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families and breaking free from your environment to find the truth. For booksellers wanting a fresh and commercial book to stock, Scarlett Li’s The Lucky House Detective Agency (Knights Of) is set in and around a Chinese takea- way. At a time when diversity in children’s books is at risk of decline, Li is a fresh and authentic voice, providing essential representation of Chinese characters and culture. There will be several books published to mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Anna James is continuing the story with Alice with a Why: Return to Wonderland, coming from HarperCollins. Its heroine is Alyce, the grand- daughter of the original Alice; her journey into Wonderland is a celebration of Carroll’s creation, and an enchanting adventure in its own right.
At a time when diversity in children’s books is at risk of decline, Scarlett Li is a fresh and authentic voice, providing essential representation of Chinese characters
New editions of Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland are in the pipeline from Macmillan Children’s Books and Penguin Classics, and Macmillan is publish- ing a push, pull, slide adaptation for toddlers, but one release that I’m particularly excited about is Macmillan’s Alice Pull-Out Prints: Illustrations from Wonderland. This will include artwork from original artist John Tenniel, but also Chris Riddell, Arthur Rackham and Julia Sarda.
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Teenage & YA
Lauryn Hamilton Murray Heir of Storms
Penguin, 5th, £9.99, PB, 9780241681121
Children’s Book of the Month
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Blaze is a girl whose past weighs heavily on her shoulders. She is a daughter of the House Harglade, descended from the fire goddess Vesta, yet her birth triggered a storm that flooded the world and caused many to die. Several years later, at a ball for her 17th Name Day, her powers reawaken and she is soon chosen to compete against other Etheri, masters of elemental powers, to be the ruler of a kingdom. Blaze is an “Aquatori” and must learn to
control her powers, while battling against some friendly (and some not so friendly) competitors, until she starts to fall for a handsome prince. So far, so romantasy, you may think, but Murray is a real writing talent and she packs in twists and turns in every chapter. She has also pulled off the rare feat of giving the romance part of the romantasy a genuinely surprising twist. There has been a lot of hype about
Heir of Storms over the past few months and Penguin acquired the manuscript for an incredible “upper six-figure deal”. Is the hype worth it? The answer is yes, yes it is. Prepare to lose yourself in the fantasy YA of the year.
y non-fiction picks are Didier Cornille’s The Cities of the Future (Post
Wave) and Emma Young’s What If… You Didn’t Make Snot? (DK), but keep an eye out for Choose Your Own Evolution by Jules Howard and Gordy Wright (Nosy Crow); this pick-your-own-path adventure is one of my favourite non-fiction books coming this year, but it was also one of the top choices in the most recent Buyer’s Guide, so it seemed only fair to highlight other titles. Chanté Timothy’s Supa Nova (Nosy Crow) also didn’t make the Top 10 for the same reason, but please keep this feminist, bright and bold graphic novel in mind when deciding what to stock. Finally: unicorns and potty training. Neither are particularly original concepts in children’s books, but there are two new releases coming in June that do them really well. First is Poopicorn by Beach (S&S Children’s), which is about a unicorn who finds a magical flower and, despite the warnings of her mother, eats it. She develops the ability to poo anything and everything out of her bum. But what will she do when her new powers get out of control? Hilarious and fun, with adorable yet funny unicorn protagonists, Poopicorn will be a sound comm- ercial choice for booksellers. And Kiwi Needs a Wee-Wee by Michelle Robinson and Tony Neal, a funny story about a young bird who wees all over the floor, is both hilarious and relatable.
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