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The Night Flower Alba the Hundred The Night Flower Alba the Hundred ISBN: 9781787410534 Year Old Fish Paperback Format: Hardback Year Old Fish Pub price: £11.99 ISBN: 9781787412927 ISBN: 9781787417298 ISBN: 9781787410534 Format: Hardback Paperback Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £11.99 ISBN: 9781787412927 ISBN: 9781787417298 12 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £7.99 13 There Are Fish Everywhere Anatomicum Postcard Box Britta Teckentrup Katy Wiedemann

Bestselling illustrator Britta A box set of 50 beautiful Teckentrup explores the world postcards from Anatomicum. NOVEMBER of fish in this sumptuously NOVEMBER illustrated non-fiction book. This collection of 50 postcards features Katy Wiedemann’s stunning There are fish everywhere! Some of anatomical illustrations. Each image them live in fresh water, some of them vividly captures the beauty and live under ice, and some even live in complexity of part of the human the desert. body. Together they make a stylish collection, perfect for sending to There Are Fish Everywhere is the first friends or pinning on your wall. in a series of non-fiction books from Britta Teckentrup. Young readers will Katy Wiedemann is an illustrator and tattoo artist in Philadelphia, USA. Her work learn where in the world all sorts of explores the field of scientific illustration, animals can be found and many weird particularly that of anatomy. Working in and wonderful things that they’d ink and watercolour, Katy uses traditional never have imagined were true. techniques to blend realism and scientific understanding. Katy is a graduate of the This is non-fiction with spark and Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration, and has an MA in personality from a much-loved Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art. illustrator.

Britta Teckentrup is a fine artist who has Pub date: 12 Nov 20 Genre: Non-fiction written and illustrated many well-loved ISBN: 9781787417755 Format: Paperback books for children, including the Odd One Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 300mm x 235mm Extent: 32pp Out series. Born in Hamburg, Germany, she has studied at St Martin’s College of Art and Pub date: 12 Nov 20 Genre: Non-fiction the Royal College of Art in London. ISBN: 9781787416529 Format: Postcards Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 176 x 131 x 33mm Extent: 50 cards

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There are Bugs There are Reptiles Everywhere Everywhere Animalium postcards Botanicum postcards Planetarium postcards ISBN: 9781787415003 ISBN: 9781787416536 ISBN: 9781783706259 ISBN: 9781783706341 ISBN: 9781787415102 14 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £12.99 Pub price: £12.99 15 The Speed of Starlight A Trip to the Future Colin Stuart & Ximo Abadía Moira Butterfield & FagoStudio

A contemporary exploration of Take a trip to the future in this

physics, light and sound told MOIRA BUTTERFIELD & STUDIO FAGO one-of-a-kind science book! NOVEMBER through stunning surrealist JULY artwork. a TRiP TO THE This sci-fi approach to non-fiction will take readers on an exciting Designed to present physics in a journey into the future, using totally new light, this science book cutting-edge science from today to explores the topics of physics, light imagine the world of tomorrow. and sound alongside incredible FUTUREFUTUREHOW TODAY’S SCIENCE WILL SHAPE TOMORROW’S WORLD artwork from surrealist artist Ximo From floating cities to colonies on Abadía. Visualise sonar sound, far-off planets, each spread will discover the speed of light and take the reader further and further understand basic quantum physics from home. Stunning full-page with easy to understand, engaging spreads create an immersive feel, text by acclaimed science writer while the text paints a picture of Colin Stuart. the possibilities ahead – and some surprising achievements already Colin Stuart is a renowned astronomy made! Did you know that you can speaker and author whose books have sold already eat 3D printed food? Or that over 100,000 copies worldwide. A Fellow a group of scientists are trying to of the Royal Astronomical Society and a build a lift to the moon? A Trip to the runner-up for the European Astronomy Journalism Prize 2014, Colin has also Future is a book for the engineers written publications featured in the and scientists of the future! Pub date: 12 Nov 20 Genre: Non-fiction Pub date: 09 July 20 Genre: Non-fiction ISBN: 9781787417229 Format: Paperback Guardian, New Scientist, BBC Focus and ISBN: 9781787415751 Format: Hardback Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 280 x 216mm Moira Butterfield is an internationally the Observer, and has spoken about the Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 302 x 241mm Extent: 80pp wonders of the universe on Sky News, BBC Extent: 64pp successful author of children’s non-fiction News and BBC Radio 5 Live. and picture books. Her work has featured on the UK school curriculum and been Ximo Abadía is a highly acclaimed commended by the US . artist, living and working in Spain. He She aims to add originality and fun to has illustrated numerous publications all her projects, to get her young readers including The Language of the Universe, engaged in the amazing world around and his work was selected for the Bologna them. Moira lives in Somerset, UK. Children’s Illustrators Exhibition in 2017. FagoStudio is one girl and two boys, six hands and three brains, paper, pencils, computer mice, damaged keyboards and shelves, often too-tight deadlines and Other available titles sometimes bugged software. Having worked together during their studies, the studio has taken form in a small workshop in Nantes, France.

The Language of the Universe The Extraordinary Elements Format: Hardback ISBN: 9781787417342 ISBN: 9781787414075 Pub price: £12.99 16 Pub price: £16.99 17 WILD Flip Flap Snap: Safari Sam Usher Flip Flap Snap: Pets Carmen Saldaña The second in a quartet of enchanting picture books in JULY which a boy and his beloved Flip the flaps to create your own crazy AUGUST grandad discover the wonder combinations in this lift-the-flap pop-up! of the natural world. Whoever heard of a kuppy? Or how about a radgie? Grandad and Boy look after a cat for Flip the flaps to come up with fun combinations a friend. Boy does lots of reading up that will put a new twist on learning about about what cats like, but the cat is favourite animals. With rhyming non-fiction text, having none of it. And then it runs fun facts, fantastic pop-ups and beautiful artwork off into the wild, leading Grandad from Carmen Saldana, these books are sure to and Boy into a wild jungle fantasy raise a few giggles. adventure of their own. Carmen Saldaña lives and works from Gijón, a rainy Sam Usher graduated from the University little city in the north of Spain. After studying arts and of West England and his debut picture Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Novelty working as a graphic designer, Carmen became a full- book Can You See Sassoon? was ISBN: 9781787416567 Format: Hardback time illustrator and has worked on a whole host of picture shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 250 x 160mm books. She has a passion for furry animals and is inspired Extent: 10pp and the Red House Children’s Book by everything in nature. Award. He is particularly admired for his technical drawing skill and prowess with watercolour. Also a talented pianist, when he’s not holding a pen and wobbling at paper you’ll find him perfecting a Other available titles fiendishly difficult piece of Chopin.

Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Picture Book ISBN: 9781787416857 Format: Paperback Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 300 x 220mm Extent: 40pp

Jungle Farm ISBN: 9781787410602 ISBN: 9781787410619 Pub price: £8.99 Pub price: £8.99

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Dinosaurs Ocean ISBN: 9781787412361 ISBN: 9781787412378 Pub price: £9.99 Pub price: £9.99

FREE Snow Rain Sun Storm Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Novelty ISBN: 9781787416598 Format: Hardback ISBN: ISBN: ISBN: ISBN: ISBN: Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 250 x 160mm 9781787415164 9781783700738 9781783705474 9781783707959 9781787412422 Extent: 10pp Pub price: Pub price: Pub price: Pub price: Pub price: 18 £6.99 £6.99 £6.99 £6.99 £6.99 19 Oof Makes an Ouch Molly and the Mathematical Mystery Duncan Beedie Eugenia Cheng & Aleksandra Artymowska

A thought-provoking story Find the clues and lift the flaps featuring Stone Age friends on this mathematical mystery. AUGUST Oof and Pib, who learn the SEPTEMBER importance of friendship, Join Molly as she ventures into a forgiveness and being able to curious world where nothing is quite express yourself! as it seems… A trail of clues leads from scene to scene, presenting Molly with a number of challenges. Oof and Pib belong to an ancient But who is leaving the clues and tribe living in the Stone Age. They where will they lead? are the best of friends, although it’s pretty hard to communicate when This interactive mystery shows the only word you know is your own maths isn’t just about numbers and name. But when Oof starts to expand sums – it’s about imagination! An her language skills and becomes the explorative and creative approach to hero of the tribe, Pib feels so jealous the sometimes scary topic of maths. he does something that threatens his friendship with Oof forever. Can Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, Pib come up with a word to make pianist and lecturer. She is passionate everything all right? about ridding the world of maths phobia. Eugenia’s first book, How to Bake Pi, has A funny and offbeat story, brimming been an international success. Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: Picture Book with Duncan Beedie’s trademark ISBN: 9781787416819 Format: Paperback Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Non-fiction novelty Aleksandra is an illustrator, graphic Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 287 x 247mm humour and conveying an important ISBN: 9781787415683 Format: Hardback designer and painter from Poland. She Extent: 40pp message about self-expression and Pub price: £16.99 H x W: 248 x 305mm Extent: 30pp graduated from the Academy of Fine forgiveness. Arts in Warsaw in 2005, and received Other available titles the Provost Award for the best diploma. Duncan Beedie has been doodling and Aleksandra now splits her time between drawing since way back in the early 1980s, Poland and Israel. lying on the living-room floor, grasping a felt tip in his clammy little fist. He began his career animating children’s TV before branching into design for websites, games and apps. These days he’s a freelance illustrator based in Bristol, grasping a fancy digital stylus in his clammy fist The Last Chip The Bear Who Stared instead, although he no longer lies on the ISBN: 9781783700622 ISBN: 9781783703753 Pub price: £6.99 Pub price: £6.99 floor to draw. He has a desk in a studio that overlooks the city. It’s much more accommodating than nylon shag pile.

The Lumberjack’s Molly’s Moon Beard Mission ISBN: 9781783706884 ISBN: 9781787413405 20 Pub price: £6.99 Pub price: £6.99 21 Myths, Monsters and Mayhem Ghostology in Ancient Greece Dugald Steer, Anne Yvonne Gilbert, James Davies Garry Walton & Doug Sirois

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SEPTEMBER A vivid and contemporary SEPTEMBER retelling of the Greek myths Ology World series, brought through comic strips and to the attention of Templar – information spreads. publishers of rare and unusual books – is GHOSTOLOGY.

The Greek myths are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the In 1975, under a bed in an old world. This striking new comic book house in Tarrytown, New York, an collection is the perfect introduction unearthly tome entitled Ghostology to the world of the gods – containing was discovered, wrapped in six tales full of love, loss, greed, a substance later found to be envy and bravery. From the mighty ectoplasm. It is the life’s work and Zeus to Pandora and her little box of study of ghostologist Lucinda Curtle, horrors, James Davies’ retelling of who mysteriously passed to the the Greek myths will breathe new life ‘other side’ during a seance. After her into these classic stories. death, Ghostology seemingly became haunted by the ghost of Lucinda James Davies is an illustrator and author herself, who now wants to keep the from Wales, now living in Bristol. He has secrets of the dead A SECRET. recently returned to illustration with a uniquely bold graphic style, influenced by Now published, ghostwritten by old cartoons and retro picture books, and is the author and illustrator of the bestselling Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Novelty Dugald Steer, the world itself can Meet the... series. His first picture book, ISBN: 9781787414976 Format: Hardback decide if Ghostology – purporting Pub price: £25.00 H x W: 300mm x 254mm Long Dog, was published in 2018. James’s Extent: 28pp to tell the truth about ghosts – was favourite food group is carbs and his worst solid fact or insubstantial fiction. enemy is a bald chihuahua. Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Non-fiction Dugald Steer was born in 1965 and grew ISBN: 9781787416413 Format: Hardback up in Surrey, where his love of books and Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 297 x 216mm reading led him to study English Literature Extent: 64pp and Philosophy at Bristol. Several jobs later Dugald began working at Templar Publishing, where he worked his way up to Senior Editor, writing and editing many books in house. He has written more than 100 books for Templar and, after going freelance to concentrate on writing, he Other available titles authored the first eight books in their hugely successful 'Ology series. Dugald lives near Barcelona in Spain with his wife Ana and his two children.

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Egyptology Dragonology ISBN: 9781840118520 ISBN: 9781840115031 22 Pub price: £25.00 Pub price: £25.00 23 Paper World: Space I Really Want to Shout Gail Armstrong Simon Philip & Lucia Gaggiotti

A one-of-a-kind paper-cut book In this sequel to I Really Want where space comes to life! to Win and I Really Want the SEPTEMBER Cake, a little girl learns big SEPTEMBER Paper World: Space uses ingenious lessons about managing anger. paper cuts to reveal the wonders of space, from our Solar System to "Sometimes I find it really tough distant galaxies to the Big Bang. With to make sure I’m not in a huff detailed art by paper-cut artist Gail because there’s simply so much stuff Armstrong, a fact-packed text, and that makes me want to yell." flaps and die-cuts on every spread, this unique novelty book will appeal We all get angry once in a while, but it to all the family. can be hard to know what to do when we feel this way. The determined Gail Armstrong is an award-winning heroine of I Really Want the Cake is illustrator working in paper sculpture. Her 3D paper-cut style is unique yet versatile, back with a new conundrum. What used for illustrating people, animals, should she do when she REALLY buildings, maps and diagrams, from wants to shout? advertising to children’s books. Simon Philip was born in Chichester in 1988 and has lived there ever since. After studying history at Exeter University, he decided to become a primary-school Pub date: September 20 Genre: Picture Book ISBN:9781787416802 Format: Paperback teacher. Teaching rekindled his love of Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 265 x 228mm children’s books, so much so that he Extent: 40pp decided to have a go at writing his own. He is the author of I Don’t Know What to Call My Cat, You Must Bring a Hat and the Waterstones Prize shortlisted I Really Want Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Novelty the Cake. ISBN: 9781787415768 Format: Hardback Pub price: £16.99 H x W: 330 x 225mm Extent: 30pp Lucia Gaggiotti is a London and Italy- based illustrator and graphic designer. She graduated from NABA (New Academy of Art) in Milan with a BA in graphic design and a specialisation of illustration. She moved to London in 2005 and has been working freelance since then for many clients including Carluccio's, Other available titles Jamie Oliver, Pizza Express and M&S. She Other available titles is the illustrator of the Waterstones Prize shortlisted I Really want the Cake.

I Really Want the Cake I Really Want to Win Paper World: Planet Earth ISBN: 9781783708017 ISBN: 9781787414112 ISBN: 9781787410411 Pub price: £6.99 Pub price: £6.99 24 Pub price: £15.99 25 Prehistoric Pets I Say Boo, You Say Hoo Dean Lomax & Mike Love John Kane

What did your Guinea pig's A second gloriously funny great great great great great call-and-response picture book SEPTEMBER grand parent look like? from the author of I Say Ooh SEPTEMBER Palaeontologist Dr Dean You Say Aah. Lomax takes a look at seven favourite pets and, using fossil "There’s something I need you to clues, reveals their prehistoric help me with. When I say BOO, you animal ancestors. say HOO. Are you ready?"

Boo is little ghost who lives in a We take a close look at our pets, from haunted house – and he is afraid of guinea pigs to cats to horses, and — the dark. as if they were furry time machines — use fossil facts to trace them back In I Say Boo, You Say Hoo, readers to their prehistoric animal ancestors, must help tell the story from a series with bright artwork, bags of humour of hilarious verbal and visual cues. and plenty of facts for readers to This is a wonderful book for sharing get their teeth into. Written by real with a single child or in a group... palaeontologist and Ichthyosaur Pub date: 17 Sep 20 Genre: Picture Book and it’s a little bit stinky. Be prepared Pub date: 17 Sep 20 Genre: Non-fiction novelty expert Dr Dean R Lomax. ISBN: 9781787415331 Format: Hardback ISBN: 9781787415508 Format: Paperback for riotous laughter at story time! Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 250 x 250mm Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 260 x 260mm Extent: 16pp Internationally recognised award-winning Extent: 40pp palaeontologist, presenter and author, When John Kane was younger, he liked to Dean Lomax has travelled the globe make up stories for his little sister. Jimmy excavating dinosaurs, and has described and Bear, who appeared in them, are still several new species of prehistoric reptile remembered to this day. John lives in along the way. A Visiting Scientist at Dublin, but has also lived in Australia, The University of Manchester, UK, Dean where he set up Australia’s number-one is passionate about communicating independent advertising agency. I Say Ooh palaeontology and has presented on You Say Aah, his first book, has won the TV, including ITV's Dinosaur Britain. English Picture Book Awards 4-7 category; Author of several books, scientific papers won the Children's and Teen Choice Award and articles, Dean has a gold medal for in the US; and was shortlisted for the Irish excellence in science and he is also the Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. patron of the UK Association of Fossil Hunters (UKAFH)

From Astronauts and Knights to Vampires and Dragons, Mike has a love for working with imagination and narrative. He Other available titles has worked with publishers such as Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Orion, OUP and many more. Mike has a Master's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Aberystwyth.

I Say Ooh, You Say Aah ISBN: 9781783708727 26 Pub price: £6.99 27 Monstrous Book of Monsters The Incredible Libby Hamilton, Alexei Bitskoff Pop-Up Maze & Jonny Duddle Andy Mansfield

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OCTOBER A mind-boggling 3D maze OCTOBER and avoiding monsters with adventure awaits you in this artwork from Jonny Duddle. spectacular paper creation!

Do you dare delve into the freakishly Paper engineer Andy Mansfield funny Monstrous Book of Monsters pushes the boundaries of pop-ups as where nothing is as it seems? we know them in this extraordinary Dr Thomas Jelly has packed his new book. notebook with nauseating novelties and foul facts to teach readers how to There's only one way into The Incredible Pop-Up Maze - through avoid monsters, to spot them in the the hole in the cover. Journey news or on the street and give us all through six 3D labyrinths, each one a peek inside their dangerous (and trickier than the last. Find your way smelly) world. At the end, readers along suspended spiralling pathways, learn that Dr Jelly has fallen foul scale the steps of a precarious pop- of the infamous book monster - the up labyrinth and follow the routes under and over flaps. The final mind- readers themselves will be lucky to boggling maze is the hardest of all, escape the same fate. Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Novelty ISBN: 9781783706419 Format: Hardback because the routes keep changing. Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 250 x 250mm You might have to move the paths to Libby Hamilton has written a variety of Extent: 14pp find the way out of the book. children's books including Templar's best- selling Peter Pan, the hilarious Monstrous WARNING! Few questers have made Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Novelty Book of Monsters and, most recently, the ISBN: 9781787416895 Format: Hardback it out. Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 270 x 230mm enchanting How to Find a Fairy Tale. Extent: 20pp Andy Mansfield has been a graphic Jonny Duddle overheard the story of his designer and paper engineer for over 20 first book The Pirate Cruncher while years. Since working for pre-eminent paper sailing on a square-rigger. Since then he engineer Ron van der Meer, he has helped has written even stranger tales including Templar Publishing develop over 50 pop- The Pirates of Scurvy Sands, The Pirates up books, including the hugely successful Next Door, Gigantosaurus and The King pop-up Peter Pan sound book, the critically of Space. The Pirates Next Door won acclaimed How the World Works series, the Waterstones Prize in 2012 and was the Super Science series, Follow the Star shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. and the award-winning Fish Food. Now in danger of becoming a landlubber, Jonny lives in Wales with his wife, Jane, and their daughters, Daisy and Rosie. Other available titles

Follow the Star ISBN: 9781787416185 28 Pub price: £14.99 29 Christmas Lights Winter Tales Ruth Symons & Carolina Rabei Dawn Casey & Zanna Goldhawk

A twinkling Christmas A collection of winter tales storybook, where the pictures from cultures around the OCTOBER move as you turn the pages… world, beautifully brought OCTOBER together with vibrant artwork. Join one little girl and her father on their drive home for Christmas. A treasury of stories celebrating the Lift the flaps and spin the wheels wonders of winter, and the qualities to watch stars shoot past and within that warm our hearts through fairy lights twinkle. With a lyrical, the long cold. This stunning book repetitive text and beautiful art brings together a selection of wintery by The Ride-by-Nights illustrator tales from all over the world from Carolina Rabei, this book will North America to Siberia, Scotland, capture the hearts of the whole France, Russia and Norway. Written family. by award-winning author Dawn Casey and with beautifully detailed Ever since she was very small, Carolina artwork by illustrator Zanna has loved drawing. She has dedicated Goldhawk, this is a magical book to eight years of her life to the study of fine art, attaining a BA in Graphic Design in be treasured for generations to come. Moldova and then achieving a distinction in Children’s Book Illustration at the Dawn’s work is inspired by her deep love prestigious Cambridge School of Art in of nature, her respect for the tales of old 2015. Carolina’s stunning first picture Pub date: 15 Oct 20 Genre: Picture Book and her delight in the wonder of the world. ISBN: 9781787416871 Format: Hardback book, Snow, was nominated for the Kate Her collection The Barefoot Book of Earth Pub date: 15 Oct 20 Genre: Novelty Pub price: £15.99 H x W: 235 x 195mm Greenaway Medal. Carolina loves working Extent: 96pp Tales won the Gold Nautilus Award for ISBN: 9781787416680 Format: Hardback books that ‘support conscious living, green Pub price: £12.99 H x W: 260 x 210mm on a diverse range of projects and her Extent: 14pp artwork reveals a unique mix of practices, values, spiritual growth and positive social as she likes to explore the use of traditional change’. Dawn lives with her family, on the as well as digital techniques in her South Downs of Sussex. illustrations. Zanna is a bestselling illustrator working from a beautiful seaside studio in Cornwall. Her gorgeous surroundings have given her a fierce passion for colour and nature that infuses her artwork. Zanna has worked for clients including Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Frances Lincoln and Michael O’Mara Books.

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Pub price: £6.99 Gigantosaurus ISBN: The Lost Egg ISBN: Pub price: £6.99 9781787415690 9781787413146 The Story of Gigantosaurus ISBN: Pub price: £6.99 Other available titles Don't Cave In ISBN: Pub price: £6.99 Gigantosaurus: Out, ROCKY Rock and Group Studios Cyber Jonny Duddle series, two Gigantosaurus TV Based on the books and a Christmasnew character perfect introductionepisode story are the Tiny parasaurolophus, the to Rocky rest of the triceratops and the the Gigantosaurus gang. and bright,With lots of humour, engaging text the perfectcolourful artwork, these titles are introduction into the world of Gigantosaurus. the CretaceousMeet the characters, and explore importantly make sure you RUN most world and, Createdwhen you see the fearsome Gigantosaurus! Duddle, aby Cyber Group Studios and Jonny now availableGigantosaurus animation series is worldwide. Try Again, TINY Try DAY EVER THE BEST Paperback 32pp 32pp 32pp Picture Book Picture Genre: Picture Book Format: Paperback H x W: 254 x 254mm Extent: Genre: Genre: Format: 254 x 254mm H x W: Extent: Genre: Picture Book Format: Paperback H x W: 254 x 254mm Extent: 01 Oct 20 01 Oct 20 9781787415997 9781787418196 9781787415980 Pub date: ISBN: Pub price: £6.99 Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Pub date: ISBN: £6.99 Pub price: Pub date: ISBN: Pub price: £6.99 . . He has also follows the for the Folio Society. FARTHER Pinocchio illustrated Grahame Baker-Smith has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood, Kate Greenaway Award- Kate Greenaway Grahame winning illustrator second non- Baker-Smith’s book, following fiction picture the Rain The Rhythm of Wild Is the Wind path of the extraordinary guises across wind in its many a the world, as witnessed by migrating swift. andCassi watches a little swift dive In the risingswoop in the still air. itssun the world seems to be holding thebreath. Then a small breeze stirs and as the windleaves in the trees, a whiff of danger sends grows bolder, small creatures running for cover. the wind awakesAcross the ocean, with a fury, whipping the waves, cresting each one with wild, white on, around the And further horses. clouds arestill eye of a hurricane, howling with spiral, into a great carved All this is witnessed bystormy power. the swift as it finally comes to nest on the other side of the world where the great wind has abated. Wild Is the Wind Is the Wild Baker-Smith Grahame is the Wild Grahame Baker-Smith Wind Wind Hardback 40pp 287 x 247mm 9781783708505 Wind in the Willows ISBN: Pub price: £14.99 Genre: Picture Book Format: H x W: Extent: 01 Oct 20 Paperback 9781787410152 9781787417854 Rhythm of the Rain Format: ISBN: Pub price: £7.99 Other available titles Pub date: ISBN: Pub price: £12.99

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Printed in China Christmas Is Love The Robin and the Fir Tree Emma Dodd Jason Jameson

Emma Dodd’s atmospheric and An exquisitely illustrated enchanting celebration of the retelling of the Hans Christian OCTOBER true meaning of Christmas, Andersen story, The Fir Tree OCTOBER featuring two adorable reindeer. The Fir Tree grows in a forest far away "Christmas is joy that is overflowing from the bustle of the town. It is a beautiful place, but he dreams of the It’s sparkling eyes and faces glowing. excitement of the world beyond. His Christmas is sharing the laughter friend the Robin tells him stories of and fun the places she has seen, and the forest And being with family, old animals dress him up with berries and and young. leaves, but he is still not happy. One day he is cut down and taken away to Christmas is peace, stars be a beautiful Christmas tree in the twinkling above middle of town. He thinks his dreams A night of sweet dreams and a have come true, but what will happen heart full of love." when his decorations are put away? Emma Dodd’s joyful celebration A lyrical story of friendship and new Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Picture Book of this wonderful time of year seen ISBN: 9781787416901 Format: Hardback life with an ultimately uplifting ending. Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 200 x 200mm through the eyes of two reindeer is Jameson’s pre-Raphaelite-inspired Extent: 24pp a pure delight. illustrations make this a Christmas picture book of great beauty. Emma Dodd has published a host of books to critical acclaim, including I Love My Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: Picture Book Mummy, which won the Booktrust Early ISBN: 9781787414815 Format: Hardback Jason Jameson is co-founder and creative Years award, and the Amazing Baby® Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 280 x 216mm director of Unanico Group, an award- Extent: 64pp books. She has been the 123rd most- winning media company. Jason studied borrowed author from UK libraries in any at the prestigious Royal College of Art, genre. graduating with an Animation Masters, and has over 15 years of experience in concept and character development, design and animation direction. Jason wrote and directed Unanico Studios’ award-winning stereoscopic 3D CGI animated short film One Night In Hell, and is co-writing and co-directing its animated feature spin- off. Jason and the team provided all the animation for Seasons 1 and 2 of Three Other available titles Stones Media’s live-action/animation mix series Apple Tree House, commissioned by CBeebies. Jason is the lead talent of Unanico Studios. He is currently working on a short film of The Robin and The Fir Tree.

What Matters Most Counting Blessings ISBN: 9781787411920 ISBN: 9781787411913 34 Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £7.99 35 The Snow Queen Other available titles The Whistle, the Grave and the Ghost The House With a Clock in Its Walls – The House With a & Lesley Barnes ISBN: 9781848127715 Pub price: £6.99 Clock in Its Walls 10 Pub date: 23 Jul 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction ISBN: 9781848129047 Format: Paperback A beautiful, gilded pop-up Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm NOVEMBER The House With a Extent: 256pp JULY edition of the Hans Christian Clock in Its Walls Andersen classic. ISBN: 9781848127722 Pub price: £6.99 The House Where When Gerda’s best friend Kay is Nobody Lived whisked away by the cold-hearted The Figure in the Shadows – The House With a Snow Queen, she sets out to bring ISBN: 9781848127920 him home. Her journey takes her Pub price: £6.99 Clock in Its Walls 11 from her safe town to the freezing Pub date: 17 Sep 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction ISBN: 9781848129061 Format: Paperback lands in the north. Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm The Letter, the Witch Extent: 256pp Hans Christian Andersen (1805 — 1875) and the Ring was a Danish author best remembered, ISBN: 9781848127944 amongst other things, for writing Pub price: £6.99 The Sign of the innovative and influential fairy tales. Sinister Sorcerer

Lesley Barnes is an illustrator and – The House With a The Ghost in the Mirror animator based in Glasgow. Her vibrant ISBN: 9781848128163 Clock in Its Walls 12 work appears in children’s books, fashion Pub price: £6.99 illustration and design collaborations with Pub date: 26 Nov 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction the V&A and the Tate Galleries. She is the ISBN: 9781848129085 Format: Paperback Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm Pub date: 12 Nov 20 Genre: Novelty author and illustrator of Jill and Dragon Extent: 256pp ISBN: 9781787416888 Format: Hardback and Jill and Lion and has animated a The Doom of the Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 190 x 190mm music video for Scottish band Belle & Haunted Opera Extent: 12pp Sebastian. ISBN: 9781848128200 John Bellairs, Brad Pub price: £6.99 Strickland & Nathan Collins

The Vengeance of The final titles in The House With the Witch Finder ISBN: 9781848128187 a Clock in Its Walls series. The Pub price: £6.99 John Bellairs (1938–91) was an award-winning American author of many gothic mystery novels for children and young Spectre From the adults, including The House With a Clock in Its Walls, which Magician's Museum received both Outstanding Book of the ISBN: 9781848128224 Year Award and the American Library Association Children’s Pub price: £6.99 Books of International Interest Award, The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb, which won the Edgar Award and The Spectre from the Magician’s Museum, which won the New The Beast Under York Public Library ‘Best Books for the Teen Age’ Award. The Wizard's Bridge ISBN: 9781848128729 Brad Strickland has written more than 85 published books, Pub price: £6.99 including entries in the Lewis Barnavelt and Johnny Dixon series, following the death of the original series creator, John Bellairs. He is a Professor Emeritus of English and lives in The Tower at the Georgia, USA, with his wife, Barbara. End of the World ISBN: 9781848128743 Pub price: £6.99

36 37 Cookie! (Book 2): Cookie and the A Most Improper Magick Most Annoying Girl in the World Stephanie Burgis Konnie Huq From the author of The Dragon with a Chocolate

AUGUST In her second brilliantly funny story, AUGUST Heart, this is a witty and science-mad Cookie is ready to save irreverent adventure set in the planet! Jane Austen times – with magic! Cookie, Keziah and Jake are best mates and life is good. Cookie's birthday party is coming up and she has had the most fantastic idea for a Save the Kat Stephenson has just discovered Planet party where everything is recyclable and that she’s inherited her mother’s no plastic is used. Before long, Cookie is buzzing magical talents, and despite her with plans. But then disaster strikes - Suzie Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s Ashby totally swipes Cookie's idea and sends out determined to learn how to use them. invitations for her own Save the Planet birthday party. Worse still, Suzie seems to think Cookie is But with her eldest sister Elissa’s her new best friend! Grrrr! Suzie is officially the intended fiancé, the sinister Sir most annoying girl in the world! Neville, showing a dangerous interest in Kat’s magical potential; her other As the longest serving female presenter, from sister, Angeline, wreaking romantic 1997 to 2008, Konnie Huq is no stranger to the middle- havoc with her own witchcraft; and grade market. She is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust a highwayman lurking in the forest, and the British Asian Trust. Cookie is inspired by Konnie's even Kat’s reckless heroism will be own London Bangladeshi background, her love of science tested to the upmost. and her unashamed nerdiness! Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction ISBN: 9781848128934 Format: Hardback Pub price: £10.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm If she can learn to control her new Extent: 320pp powers, will Kat be able to rescue her family and win her sisters their CD ISBN: 9781848129481 Pub price: £9.99 true love?

Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction ISBN: 9781848129245 Format: Paperback Stephanie Burgis grew up in America Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm but now lives in Wales with her husband Extent: 272pp (fellow writer Patrick Samphire), their two young sons and their extremely vocal tabby cat. In between those two points, she spent time playing in orchestras, studying music history in Vienna and editing the website of Other available titles an opera company in Leeds.

She writes fun fantasy adventures for kids and wildly romantic historical fantasy novels for adults.

Visit her website at www.stephanieburgis.com or on Twitter: @stephanieburgis.

Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World ISBN: 9781848128095 38 Pub price: £6.99 39 Butterfly Brain Mark Anchovy 2: War and Pizza Laura Dockrill & Gwen Millward William Goldsmith

If Roald Dahl had written Meet Mark Anchovy: pizza A Monster Calls… delivery boy and private SEPTEMBER detective on his second mission SEPTEMBER Everyone is always shouting at Gus to stop leaning – to Russia. back in his chair – but does he care? No way! Then sure enough, the chair falls, he cracks his head and Colin Kingsley is a pizza delivery has to spend all summer in bed. Out of the crack boy with a twist – he’s actually an escape his memories, dreams and imagination... aspiring private detective. and a beautiful little butterfly guide. Gus must follow the butterfly to recapture all he’s lost, The outlook is bleak for Colin including that locked box he doesn’t seem to want Kingsley, aka Mark Anchovy, to touch... pizza detective. He’s been expelled Together they remember fish fingers, snapping Missing from school for putting crusty Mr bubble wrap, cracked pink soap and the leaky image Hogstein in hospital. He’s been tap; they go wild, stomping around in the joy of fired from his job at Caesar Pizza imagination and happy dreams – but they can’t go by his own parents. And he’s been sent to Moscow to live with mean Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: 7-9 fiction any further if Gus won’t gather all of his memories. ISBN: 9781848128682 Format: Hardback His butterfly will die unless Gus is ready to hear Uncle Padge for a whole month, as Pub price: £9.99 H x W: 185 x 158mm punishment. Extent: 80pp about his mum...

A delightful, moving exploration of grief and the joy Weirdly, his other employers, the that makes us human. elite Golden Spatula League, are actually really happy about this. It Laura Dockrill is a performance poet and novelist whose means Colin can trail a mysterious Other available titles inventive and vibrant approach to life is reflected in the shipment of vorshmack – a local vividly imagined worlds she creates. Laura finds creativity appetiser of ground meat, onions and in words – from poetry to novels, and scripts to song Lorali lyrics. She is author of the Carnegie Medal-nominated YA of, course, anchovies – which may or ISBN: 9781471404221 novel Lorali, as well as the Darcy Burdock series (Random may not be connected to a batch of Pub price: £7.99 Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: 9-12 fiction House) for younger readers, which was also nominated for ISBN: 9781848129276 Format: Paperback stolen diamonds. the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm Children’s Book Prize in 2014, and My Mum Is Growing Extent: 288pp William Goldsmith is a British writer and Down (Faber and Faber). Laura has appeared on Blue illustrator. Published by Jonathan Cape, Peter and CBeebies and is a frequent poet performer at his graphic novels Vignettes of Ystov and festivals such as Glastonbury, Hay, Edinburgh and Latitude. The Bind were nominated for a Newton She lives in London. You can follow her on Twitter @ First Book Award and British Book Design Aurabel LauraDockrill Award respectively. His illustration clients ISBN: 9781471404245 Pub price: £7.99 Other available titles include the Independent, the Goethe Gwen was brought up in Wales. Originally she had her Institut, the Royal Opera House and the heart set on becoming a naturalist as she loved studying Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble. insects and drawing them. Her trips abroad when she was For more information, please visit young are associated with finding new and strange-looking williamgoldsmith.co.uk creatures! After school she migrated north to Edinburgh to study art, where she graduated with a First in illustration and was awarded the Helen A. Rose Bequest for art. Gwen’s Big Boness first picture book, Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood ISBN: 9781471406928 Pub price: £7.99 (text by Tim Knapman) was published by Puffin. Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective ISBN: 9781848128613 40 Pub price: £6.99 41 Fearless Fairy Tales The Queen of Nothing Konnie Huq, James Kay & Rikin Parekh (The Folk of the Air #3) Holly Black A hilarious and anarchic collection of classic bedtime

OCTOBER '‘He will be the destruction of JULY stories for young readers, the crown and the ruination all utterly updated for a new of the throne.’ In this thrilling generation. conclusion to the Faerie fantasy Folk of the Air trilogy, Meet Trumplestiltskin, a vain and Jude needs to harden her heart gold-obsessed little man who will yet again and make the most stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There's Sleeping Brainy, difficult decision of all… Missing the princess whose only dream is to image become Chancellor of the Exchequer, The intoxicating and bloodthirsty and the Gingerbread Kid, who escapes finale to the New York Times persecution in his home country bestselling The Cruel Prince – but struggles to fit in in his new one. nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE Packed with stories about boys who MEDAL 2019 and Winner of the aren't afraid to cry and rhymes about silver INKY for best international girls who refuse to kiss frogs, this YA book – and New York Times book shakes up dusty, old-fashioned bestseller The Wicked King, winner (and, to be honest, rather sexist) of the Best YA Fantasy category in bedtime stories and totally reinvents the Goodreads Choice Awards them for the twenty-first century. From fake news to female footballers, Holly Black is the author of bestselling environmental pollution to equal pay, contemporary fantasy books for kids and Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Genre: 5-8 fiction nothing is off limits in this anthology teens. Her titles include the Spiderwick ISBN: 9781848128118 Format: Hardback Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Pub price: £14.99 H x W: 246 x 189mm of laugh-out-loud fairy tales with Coldest Girl in Coldtown, the Magisterium Extent: 176pp thoroughly modern morals series (with Cassandra Clare) and the CD ISBN: 9781848129184 Folk of the Air series, which began with Pub Price: £8.99 As the longest-serving female Blue Peter the Carnegie-nominated, Inky-winning presenter (1997-2008), Konnie Huq is no Pub date: 23 July 20 Genre: YA fiction The Cruel Prince in 2018. She has been stranger to the middle-grade market. She ISBN: 9781471407598 Format: Paperback a a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm is currently an ambassador for the Princes' Extent: 448pp recipient of the Award, Trust and the British Asian Trust. James the Mythopoeic Award and a Newbery Kay is a writer and full-time human who Honor. She lives in New England with her lives in London. His hobbies include eating husband and son in a house with a secret and breathing. At school he was voted 'least door. Follow Holly at blackholly.com or Other available titles likely to become Prime Minister' and he's on @hollyblack course for this to be the case. Other available titles

Rikin Parekh studied art at Camberwell College of Arts and the University of Westminster. He has since worked designing monsters for the film industry and selling books for a national chain. He currently works with Year Fives in a London primary school, inspiring children to draw their own Cookie and the Most Annoying monsters. Boy in the World Cruel Prince Wicked King ISBN: 9781848128095 ISBN: 9781471407277 ISBN: 9781471407369 42 Pub price: £6.99 Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £7.99 43 STAGS 3: FOXES Special Forces M.A. Bennett Cadets 5: Hijack Chris Ryan A third compelling step into the darkly decadent world of STAGS

AUGUST Tough enough? Smart enough? SEPTEMBER Max will require all his skills A twisting thriller for fans of One of Us Is just to stay alive as a Special Lying and Pretty Little Liars. Forces Cadet…

When Greer is discharged from hospital a week From the bestselling author of Strike before Christmas, she, Shafeen and Nel decide to Back, Chris Ryan returns with the next investigate the De Warlencourt London residence, instalment in this action-packed series. where they discover that the Dark Order of the Grand Stag could have infiltrated right to the heart The Falkland Islands, South Atlantic of the British government. Meanwhile Ty, under her Ocean. Intelligence has been received codename mrs_de_warlencourt, sends dispatches Pub date: 03 Sep 20 Genre: Teen fiction that Argentina is plotting to invade, but from Longcross. But when a Boxing Day Hunt is ISBN: 9781471407888 Format: Paperback Pub price: £6.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm is it reliable? Pub date: 06 Aug 20 Genre: YA fiction planned at Longcross, Greer, Shafeen and Nel are Extent: 256pp ISBN: 9781471408595 Format: Paperback fearful for Ty’s safety. Will they reach Ty in time – Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm The Special Forces Cadets are sent Extent: 304pp or will history horribly repeat itself..? in to investigate, disguised as nature watchers, but when they split up to M. A. Bennett is half Venetian and was born in conduct essential research, two of them Manchester, England, and raised in the Yorkshire Dales. She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the are captured and imprisoned. Their University of Venice, where she specialised in the study of lives are in grave danger, but with the Shakespeare’s plays as a historical source. After university main operation at a crucial stage, the she studied art and has since worked as an illustrator, an others are under orders to leave their actress and a film reviewer. She also designed tour visuals friends to their fate. Other available titles for rock bands, including U2 and the Rolling Stones. She Other available titles was married on the Grand Canal in Venice and lives in Siege (1) Can the cadets prevent a war and make STAGS north London with her husband, son and daughter. Her first YA novel, S.T.A.G.S., was published in 2017 and ISBN: 9781471407253 it out alive? ISBN: 9781471406768 Pub price: £6.99 Pub price: £7.99 was shortlisted for the YA BOOK PRIZE 2018, won the Warwickshire Secondary Book Award 2019 and Gold in Chris Ryan was born in Newcastle. In 1984 the Sussex Coast Schools Amazing Book Award 2019, Missing (2) he joined 22 SAS. After completing the both voted by students, and won the Great Reads ‘Most ISBN: 9781471407826 year-long Alpine Guides Course, he was Read’ 2018 Senior Award. D.O.G.S., the second from Pub price: £6.99 the troop guide for B Squadron Mountain the world of STAGS, followed in 2019. Follow her at @ Troop. He completed three tours with the MABennettAuthor on Twitter and at @mabennettauthor anti-terrorist team, serving as an assaulter, DOGS on Instagram. Justice (3) sniper and finally Sniper Team Commander. ISBN: 9781471407994 ISBN: 9781471407840 Chris was part of the SAS eight-man team Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £6.99 chosen for the famous Bravo Two Zero mission during the 1991 Gulf War. He was the only member of the unit to escape from Iraq, where three of his colleagues were Ruthless (4) killed and four captured, for which he was ISBN: 9781471407864 awarded the Military Medal. Chris wrote Pub price: £6.99 about his experiences in his book The One The Island That Got Away, which became an immediate ISBN: 9781471407536 bestseller. Since then he has written over Pub price: £7.99 fifty books and presented a number of very successful TV programmes.

44 45 Way of the Argosi Clariel, Sabriel, Sebastien de Castell Lirael, Abhorsen & Goldenhand The Alchemist meets The Three Garth Nix Musketeers – with card tricks. SEPTEMBER OCTOBER ‘A fantasy that reads like realism. Here Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the spell-gifted nation that destroyed is a world with the same solidity and her people, starting with the man who murdered four-dimensional authority as our own, her parents. Killing mages is a difficult business, created with invention, clarity and of course, so Ferius undertakes to study the ways intelligence’ PHILIP PULLMAN of the Argosi: the loosely knit tribe of tricksters known for getting the better of even the most Enter into the Old Kingdom – a place of free powerful of spellcasters. But the Argosi have a magic, necromancers and ancient spirits bound price for their teachings, and by the time Ferius to elemental forces. The Abhorsen’s destiny is to learns what it is, it may be too late. move between the realms, sworn to protect the living from the troublesome dead, no matter the Perfect for fans of The Dark Tower, Firefly, personal cost… Guardians of the Galaxy, , Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher. These rich, absorbing and critically acclaimed Clariel Genre: YA fiction teen YA fantasy novels are a phenomenon, and the Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Format: Paperback perfect discovery for Game of Thrones fans. Sales ISBN: 9781471409752 H x W: 198 x 129mm archaeology when he started work on his first dig. Four Pub price: £8.99 Extent: xxpp of Garth Nix's titles have exceeded over 6 million hours later he realised how much he actually hated copies worldwide. archaeology and left to pursue a very focused career Sabriel Genre: YA fiction Pub date: 17 Sep 20 Genre: YA fiction Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781471405549 Format: Paperback as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight ISBN: 9781471409622 H x W: 198 x 129mm All five Old Kingdom novels will be reissued in Pub price: £7.99 H x W: 198 x 129mm choreographer, teacher, project manager, actor and Pub price: £8.99 Extent: xxpp October on Hot Key, the first time the entire series Extent: 400pp product strategist. His only defence against the charge has been housed under one roof. A new novel in of unbridled dilettantism is that he genuinely likes doing Lirael Genre: YA fiction these things and that, in one way or another, each of these Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Format: Paperback the series, Terciel and Elinor, will be published in fields plays a role in his writing. He sternly resists the ISBN: 9781471409653 H x W: 198 x 129mm autumn 2021. (Don’t worry, we have plans in place Pub price: £8.99 Extent: xxpp accusation of being a Renaissance man in the hopes that to make sure anyone with the original hardbacks more people will label him that way. Sebastien lives in Abhorsen Genre: YA fiction won’t be disappointed from a collecting point Vancouver with his lovely wife and two belligerent cats. Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Format: Paperback of view). Follow Sebastien www.decastell.com or on Twitter: @ ISBN: 9781471409677 H x W: 198 x 129mm decastell Pub price: £8.99 Extent: xxpp Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full- Goldenhand Genre: YA fiction time writer since 2001, he has worked as a literary agent, Pub date: 01 Oct 20 Format: Paperback marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book ISBN: 971471409745 H x W: 198 x 129mm Pub price: £8.99 Extent: xxpp sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include Other available titles the award-winning Old Kingdom fantasy novels, starting with Sabriel. He has also written the science-fiction novels Spellslinger (1) Soulbinder (4) Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes. His fantasy ISBN: 9781785761324 ISBN: 9781471406744 novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £7.99 The Seventh Tower sequence; The Keys to the Kingdom series; and with Sean Williams, the Troubletwisters books and Spirit Animals: Blood Ties. Shadowblack (2) Queenslayer (5) ISBN: 9781471406690 ISBN: 9781471405488 More than six million copies of Garth’s books have been Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £7.99 sold around the world, his books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly Charmcaster (3) Crownbreaker (6) and the Guardian, and his work has been translated into 40 ISBN: 9781471406720 ISBN: 9781471405518 languages. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Follow Garth on Pub price: £7.99 Pub price: £7.99 twitter at @garthnix or at www.garthnix.com 46 47 Amazing new thing we can't tell you Poisoned about by Jennifer Donnelly Holly Black Carnegie medal-winning Jennifer Donnelly gives a

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