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Joseph Coelho Fiona Lumbers Fearne Cotton Sheena Dempsey LUNA LOVES YOGA BABIES LIBRARY DAY We’re the Yoga Babies, look Every week, Luna looks forward to what we can do! one special day: the day when she discovers magic among the library Fearne Cotton’s adorable shelves; the day she gets to spend Yoga Babies love to have fun with her dad. An inspiring story from trying new poses. Sometimes one of the UK’s greatest up-and- life is busy and tricky, but coming poets for children, captured not to worry, Yoga helps in all its flights of fancy by newcomer everyone chill out. Follow Fiona Lumbers. these babies big and small as they try yoga around the house, in the park and before bedtime, then you can have a go at home, too!

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FEARNE COTTON is one of the country’s most-recognisable TV & radio personalities. She JOSEPH COELHO is a performance poet, children’s author, playwright and winner of the is also an author and established fashion and homeware designer. Her extensive career has seen Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2015 for his debut poetry collection Werewolf her present a variety of entertainment shows, including her own weekday show on BBC Radio 1, Club Rules. He regularly performs poetry for children in libraries across the country. @PoetryJoe alongside hosting Top of the Pops and coverage for Comic Relief and Children in Need. She lives in London and enjoys practising yoga with her two young children at home. @FearneCotton

FIONA LUMBERS has drawn on anything and everything from an early age and always insisted she would be an artist when she grew up. She moved to London in 2000 to study painting at the SHEENA DEMPSEY has illustrated many books including Dave Pigeon, which was Royal College of Art. A combination of her obsession with picture books and the arrival of her shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Book Award 2016. She is a proud member of Illustrators Ireland first son led her down the path of illustration and she hasn’t looked back since. @fionalumbers and currently lives in London. @SheenaDempsey PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Reece Wykes Robert Starling I DARE YOU FERGAL Two bored gorillas decide IS FUMING to play a game of dares. Fergal is a nice chap . . . Eating dares. Who will but if things don’t go his end up the big-bellied way, he gets very, very winner, and who the ANGRY. When he starts sore-bellied loser? to see other animals have clever tricks to The razor-sharp wit of calm down, Fergal begins this picture book debut is to win back his friends, pitch perfect for children especially as he discovers who love outsmarting dragons can cool off in a their friends. very handy way.

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ROBERT STARLING began doodling creatures and characters at school and hasn’t stopped REECE WYKES studied illustration and animation at Kingston University. His work has been since. He lives and works in Bristol, and when he’s not sketching up new characters or writing highly commended by the Macmillan Children’s Book Prize and he was joint winner of the down stories he can be found sculpting, brewing coffee, adjusting his headphones or foraging in Worldwide Illustration Prize, UK category. He now lives and works in London. @ReeceWykes the kitchen for cake. Oh, and teaching kids. Fergal is Fuming is his first book. David McKee ELMER’S BEDTIME “Yaaaaawn!” Elmer is sleepy – help ELMER AND him find the perfect bed in his own THE TUNE puppet-book adventure. Bring the story to life as puppet-Elmer splashes Ever heard a tune you in the lake with the hippos, tries to just can’t get out of climb a tree with the monkeys, yawns, your head? Rose has. snuggles and waves goodbye. The Come with Elmer as cuddly puppet fits both big and little he crosses the jungle, hands, perfect for sharing. following the infectious tune as it spreads to every animal Rose meets! Can Elmer help them to get rid of it?

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ELMER’S CHRISTMAS It’s the season for giving with this festive, glittering mini hardback in which everyone gets a Christmas treat! On Christmas Eve, after the elephants have fallen asleep, Papa Red flies down on his sleigh. But this year, Elmer has a special treat for the young elephants.

SEP 2017 9781783445462 32pp HB The perfect stocking filler. EBook available 230 x 200mm £11.99 ‘Delightful and charming, colourful and entertaining – with a timely reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.’ CAROUSEL

DAVID McKEE is a legend in children’s books. Over a career spanning fifty years, he has created a host of favourite characters including Elmer the patchwork elephant, King Rollo and SEP 2017 Mr Benn. David now divides his time between London and the South of France. 9781783445783 32pp HB EBook available 150 x 130mm £6.99 www.elmer.co.uk I DON’T WANT TO GO TO BED! Tony Ross “Why do I have to go to bed when I’m not tired?” the Little Princess asks, and she uses every trick she can think of to avoid her fate: monsters in the cupboard, hairy spiders, thirst, even outright escape! I WANT SNOW! It might be the middle of summer, but AUG 2017 9781783445820 32pp PB ‘Another classic Little Princess EBook available 264 x 235mm £6.99 the Little Princess demands SNOW. The story to add to the collection.’ EYE whole palace tries all kinds of things – from sandmen instead of snowmen to mudballs instead of snowballs. But this I WANT TO DO IT BY MYSELF! little royal won’t be satisfied until she gets what she wants . . . and sometimes not The Little Princess wants to organise her camping trip all by herself, even then! but when she realises she’s forgotten a few essentials, it seems her royal highness really could do with a spot of help . . .

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I WANT MY MUM! When things go wrong, there’s one person who can always make it better. So how will the Queen feel when her Little Princess learns to cope on her own?

SEP 2017 I WANT MY POTTY! 9781783445806 32pp PB The first, classic Little Princess tale about the EBook available 264 x 235mm £6.99 perils of potty training is now a board book with press button sound! “Nappies are YUUECH!” I DON’T WANT TO WASH MY HANDS! At first, the Little Princess thinks the royal The Little Princess is bored of always washing her hands after playing potty is even worse than nappies but she outside, using the potty, patting the dog . . . But will she change her mind soon learns to love it – even if it isn’t always when she learns that ‘germs and nasties’ are even more horrible than there just when she needs it! crocodiles and so small you can’t see them?

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John Yeoman Quentin Blake THE WORLD’S LAZIEST DUCK This book isn’t funny. This is a serious work of reference, for serious record collectors, full of serious facts.

Discover the highest jump by a flea with a wooden leg, meet Wuffles the world’s hairiest spider, and find out how many penguins can fit in a telephone box. Record collectors John Yeoman and Quentin Blake covered 18,291 miles by railway, sedan chair and diving bell to collect their astonishing information.

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ALL THE YEAR ROUND Quentin Blake and John Yeoman invite you to dive into the year with a spot of spring cleaning (that ends in a mess), a summer picnic (invaded by ants), Halloween dress-up (or not, if you’re already scary) and the only thing to be done in December . . .

Kicking off with an exhibition of the book’s art at the House of Illustration, these wonderfully drawn seasonal rhymes will have you chuckling all the year round. QUENTIN BLAKE is one of the UK’s most beloved illustrators. He has won numerous awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate and in 2013 he received a knighthood for ‘services to illustration’. PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Jenny McCartney Patrick Benson Tony Ross THE STONE BIRD RED RIDING HOOD & THREE LITTLE PIGS It might look like another pebble Discover two more board books in Tony Ross’s popular Favourite Fairy Tale series, retelling on the beach, but to Eliza it’s an these famous stories for our very youngest readers. Featuring chunky tabs to make it easy egg. Then one night she hears a for little hands to turn each page and a QR code to download the audio reading, this is a cracking sound . . . it might still perfect gift to share. look like a stone to her mum, but Eliza knows this is the Stone Bird.

A celebration of children’s belief in the incredible, illustrated by Patrick Benson of Owl Babies and The Minpins fame.

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NOV 2017 9781783445509 32pp HB EBook available 280 x 240mm £11.99 ‘Tony Ross fills every book he creates with wit and invention’ LOVEREADING

JENNY McCARTNEY is a successful journalist whose work often features in national newspapers. The Stone Bird is her debut picture book.

PATRICK BENSON has illustrated the work of the greatest children’s authors, TONY ROSS had his very first picture book published by Andersen Press in 1976, and since including Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo, Mal Peet and Martin Waddell. Patrick lives and then he has gone on to illustrate more than 1000 books. A TV adaptation of his much-loved works on his farm in Scotland. Little Princess series is currently showing on Channel 5’s Milkshake. PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Jeanne Willis Tony Ross TROLL STINKS THE T-REX WHO Billy Goat discovers the perils LOST HIS SPECS! of sending mean messages When T-Rex loses his in this timely tale of online specs, his whole day, his bullying. whole world, is thrown into chaos: he can’t tell Billy and Cyril’s Grandpa Gruff his breakfast kipper from says trolls are bad, so the two a slipper, then he mistakes little goats decide to get their a prehistoric owl for his own back by sending bath towel! mean messages. After all, trolls A laugh-out-loud tale really do stink! from legendary picture Don’t they? book duo Willis and Ross.

‘Wise and funny.’ OCT 2017 9781783445691 32pp PB NEW STATESMAN EBook available 270 x 230mm £6.99

OCT 2017 Praise for Chicken Clicking: 9781783445493 32pp HB ‘A great book for parents and teachers to use to EBook available 280 x 240mm £11.99 introduce safety on the internet (not forgetting a fun story too)’ GUARDIAN

‘Highly entertaining . . . A subtle introduction to JEANNE WILLIS is one of the most successful children’s picture book authors in the UK. responsible internet use, lightened by Willis’s wild She has written many award-winning books, including Who’s in the Loo?, which won the Red imagination and Ross’s delightful pictures’ House Children’s Book Award. Her books with Tony Ross include Tadpole’s Promise, which won DAILY MAIL the Silver Smarties Prize and more recently, Chicken Clicking, a cautionary tale about the perils of misusing the internet. 9781783441617 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Birgitta Sif Angela McAllister Nathan Reed SAMSON: THE MIGHTY FLEA! Roll-up! Roll-up! Meet Samson, star of Fleabag’s Circus and the smallest strongman in the world – with the biggest ego. Samson SWISH AND can lift a match, he can lift a pea, SQUEAK’S he can lift lovely flea Amelie. But NOISY DAY it’s not enough – Samson wants Crunch, Crunch, to be the biggest star anywhere. CRUNCH! Is that a So he sets off into the big, crocodile chomping wide world . . . the kitchen table? An ‘Nathan Reed’s illustrations make the adventure through a flea circus a bright and glamorous place world of sounds, this and his fleas are truly believable heroes.’ story will have every LOVEREADING4KIDS reader thinking about their own noisy day.

SEP 2017 9781783445660 40pp PB EBook available 250 x 260mm £6.99 ‘A really charming JUL 2017 32pp PB 9781783445127 230 x 230mm £6.99 celebration of the imagination.’ THE BOOKSELLER

ANGELA McALLISTER has written over fifty books for children. She studied philosophy and worked as a nanny around the world before her career in books. In 2011, she won the Red House Children’s Book Award for Yuck! That’s Not A Monster! She lives in Hampshire. 9781783443635

BIRGITTA SIF was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and studied Art and Design in the US before NATHAN REED is an illustrator and printmaker. Since graduating from Falmouth College of moving to England to study illustration. Her first book, Oliver, was shortlisted for the Kate Arts in 2000, his artwork has featured in books, national newspapers, limited edition prints and Greenaway Medal. Birgitta lives in Cambridge. @birgittasif greetings cards. He lives in London. @NathanReed_illo PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

David McKee Posy Simmonds MELRIC AND THE CROWN LULU AND THE FLYING BABIES It’s time for the Ceremony of the Crown, when the Lulu doesn’t want to be stuck in the museum, she King proves his right to rule. But something strange wants to play in the snow, so she escapes on a is going on: could the King’s crown be a fake? Melric magical adventure through art with the flying babies, must solve the royal riddle before the King and meeting Kings, growling at tigers and getting lost in his crown are put to the test. The fifth adventure the woods. featuring the wise and brave magician. OCT 2017 9781783445707 32pp PB JUL 2017 9781783445387 32pp PB EBook available 280 x 215mm £6.99 EBook available 200 x 240mm £6.99

‘Simmonds, using a comic-strip technique reminiscent ‘David McKee’s delightful of Raymond Briggs’s Father Christmas and Snowman, Melric and the Crown has brings great warmth and humor to her illustrations.’ the same charmingly playful NEW YORK TIMES qualities as his best-selling Elmer stories.’ LOVEREADING4KIDS Fulvio Testa Ruth Brown IF YOU TAKE A PENCIL BLACK BEAUTY If you take a pencil, you can draw two cats. But Celebrating the 140th anniversary of Black Beauty’s then what do the cats do? Full of fantastical publication, Ruth Brown retells the classic story for the adventure and imagination, this surreal, charming very youngest horse lovers. Told through his own eyes, counting book will take you on a journey that readers will get swept up in Black Beauty’s incredible anyone can go on, if they take a pencil . . . journey from a peaceful paddock to the streets of London. No matter what he encounters, nothing can A classic republished for a new generation. break Black Beauty’s spirit.

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‘An expansive, eye-catching adventure that doesn’t exhaust ‘Ruth Brown is an amazing illustrator.’ INDEPENDENT itself on the first go-through.’ KIRKUS PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

David Wiesner Chris Van Allsburg HURRICANE JUMANJI The morning after a hurricane, Bestselling Caldecott-Medal-winning Chris David and George discover Van Allsburg explores the ever-shifting line a fallen tree . . . but is it just a between fantasy and reality with this story tree? The two brothers find about a game that comes startlingly to life. themselves on an adventure of Read the original tale and then enjoy the the imagination that leads them new Jumanji film, due to release in late 2017. through treacherous jungles and across the high seas. An NOV 2017 32pp PB incredible adventure from 9781849394215 245 x 280mm £6.99 multi-award-winning Wiesner. ‘A beautiful simplicity of design, balance, texture, and a subtle intelligence beyond the SEP 2017 call of illustration.’ NEW YORK TIMES 9781783445776 32pp PB EBook available 280 x 230mm £6.99

THE POLAR EXPRESS + CD ‘Wiesner’s detailed, exquisitely rendered paintings draw the reader into his story of a hurricane’s progress with all the sweep and immediacy of a film sequence . . . This is Discover the magical Christmas classic and an exuberant, absorbing slice of life.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY listen to the tale read by film star Liam Neeson, whose gravitas lends the story just the right sense of magic and possibility. Late one Christmas Eve, a boy boards a mysterious train: the Polar Express, bound for the North Pole.

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‘A Christmas classic that will charm every child and adult alike. The accompanying 9781849394499 9781849394475 CD read by Liam Neeson is an absolute joy.’ THE BOOKBAG

DAVID WIESNER is one of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed picture book creators in the world. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG is a sculptor and artist, and twice winner of the Caldecott Medal, have won numerous awards in the US and all over the globe. He lives with his family outside of first for Jumanji, and then for The Polar Express. He has also received a Lifetime Achievement Philadelphia, USA. Award from the Society of Illustrators in October 2009. FICTION FICTION

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Illustrated throughout by Amelie Glienke Wendy Finney Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross THE LITTLE VAMPIRE SPOOKY NIGHT! Nine-year-old Tony loves ghosts and horror stories, but when he’s left home alone one The Little Princess is not so little any more! Perfect night, he gets quite the fright as Rudolph the for newly independent readers, this full-colour little vampire flies in! series brings Tony Ross’ beloved character to a whole new audience. Soon the two are firm friends (when Rudolph isn’t trying to bite Tony). But what will happen Princess Rosie is woken in the night by a very when Tony’s parents try to invite his new friend strange noise. Just what could it be? for dinner . . . ? Together with her best friend Ollie, she goes on a hunt round the royal castle to find out. It’s going SEP 2017 144pp PB 7+ to be a very spooky night! 9781783445769 198 x 129mm £6.99

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‘Specifically designed for confident readers LOOK OUT who feel ready to FOR THE NEW tackle chapter books’ FILM COMING GUARDIAN AUTUMN APR 17 APR 17 JUL 17 2017! 9781783445097 9781783445233 9781783445110

TONY ROSS’ very first picture book was published by Andersen Press in 1976, and since ANGELA SOMMER-BODENBURG comes from Hamburg, Germany, where she was a then he has gone on to illustrate more than 1000 books. A TV adaptation of his much-loved Little primary school teacher. She now lives in the USA. The Little Vampire is her most famous book Princess series is currently showing on Channel 5’s Milkshake. and has sold 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 30 languages. FICTION FICTION

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SPOOKY JOKES Julian Clary Illustrated throughout by David Roberts Illustrated throughout by Nigel Baines THE BOLDS ON HOLIDAY The perfect Halloween treat, this little The Bolds may look ordinary, but they have a book of freaky funnies will have kids great big secret – they’re hyenas! screaming with laughter! It’s the summer holidays – YIPPEE! The Bolds are going to camp by the sea. But it’s not long What did the before trouble sniffs them out, and one of skeleton say when his them goes missing. Can the Bolds come to the brother told a lie? rescue and carry on camping? You can’t fool me, I can see right JUL 2017 through you. 9781783445202 320pp PB 7+ EBook available 198 x 129mm £6.99

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OCT 2017 128pp PB 7+ 9781783445721 95 x 95mm £3.99 Praise for The Bolds: ‘Joyful’ TELEGRAPH ‘Glorious’ DAILY MAIL www.theboldsbooks.co.uk ‘Heaps of fun’ HEAT 9781783443055 9781783443802

JULIAN CLARY is a comedian, entertainer, best-selling author and all-round National Trinket. His colourful career has seen him win Celebrity Big Brother and complete countless smash-hit What happens if comedy tours. His life-long love of animals inspired him to tell a story about what would happen you see twin witches? if they pretended to be like us, and he now enjoys touring the country, reading his books aloud to children and animals alike. @JulianClary You won’t be able to tell which witch is witch. DAVID ROBERTS worked as a milliner before turning his talents to illustrating children’s books. He has gone on to work with some of the world’s finest children’s authors. David loves drawing animals and clothes and hats, so what could be better than a book about animals in clothes and hats? 9781783444878 FICTION FICTION

Derek Keilty Illustrated throughout by Jonny Duddle Julia Jarman WILL GALLOWS AND THE THE TIME-TRAVELLING CAT SERIES THUNDER DRAGON’S ROAR This beloved series has come back to the future with a bright and fresh new look! Fantasy meets the Wild West in this action- Topher’s cat Ka is a very special cat indeed, and whenever she disappears, packed series full of magic and mayhem! it’s down to Topher to follow her mysterious trail of clues into the past . . . The West Rock is crumbling. Land is fast becoming more precious than gold. Sky AUG 2017 PB 8+ cowboy Will Gallows is caught up in a bitter 198 x 129mm £6.99 ‘Intriguing and well-written fantasy’ BOOKS FOR KEEPS land feud between the cowboy settlers and the elves.

With battle looming, Will sets out to save his uncle from the hangman’s noose and face the deadly thunder-dragons. But he stumbles on to a treacherous plot – can he help save the elves’ home before it’s too late?

‘Action packed, this is an inventive story with a host of larger-than-life characters’ LOVEREADING

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9781849392365 9781849395359 ‘Entertaining adventure for children interested accompaniment in life long ago’ IRISH TIMES to Key Stage 2 History. DEREK KEILTY began writing in 2000 as a new millennium resolution and hasn’t looked back. ‘A good read and will keep 8 to 10 year olds He lives in Northern Ireland with his wife and twin daughters. @DerekKeilty interested’ THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN

JONNY DUDDLE won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for his second picture book, The Pirates Next Door. His work has also appeared in Aardman animations, Terry Pratchett novels, JULIA JARMAN has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford and devotes and the Harry Potter series. @duddledum a lot of her time to school and library visits. @JuliaJarman FICTION FICTION

Terence Blacker Danny Weston BOY2GIRL SCARECROW A humorous story that looks at the Jack and his dad are on the run from some different ways boys and girls are expected powerful and dangerous people. Dad drives to behave – no matter who they really are them to a remote shooting lodge in the underneath it all. Scottish Highlands, where they intend to There was a sudden blur of movement, as the scarecrow lifted a hand, grabbed the bird and pulled it towards lay low. Matthew’s Americanhis own face. There cousin was a brief has commotion come of feathers, a splash of something bright red and the bird was gone. to live with them: Sam’s small, blond and In the cornfield beside the lodge stands a Jack and his dad are on the run. Dad has discovered wild – with aimportant giant information attitude about problem. the illegal dealings He of some scarecrow. When Jack witnesses something immediately startspowerful to people, wreak and they havoc want to find on him. incredible, he begins to realise that it is no Realising they’re in danger, they hide out in a remote Matthew’s sociallodge in life the Scottish – getting highlands, nextinto to which fights stands a ordinary scarecrow – it is alive, hungry and with his friendsscarecrow. and When causing Jack sees something a scene impossible, he starts fuelled by rage. And when Dad’s enemies to realise that they are not alone. This thing is alive – and whenever theyit is hungrygo out. and dangerous. School But how is muchabout is real, andto begin to converge on the lodge, the start and Matthew andhow much his is infriends Jack’s mind? don’t scarecrow might just turn out to be Jack’s want these problems to continue so they best hope for survival.

come up with a plotAlso available for Sam to prove his loyalty to their gang and to trick the mean OCT 2017 272pp PB YA 9781783445318 198 x 129mm £7.99 girls at school. They dare Sam to£7.00 go to school for the first week as a girl. But what ebook happens next totally doesn’t go availableto plan . . . www.andersenpress.co.uk ANDERSEN

Cover design by James Fraser PRESS ‘Very enjoyable and thought-provoking’

DRAFT COVER PHILIP ARDAGH, GUARDIAN Winner of the Scottish ‘I roared with laughter’ OCT 2017 Children’s Book Award. 9781783445752 288pp PB 12+ AMANDA CRAIG, THE TIMES EBook available 198 x 129mm £7.99 Praise for The Piper ‘Wonderfully twisty chiller that’s sure to make you want to keep all of the lights on this Halloween’ SCOTSMAN 9781783440511 9781783443215 9781783444618

TERENCE BLACKER has written numerous books for adults, teens and younger readers DANNY WESTON is an author for children and young adults. He lives in Edinburgh and is including the Ms Wiz series. He is also a journalist and musician. He lives in Norfolk, where he plays available for school and library visits. In 2016 he won the Scottish Children’s Book Award for the guitar and grows trees. @TerenceBlacker The Piper. FICTION AWARDS SUCCESS AT ANDERSEN PRESS Sally Nicholls THINGS A BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms, freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East

End, three courageous young women, Winner of the Irish Winner of the Scottish Shortlisted for the Evelyn, May and Nell, join the fight for Children’s Book Award Children’s Book Award Laugh Out Loud Book Awards women’s votes. As the First World War looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?

Things a Bright Girl Can Do is Sally Nicholls’ dazzling return to YA fiction.

SEP 2017 9781783445257 384pp HB YA EBook available 216 x 135mm £12.99 Winner of the English 4-11 Picture Shortlisted for the Sheffield Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Award Children’s Book Award 2017 Children’s Book Prize 2017

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‘Inspiring. Sally Nicholls deftly weaves history and politics with such a lightness of touch, it’s impossible Winner of the Winner of the Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize Newbery Medal Costa Children’s Book Award to stop reading. Immensely enjoyable’ LOUISE O’NEILL

SALLY NICHOLLS grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally’s first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Children’s Book Award. 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