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Meg McLaren Michelle Robinson Tor Freeman THE STATION MOUSE TEN FAT SAUSAGES Maurice is the Station Mouse, and he must Ten fat sausages sizzling in follow The Station Mouse Handbook. If the pan, decide to escape . . . Maurice breaks the rules, even to help a little if they can! Michelle Robinson’s boy who has lost something very important, no-holds-barred humour there’s going to be a price to pay . . . is perfectly matched by Tor Freeman’s mad-cap artwork. JUN 2018 Hilarious and merciless, this 9781783445639 40pp HB EBook available 260 x 250mm £11.99 tale will have you hooting out loud.
‘An infectiously funny countdown book, set to be a read-aloud favourite’ THE BOOKSELLER
PIGEON P.I. Pigeon Private Investigator Murray is looking for the quiet life, but trouble is looking for him. Is his goose cooked? FEB 2018 9781783445424 32pp HB MAR 2018 EBook available 280 x 240mm £11.99 9781783445981 40pp PB EBook available 260 x 250mm £6.99
‘A cracking read’ GLASGOW HERALD ‘McLaren’s intricate visual style will delight both children and adults alike as they discover the hidden details and jokes’ MICHELLE ROBINSON grew up in Gloucestershire and loved making up stories and being BOOKTRUST silly. Her picture book There’s a Lion in My Cornflakes won the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award. She lives in Frome with her husband, son and daughter. @MicheRobinson
MEG McLAREN graduated from the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2013, and has since returned to her native Scotland, to Inverness. Her first picture TOR FREEMAN grew up in London and graduated from Kingston University with a BA book, Life is Magic, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Klaus in illustration. She has been working as an illustrator ever since. In 2012 she was awarded the Flugge Prize. @tinyrexwrecks Sendak Fellowship and spent a month in Connecticut. @tormalore PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS
Qian Shi Eve Coy LOOKING AFTER WILLIAM William needs a lot of looking after THE WEAVER from his “Mummy”, but he’s got Stanley the spider collects buckets of potential . . . a hilarious seeds, twigs, leaves and all and endearing tale of father and kinds of precious things. daughter role reversal. He is very proud of his collection, but then it APR 2018 9781783445417 32pp HB is washed away. In this EBook available 270 x 230mm £11.99 stunning debut, discover the difference between what you collect in the world and what you collect in your heart.
JAN 2018 9781783445363 32pp HB EBook available 240 x 240mm £10.99
QIAN (“CHEN”) SHI grew up in Shijiazhuang, a northern city in China. She has always been drawn to stories and loved making pictures. Her short animation Shoe won two awards and she has worked with Donna Wilson, Volvo and Disney. She now lives in East London. The inspiration EVE COY always loved to draw. She studied animation at Edinburgh University and became an for her debut picture book The Weaver was a spider’s web with a piece of leaf in the middle, as if artist working for Aardman Animation. Eve gained an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the the spider had collected it. Secretly, Qian is a little bit afraid of spiders. @qianshi_design prestigious Cambridge School of Art, and Looking After William is her first picture book. @evescoy PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS
Ame Dyckman Zachariah OHora Dan Santat READ THE BOOK, AFTER THE FALL LEMMINGS! After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is Lemmings don’t jump off cliffs. It a broken egg. Life is tough: his fear says so right here in Foxy’s book. of heights is stopping him from There’s just one problem: the achieving his dreams. But one day, lemmings haven’t read it. Welcome fuelled by his passion for bird- aboard the S.S. Cliff for a hilarious watching, he decides to conquer arctic adventure as First Mate his fears and something amazing Foxy and Captain Polar Bear try to happens . . . get these little guys to just READ THE BOOK! ‘This newest addition to Santat’s successes will inevitably (and deservedly) be lauded’ KIRKUS FEB 2018 40pp HB 9781783446346 254 x 254mm £12.99 MAR 2018 32pp PB 9781783446353 280 x 216mm £6.99
Praise for Wolfie the Bunny: ‘Glorious . . . will have even the youngest readers shouting with glee’ DAILY MAIL 9781783443871
AME DYCKMAN is the award-winning author of Boy + Bot and Tea Party Rules, Wolfie the Bunny and Horrible Bear, and loves writing for children so she doesn’t have to grow up. She lives in New Jersey with her family, pets, and hair-bow collection. @AmeDyckman
ZACHARIAH OHORA is an illustrator and author of a number of children’s books. His DAN SANTAT is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. His picture book, The debut, Stop Snoring, Bernard!, received the Society of Illustrators Founder’s Award and was the Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, won the 2015 Caldecott Medal for distinguished Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child selection for 2012. He lives and works in Narbeth, illustration. He also wrote The Guild of Geniuses and created the Disney Channel animated series Pennsylvania. @ZachariahOHora The Replacements. He lives in Southern California. @dsantat PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS
Judy Corbalis Korky Paul Jeanne Willis Tony Ross GET THAT BALL NOT JUST A BOOK . . . Tom and his gran are playing penalty A book is not just a book. It can be so many shoot-out when things go wrong and things, a hat or a building block, a flower press or the ball escapes . . . Now, wherever a fly-swatter! But there’s one very special thing it leads them, from the park to the that all books can do . . . highstreet to the depths of the ocean, Tom and Gran must “Get that ball!” Tony Ross and Jeanne Willis bring us a must for all book-lovers. A hilarious sport-themed adventure from Winnie the Witch illustrator MAR 2018 32pp HB Korky Paul. 9781783446025 280 x 240mm £11.99
MAY 2018 9781783441693 32pp HB EBook available 240 x 280mm £11.99 TADPOLE’S PROMISE “Promise me that you will never change” the Paul Stewart Chris Riddell caterpillar says to her beloved tadpole. But as the seasons pass, of course, he matures into a frog, and RABBIT AND she into a butterfly with shockingly predictable results! HEDGEHOG TREASURY From birthdays to memory games, from JUN 2018 9781783445868 32pp PB hibernation to wishes come true, Rabbit and EBook available 260 x 205mm £6.99 Hedgehog’s wonderful adventures have been brought together for the very first time in this ‘Breaks the mould in form as well as content’ SUNDAY TIMES exquisitely bound treasury brimming with ‘Unforgettable’ GUARDIAN true friendship.
‘Hedgehog and Rabbit are a winning pair’ JEANNE WILLIS is one of the most successful children’s picture book authors in the UK. DAILY TELEGRAPH She has written many award-winning books, including Who’s in the Loo?, which won the Red House Children’s Book Award. APR 2018 9781783446742 112pp HB EBook available 230 x 200mm £12.99 TONY ROSS’s very first picture book was published by Andersen Press in 1976, and since then he has gone on to illustrate more than 1000 books. A TV adaptation of his much-loved Little Princess series is currently showing on Channel 5’s Milkshake. David McKee MY FIRST ELMER Elmer’s much-loved original story in a tactile These chunky board books with easy-grip toddler tabs on shaped board book edition, abridged for the every page are perfect for the very youngest Elmer fans. very youngest of readers. With its sturdy shaped pages for little fingers and its eye- For more catching march across any bookshelf, this gift details visit: is the perfect introduction for babies to the world of Elmer.
MAY 2018 10pp BOARD BOOK ELMER’S COLOURS 9781783446773 230 x 242mm £7.99 Green, blue, yellow, pink? Choose your favourite colour with Elmer!
JUN 2018 10pp TABBED BOARD BOOK 9781783446094 180 x 180mm £5.99 ELMER AND THE LOST TEDDY All teddies are special, especially your own. When Baby Elephant can’t sleep because he ELMER’S FRIENDS has lost his teddy, Elmer sets out to find it. Spottiest, stripiest, tallest and longest… A stunning new board book edition of one meet all of Elmer’s very best friends! of David McKee’s best-selling and endearing Elmer titles. JUN 2018 10pp TABBED BOARD BOOK 9781783446070 180 x 180mm £5.99 MAR 2018 24pp BOARD BOOK 9781783445837 200 x 175mm £6.99
‘The pages are alive with vivid colour and pattern’ BOOKTRUST BEST BOOK
DAVID MCKEE is a legend in the children’s book world. Over a career spanning fifty years, he has created a host of favourite characters including Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, King Rollo and Mr Benn. David now divides his time between London and the South of France. The Little Princess gets a makeover in these refreshed editions of the Tony Ross popular picture books, featuring our stroppy but endearing heroine. I WANT MY DUMMY! I WANT MY DAD! The royal dummy keeps going missing! Wherever the King, In this brand new story the Little Princess Queen and courtiers hide the dreaded thing, the Little Princess is jealous – all her friends’ dads can do always finds it, albeit in the strangest of places . . . amazing things. The Cook bakes delicious FEB 2018 cakes: the King burns buns. The Gardener 9781783446339 32pp PB takes his daughter on adventure-walks EBook available 264 x 235mm £6.99 through the forest: the King gets lost on his way to bed. What is the King good for? I WANT MY POTTY!
MAY 2018 At first, the Little Princess thinks the royal potty is even worse 9781783446032 32pp HB than nappies, but she soon learns to love it . . . even if it isn’t EBook available 264 x 235mm £11.99 always there when she needs it!
FEB 2018 ‘Hilarious and a godsend 9781783446322 32pp PB to parents’ GUARDIAN EBook available 264 x 235mm £6.99
I WANT MY DINNER! The Little Princess wants her dinner! And her teddy, and her potty . . . Several tantrums later, LITTLE PRINCESS DRESSING UP: she learns that good manners go a long way. STICKER ACTIVITY BOOK APR 2018 9781783445813 32pp PB Join the Little Princess and her friends to play dress-up! EBook available 264 x 235mm £6.99 Decorate her world with over 200 stickers to choose from, and activities to follow on every page. The perfect activity book for little royals with busy imaginations. I WANT MY TOOTH! Unlike her baby brother, the Little Princess has a perfect set of JUN 2018 40pp PB STICKER BOOK sparkling white teeth. She doesn’t even mind the wobbly one . . . 9781783446438 305 x 235mm £5.99 until it falls out. The hunt is on for the missing royal tooth!
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Ciara Flood Fearne Cotton Sheena Dempsey THERE’S A WALRUS IN MY BED! YOGA BABIES Flynn has longed for his first big boy bed, but now it’s here, Fearne Cotton’s adorable Yoga Babies love there’s one pretty big problem: there’s a walrus in it! Mum to have fun trying new poses. Sometimes and Dad play along while Flynn gives “Walrus” blankets, life is busy and tricky, but not to worry, snacks, milk and a top-secret trip to the toilet, but it doesn’t Yoga helps everyone chill out. Follow these look like anyone is getting much sleep tonight. babies big and small as they try yoga at home, in the park and before bedtime, APR 2018 ‘A bedtime favourite’ then you can have a go at home, too! 9781783445875 32pp PB EBook available 280 x 240mm £6.99 IRISH INDEPENDENT JUN 2018 9781783446599 32pp PB EBook available 250 x 250mm £6.99 Kathryn White Adrian Reynolds THE TICKLE TEST Would you pass the tickle test? It’s easy to tickle a giraffe, but how would you deal with an octopus’s eight arms or a crocodile’s sharp teeth? An unforgettable adventure illustrated by Who’s in the Loo and Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs artist Adrian Reynolds. Robert Starling FERGAL IS FUMING! MAY 2018 9781783445899 32pp PB Fergal is a nice chap . . . but if things don’t EBook available 270 x 230mm £6.99 go his way, he gets very, very ANGRY. When he starts to notice other animals have clever tricks to calm down, Fergal Anthea Simmons Georgie Birkett begins to win back his friends, especially as he discovers dragons can cool off in a I’M BIG NOW! very handy way. It’s tough when you’re not the baby of the family any more! A toddler tale for any big brother or sister with bright JUN 2018 9781783445905 32pp PB lively art from Booktrust Early Years Award EBook available 260 x 250mm £6.99 winner Georgie Birkett.
JAN 2018 ‘A striking and very charming debut’ 9781783445844 32pp PB THE BOOKSELLER EBook available 275 x 270mm £6.99 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS
Paul Bright Bruce Ingman Emma Chichester Clark THE HOLE STORY NO MORE KISSING! Hamish and Hermione Hole need to find a new home Momo doesn’t approve of kissing, so he sets out on a – but no one wants holes in their sock, boat, bike campaign to stop it. But when his brand new baby brother wheel or knickers! Discover the secret lives of holes in arrives, can Momo work out what will stop him crying? an unforgettable adventure illustrated by multi-award- An unmissable tale from the inimitable Emma Chichester winning artist Bruce Ingman. Clark, the creator of Blue Kangaroo.
APR 2018 FEB 2018 32pp PB 9781783445011 32pp PB 9781783445851 290 x 220mm £6.99 EBook available 280 x 240mm £6.99
Chris Van Allsburg Michael Foreman THE MISADVENTURES OF SWEETIE PIE WONDER GOAL! Sweetie Pie the hamster wants to leave the pet shop, Like children all over the world, this boy dreams of winning but is about to find out that life in human homes can be the World Cup. If he could just score the perfect goal for his downright dangerous! new squad, he’d be one step closer… A heart-warming story from two-time Caldecott Medal
winner Chris Van Allsburg. MAY 2018 ‘Stunningly clever 9781783445899 32pp PB JAN 2018 illustrations reveal the EBook available 245 x 280mm £6.99 9781783442928 32pp PB world from a hamster’s EBook available 248 x 280mm £6.99 ‘Michael Foreman tackles the world’s favourite sport in this picture perspective’ EYE book for football fans of all ages, just in time for the World Cup. One of a kind’ EYE Brett McKee David McKee Tony Ross SIR NED AND THE NASTIES OUR KID When Our Kid decides to dawdle on his way to school, he Terrible sounds float out of the woods – the notorious is about to get in felmumpingly big trouble! With dinopirates Nasties, up to no good! Sir Ned is sent in to stop them, but and fish-driven submarines, this is a tour-deforce of is he wise enough to spot the danger? A new collaboration imagination from children’s book legend Tony Ross. between this highly talented father and son team.
MAY 2018 ‘A tall tale with lots of fun JAN 2018 9781783445882 32pp PB 9781783445677 32pp PB kidding around’ KIRKUS EBook available 260 x 250mm £6.99 EBook available 275 x 240mm £6.99 FICTION FICTION
Joe King Illustrated throughout by Nigel Baines Barbara Mitchelhill Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross THE FUNNIEST DINOSAUR NO. 1 BOY DETECTIVE SERIES JOKE BOOK EVER Follow Damian Drooth, ace boy detective, as he sniffs out kidnapped dogs, spooks This collection of dynamite What do you call a some gruesome ghosts, and kicks out football ticket cheats. It’s all in a day’s work for dinosaur jokes will have kids sleeping dinosaur? this brilliantly funny supersleuth! roaring with laughter! A dino-snore!
What does a Triceratops sit on? Why do dinosaur Its Tricera-bottom! parties always go wrong? Because T. Rex everything! JAN 2018 JAN 2018 FEB 2018 FEB 2018 MAR 2018 MAR 2018 64pp PB 7+ 9781783446629 9781783446636 9781783446667 9781783446704 9781783446711 9781783446483 178 x 110mm £4.99 DRAFT COVER
THE LITTLE BOOK OF FOOTBALL JOKES Footie jokes to make you laugh no matter how your team is doing in the World Cup!
Why was the footballer upset on his birthday? MAR 2018 JUN 2018 JUN 2018 AUG 2018 AUG 2018 9781783446681 9781783446698 9781783446643 9781783446674 9781783446650 He got a red card! ‘Extremely funny’ BOOKS FOR KEEPS ALL 64pp PB 7+ ‘Madcap, cartoon-sketch humour’ TES 198 x 129mm £5.99
What did the MAY 2018 128pp PB 7+ ref say to the chicken 9781783446728 95 x 85mm £3.99 BARBARA MITCHELHILL was born in Rochdale and trained as a teacher. She began who tripped a writing for BBC children’s TV, and eventually went on to write books for children. Barbara makes defender? school visits across the country and loves going to festivals and talking to teachers and librarians. She lives in Staffordshire. @bmitchelhill ‘Fowl!’ FICTION FICTION
Josh Lacey Illustrated throughout by Garry Parsons Julian Clary Illustrated throughout by David Roberts THE DRAGONSITTER’S SURPRISE THE BOLDS IN TROUBLE Dear Uncle Morton, could you bring your dragons to our The Bolds are back for another hilarious tale! This time, house? I need Ziggy’s help. And Arthur might be useful too. Teddington’s wildest family have decided to stay at home The egg is going crazy. Whatever is inside must be coming and keep their heads down – it isn’t always easy hiding out soon. tails and fur under clothes, and it’s important not to raise suspicion amongst their human neighbours. But trouble Eddie has been given a dragon’s egg of his very own by soon comes skulking when a very sly fox starts making a his uncle, and one day he notices a crack in it. Soon the big nuisance of himself. It’s up to the Bolds to try and stop egg breaks open and out comes a very unusual creature. him – but the solution has them foxed . . . Just as Eddie and Emily are trying to cope with this new arrival, their mum announces that she has a surprise of LOOK OUT FOR THE her own . . . ‘I wish we lived next door WORLD BOOK to the Bolds!’ DAY STORY DAVINA McCALL THE BOLDS’ APR 2018 80pp PB 7+ GREAT 9781783446230 198 x 129mm £4.99 ADVENTURE
APR 2018 9781783446308 320pp HB 7+ EBook available 198 x 129mm £12.99 Praise for The Dragonsitter series: ‘Short, sharp and funny’ TELEGRAPH ‘Ideal for young or reluctant readers and
9781849394192 9781849395717 9781849397698 9781783440450 Praise for : belly-busting laughter for all the family’ The Bolds on Holiday ‘Silliness and fun’ SUNDAY TIMES, CHILDREN’S WE LOVE THIS BOOK BOOK OF THE WEEK HALF A MILLION ‘David Roberts’ brilliant illustrations make the most DRAGONSITTER BOOKS of Julian Clary’s riotous story’ LOVEREADING SOLD IN THE UK!
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JOSH LACEY is the author of many books for children including The Island of Thieves and JULIAN CLARY is a comedian, entertainer, best-selling author and all-round National Trinket. the Grk series. His first book for children, A Dog Called Grk, was shortlisted for the Branford His colourful career has seen him win Celebrity Big Brother and complete countless smash-hit Boase Award. He lives in London. @JoshLacey123 comedy tours. @JulianClary
GARRY PARSONS has illustrated the work of many different authors, including Lucy and DAVID ROBERTS worked as a milliner before turning his talents to illustrating children’s books. Stephen Hawking, Jeanne Willis, and author duo Dougie Poynter and Tom Fletcher on the He has gone on to work with some of the finest children’s authors including Julia Donaldson, Sally bestselling Dinosaur that Pooped series. He lives in London. @ICanDrawDinos Gardner and Philip Ardagh. FICTION FICTION
Steve Webb Illustrated throughout by Chris Mould Julia Jarman SPANGLES MCNASTY THE TIME-TRAVELLING CAT AND THE DIAMOND SKULL AND THE VIKING TERROR Spangles McNasty is a right horrid scallywag Topher’s incredible cat Ka is a time-traveller, who likes to do yucky things, like eat cold and she’s gone missing. In the midst of danger chips out of bins and fart in libraries. So it’s no in London, Topher is taken into the past, to surprise that when the legendary Diamond an Anglo-Saxon village under threat from Skull pirate hat is put on show at Bitterly Bay the terrifying Viking Ingwar the Boneless. Museum, Spangles and his best friend Sausage- Can Topher help Ka and the Saxons, and be face Pete plan to get their thieving fingers on it. a hero in his own time too? But they haven’t reckoned on local boy Freddie Taylor and his cunning plan to mix things up FEB 2018 176pp PB 9+ with a clever hat trick . . . 9781783446254 198 x 129mm £6.99
MAY 2018 192pp PB 8+ 9781783446384 183 x 129mm £6.99
‘Strikes a balance between action, with plenty of lively battle scenes, and character DRAFT COVER development . . . This is an enjoyable read for Praise for Spangles McNasty confident younger readers’ WRITE AWAY and the Fish of Gold: COVER ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROSS COLLINS ‘Skullduggery, thievery and anarchic humour in a heavily illustrated tale for fans of Mr Gum’ THE BOOKSELLER Praise for Spangles McNasty and the Tunnel of Doom: ‘A roller-coaster ride of zany anarchic fun’ LOVEREADING 9781783444007 9781783445080
STEVE WEBB was born in Newcastle and studied at Bristol Art College. He is also the author of the successful picture book, Tanka Tanka Skunk. He lives in the Peak District with his three children. @STEVEaWEBB 9781783445738 9781783445745 9781783446186
CHRIS MOULD is an award-winning illustrator. His work includes children’s books for all ages, animation and satirical cartoons for national newspapers. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two JULIA JARMAN has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford and devotes grown-up daughters. @chrismouldink a lot of her time to school and library visits. @JuliaJarman FICTION FICTION
Rob Stevens Berlie Doherty LUCKY BREAK THE GIRL WHO Leon’s twin, Lenny, was the best brother ever. SAW LIONS But a year ago, Lenny died, and Leon’s family Two girls from very different hasn’t been the same since. Then a new boy, places are brought together in a tale Arnold, starts at Leon’s school. An unlikely of loss, courage and family. friendship begins, even though Arnold is very odd: he doesn’t get jokes, sarcasm is lost on Abela has lost everything, and now she him and he can be completely blunt. Things must leave her home in Tanzania and come quickly start to get out of hand thanks to to Britain as an illegal migrant. Will she be Arnold’s unique world-view, and they go from allowed to stay and find a new family to breaking a window to holding up a bank – love her? Meanwhile, in England, Rosa is completely accidentally. But amidst all this struggling to cope with her mum’s wish to craziness, might Arnold actually help Leon to adopt a child. She likes her life as it is, why sort his life out? do things have to change?
JUN 2018 Blue Peter Book Award 9781783446575 272pp PB 11+ Shortlisted for the . EBook available 198 x 129mm £6.99 JAN 2018 9781783446469 240pp PB 11+ EBook available 198 x 129mm £6.99
DRAFT COVER ‘Excellent . . . compulsively readable’ INDEPENDENT
Praise for Would the Real ‘An involving, moving and, above all, relevant Stanley Carrot Please Stand Up?: novel that ought to be in every school library ‘Touching and funny’ GUARDIAN in the land’ GUARDIAN ‘Truly funny story. Heart-warming’ BOOKS FOR KEEPS 9781783442287
ROB STEVENS combines being an author with a job as a British Airways captain, doing much of his writing in hotels around the world. He grew up in Bournemouth and studied engineering at BERLIE DOHERTY is a novelist, playwright, children’s author and poet. She has Cambridge University before training to be a pilot. He lives on the Dorset coast with his wife and won the Carnegie Medal twice, for Granny Was a Buffer Girl and Dear Nobody. Her work is two sons. @RobStevensbooks published all over the world, and many of her books have been televised. @BerlieDoherty FICTION FICTION
Meaghan McIsaac Susin Nielsen SHADOWS OPTIMISTS DIE FIRST Patrick is a boy out of his time. He has been Ever since tragedy struck her family, Petula has learnt to see thrown forward 300 years into the future, danger everywhere. She’s determined not to let her guard and he must find a way home to save his down. Then she meets Jacob. Strikingly tall and confident, he’s family from a frightening fate. Leaving his survived a different kind of disaster and still come out smiling. shelter, Patrick starts out on a quest to the At first Petula is repelled by his outgoing optimism, yet even very heart of danger. Amongst scavengers, she can’t deny their chemistry together. But optimism – and activists and a crack team of soldiers love – are blind. And Petula is heading full speed into the dedicated to destroying a despotic regime, danger zone. Patrick will have to fight every step of the way to get back to where he belongs. ‘Hilarious, heart-warming and beautiful unexpected – a real keeper’ LISA WILLIAMSON MAR 2018 MAR 2018 9781783446216 336pp PB 12+ ‘Richly comic’ GUARDIAN 9781783446223 272pp PB YA EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 MY MESSED-UP LIFE Praise for Movers: Violet is not impressed with her TV-director dad: he’s decided ‘Delivers enough originality to abandon his family in Vancouver to start over with a new, and twists to leave the younger wife in LA. To make matters worse, her mom has readers breathless for more’ taken up with a dorky new man called Dudley Wiener. Violet SCOTSMAN decides to take control. She needs a new stepfather who is ‘Stunningly original . . . vivid perfect, charming and will show Dad what a mistake he’s made: and realistic’ she needs George Clooney. QUILL & QUIRE, STARRED REVIEW 9781783443796 ‘Sassy and candid’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘Laugh-out-loud humour deftly mixes with insight into a JUN 2018 troubled girl’s pain over her parents’ divorce’ KIRKUS 9781783445523 240pp PB YA EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99
MEAGHAN MCISAAC grew up as a scifi and fantasy nerd in Canada. Having spent her SUSIN NIELSEN has written for Canadian TV and received critical acclaim for her young childhood writing stories and performing in her high school’s musicals, she shipped off to the UK adult novels. She won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award in her native Canada to complete an MA in Writing for Children. She returned to Toronto, where she lives now with and the UKLA Book Award for The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen. She lives in Vancouver with her family and dogs, and writes books in her favourite genre. @MeaghanMcIsaac her family and two very destructive cats. @susinnielsen FICTION FICTION
Jeff Zentner Jason Wallace THE SERPENT KING ENCOUNTERS Dill is a misfit in his small, religious Tennessee 1994, Zimbabwe. Over fifty pupils at a quiet town. His dad is in prison for a shocking crime, suburban school are claiming to have witnessed and his mom is struggling to make ends meet. a disc-shaped craft land beyond the edge of The only things getting Dill through senior year the playground. It’s probably nothing more are his guitar and his fellow outcasts, Travis and than a case of mass hysteria and over-active Lydia. But Dill fears his heart will break when imaginations, but there’s something about the Lydia escapes to a better life elsewhere. What accounts that’s impossible to ignore. How could Dill needs now is some bravery to tell her how so many children lie so convincingly and for so he feels, to go somewhere with his music – long? And why? and to face the hardest test of all when tragedy strikes. Inspired by remarkable true events, Encounters is a fictional tale of six very different young JAN 2018 people who discover they are in fact more 9781783446476 384pp PB YA EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 connected to something out there – and each other – than they could have thought possible. ‘Some of the most beautiful writing I’ve ever read’ APR 2018 JENNIFER NIVEN 9781849396219 320pp PB YA ‘Compelling’ OBSERVER EBook available 198 x 128mm £7.99 ‘Dazzlingly written’ SUNDAY TIMES
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Praise for ‘Ingeniously constructed, and as transfixing as the sighting of a UFO’ Buzzfeed Best of 2016 Goodbye Days: SUNDAY TIMES ‘One of the most ‘Magnetic, haunting, and richly rewarding’ LOVEREADING Goodreads Choice Awards finalist stunningly heartfelt novels A New York Times Notable Book I’ve ever had the pleasure ‘A stunning new novel from a powerful and original writer’ TIM BOWLER of reading’ Longlisted for the UKLA Book Award BECKY ALBERTALLI ‘Heartbreaking and life- affirming’ TEEN VOGUE 9781849390484 9781783445516 JASON WALLACE was born in England, but his life was turned upside down when his JEFF ZENTNER lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He came to writing through music, starting mother remarried and the family emigrated to Zimbabwe. It was this experience in a tough out as a guitarist and singer-songwriter. He’s released five albums and appeared on recordings boarding school during the aftermath of the war for independence that formed the foundations with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and Debbie Harry. @jeffzentner for his novels. Jason now lives in London with his partner and son. @authorjwallace FICTION FICTION
Julia Gray Sally Nicholls LITTLE LIAR THINGS A BRIGHT There’s a new art assistant at Nora’s school, GIRL CAN DO and he’s crossed a line. Nora decides to teach Through rallies and marches, in polite him a lesson he won’t forget. But things don’t drawing rooms, freezing prison cells and the go to plan, and Nora needs an escape. She poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three finds it in the rich and talented Bel, who longs courageous young women, Evelyn, May and for a part in a remake of a famous film. Bel is Nell, join the fight for women’s votes. As the unpredictable, jealous and crazy, but she opens First World War looms, just how much are up a new world for Nora, and that makes her they willing to sacrifice? irresistible. As events start to spin wildly out of control, Nora must decide where her Things a Bright Girl Can Do is Sally Nicholls’ loyalties lie – and what deceits she can get dazzling return to YA fiction. away with . . . MAY 2018 A gripping tale of seduction, envy and a 9781783446735 432pp PB YA EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 friendship dangerously out of control, perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Emily Barr.
JUN 2018 9781783446919 TBCpp PB YA EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99
Praise for The Otherlife: ‘Nicholls has brought alive the young women of the past to empower the next generation’ THE TIMES ‘Gripping, bold and completely original’ KATHERINE RUNDELL ‘Inspiring, utterly captivating, and immensely enjoyable’ LOUISE O’NEILL ‘Bold, original and engrossing. An auspicious debut’ FRANCESCA SIMON ‘Fantastic. Vivid, hard-hitting, funny and emotionally compelling’ FRANCES HARDINGE ‘Stunning . . . a searing satire on the pressures that privileged children are ‘It’s Sarah Waters for teens, pitch-perfect, historically accurate, very romantic and a jolly good read’ put under by pushy parents’ NEW STATESMAN ROBIN STEVENS ‘A dark, gripping and unusual debut’ THE BOOKSELLER ‘A captivating YA novel’ RED MAGAZINE 9781783444229
JULIA GRAY is a writer and singer-songwriter. She studied classics at UCL and has a diploma in Children’s Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, for which she received the SALLY NICHOLLS grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after she left school, travelled the world, Sophie Warne Fellowship. She has released three albums with the trip-hop/jazz collective Second working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally’s first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won Person, and more recently two solo albums. She lives in London with her husband and son. the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s @thisisjuliagray Fiction Prize and the Costa Children’s Book Award. 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