All Ember wants is to fly with the golden flamebirds who stop every year at Bright Beacon before heading west across the seas to their mysterious home. Their fiery arrival is also the signal for the waiting Flame Chasers in the harbour below to prepare...
Boy-inventor DEV and his best friend, BOJA, have found a secret map! So now they’re on a mission to find more of the magical energy known as FLEMBER!But first they have to travel through the scary WILDENING . . . Survive in a LIFELESS town...
Boy-inventor Dev and his giant robot bear, Boja, return for a third madcap adventure, in the high-tech, mega-modern city of Prosperity. There’s a battle going on for who will control the magical power of Flember . . . will Dev and Boja find themselves fighting...
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps. Angelo and his friends know that together they can handle any pretty much anything – including giant mutant spiders or snake-like parasites that burrow into your...
Relive the magic of Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies of the Winter with this beautiful new edition – the perfect gift. Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker’s first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to readers around the world. Her...
Dare to stray off the path into a spooky supernatural adventure of dark twists and creepy turns? The magic of Grimmhart Forest awaits… “Full of suspense, daringly dark magic and a forest-full of imagination – this is a book children will get a thrill from...
Winnie-the-Pooh meets Charlotte’s Web in this charming, emotionally touching children’s fable from award-winning author Jeremy Strong, highly illustrated in black and blue colour printing and launched in a beautiful, covetable hardback. An extraordinary house on wheels is being towed along a forest track by doleful...
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places. Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery...
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of FrankensteinPuffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world – including this striking edition of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create...
The second story in a funny, deliciously dark, three-part series of twisted classics, written in verse by former Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas. Joining the family business, animal-lover Bryony proves to be an extraordinary taxidermist, whose tender fingers create displays...
Buried treasure. Hidden secrets. One golden chance. Legend says the cliffs by the seaside town of Edge are riddled with smugglers’ tunnels, and that gold is stashed in their caves. Freya and her best friend, Lin, love searching for treasure on the beach, but they...
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things. It’s Colette’s birthday and the friends are spending an evening at Neon Perch – an epic entertainment spot where they can eat...
From New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a new standalone adventure featuring two of the most popular characters from the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. ONE PROPHECY. TWO DEMIGODS. A HEROIC QUEST. Nico di Angelo...
The start of an epic new fantasy trilogy from bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave. ‘Destined to be a classic’ Garth Nix’A stunning adventure’ Cressida Cowell’Fierce, lyrical … an earth-shattering fantasy’ Piers TordayThe earth is stirring . . . Ysolda has lived her life in...
The thrilling second Geomancer book in the epic fantasy trilogy from the bestselling, award-winning Kiran Millwood Hargrave, for readers of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell. ‘Destined to be a classic’ Garth Nix’This tale of adventure and magic is as brave as it is exciting’ Independent’A...
‘Wild and brilliantly crafted’ – Sarah Crossan, author of One and Where the Heart Should BeA sea-soaked story of friendship, community and discovering what it means to carry home in your heart, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Katya Balen. On the Island of Ayrie, everybody knows...
An original mystery adventure, colored by magical realism, about a girl whose world is peopled with animals no one else can see, with a mystery, a circus, and family at its heart. Far away in the middle of the sea there is an island shaped...
Fairy Tree tall and grand, open a path to Fairyland. The year is 1826, and the four Belle siblings arrive at their new home – Fairykeep Cottage. Here Acton, the youngest member of the family, discovers a hidden key that opens a door into Fairyland....
Lyrical, magical, tender and true – Michael MorpurgoMadurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless...
Celebrating 80 years of Gobbolino – the charming tale of a witch’s cat who would rather be a kitchen cat, with the original line drawings illustrations by the author, Ursula Moray Williams. Gobbolino, the witch’s cat with one white paw and bright blue eyes, would...
Join three sporting detectives as they race around the world in the brand new mystery adventure series from multi gold medal-winning Paralympian, Ellie Robinson. Hannah, Maria, and Seb are at the World Championships in Tokyo, bonding over their excitement at watching their favourite athletes compete. ...
A beautiful jacketed hardback with a new introduction and extra bonus material written by the author, Michelle Magorian, reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of first publication. Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM is of one of the best-loved stories set...
A beautiful fresh cover look for the second title in Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death. This funny sequel to Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is packed with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations thoughout, and...
A beautiful fresh cover for the paperback edition of Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse. Illustrated in black and white thoughout, full of adventure and dark humour, it is perfect for children aged 8 to 11!Ada Goth is the...
A beautiful fresh cover for the fourth title in Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony. This spooky mystery adventure is packed full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and is perfect for children aged 8 – 11!Lord Goth is throwing...
A beautiful fresh cover for the third title in Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright. This funny adventure, featuring Ada Goth and her friends, is packed with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations thoughout, and is perfect for girls and boys...
A beloved classic adult novel skilfully abridged to inspire and engage a new generation of middle-grade readers, from a multi-award-winning author. Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited to...
Across the ocean, a magical adventure awaits in The City Beyond the Sea, the spellbinding, beautifully-illustrated sequel to Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize winner and Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson. ‘Phenomenal . . . If...
Named Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, Pari Thomson’s New York Times bestselling series with stunning illustrations from ELisa Paganelli begins with Greenwild: The World Behind the Door. Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises...
A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of one of the world’s most beloved stories. I’m Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and...
Venture back to Grimwood in the wildly funny third book in Nadia Shireen’s bestselling and brilliantly anarchic illustrated comedy-adventure series. Perfect for readers age 7+, and fans of Dog Man, Roald Dahl, David Walliams, Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, Bunny vs Monkey and anyone...
Laugh your head off in this second adventure in the bestselling, highly acclaimed Grimwood series. Your favourite fox cub siblings Ted and Nancy are back with an all-new wildly funny story that will have children (and their grown-ups) begging for more. Perfect for readers age...
Return to the forest where anything can happen. An unmissable new book in Nadia Shireen’s bestselling and wildly funny illustrated comedy adventure series, Grimwood!Perfect for readers age 7+, and fans of Dog Man, Roald Dahl, David Walliams, Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, Bunny vs Monkey and anyone...
A crumbling mansion, A magical source, A living gargoyle Callen’s Dad has always been secretive of his past but when the family have to move into his childhood home, the last thing Callen expects is a boarded-up mansion covered in gargoyles. It’s enormous, the doors...
A Malaysian spin on Little Red Riding Hood from the critically acclaimed author of The Girl and the Ghost, Hanna Alkaf. Courage is the strongest magic there is. On Hamra’s thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in...
A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world’s most celebrate fairy tales. Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers. – Hans Christian Andersen. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi...
In this fascinating true story based on the life of Hardit Singh Malik, discover the adventures of WWI’s first Indian pilot. Hardit, who flew into battle high above the trenches of Passchendaele on the hunt for the Red Baron, arrived in England at the age...
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this special 30th anniversary edition of Harriet’s Hare. Hares don’t talk. Everyone knows that. But the hare Harriet...
“An absolute gem of a story! Magic shimmers up from every page.” Siobhan McDermott, author of Paper DragonsThere are more deities and daemons in the world than stars in the sky. But only Heartseers like Anise Star can see them – because only they still...
‘Magical in every sense of the word’ Eoin Colfer Step into the magical world of Hedgewitch, where the land of Faerie lies just beyond our own, in this enchanting new series for children age 9+ and readers of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Dark...
Step into the magical world of Hedgewitch, where the land of Faerie lies just beyond our own . . . The third book in the enchanting Hedgewitch series, perfect for children age 9+ and readers of Nevermoor and Michelle Harrison. Cassie Morgan needs to earn...
Hercules Braver has a secret: he’s a real-life demigod! So, why does he seem so… ordinary? Most children of Zeus have some kind of superskill – like bravery, warrior skills or healing powers. Well, thanks to a wild boar (long story), Herc and his friends...
If Hercules Braver is going to survive his new secondary school, he has to live up to his name, fast. He needs to become strong and tanned and popular, like a Greek hero. Not weak and pale and unpopular, like a Greek yoghurt. But his...
A chaotically magical sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William’s tiny cottage while he’s ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland an his house bends...
Calla’s mum has never been normal. She’s been known to go out in a lab coat and slippers and often forgets to perform basic tasks because she’s been thinking about ducks. When a job offer arrives to study her beloved birds in the Amazon rainforest,...
Now an animated movie from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, the oscar-winning director of Spirited Away In this beloved modern classic, young Sophie Hatter from the land of Ingary catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell…...
A heart-warming adventure about the unbreakable bond between a dog and his human from a beloved and twice Costa-shortlisted author. “A beautiful, heartfelt adventure.” Sophie Anderson“I’m Tom’s dog, and he’s my human. We belong to each other.” Rebel is a good dog, and he loves...
An outstanding, highly original and unputdownable read! This is bold, thought-provoking. adventure perfect for fans of MORTAL ENGINES and THE LAST WILD. Coll is Wolf. He lives with his clan on a Construct, a huge technological “creature” driven by the clan’s combined willpower....
*The fourth book in the incredible Tiffany Aching series. Now in a brand-new gift edition, part of the Discworld Hardback Library!*’Writing at the height of his powers . . . [Terry Pratchett] makes us laugh a lot.’ The Sunday Times As the witch of the...
‘There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.’ – Michael Morpurgo ‘A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight, and a world of richly imagined wonder’ – Cressida Cowell * BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN’S FICTION BOOK OF...
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