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A brilliant mix of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-style crazy invention, but with aliens and a dastardly, doughnut-making villain!...

Where has Faith’s dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in...

Longlisted for the 2021 Klaus Flugge Prize! 👏👏👏 https://twitter.com/KlausFluggePr/status/1359781583176269824?s=19 Reminding me a...

A funny, Wacky Races-style story from Ricky Trickartt, this will thrill younger readers as they follow Asta's mission to build the...

This is a funny and bright book telling the sad tale (sorry!) of Dex and his overly waggy tail that gets him into trouble... Dad tells...

Although everyone knows the tragic end to this story, David Long cleverly and dramatically retells the tale here with enough drama to...

BLOG TOUR POST! Having a child who wears hearing aids, and seeing the delight expressed when she read a book recently that featured a...

Thank you very much to UCLan publishers and Justin for including me on the blog tour for the re-release of the original Vampirates books...

Inspired by real life young heroines such as Grace Darling, this brilliant novella from Peter Bunzl and Barrington Stoke packs a powerful...

These are brilliant in both content and design from illustrators Golden Cosmos (German artistic couple Daniel Doltz and Doris Freigofas)...

UPDATED 31st March 2021 as part of the blogtour for the book - thank you to Walker Books, Jonathan Stroud and Kirsten for including...

Orphans of the Tide was one of my favourite books of last year, and so I was very excited to receive a copy of this from Puffin Books to...

Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. But he pays a price for this gift – by...

1835. Cabin boy Syms Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with the world-famous scientist Charles Darwin....

I loved this...being able to claim that you're reading a book for school/work but because it's by one of your adult favourite authors you...

We were very lucky to have been given a set of these as a class read by Usborne and I've been running a book club in school with my y5...

Two guys named Tom Bone. A spaceman speaking only lyrics from pop songs, confusing the aliens. A Gogolesque telesales agent with a dog...

There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to...

We love this book in this house...and not just because it's a lovely story, brightly and beautifully illustrated, but because there was a...

This fantastic book, full of brilliant facts, stories and theories about UFOs is an absolute delight. I loved the style of the...