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for the first in a new laugh-out- loud series, Tuchus & Topps Investigate. Don’t miss Pearson’s Grandpa Frank’s Great Big Bucket List from Usborne in February.
Fiction 9–12 Keep trying, keep laughing, keep
dancing! When Lizzie Chu’s grandad starts acting strangely, she comes up with a madcap plan to help him get his mojo back. Chan’s Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths is shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award.
Nadia Shireen Billy and the Pirates Jonathan Cape, 7 July, pb, £6.99, 9781780081373
Picture books Billy and Fatcat are back and
ready to embark on their third thrilling adventure, filled with pesky pirates and sticky toffee- eating sharks. Shireen is part of 2022’s World Book Day line-up; the paperback of Grimwood is published by Simon & Schuster in March.
Kalynn Bayron This Wicked Fate Bloomsbury YA, 21 June, pb, £6.99, 9781526650726
Fiction 12–16 In the sequel to This Poison
Elys Dolan, Elys Dolan (illus) REX Walker Books, 2 June, pb, £6.99, 9781406397703
Fiction 7–9 In the Ice Age, Rex is frozen solid in a
glacier and wakes up 65 million years later… A comedy of errors starring the lovable Rex, and first in a fantastically funny series. Look out too for Mayor Bunny’s Chocolate Town from OUP in February.
Phil Earle While the Storm Rages Andersen Press, 2 June, pb, £7.99, 9781839132056
Fiction 9–12 Noah and friends fight to save
animals from being put to sleep at the outbreak of the Second World War. Expect another powerful wartime adventure from the author of When the Sky Falls, which was recently named Children’s Book of the Year by the Times.
Emily Coxhead Find Your Happy Walker Books, 2 June, hb, £12.99, 9781529500455
PSHE & Citizenship
A joyful and imaginative book of feelings, full of
Lily Bailey When I See Blue Orion Children’s Books, 9 June, pb, £7.99, 9781510109803
Fiction 9–12 An “authentic, affecting”, story
about a boy living with OCD, drawing on the author’s own experiences. Bailey is a writer and mental health activist. Hachette positions this for readers of A Kind of Spark and The Goldfish Boy.
Tola Okogwu Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun Simon & Schuster Children’s Books, 9 June, pb, £7.99, 9781398505087
Fiction 9–12 “‘Black Panther’ meets Percy
Jackson” in this action-packed and empowering middle-grade series about a British-Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers. Look out too for picture book Daddy Do My Hair: Beth’s Braids, illustrated by Chante Timothy, in May.
Karen M McManus Nothing More to Tell Penguin, 9 June, pb, £7.99, 9780241473689
Fiction 12–16 When Brynn gets an internship
Maisie Chan Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu Piccadilly Press, 2 June, pb, £6.99, 9781800781610
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working on a true-crime show, she decides to investigate the notorious unsolved murder of her favourite teacher. McManus continues to sell extremely well: Penguin reports UK TCM sales of more than 700,000 copies.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Children’s
Steve Smallman, Ada Grey (illus) Poo in the Zoo:
The Island of Dinosaur Poo Little Tiger Group, 7 July, pb, £6.99, 9781801042994
Picture books Zookeeper Bob and Hector the
Poo Collector are searching for the island of The Living Poo in the latest of the popular series. Other picture book highlights from Little Tiger include the paperback of The Boys, by Lauren Ace and Jenny Lovlie.
vibrant illustrations and uplifting, practical ideas. Written and illustrated by the creator of The Happy News, which celebrates all that is good in the world and is read by more than 20,000 subscribers.
July
Puneet Bhandal Starlet RIvals Lantana Publishing, 7 July, pb, £7.99, 9781915244000
Fiction 9–12 Can dance- obsessed Bela win
the national Dance Starz competition to bag a place at the Bollywood Academy and move one step closer to her dreams of stardom? Launch title in Lantana’s new fiction list, which will focus on under- represented voices.
David Solomons A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy Nosy Crow, 7 July, pb, £6.99, 9780857639936
Fiction 9–12 When a new girl starts at school
and immediately claims it in the name of the Galactic League, Gavin knows things are going to take a turn for the alien...
Heart, Bayron continues the story of Briseis and her ties to a world of powerful goddesses and deadly curses as she races to save her family. Bayron’s début, Cinderella is Dead, continues to sell very strongly as a BookTok-recommended title.
Sibéal Pounder, Sarah Warburton (illus) Neon’s Secret Universe Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 7 July, pb, £6.99, 9781408894149
Fiction 7–9 Get ready to discover the real
story behind unicorns in the first in a new series from the brilliant Sibéal Pounder, bestselling author of the Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series. Stylish, witty and seriously funny, says the publisher.
Holly Gillibrand Generation Green Pavilion Children’s Books, 7 July, pb, £7.99, 9781843655251
PSHE & Citizenship
Discover how to rewild every aspect of society, from the
nature and cities that surround us, to the economy, education and our own everyday lives, in order to build a better, fairer world. A revolutionary and rule- breaking début book from Scotland’s answer to Greta Thunberg.
I’m very much looking forward to the return of Solomons, who won the Waterstones Prize for his début My Brother is a Superhero.
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