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  • The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain

    The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain

    • Katherine Rundell
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781526629883
    • Published: 01-10-2020

    In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit, bestselling author Katherine Rundell emailed some of the children's writers and artists whose work she loved most:  'I asked them to write something very short, fiction or non-fiction, or draw something that would make...

  • Queen of King Street

    Queen of King Street

    • Tom McLaughlin
    • Barrington Stoke
    • ISBN13: 9781781129395
    • Published: 01-10-2020

    The Royal Family must learn to live like common people in this hilarious Barrington Stoke debut from the author of The Accidental Prime Minister. Unlucky Bertie has only gone and gambled away the entire family fortune. It's the last in a long line of disasters, and nobody is going to sa...

  • The New Girl

    The New Girl

    • Nicola Davies, Cathy Fisher
    • Graffeg Limited
    • ISBN13: 9781913733605
    • Published: 29-09-2020

    Kiku starts a new school in a strange new town. The children in her class are unfriendly towards her and refuse to include her. Kiku helps introduce the other children to the art of paper folding, creating many different kinds of flowers and introducing them to her culture, helping to transfor...

  • The Hungry Ghost

    The Hungry Ghost

    • H.S. Norup
    • Pushkin Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781782692690
    • Published: 24-09-2020

    Freja arrives in Singapore during the month of the hungry ghost, when old spirits are said to roam the streets. She's struggling to settle into her dad's new, 'happy' family, and dreams only of escaping home and leaving this hot, unfamiliar city. Then one night, a mysterious girl in a white dr...

  • The Tigers in the Tower

    The Tigers in the Tower

    • Julia Golding
    • Lion Hudson Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781782643173
    • Published: 18-09-2020

    Sahira's family are travelling to England to deliver two majestic Indian tigers to the menagerie in the tower of London. But tragedy strikes and sickness steals Sahira s parents from her on the journey. Left alone in London, Sarhira finds herself confined to a miserable and dangerous or...

  • The Space We're In

    The Space We're In

    • Katya Balen, Laura Carlin
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781526601971
    • Published: 17-09-2020

    We are her world and her universe and her space and her stars and her sky and her galaxy and her cosmos too...   Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-...

  • Elsetime

    Elsetime

    • Eve McDonnell
    • Everything with Words
    • ISBN13: 9781911427179
    • Published: 17-09-2020

    'Elsetime is a tale that combines time-travel with evocative description and colourful characterisation to create a unique and compelling story of friendship and courage.' Steve Voake, author of The Dream Walker's Child. A compelling story based on the Great Flood of 1928.

  • October, October

    October, October

    • Katya Balen, Angela Harding
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781526601902
    • Published: 17-09-2020

    October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.  Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out o...