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Clive Gifford, Good Wives and Warriors (illus) Welcome to the Mysteryverse Wide Eyed Editions, 5th, £20, hb, 9780711280489 Divided into chapters on people, Earth, nature and space, this compendium looks at some of the world’s scientific mysteries, and things like why more people are right-handed than left-handed and why do we yawn? For readers age eight plus.
Saskia Gwinn, Vasilisa Romanenko (illus) Secret Stories of Nature Wide Eyed Editions, 5th, £14.99, hb, 9780711280342 Romanenko’s vintage- style artwork gives this book about the secrets of planet Earth a wonder- fully classic feel.
Elizabeth F Hill, Hannah George (illus) Cotton Cloud Refuses to Rain Five Quills, 5th, £7.99, pb, 9781912923335 Cotton Cloud refuses to rain because she thinks it will make people sad, in this fictional introduc- tion to weather and the seasons. Illustrator Hannah George has previ- ously collaborated with lifestyle influencer Mrs Hinch.
Sarah Horne The Firefly’s Light: The Secret Inventors of Our Natural World Scholastic, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9780702315893 Learn about biomimicry and how inventions such as Velcro and LED lights were inspired by the natu- ral world with Horne’s first book for Scholastic.
Éanna Ní Lamhna, Brian Fitzgerald (illus) Wonders of the Wild O’Brien, 10th, £17.99, hb, 9781788494083 This guide to the natural world explains why rabbits eat their own poo, which sealife glows in the dark and how caterpillars burst.
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Max Rambaldi (illus) Leisa Stewart Sharpe, Kim Smith (illus) Frozen Planet II Puffin, 5th, £8.99, pb, 9781405946643 Learn about the frozen areas of Earth and the animals who live there with this BBC tie-in title, based on the “BBC
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Thomas McBrien The Minecraft Ideas Book DK Children, 5th, £19.99, hb, 9780241588277 Learn about—and how to build—the Great Pyramid, a rocket launch site, an outdoor concert stage and more in this guide to the bestselling computer game.
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Barbara Taylor, Simon Treadwell (illus) The Magnificent Book of Monkeys and Apes Weldon Owen Children’s Books, 5th, £14.99, hb, 9781915588302 This compendium of monkeys and apes has facts on 36 animals, from the pygmy marmoset to the lowland gorilla. Weldon Owen is also releasing The Magnificent Book of Dinosaurs (9781915588296), a similar title, in October.
Activity
Joseph Coelho, Georgie Birkett (illus), Amanda Quartey (illus), Grasya Oliyko (illus) and Viola Wang (illus) Poetry Prompts Wide Eyed Editions, 12th, £9.99, pb, 9780711285118 Be inspired to write poetry with this book of prompts from Children’s Laureate Coelho, pitched as a resource for both schools and homes.
Maggie Fischer, Samantha Meredith (illus) Christmas Fun! Buster Books, 12th, £7.99, pb, 9781780559810 This sticker book has mazes, doodles and more than 85 puffy stickers to keep children entertained in the run-up to Christmas.
Tracey Turner, Jane Burnard, Dawn Cooper (illus) Up and Down Macmillan Children’s Books, 26th, £12.99, hb, 9780753447864 In this first in a new series of illustrated, high-end non-fiction, readers can choose which way they hold the book: up to find out about space and what lies above us, and down to investigate what is going on underneath the earth’s surface. The next title, Night and Day, will be out in 2024.
Sports, crafts & hobbies
Alex Bellos, Ben Lyttleton, Spike Gerrell (illus) The Football School Encyclopedia Walker Books, 5th, £14.99, hb, 9781529507584 Discover everything you ever wanted to know about football with this encyclopedia, part of the Football School series, now published in a large hardback gift format and illustrated throughout.
Balthazar Pagani, Otto Gabos (illus), Marco Maraggi (illus) How to Draw a Graphic Novel Tames & Hudson, 12th, £16.99, pb, 9780500660201 Learn how to create your own graphic novel with this practical handbook, which has step-by-step diagrams as well as tips and interviews from graphic novelists.
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Reissues & new editions
Richard Adams Watership Down Puffin Clothbound Clas- sics, 26th, £16.99, cloth- bound, 9780241655702 Adams’ classic rabbit adventure gets the Puffin cloth-bound treatment in time for Christmas.
John Burningham Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present Walker Books, 5th, £7.99, pb, 9781529508406 Father Christmas travels by plane, jeep, moped and more to deliver a present to a boy who lives on top of the Roly Poly Mountain in Burningham’s festive story, reissued in this 30th anniversary edition.
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Charles Dickens, Quentin Blake (illus) Quentin Blake’s A Christmas Carol Pavilion Children’s Books, 12th, £12.99, pb, 9780008637002 This edition of A Christmas Carol is pitched as the ultimate Christmas gift by Farshore.
Russell Punter, Fabiano Fiorin (illus) The Missing Unicorn Usborne, 12th, £6.99, pb, 9781805311959 Help Jade and Jack as they travel back in time and hunt for a missing unicorn in this first in a new series of puzzle books; each book will have more than 20 puzzles to solve.
Media tie-ins
Unicorn Academy: Sophia’s Invitation: The First Book of The Netflix Series Nosy Crow, 28th, £6.99, pb, 9781805131007 This is the official companion title for the Netflix series, based on the Unicorn Academy books, which launches on Netflix in November, and tells the story of how
Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten Walker Books, 5th, £7.99, pb, 9781529514018 Walker is reissuing this story about kindness and a little girl who reaches out to a neighbour. Also coming in October is a new edition of This is Our House, illustrated by Graham and writ- ten by Michael Rosen (9781529514025).
Philippa Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden OUP, 5th, £12.99, hb, 9780192788740 OUP is releasing a 65th anniversary edition of Pearce’s classic book about a boy who explores a magical garden at night, as well as new editions of Pearce’s The Way to Sattin Shore (9464) and Minnow on the Say (9440).
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