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  • Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

    Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

    • Joseph Coelho, Freya Hartas
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406389685
    • Published: 29-09-2022

    A subversive, funny - and deliciously prickly! - tale for the young reader looking for a book with bite.  Eshe and her twelve sisters are Fairy Godmothers, honoured for the incredible gifts they can bestow. But Eshe's special abilities are a little different - she can glimpse into the future!...

  • Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes

    Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes

    • Elli Woollard, Marta Altes
    • Pan Macmillan
    • ISBN13: 9781529053418
    • Published: 29-09-2022

    A beautiful gift edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales featuring five classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations.Follow Little Red through the woods, where she encounters a wolf! Find out what happens when Hansel and Gretel meet a witch, and see who se...

  • Wishyouwas: The tiny guardian of lost letters

    Wishyouwas: The tiny guardian of lost letters

    • Alexandra Page, illus Penny Neville-Lee
    • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9781526641229
    • Published: 29-09-2022

    Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It's 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank busy running the post of...

  • Dragon Destiny

    Dragon Destiny

    • Kevin Tsang, Katie Tsang
    • Simon & Schuster Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781398505933
    • Published: 29-09-2022

    The Dragon Realm series reaches its epic finale with the fifth adventure for 9+ readers! Perfect for fans of epic conclusions. All eyes are on Billy and his friends after the Dragon Realm collapses and is exposed to the Human Realm. In their search for a new home for the dragon populati...

  • Rules for Vampires: Ghosts Bite Back

    Rules for Vampires: Ghosts Bite Back

    • Alex Foulkes
    • Simon & Schuster Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781471199578
    • Published: 29-09-2022

    Straighten your cape and ready your fangs . . . the ghosts are biting back. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly acclaimed Rules for Vampires.  A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It makes no sense. The two fact...

  • Scared?

    Scared?

    • Joshua Seigal, Neal Zetter, illus Zoe Williams
    • Troika Books
    • ISBN13: 9781912745142
    • Published: 26-09-2022

    'It follows me and yet it's not a part of me / It does the things I do'.   48 inventive, insightful poems exploring the darker side. From bullies to black holes, cats to clowns, these original and thought-provoking poems are a roller coaster ride through both the silliness and sadness of being...

  • War of the Wind

    War of the Wind

    • Victoria Williamson
    • Neem Tree Press Limited
    • ISBN13: 9781911107507
    • Published: 23-09-2022

    On a remote Scottish island, fourteen-year-old Max's life changes forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life and finding it hard to adapt in school, he begins to notice other - even stranger - changes taking place when a new wind farm appe...

  • Pages & Co.: The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co., Book 5)

    Pages & Co.: The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co., Book 5)

    • Anna James, illus Marco Guadalupi
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • ISBN13: 9780008410858
    • Published: 15-09-2022

    The fifth and penultimate book in the bestselling bookwandering series for readers aged eight to twelve. As Tilly and Milo hurtle towards their final showdown with the Alchemist, the stakes are higher than ever - though there is always time for hot chocolate! Milo Bolt...