Books of the Month - Children's


The Deadly Fang
Adam Wallace
‘Do you dare attempt what all others have failed?’ The once-glorious realm of Ticklebrook has become a grim and desolate place. Everyone is totally grumpy, and there’s nothing to eat but stinky rotten cabbages. Arlo is a farmboy with truly horrible parents who dreams of doing more than brushing the unibrows of his unicows. Julia is a plucky adventurer eager to escape her onesie-wearing father. With nothing in common but embarrassing dads, Arlo and Julia find themselves on a quest to save their land.
January

Dragonkeeper
Carole Wilkinson
The first book in the internationally award-winning Dragonkeeper series, now a major motion picture with a stunning movie tie-in edition.
Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon make an epic journey across China carrying a mysterious stone that must be protected. This is the story of a young slave girl who believes she is not worthy of a name but finds within herself the strength and courage to make this perilous journey - and do what must be done. This beautiful book by award-winning author Carole Wilkinson will enchant every reader..
December

The 113th Assistant Librarian
Stuart Wilson
If you liked The Grandest Bookshop in the World or The Book of Wondrous Possibilities, you'll love this fantasy adventure story where books have power, cats are more than they seem, and the library is the most dangerous place in the city. . .
Oliver Wormwood is sure his new job in the library will be boring. Until he learns that books hold great power - and danger. By the end of his first day, Oliver has witnessed a death, been frozen by a book, met a perplexing number of cats, and fought off a horde of terrifying creatures.
November

Robin Hood Aged 10 3/4
Ben Miller & Elisa Paganelli
Discover the bravery inside you in a magical Robin Hood reimagining from author, comedian and actor Ben Miller.
Lonely at school, Charlie prefers to escape into a world of books. But when she finds herself on the other side of the library in a completely different world, she must embark on a quest to save the people of the forest from the dastardly Sheriff who looks a lot like her mean teacher. There might just be some friends to help her on the way. . .
Turn the page, share the adventure in a hilarious and magical story for all the family, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli..
October

The Midwatch
Judith Rossell
The biggest children's book of the year! The Midwatch is the long-awaited new middle-grade novel from internationally bestselling author–illustrator Judith Rossell, creator of the multi-award-winning novel Withering-by-Sea.
‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that …’
Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers there’s more to the Midwatch than meets the eye …
The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.
Turn the page and prepare to be drawn into a lavishly illustrated world, brimming with mystery, unlikely heroines and an adventure as big as the sky.
September

Bravepaw And The Heartstone Of Alluria
L.M. Wilkinson
An epic Tail of Adventure! Can one gallant mouse find the Heartstone and save her homeland from destruction?
When the sky fills with shadows
And all is turned to grey
Bravepaw will come
When hope turns to ashes
And all have lost their way
Bravepaw will come
The heart will light the dark
Night will turn to day
When Bravepaw comes
Brought up on tales of the gallant mouse hero Bravepaw, Titch has always dreamed of adventure, but she never thought it would actually happen to her. Afterall, she is nobody special. She is the smallest mouse in her family, living in a peaceful little village where nothing exciting ever happens.
When dire trouble comes to the Plateau, Titch and her best-friend Huckleberry must set out on a dangerous quest to take the Heartstone to the heart of Alluria, and repair the crack in the sky before the whole world breaks apart. Can Titch ever hope to live up to the legend of Bravepaw?
A fully illustrated and brilliantly readable adventure full of magic and prophecy, quests, heroism and loyal friendship - the world of Bravepaw will hook young readers until the very last page. This is the stuff of legend..
August

Kev & Trev 01
Kylie Howarth
Join Kev and Trev's epic deep-sea adventure - full of kraken laughs and comic commocean! Dodge flying coconut cannonballs, outrun ghost pirates, escape big sharks, pig sharks, and a punch-throwing pelican, al while hunting for mysterious merpugs and the missing emergency boat snacks!
Water you waiting for? Jump on board Kev and Trev's popcorn powered houseboat . . . and cross-your-claws it doesn't sink!
A hilarious graphic novel series by bestselling creator, Kylie Howarth.
Fintastically funny!
Shore to tickle your tentacles!
5 sea stars!
July

Race Of Wonders
Jennifer Bell
From the internationally bestselling author of Wonderscape and The Uncommoners, comes a spectacular new fantasy series for 9+ set in a world of magical creatures, ancient meteorites and secret organizations, irresistible to fans of Pokémon, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
FEEL THE MAGIC. CONJURE THE IMPOSSIBLE.
When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad from a mysterious villain…
June

Detective Beans And The Case Of The Missing Hat
Li Chen
In this hilarious full-colour graphic novel, Cat Town's best kitten detective is on the case - of his very own missing hat!
Detective Beans is available 24/7* for all your mystery solving and ice-cream taste testing needs.
* Except on school days, and after bedtime.
Today he's investigating the case of the missing hat. His missing hat. The clues take Beans all over Cat Town. He encounters philosophical pigeons, dodgy street magicians, lounge singers and soup chefs, and even a mysterious trash portal.
No one is a match for his crime-solving powers. But will Beans find his hat before Mum is expecting him home for dinner?.
May

Diary Of A Big Bad Wolf
Ben Miller & Elisa Paganelli
He’ll Huff and He’ll Puff and You’ll Laugh the House Down!
A hilarious fairytale mash-up through the eyes of the big bad wolf as you’ve never seen him before! Perfect for fans of Shrek!
Thrown out of the pack for being a weakling, Laurence the Wolf is down on his luck. He knows he’s strong, and brave, and cool, but nobody else seems to think so. What’s more, he’s STARVING. A clever plot to gobble up Little Red Riding Hood once and for all is foiled by all the creatures of the fairytale forest and just as things are getting desperate, he catches a whiff of something delicious. Could those be.
April

Dessert Disaster
Kate and Jol Temple & Shiloh Gordon
Step into a top-secret world where frogs don't just eat flies, they eat danger! This is FROG SQUAD!
Frog Squad comes to the rescue of a mega tanker in distress - and it's full of ice-cream! Will these brave rescue frogs be fast enough to stop Professor Cain and The Organisation of Amphibious Devious Scoundrels (TOADS) from controlling the global supply of ice-cream? Streaming now on Frogflix!
March

The Forgotten Magic
L.D. Lapinski
Prepare for the magical adventure of your dreams, in the first in a brand-new series by L.D. Lapinski, author of Strangeworlds Travel Agency.
For the last 400 years, magic has been fading...
Edward Crane has always feared he won't have any magic at all. Sure, he's part of a powerful magic Artezan family, but he's adopted. His twin sister, Elodie, isn't so worried, but then everything always seems to work out perfectly for her.
So when Ed discovers he does have an Artezan power after all, he's relieved. And it's more than he ever could have imagined - in fact, it's a dream come true.
But the problem with dreams is that sometimes they twist themselves into nightmares.