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CHILDREN’S PREVIEW JUNE


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FICTION 5–9


SIBEAL POUNDER, JASON COCKROFT (ILLUS) BAD MERMAIDS BLOOMSBURY, 1ST, £5.99, PB,


9781408877128


From the brilliantly funny Witch Wars series author comes the first in a new series set beneath the waves in a shell-studded mermaid metropolis. Expect stylish and determined heroines, fish puns aplenty and crazy comedy action as Pounder is partnered with Cockroft for the first time. I loved it but more importantly, so did my eight-year-old daughter. Pounder is a big talent and Bloomsbury has very sensibly snapped her up for more Witch Wars and a third, yet to be revealed, series.


HERITAGE


J K ROWLING HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE GRYFFINDOR EDITION BLOOMSBURY,


1ST, £7.99, PB, 9781408883730


On the 29th June, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone celebrates its 20th birthday, news that makes me feel simultaneously really old but also very joyful to have been part of it. Four Hogwarts House editions of Philosopher’s Stone will be published with bespoke extra content, sprayed edges in house colours and Levi Pinfold- illustrated jackets, available in hardback and paperback. Also this month comes the Hogwarts Library Box Set, featuring hardback editions of Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Tales of Beedle the Bard.


PICTURE BOOK


BETHAN WOOLLVIN RAPUNZEL MACMILLAN, 15TH, £11.99, HB, 9781509842674


This is Rapunzel as


you’ve never seen her before. Rising star Woollvin dispatches with the prince and lets her golden-haired princess rely on courage and wits to thwart her witchy captor. As in her début Little Red, Woollvin uses colour to striking effect, with bold black and whites contrasted with vivid splashes of yellow. A dark, witty and playful retelling with a wonderfully feminist twist. Publishing alongside is the paperback of Little Red, which was named a New York Times Top Ten Illustrated Book of the Year 2016.


TOP SELLERS


THERE’S A MONSTER IN YOUR BOOK PUFFIN, 29TH, £10.99, HB, 9780141376097 A bedtime book perfect for sharing, inviting readers to shake, wiggle and spin the mischievous monster.


DAVID BADDIEL, JIM FIELD (ILLUS) ANIMALCOLM HARPERCOLLINS, 1ST, £6.99, PB,


9780008185169 Wish fulfilment comedy for every child who’s


wondered what it might be like to be an animal. Now in paperback.


ENID BLYTON SUMMER HOLIDAY STORIES HODDER, 1ST £6.99, PB, 9781444932782 Timmy the dog and the O’Sullivan twins cameo in a new seasonal anthology.


JULIA DONALDSON, LYDIA MONKS (ILLUS) WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD ON HOLIDAY MACMILLAN, 29TH £11.99 HB, 9781509837328 Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh are back—again—with a dastardly plan to pinch the Queen’s crown. Third in the crime-busting Ladybird sequence.


DEREK LANDY RESURRECTION HARPERCOLLINS, 1ST, £14.99, HB,


TOM FLETCHER, GREG ABBOTT (ILLUS)


9780008169022 Skulduggery makes a surprise return in a 10th epic adventure. Few details yet, but Landy teases that his characters may come to wish they hadn’t survived the first series . . .


MICHAEL MORPURGO, MICHAEL FOREMAN (ILLUS) THE FOX AND THE GHOST KING HARPERCOLLINS 1ST, £5.99, PB,


9780008215804 Illustrated tale of foxes, football and a ghostly king, now in paperback.


RACHEL RENEE RUSSELL THE MISADVENTURES OF MAX CRUMBLY 2 SIMON & SCHUSTER, 6TH, £10.99, HB,


9781471144646 Second in the new series from the Dork Diaries creator.


AXEL SCHEFFLER FLIP FLAP OCEAN NOSY CROW, 1ST, £8.99, BOARD, 9780857639967 Latest in the split-page novelty series, with more than 100 silly and extremely funny underwater creature combos.


HARPERCOLLINS 1ST, £5.99, PB,


9780008195458 Summer special Geek Girl novella, now in paperback.


JACQUELINE WILSON CLOVER MOON RANDOM HOUSE, 29TH JUNE, £6.99, PB, 9780440870258


Victorian adventure, now in paperback.


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HOLLY SMALE SUNNY SIDE UP


MIKE BROWNLOW, SIMON RICKERTY (ILLUS) TEN LITTLE DINOSAURS ORCHARD, 1ST, £6.99, BOARD, 9781408346464 New in board, a stomping, chomping dino romp.


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