COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES
Oddity Eli Brown 4th March, pb, £7.99, 9781406389272 Middle-grade fantasy adventure powered by a kick-ass Wild West heroine and a collection of magical objects known as Oddities.
All Our Hidden Gifts Caroline O’Donoghue 3rd February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781406393095 Dark, supernatural contemporary teenage début by multi-talented author and journalist.
Burn
Patrick Ness 6th May, pb, £7.99, 9781406393972 All-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons from the twice Carnegie Medal- winner, now out in paperback.
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne Jonathan Stroud 1st April, pb, £7.99, 9781406394818 Set in a broken future England where gunfights and monsters collide, this is the exciting first title in a phenomenal fantasy series by a bestselling children’s novelist.
Everything I Thought I Knew Shannon Takaoka 3rd June, pb, £7.99, 9781406395365 A teenage girl wonders if she’s inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable début.
A Monster Calls Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd 3rd March, pb, £7.99, 9781406398595 Tenth anniversary edition of bestselling novel about love, loss and hope.
Game Changer Neal Shusterman 11th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781406398632 Ambitious and magnetic novel about a teenage American football player forced into a series of a parallel lives.
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, K Woodman- Maynard (illus) 4th March, pb, £12.99, 9781406398625 Sumptuously illustrated graphic novel adaptation of Fitzgerald’s much loved novel of the 1920s in a vivid and accessible new format.
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Dangerous Remedy Kat Dunn 7th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789543667 New historical adventure series set in the deadly world of the French Revolution. A whirlwind of action, science and magic with a diverse cast of fearless heroines.
Zephyr
Collections & anthologies
Boxer Books
Monstrous Design Kat Dunn 10th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781789543681 The Battalion of the Dead return in this new adventure set amid the opulence and squalor of 18th-century London and Paris.
The Little Mermaid and Other Fishy Tales Jane Ray 3rd June, pb, £17.99, 9781912757848 Traditional and modern tales illustrated by the incomparable Ray.
DK Children
Norse Myths 1st July, hb, £16.99, 9780241461365 Extraordinary creatures, daring heroes and powerful gods and goddesses feature in this beautifully illustrated compendium of more than 20 Norse myths. Includes character profiles and background to the time period.
Dragon World Tamara Macfarlane 4th March, hb, £9.99, 9780241467510 Fire-breathing beasts rule in this lavishly illustrated book. Children can prowl through the pages to discover dragon myths and histories, encounter rare dragon species, and learn how to draw them.
Egmont
The Naughtiest Unicorn Bumper Collection David O’Connell (illus), Pip Bird 3rd March, pb, £8.99, 9780755501717 Three books of fun in one with this bind-up of the bestselling and much loved Naughtiest Unicorn series. Perfect for reluctant readers and boys and girls aged 5-8.
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books
The Encyclopedia of Unbelievable Facts Louise Lockhart (illus), Jane Wilsher (illus) 4th May, hb, £16.99, 9780711256248 Flex your fact muscles and test your trivia knowledge with the Encyclopaedia of Unbelievable Facts. Packed with 500 perplexing questions, this book is perfect for impressing in the playground.
The Dinosaur Awards Barbara Taylor, Stephen Collins 6th April, hb, £12.99, 9780711256354 Celebrate 50 of the most dynamic dinosaurs. In the Dinosaur Awards, prehistoric creatures big and small are awarded prizes to celebrate their most dazzling talents and unusual skills.
Little People, Big Dreams: Earth Heroes Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Anke Weckmann, Mikyo Noh, Beatrice Cerocchi (illus) 30th March, other book format, £25, 9780711261389 Boxed gift edition set of three books about Jane Goodall, David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg from the bestselling series.
Levine Querido
The Sea-ringed World Maria Garcia Esperon, Amanda Mijangos, David Bowles 4th March, hb, £16.99, 9781646140152 Collection of stories from nations and cultures across the two American continents—the Sea-Ringed World as the Aztecs called it—from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.
Macmillan Children’s Books
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 24th June, hb, eb, £25, 9781529007503 Chris Riddell’s brilliant full-colour illustrated Through The Looking Glass in a sumptuous hardback, jacketed edition.
SERIES
Hilarious Jokes Glenn Murphy 4th March, pb, eb, £5.99, 978152906 Hilarious Jokes for 8 Year Olds vol 2 5992 Hilarious Jokes for 7 Year Olds vol 1 6012 Age-ranged books for young readers with hundreds of laugh-out- loud jokes.
The Treehouse Joke Book 2 Andy Griffiths 27th May, pb, £6.99, 9781529047905 Crazy jokes galore in this second Treehouse joke book from with artwork by Terry Denton.
Magic Cat
Once Upon a Planet Vita Murrow, Aitch (illus) 15th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781913520083 Master storyteller weaves established folklore with an ecological message to create an anthology of stories fit for today’s reader that explores our relationship with planet earth.
Merky Books
Superheroes Sophia Thakur 8th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529118896 Inspiring children’s book from Stormzy and Team #Merky showcases and celebrates a range of superheroes from the world of music, sport, film and television, science and literature.
Nosy Crow
Writes of Passage: 100 Things to Read Before You Turn 13 Nicolette Jones 5th May, hb, £12.99, 9781788005029 Inspirational collection of words that matter—from Shakespeare to Greta Thunberg to Martin Luther King—expertly selected by Nicolette Jones, children’s book critic of the Sunday Times.
Puffin
The Puffin Book of Funny Stories 1st April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780241434734 Stories to make young readers laugh out loud by some of the funniest classic and contemporary writers for children.
Studio Press
Just Like Me Louise Gooding, Melissa Iwai, Caterina Delli Carri, cathyhookey (illus), Angel Chang (illus) 4th March, hb, £12.99, 9781787418486 Collection of true stories about inspiring people and famous figures from around the world, all with something that makes them physically or neurologically diverse.
Usborne
Animal Stories for Little Children Richard Johnson (illus) 1st April, hb, £12.99, 9781474969666 Perfect for young animal lovers, this illustrated story collection includes the
classic stories “Chicken Licken” and “How the Zebra Got His Stripes”.
Walker Books
My Big Book of Outdoors Tim Hopgood 6th May, hb, £16, 9781406384826 Discover the great outdoors with this beautifully illustrated treasury that celebrates the wonder of nature in four glorious seasons.
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