Books - Children

• Isabel Thomas, Pete Williamson, Greg Foot
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780198306771
• Published: 26-03-2015

Charles Darwin is one of the most important figures of modern science, but he was also a seasick sailor and a stinky schoolboy! Find out about his misadventures as well as his theories in this funny biography.TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for p...

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• Georgia Pritchett, Jamie Littler
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781848668614
• Published: 26-03-2015

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LAUGH OUT LOUD BOOK AWARDS! Meet Wilf. He worries about everything. He is a Mighty Worrier. And now the most evil man in the world has moved in next door... Things Wilf was worried about before: 1. Stuffed animals. 2. Peanut Butter.3. Creepy...

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• Sheila Grau, Joe Sutphin
• Abrams
• ISBN13: 9781419713705
• Published: 17-03-2015

Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions is the premier supplier of minions to Evil Overlords throughout the Greater Porvian Continent. Twelve-year-old Runt Higgins has grown up as Dr. Critchlore's ward, a werewolf who couldn't keep up with the other pups. Now Runt's determined to make it into the...

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• Sarah Lean
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007512263
• Published: 12-03-2015

Some friendships are meant to be... A story about family, friendship and belonging, from bestselling author, Sarah Lean. Hope lives with her artist mum in the Pyrenees. It's always been just the two of them... until Frank - a free-spirited traveller - arrives with his donkey, Harry.  Ho...

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• Sibeal Pounder, Laura Ellen Anderson
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408852651
• Published: 12-03-2015

Join Tiga on her quest to win Witch Wars and become Top Witch of Ritzy CityWhen Fran the Fabulous Fairy turns up in Tiga Whicabim's shed to tell her she's a witch, Tiga doesn't believe her. Or at least not until Fran points out that TIGA WHICABIM is actually an anagram of I AM A BIG WITCH and...

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• Heidi Schulz
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910002216
• Published: 05-03-2015

It's not easy being the daughter of Captain Hook. Twelve-year-old Jocelyn dreams of following in his footsteps - but her grandfather sends her to finishing school instead. When her father meets his unfortunate end, Jocelyn sails to Neverland to avenge his death. But she hadn't bargained on tic...

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• Ted Sanders
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471403590
• Published: 05-03-2015

A boy, a girl, an ancient puzzle, and a House of Answers, Artefacts, Miseries and Mysteries.From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus - literally a sign with his name on it - everything in his normal little life changes. An encounter with the House of Answers, a magically hi...

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• Alex T. Smith, Caryl Hart
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444909333
• Published: 05-03-2015

Foxy DuBois and Alphonso the Alligator find themselves in a very tight place. Can they escape? Or will it be a life behind bars for these two hapless rogues? This is the third title in an hilarious series for young readers from an award-winning author-illustrator team. Alex's first fict...

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