Walker Books Seasonal Catalogue • January – April 2013 New Year, New Parterships
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Walker Books Seasonal Catalogue • January – April 2013 New year, new parterships. Walker Books is delighted to announce new relationships with two award-winning independent children’s publishers, Little Island and Constable & Robinson. Ahoy there from Little Island! Welcome ashore on Ireland’s youngest, smallest and most international publishing island! Little Island is committed to producing excellent books that will add an imaginative splash to children’s reading lives. The Broomstick Bike By Veronica Bennett Zack and his zany grandmother take a crazy trip across Europe to rescue Zack’s parents from kidnappers – on an ancient motorbike with a mind of its own. Winner of the White Raven Award, it is a hilarious adventure by the author of the Poppy Love series, this time writing under her own name. 978-1-908195-03-6 • £5.99 • Paperback • eBook available • February 198 x 129 mm • 128 pages • 9 years + Bartolomé: The Infanta’s Pet By Rachel van Kooij Bartolomé’s family daren’t let him be seen. He’s badly disabled and in 17th-century Madrid such a child would bring shame on his family. But then the Infanta finds out about him and demands to have him as her ‘human dog’. A heart-warming story of courage against the odds, with a gripping plot. 978-1-908195-26-5 • £6.99 • Paperback • eBook available • February 198 x 129 mm • 208 pages • 11 years + Chop-chop, Mad Cap! By Juliette Saumande, illustrated by Sadie Cramer What do you get when you mix Mad Cap (who likes to think she’s a superhero, or maybe a detective) and her nerdy friend Norbert with nosy old Mrs Mudrick and a ballet-dancing butcher in an underground hideout? It’s up to our young superheroes to find out. Mad Cap forever and beyond! 978-1-908195-21-0 • £4.99 • Paperback • eBook available • March 198 x 129 mm • 142 pages • 8 years + Thin Ice By Mikael Engström Life in Stockholm with his father and brother is grim for young Mik – but nothing like as tough as it is when he falls into the clutches of an abusive foster family. Mik makes a break for it and forges a new life for himself with his wacky aunt and her eccentric neighbours in the icy Arctic. Tough and adventurous, with masses of boy appeal. 978-1-908195-00-5 • £6.99 • Paperback • eBook available • March 198 x 129 mm • 288 pages • 13 years + The World’s Worst Mothers By Sabine Ludwig If you saw an ad for a World’s Worst Mothers competition, would you enter your mum? That’s exactly what the kids in this story do – and their irritating mums disappear! But when the way-too-perfect Aunt Annas arrive, the children get suspicious and band together to rescue their real mums. 978-1-908195-19-7 • £5.99 • Paperback • eBook available • April 198 x 129 mm • 240 pages • 11 years + Valentina By Kevin McDermott Valentina is the daughter of the president in a post-eco-disaster Ireland. Spoilt and spiky, she is the heroine you will love to hate. But when she takes a secret trip to the Badlands, she must leave her privileged life behind in order to survive in a world that is dangerous, disease-ridden and violent. 978-1-908195-20-3 • £7.99 • Paperback • eBook available • April 198 x 129 mm • 272 pages • 13 years + Constable & Robinson Welcome Independentto Much-in-Little, thinking Constable since &1795 Robinson’s bijou new fiction imprint for children and young adults. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente Gather up your courage and your wishes; grab a little pinch of luck – and prepare to be swept away in a ship of your own making to a land unlike any other. September is a twelve-year-old girl who longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland – well, of course, she accepts. When she gets there she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do, September sets out to Fix Things and on the way finds adventure, courage and a lot more besides... 9781780339818 £6.99 • Paperback • January 198 x 129 mm • 336 pages • 12 years+ Scan the code to 9781780338620 £6.99 inc. VAT eBook watch the video 9781472106063 Poster Free • A fairy tale in the fine old tradition of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and His Dark Materials • Debuted on the New York Times Bestsellers on publication in the US • Chosen as Book of the Month by Amazon.co.uk and Goodreads • Promotional campaigns online with videos, blog tours, giveaways, and more • Find out more, view the trailer and read extracts at: www.valentefairyland.com “A glorious balancing act between modernism and the Victorian Fairy Tale, done with heart and wisdom.“ Neil Gaiman “A mad, toothsome romp of a fairy tale – full of oddments, whimsy, and joy.“ Holly Black The Girl Who Fell Deadlands Beneath Fairyland and Lily Herne Led the Revels There Everything’s Better with Zombies – NOT! It is ten years since the zombie apocalypse hit South Africa, Catherynne M. Valente and Cape Town’s suburbs have been transformed The second into Deadlands where the living dead lurch, in search in the series of a feed. Human survivors live holed up in enclaves, destined to watched over by Guardians who keep the zombies become a at bay. Once a year, the Guardians select five human modern classic. teenagers for a secret purpose, but 17-year-old Lele In the kingdom is not hanging around to find out why. On the run, of Fairyland she is given shelter by the Mall Rats: a renegade Below, gang of teens. They may be a bunch of misfits but preparations zombies don’t seem interested in them, or Lele. The are underway question is why... for the annual 9781472100900 • £6.99 Paperback • April Revels; but • 198 x 129 mm • 304 pages • 14 years+ above ground, 9781472100917 • £6.99 inc. VAT • eBook • the creatures of Fairyland are • Pitch perfect YA dystopia, but with its fresh style, setting and in no mood for atmosphere, this is unlike any series you have read before a party. They have been losing their shadows – • Like Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses and COMING and therefore their magic – to the underworld. Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy, this is more than OCTOBeR 2013 So when September returns to Fairyland, she just a page-turner – it is a piercing satire on religion and ventures down to find out why. Only then politics that plays on a South African setting does she realize what she must do to save • Written by mother and daughter, Sarah and Savannah Lotz, Fairyland from losing all its magic and slipping it combines sharp-edged teen insight and best-selling writing into the mundane world for ever... experience (Sarah is one half of horror writer S.L. Grey) 9781780338446 • £9.99 • Trade Paperback • January “Worthy to be ranked among the likes of 197 x 138mm • 256 pages • 12 years+ Twilight and The Hunger Games.“ 9781780338453 • £9.99 inc. VAT • eBook The Times (South Africa) Like Much-in-Little on Facebook for news, giveaways and exclusives exciting new titles added to our Stop preSS! autumn publishing programme! picture Books Yig and Yogg, the Happy Cats By Lindsay Camp, Illustrated by Lucy Chesher Meet Yig and Yogg the happy cats in a fresh and exciting new picture book. Yig and Yogg are friends. That’s Yig with the big head and that’s Yogg with the even bigger head! Just as very young children want to explore the world, so Yig and Yogg are an inquisitive pair. When Yig grows a sunflower he can’t decide whether the flower is getting larger or whether he is getting smaller. It’s a good thing Yogg is there to have one of her Brilliant Ideas . Using models and sets, these two original and engaging characters, imagined by Lindsay Camp, are realized by the creators of Waybuloo. 9781406328943 • £11.99 • Hardback 300 x 248 mm • 32 pages • 2 years + The Race for the Chinese Zodiac By Gabrielle Wang The classic tale of how the 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac were chosen (and why there is no cat). In ancient China, the Jade emperor, ruler of heaven and earth, proclaimed a great race: the first twelve animals to cross the river would each have a year named after them – and be immortalized in the Chinese Zodiac. But there were thirteen animals racing for only twelve places. Who would come first? And who would miss out? 9781406346985 • £6.99 • Paperback 280 x 220 mm • 32 pages • 5 years + encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart The two bestselling book creators bring prehistoric sea beasts to life in this spectacular pop-up masterpiece, now back in stock! While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans – most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. Full of captivating facts and more than thirty-five breathtaking pop-ups, this incredible companion volume to the bestsellingEncyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs explores the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters ruled the waves for millions of years. 9780744586893 • £19.99 • Hardback 240 x 190 mm • 12 pages • 5 years + KeY BACKLIST Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Encyclopedia Mythologica: ALL BOOKS: Dinosaurs • 9780744586909 Fairies and Magical Creatures • 9781406313338 £19.99 • Hardback Mega-Beasts • 9781406305913 Gods and Heroes • 9781406322460 Dragons and Monsters • 9781406327793 Fearless Tim Lott Award-winning author Tim Lott’s inspirational tale of a girl who risks everything in pursuit of justice.