“The Mortal Instruments series is a story world I love to live in. Beautiful.” Stephenie Meyer Walker Books E New titles • July 2009 Highlight of the Month City of Glass Backlist By Cassandra Clare Opportunities Third instalment in the bestselling urban gothic fantasy sequence, The Mortal Instruments. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentine’s hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace and the Lightwoods are recalled to Idris, the Shadowhunters’ remote and hidden home country, where a search has begun for the last of the Instruments, the Mortal Glass. Clary finds herself caught up in the chaos as the delicate social order of the Nephilim begins to shatter, pitting Downworlder against Downworlder and Shadowhunters against each other. When the City of Glass falls under attack, can City of Bones Downworlders and Nephilim fight together to defeat 9781406307627 • £7.99 Paperback Valentine, or will their longstanding hatred destroy them all? And when Clary discovers the unbelievable truth about her own past, can she find Jace before it’s too late? • “The Mortal Instruments series is a story world I love to live in. Beautiful!” Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight • “Funny, dark, and sexy ... Cassie’s writing makes my toes curl with envy.” Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles • Cassandra Clare has strong presence on social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, which features the characters from City of Glass. City of Ashes 9781406307634 • £7.99 9781406307641 • £7.99 Paperback Paperback • 198x129mm 496 pages • 14 years + Fiction Scream Street Backlist Opportunities Two more ghoulishly funny stories in the spooky series from Tommy Donbavand. Scream Street: Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire Blood of the Witch 9781406320602 • £4.99 9781406314250 • £4.99 Paperback Paperback Scream Street: Scream Street: Scream Street: Scream Street: Skull of the Skeleton Claw of the Werewolf Heart of the Mummy Flesh of the Zombie 9781406314267 • £4.99 9781406314274 • £4.99 Luke, Resus and Cleo are recruited to help with the Luke is now just one relic away from opening the Paperback Paperback search for the head of the world’s most famous doorway back to his own world and taking his ghost, The Headless Horseman, but Luke is already parents from the terrors of Scream Street – but the • Each book comes with four free collector’s cards inside. on a head hunt of his own: for the skull left behind final search for the claw of a werewolf will plunge by the first skeleton to live in Scream Street. But Sir him and his friends Resus and Cleo into their most • Wickedly funny Scream Street website, www.screamstreet. 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Boudica: The Secrets of the Druids 9781406312539 • £5.99 Paperback William the Conqueror: Pocahontas: The Prophecy of Doom Nowhere to Hide There was a prophecy talked of among the Native Americans of A young boy is sent away to France, far Virginia – a prophecy that one day a nation would spring from a from the political turmoil of the Normandy certain spot on Chesapeake Bay and destroy them. When ships court. He spends his years training to land there in April 1607, Chief Powhatan wants the intruders killed become a knight and learning the value and when their leader, John Smith, is captured, the Chief orders of friendship and loyalty, which will be vital his execution. But Pocahontas bravely intervenes and persuades when he decides he must return to take her father to befriend the foreigners, learning English to act as his rightful place as Duke of Normandy. translator and helping the newcomers survive the bitter winters Cleopatra: Escape in the strange land. But are they to be trusted or will the prophecy Down the Nile come true? 9781406310337 • £5.99 9781406313727 • £5.99 9781406313734 • £5.99 Paperback Paperback • 198x129mm Paperback • 198x129mm 208 pages • 9 years + 192 pages • 9 years + Fiction The Baker Street Boys Glister By Anthony Read By Andi Watson A thrilling historical adventure series about Sherlock Holmes’s The first two titles in a jaunty new series for younger girls told in comic-strip featuring the gang of street-urchin detectives. Ideal for encouraging boys delightfully eccentric Glister Butterworth – girl-magnet for the weird and the unusual. to read. • A bright and sparky new heroine in the world of children’s books. • “Throwing in trolls, witches, magic beans, and a battle swine named Gullinbursti, Andi The Case of the constantly surprises young and old with his fresh take on fairytale fantasies.” Paul Gravett Haunted Horrors When Sarge sees a ghost in one of The Haunted Teapot the exhibits during his night watch Strange things happen around Glister Butterworth. (Frightfully at the Baker Street Bazaar waxworks inconsiderate it is, too.) When a very rare teapot arrives on the exhibition, Wiggins and Beaver decide to Butterworth’s doorstep (with no name, and no address) Glister and her investigate. When they do, they realize father raise a slight eyebrow, but waste no time putting the kettle on. that all is not as it seems. Suddenly the You see, it’s not uncommon for the unexpected and the unexplained Baker Street Boys are catapulted into a at Chilblain Hall, and there’s always room for tea. But, haunted tea is mystery involving a Russian spy ring, a really quite a different story. And indeed it was… case of mistaken identity … and murder. 9781406303438 • £4.99 9781406320480 • £4.99 Paperback • 198x129mm Paperback • 185x135mm 160 pages • 8 years + 64 pages • 6 years + Backlist Opportunities The House Hunt The Case of the The Case of the Stolen Sparklers Captive Clairvoyant Chilblain Hall may well be a little tumbledown, have creaky timbers 9781406303421 • £4.99 9780744570168 • £4.99 Paperback Paperback and a certain unpredictable air, but it still has feelings. Just like you or me. So it’s quite easy to see how the Butterworths’ home got in a The Case of the The Case of the huff, uprooted and left after overhearing Mr Swarkstone call it some Limehouse Laundry Disappearing Detective pretty dreadful names. 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Maisy’s Clothes – Maisy’s Animals – Maisy S’habille Les Animaux de Maisy Swimsuit, hat, T-shirt, shorts, raincoat, wellies, Duck, butterfly, frog, cat, dog, sheep, pig, umbrella, socks, shoes, skirt, shirt, belt, dress ... horse, hen, chicks, penguin, tortoise, tiger, and don’t forget the dressing-up clothes: pirate snake, starfish, snail, fish ... all Maisy’s costume and fairy outfit! All Maisy’s favourite favourite animals are here. clothes are included here in Lucy Cousins’ 9780744581577 • £3.99 distinctive, popular art style. Board • 158x158mm 16 pages • 18 months + 9780744581553 • £3.99 Board • 158x158mm 16 pages • 18 months + Maisy’s Toys – Maisy’s Food – Les Jouets de Maisy Maisy Mange All Maisy’s favourite toys – paints and brush, All a child’s favourite foods – apple, banana, doll, blocks, tricycle, bucket and spade, yoghurts, milk, cheese, juice, peas, carrots, scooter, ball, train, tractor, teddy, drum, buggy broccoli, pasta, sausage, egg, cake, jelly and and car – appear. ice-cream… Enjoy! 9780744581560 • £3.99 9781406319378 • £3.99 Board • 158x158mm Board • 158x158mm 16 pages • 18 months + 16 pages • 18 months + Character and Series The Large Family A Piece of Cake By Jill Murphy When Mrs Large decides she is too fat, she puts the Read by Miriam Margoyles whole family on a diet. Biscuits and crisps are out; These modern picture-book classics are now with storybook CDs – healthy meals and healthy jogs are in. But for hungry elephants, dieting is definitely not a piece of cake! there’s never a dull moment with the Large Family! Running time approximately 12 minutes. • As seen on CBeebies! 9781406320930 • £6.99 Paperback with CD • 215x260mm • The Large Family Series has sold four million copies worldwide. 32 pages • 3 years + • “Family life is beautifully observed with a humour that appeals to both adult and child.” The Daily Telegraph All In One Piece Mr Large In Charge Mr and Mrs Large are getting ready for the office Mrs Large isn’t feeling well so Mr Large sends her dinner-dance. But with Lester, Laura, Luke and the back to bed.