ANDERSEN PRESS AUTUMN 2019 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Sally Nicholls Bethan Woollvin Alex G. Griffiths THE BUTTON BOOK THE BUG Here’s a button. I wonder COLLECTOR what happens when you After George visits the press it? Museum of Wildlife with Grandad, all he can think From a singing button to a about is bugs! The very next tickle button, from a rude sound day he goes out hunting, but button to a mysterious white he soon finds there are no button, there’s only one way more insects left in the to find out what they do . . . garden, and the ones he has Come along on a magical captured in jars don’t look journey, powered only by very happy… George is imagination and play, from about to learn exactly why award-winning Sally Nicholls bugs are so important. and Bethan Woollvin.
OCT 2019 9781783447749 32pp HB 2+ EBook available 250 x 250mm £12.99
JUL 2019 9781783447688 32pp HB 3+ SALLY NICHOLLS is known for her bestselling novels for children and teenagers. Her first EBook available 280 x 240mm £12.99 novel won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and more recently she has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the YA Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Things a Bright Girl Can Do. The Button Book is her first picture book, inspired by her own children’s reading habits. Twitter: @Sally_Nicholls
BETHAN WOOLLVIN is the author and illustrator of Macmillan Prize winning Little Red, which was chosen as one of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2016. She ALEX G. GRIFFITHS studied Graphic Design at Coventry University, and he is a self- graduated with a first class honours degree in Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, and she proclaimed drawing addict with a love for scuba diving and snowboarding. The Bug Collector is his now lives in Sheffield. Instagram: @bethanwoollvin first picture book as both author and illustrator. Instagram/Twitter: @AlexGGriffiths
bug_endpapers.indd 2-3 15/11/2018 16:12 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Smriti Prasadam-Halls Robert Starling Robert Starling THE LITTLE ISLAND FERGAL IN A FIX! An insightful and hopeful parable Fergal is back. This time he’s off to for our times, demonstrating the Dragon Camp, and he’s feeling a bit importance of kindness, co- worried. He’ll be meeting lots of operation and open-mindedness new dragons and trying lots of new for shaping a better society. things. All he wants is to be the best at everything (even if it means On the farm, the animals live cheating) and for everyone to like together in harmony, roaming him (because he’s the best), but freely and working together. One things don’t quite go according to day, the geese decide they don’t plan. Oh dear, Fergal, what a fix! want the other animals to visit their island and they don’t want SEP 2019 9781783448487 32pp HB 3+ their help any more, so they set EBook available 260 x 250mm £12.99 out to destroy the bridge that connects their island to the rest of the farm. But when the food starts to run out, there’s no one to help them and the foxes are watching and waiting…
OCT 2019 Praise for 9781783449095 32pp HB 4+ Fergal is Fuming!: EBook available 250 x 260mm £12.99 Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
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SMRITI PRASADAM-HALLS was born in South India, and arrived in Britain when she was two ROBERT STARLING began doodling creatures and characters at school and hasn’t stopped years old. After moving to Hong Kong to teach, she came back to the UK to work for the BBC and since. He lives and works in Norwich, and when he’s not sketching new characters or writing began a career in children’s publishing and television. Since her first book was published in 2012, her down stories he can be found sculpting, brewing coffee, adjusting his headphones or foraging in stories have been translated into 25 languages worldwide. Twitter: SmritiPH the kitchen for cake. Oh, and teaching kids. Instagram: @robertstarling_art PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Joseph Coelho Fiona Lumbers Fiona Lumbers THE HAIRDO THAT CLEM AND CRAB GOT AWAY Clem is an explorer, a collector, a Award-winning poet and author protector of the seas! Treasure Joseph Coelho presents a lyrical and hunting on her beloved beach, she touching story of family separation stumbles across Crab, his claw stuck from a child’s perspective. in a plastic bag. Crab will be much safer and happier in the city with Once a month, Dad takes his son to Clem, but doesn’t he belong on the the barbers, come rain or shine. But beach? when Dad disappears, this little boy’s hair grows big, ginormous, out of A stunningly illustrated timely tale control – and so do his feelings. of cleaning up our beaches, with the message that every small OCT 2019 32pp HB 5+ action helps. 9781783447824 280 x 240mm £12.99
Praise for Luna Loves JUL 2019 32pp HB 5+ 9781783448692 280 x 240mm £12.99 Library Day: ‘A touching reflection on the power of reading to bring families together’ AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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FIONA LUMBERS has drawn on anything and everything from an early age and always JOSEPH COELHO is a performance poet, children’s author, playwright and winner of the insisted she would be an artist when she grew up. She moved to London in 2000 to study Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2015 for his debut poetry collection Werewolf Club painting at the Royal College of Art. A combination of her obsession with picture books and the Rules. He regularly performs poetry for children in libraries across the country. arrival of her first son led her down the path of illustration and she hasn’t looked back since. Twitter: @Poetryjoe / Instagram: @josephcoelhoauthor Twitter: @fionalumbers / Instagram: @fiona_lumbers PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS
David McKee Celebrate Elmer’s 30th birthday with a very special new story!
ELMER: A CLASSIC ELMER’S COLLECTION BIRTHDAY A special collection of five of Elmer is always playing tricks Elmer’s best-loved tales - the on the other elephants, but perfect gift for fans of Elmer they’ve decided that now it’s and his colourful adventures, their turn! They plan to and an ideal introduction pretend they’ve forgotten for the very youngest readers. Elmer’s birthday, but the joke doesn’t quite go according This collection contains: to plan… Elmer Elmer and the Rainbow Elmer and the Lost Teddy Elmer in the Snow Elmer’s Special Day
‘A deserved favourite with the 2-5s’ SUNDAY TIMES
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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. A major exhibition celebrating his work is currently on display at Seven Stories, The Centre for Children’s Books. PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS David McKee Chris Judge BELINDA BROWN THE BABY BEAST Belinda Brown just loves The Beast is back for another side- bananas – she’ll eat a whole splitting adventure, and this time he’s bunch while still in pyjamas! having a baby! Her whole family thinks it’s a phase, except for When an egg arrives on his doorstep, Grandma Brown: she the Beast doesn’t quite know what to worries, and worry is hard do: feed it? Take it for a nice long walk? to keep down. Drop it? Doctor Yoko tells him he must keep it warm and just wait, but ‘What a joy; a new rhyming exactly what he’s waiting for book from the Elmer and Mr is a mystery to the Beast… Benn creator, David McKee . . . Fantastic illustrations’ THE TIMES
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‘David McKee serves up a visual treat Praise for and a masterclass in The Lonely Beast: humour and subtle ‘Judge tells a familiar tale messages’ THE but illustrates it with uncommon SCHOOL LIBRARIAN style and verve’ NEW YORK TIMES 9781849392556 9781849395618 9781783443222
CHRIS JUDGE is an illustrator and picture book maker based in Dublin, Ireland. His first picture book The Lonely Beast, won the Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year 2011. Instagram: @chrispjudge PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Graham Carter Lemony Snicket Rilla Alexander OTTO BLOTTER, BIRD SPOTTER The Blotter family are famous bird spotters, who stay in their hide all day. All except for Otto – he’d rather go out and have big adventures. When he follows the BIGGEST footprints he’s ever seen, Otto begins a SWARM OF BEES magical journey to discover Watch out! what it truly means to be part A mischievous boy has of a family. unleashed an angry swarm of bees! The result is a zany gallop through a charming town where readers will encounter evidence of some bad behaviour, some frenzied anger and thankfully, a hug and some spaghetti. OCT 2019 40pp HB 5+ 9781783447459 260 x 250mm £12.99 JUL 2019 48pp HB 3+ 9781783449125 215 x 280mm £12.99
LEMONY SNICKET is the author of the thirteen volumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events; several picture books, including The Dark and The Bad Mood and the Stick; and the books collectively titled All the Wrong Questions. Twitter: @lemonysnicket
GRAHAM CARTER is a printmaker with a huge following who is stepping into the world of picture books. His illustrations can be spotted in a wide variety of publications such as The New RILLA ALEXANDER is an Australian illustrator and designer whose energetic and instantly Scientist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Graham lives in Seaford with his wife and son. likeable characters animate everything from toys and tea cups to buses and buildings. She lives in Twitter: @Carterworks Portland, Oregon. Instagram: @rillaalexander PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Tony Ross Kevin Crossley-Holland Susan Varley SILLY MR WOLF THE ANIMALS GRIMM: Years ago, Mr Wolf would dress up A TREASURY OF TALES as a sheep and try to be their worst A gorgeous hardback collection of friend but now, the sheep’s clothing eleven Grimm fairy tales featuring is far too small for him, so he’ll have animal characters, retold by to find new ways to get his dinner. Carnegie award-winning author A hilarious herd of sheep are Kevin Crossley-Holland and constantly one step behind Mr gloriously illustrated by Wolf, until he takes one step too internationally renowned far . . . Susan Varley.
A stranger-danger story with a SEP 2019 96pp HB 5+ classic comical tone and a laugh- 9781783447473 230 x 200mm £12.99 out-loud ending from picture book genius Tony Ross.
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KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND is a well-known poet and prize-winning author for children. His books have won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and have been translated into over 25 languages worldwide. He lives on the north Norfolk coast with his wife and children.
SUSAN VARLEY is an award-winning artist who has illustrated many books for Andersen Press. Her picture book Badger’s Parting Gifts is one of the most enduring of all time, winning many prizes, including the Mother Goose Award in 1985. PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Kwame Alexander Kadir Nelson Linda Bailey Júlia Sardà THE UNDEFEATED MARY AND FRANKENSTEIN This is for the unforgettable. One dark and stormy night, Mary huddles The unafraid. The undefeated. around the fire telling well-known ghost stories with her friends. But Mary knows From Newbery Medal-winner she can imagine better than any of them! and New York Times bestselling-author After learning about electricity, she has a Kwame Alexander comes this nightmare that inspires the birth of one of powerful and important ode to black the greatest horror stories of all time: history: the strength and bravery of Frankenstein . . . everyday people and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the The inspiring story of Mary Shelley, brought world’s greatest artists, athletes, to life with stunning illustrations. and activists. SEP 2019 48pp PB 5+ 9781783447633 292 x 190mm £7.99
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KWAME ALEXANDER is a poet, children’s author, playwright, producer, performer, and LINDA BAILEY is the author of more than two dozen books for children and has won many winner of the Newbery Medal for his novel-in-verse, The Crossover. and shortlisted for the awards, such as the California Young Readers’ Medal and the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Carnegie Medal with Rebound. Twitter: @kwamealexander Writers of Canada. She lives in Vancouver within strolling distance of the sea. Twitter: @lindabaileyink
KADIR NELSON is a two-time Caldecott Honor recipient. Among his other awards are an JÚLIA SARDÀ is an illustrator from Barcelona. After her studies, Júlia started working as NAACP Image Award, and the 2009 and 2014 Coretta Scott King Author Award. His work has colourist in a studio which made the editorial merchandising for Disney/Pixar. Now focusing on appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. children’s illustration, Júlia has had the chance to illustrate some incredible debut fiction and Twitter/Instagram: @KadirNelson everlasting classics. Instagram: @juliasardaportabella PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Chris Van Allsburg Matthew Cordell WOLF IN THE SNOW A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find ‘Magical glowing their way home? double spread Pictures rich with feeling pictures . . . an original and tell this satisfying story of memorable book’ friendship and trust. Here GUARDIAN is a near-wordless book set on a wintry night that will ‘Evocative, realist pastels and spark imaginations and atmospheric text’ warm hearts, from SUNDAY TIMES award-winning author and ‘A thrilling tale’ illustrator Matthew Cordell. INDEPENDENT Winner of the 2018 Caldecott Medal.
NOV 2019 THE POLAR EXPRESS 9781783448548 48pp PB 3+ EBook available 216 x 248mm £6.99 A sumptuous new mini gift edition of this Christmas classic. Winner of the Caldecott Medal.
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. ‘Beautifully paced . . . The boy modestly asks for one bell, which turns out to be a very special gift . . . ultimately reassuring’ WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘Expect this wintry tale to bring only warmth’ OCT 2019 32pp HB 3+ BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW 9781783449262 138 x 174mm £6.99
MATTHEW CORDELL is the Caldecott award-winning author and illustrator of Wolf in the CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG lives in Providence, Rhode Island and lectures at Rhode Island School Snow, Trouble Gum, Another Brother, hello! hello!, and Wish, and the illustrator of many other of Design. He is a sculptor and artist, and twice winner of the Caldecott Medal, first for Jumanji and acclaimed children’s books. He lives with his family in Gurnee, Illinois. then for The Polar Express. Twitter @cordellmatthew / Instagram: @cordell_matthew PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS Tony Ross Michael Foreman AN ANTY-WAR STUBBY: STORY A TRUE STORY OF The only ant with his own name, FRIENDSHIP Douglas is born into the Stubby was a brave wonderful Antworld. He dreams soldier, a loyal friend . . . of one day joining the food and a dog. From an army supply chain, but the Chief Ant training camp to the has other ideas for such a big and trenches in France, this is strapping ant . . . the incredible true story of Sergeant Stubby, the An eye-opening allegory about dog who served bravely in the optimism and vulnerability of the First World War. ordinary people during the First World War from master- storyteller Tony Ross. ‘A moving insight into the horrors of war’ JULIA ‘Uncompromisingly powerful’ ECCLESHARE, GUARDIAN LOVEREADING4KIDS ‘A slim book wielding ‘Michael Foreman has a disproportionate power’ flair for turning a picture TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT book into a special occasion’ ‘The perfect way to address the QUENTIN BLAKE idea of war with children’ ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS
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TONY ROSS had his very first picture book published by Andersen Press in 1976, MICHAEL FOREMAN is one of Britain’s best-known and internationally acclaimed creators of and since then he has gone on to illustrate more than 1000 books. Tony Ross has been named as children’s books. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, and has been illustrating for children the UK’s top-selling children’s book illustrator by The Bookseller for the third year in a row. for over 50 years. FICTION FICTION
Julian Clary Illustrated throughout by David Roberts Alex Rühle Illustrated throughout by Axel Scheffler THE BOLDS’ CHRISTMAS CRACKER ZIPPEL: THE LITTLE Merry Christmas from the Bolds! KEYHOLE GHOST Teddington’s wildest family are back with a bumper Paul returns home from school one book of jolly japes. Packed with rib-tickling jokes day to discover a tiny ghost is living and puzzles including wordsearches, crosswords, in the keyhole of his front door. He mazes, riddles and spot the differences, this names him Zippel, and the little will keep kids entertained long after the ghost is curious about everything, Christmas presents are unwrapped! from food and clothes to how the toilet flushes! But Paul’s parents OCT 2019 192pp PB 7-9 want to change the locks – can Paul 9781783448425 198 x 129mm £6.99 find Zippel a new home in time?
www.theboldsbooks.co.uk Filled with full-colour pictures from best-loved illustrator Axel Scheffler, ‘I wish we lived next Zippel is a charming story about door to the Bolds!’ finding friends in the most DAVINA McCALL unexpected of places.
Translated by Rachel Ward
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JULIAN CLARY is a comedian, entertainer, best-selling author and all-round National Trinket. His colourful career has seen him win Celebrity Big Brother, become a Sunday Times best-selling ALEX RÜHLE is a renowned journalist and works as a culture editor for Süddeutsche Zeitung. He novelist, and complete countless smash-hit comedy tours. Twitter: @JulianClary lives in Munich with his family.
DAVID ROBERTS worked as a milliner before turning his talents to illustrating children’s books. He AXEL SCHEFFLER is an award-winning, internationally-acclaimed illustrator of some of the has gone on to work with some of the finest children’s authors including Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline most well-loved children’s books, including The Gruffalo. He was born in Hamburg, and moved to Wilson, and has earned great acclaim for his distinctive style. Instagram: @dr.illustration England in 1982 to study illustration. He lives in London with his partner and daughter. FICTION FICTION Katherine Applegate Alex Gardiner ENDLING: BOOK TWO: MOSSBELLY MACFEARSOME THE FIRST AND THE GOBLIN ARMY Byx might be the last dairne alive. Together It’s Halloween, and Roger is yet again pulled with her companions, she is following a perilous into a bonkers adventure with the grouchy path out of Nedarra and into the snow- dwarf warrior Mossbelly MacFearsome. The covered mountains of the northern country of vicious Goblin Chief Redcap is on the loose Dreyland. The threat of war is growing, and and looking to open an ancient portal back with it, the possible extinction of all Byx’s to his own world. Now Roger, Moss and dreams. Then a terrifying encounter with the their friends must track him down before he terramants, another of the powerful governing unleashes a mighty horde of goblins hellbent species, uncovers a treacherous plan that could on destruction, mayhem . . . and pickled bring devastation to all the creatures of onions. But how exactly does one find a Nedarra. ghoulish goblin on the one night of the year when everyone is in spooky fancy dress? But Byx and her friends are determined to never give up, and find themselves the unlikely leaders in a simmering rebellion that threatens all they hold dear.
Cover art by Max Kostenko Praise for Endling: Cover illustration by James Lancett Praise for Book One: The Last: Mossbelly MacFearsome JUL 2019 SEP 2019 240pp PB 9+ Nominated for the Carnegie Medal. and the Dwarves of Doom: 9781783448371 368pp PB 9-11 9781783449040 198 x 129mm £6.99 Roger’s life is ordinary, until a grumpy dwarf warrior, Mossbelly MacFearsome, appears out of thin air and saves him from the school ‘A touch of Discworld in bully.an Moss decides energetic that Roger must join him EBook available 198 x 129mm £6.99 on his daring quest to defeat his arch-enemy ‘Readers will fall in love with Byx and race Leatherhead Barnstorm and his horrifying horde of monstrous (but very polite) gorefiends. If Roger doesn’t help Moss, the world as we fantasy debut’ THE BOOKSELLERknow it will be destroyed by ogres and dragons and humanity will be annihilated. If he does with her through Nedarra, breathless and help, he will be late for his tea and his mum will be going mad with worry. A Highland castle, a trainee witch who can do karate, and an ancient spell to be broken . . . just what ‘Readers fresh to fantasyhas Roger got himself will into? be eager, thinking deeply all the way’ ‘Fast-paced, smart and very, very funny’ SAM GAYTON
drawn by the rollicking rambunctious£6.99 NEW YORK TIMES Cover illustrations by James Lancett EBOOK available plot and realistic characters’ IRISHwww.andersenpress.co.uk TIMES 9781783447695 9781783447916
KATHERINE APPLEGATE is the author of The One and Only Ivan, winner of the Newbery ALEX GARDINER spent several years in the Merchant Navy before embarking on a sales and Medal. She lives with her husband (the author Michael Grant whom she co-wrote marketing career in the UK motor industry. Now retired, he lives in East Dunbartonshire with his the Animorphs series with) and their two children in Northern California. Twitter: @kaaauthor wife. He reads a lot, writes fantasy for children – and plays very bad golf. FICTION FICTION Barbara Mitchelhill Aoife Walsh SECRET SUFFRAGETTE LOST FOR WORDS Daisy is twelve years old and dreams of Dallas Kelly knows there are some things being a nurse, just like her hero Florence she can’t change; things like Nightingale. It seems an impossible argumentative family members, mean dream for a poor girl in 1912, until she girls at school – and the day her mum meets the suffragettes. Clever, died. But when Dallas hears that her determined and brave, they inspire Daisy local library is going to be closed down to fight for votes for women. for ever, she decides this is something that she can change. Together with her But being a suffragette is dangerous, friends Aiza and Ruby, and her and Daisy must risk getting in trouble freewheeling American aunt Jessi, she with her dad, neighbours and even starts a campaign to save the library the police if she wants to do her bit. for everyone.
An inspiring novel about fighting A beautifully told tale about family, grief for what you believe in from Barbara and growing up. Mitchelhill, twice-winner of the Young Quills Prize for Historical Fiction. ‘A treasure trove of a book’ JANE ELSON
Praise for Too Close to Home: Cover art by Isabelle Follath Cover art by Kate McKendrick Grove ‘Wonderfully authentic. It has a classic feel’ SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST JUN 2019 256pp PB 8-12 JUL 2019 272pp PB 11+ 9781783448333 198 x 129mm £6.99 9781783448340 198 x 129mm £6.99 ‘Witty and moving’ CHILDREN’S BOOKS IRELAND 9781783443000
BARBARA MITCHELHILL was born in Rochdale and trained as a teacher. She began writing for BBC Children’s TV and eventually went on to write books for children. She is a twice winner of AOIFE WALSH lives in Oxford with her husband and three children. She quite likes cooking and the Young Quills Prize for Historical Fiction for Run Rabbit Run and Billy’s Blitz and has been quizzes when she knows the answers, and reading, and excellent American television. And cakes nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She lives in Staffordshire. Twitter: @bmitchelhill and fine wines. Twitter: @AoifeMPWalsh FICTION FICTION Sally Nicholls Stephen Davies ALL FALL DOWN CHESSBOXER A deadly contagion races through England . . . Leah Baxter is a genius. She’s a few wins away from becoming a junior chess Isabel and her family have nowhere to run grandmaster, and her life is on course to from a disease that has killed half of Europe. achieve everything her mom and coach When the world she knows and loves ends want for her. But Leah is at stalemate – for ever, her only weapon is courage. grieving for her father, and feeling suffocated. She decides to make the The Black Death of 1349 was the deadliest ultimate sacrifice and quit chess. But plague in human history. All Fall Down is a chess doesn’t want to quit her. Soon powerful and inspiring story of survival in Leah discovers her new gambit: the face of real-life horror, from the author chessboxing, a dangerous hybrid sport of the highly-acclaimed Things a Bright Girl which will test her body and mind to Can Do. their limits. Can the pawn become the queen?
Praise for Things a Bright Girl Can Do: Praise for SEP 2019 Shortlisted for the 9781783449316 288pp PB 12+ CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 Blood and Ink: EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 ‘Gripping, full of ‘Inspiring, utterly captivating and OCT 2019 320pp PB 12+ excitement, romance and immensely enjoyable’ LOUISE O’NEILL 9781783448401 198 x 129mm £7.99 heart-stopping moments. ‘Nicholls has brought alive the young This is an important book’ women of the past to empower the BOOKS FOR KEEPS next generation’ THE TIMES 9781783446735 9781783442706
SALLY NICHOLLS grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after she left school, travelled the STEPHEN DAVIES spent many years living amongst Fulani herders in Burkina Faso as a world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Her first novel won the Waterstones missionary. He has written for the Guardian (‘Letters from Burkina Faso’) and the Sunday Times Children’s Book Prize and more recently she has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the and is the author of several books for young readers. He now lives in London. YA Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Twitter: @Sally_Nicholls Twitter: @sahelsteve FICTION AWARDS SUCCESS AT ANDERSEN PRESS Sue Cheung CHINGLISH It’s 1984: Jo Kwan is excited her family is moving to a new town. What she isn’t thrilled about is they’ll be living above their Chinese takeaway – a far cry from her dreams of a big house with her own Winner of the Winner of the Shortlisted for the Waterstones room. Jo tells herself if she can get Irish Children’s Book Award Scottish Children’s Book Award Children’s Book Prize 2018 through life with maddening siblings, school bullies, friendship dramas and a series of very unlucky pets, she can someday escape to become the artist she was born to be. But Dad’s behaviour is becoming ever more erratic. Jo’s best hope rests in her talents and her
irrepressible sense of humour . . . Winner of the Winner of the Winner of the Caldecott Medal Caldecott Medal Caldecott Medal Told in diary entries and doodles, Jo’s brilliantly funny observations about life, family and char siu make for a searingly honest portrayal of life on the other side of the takeaway counter. #ChinglishBook
Cover and interior illustrations by the author Shortlisted for the Shortlisted for the Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2019 Carnegie Medal 2019 Costa Children’s Book Award
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SUE CHEUNG was born in the Midlands and at the age of 16 she seized her chance to become an artist by winning a scholarship to the London College of Fashion. She now freelances as a designer from her home in Bournemouth, where she writes and illustrates children’s books. Chinglish
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