Worldwide bestseller Holly Webb makes her Barrington Stoke debut with a truly adorable sausage dog tale!
Ruby’s dad has arrived home with a wonderful surprise – Coco the sausage dog puppy! And when the family go on holiday to the seaside, of course Coco will be coming too. The beach is a thrilling place for a dog – so many sights, smells and holes to dig! Ruby and Coco can’t wait to spend the day splashing in the waves and playing in the sand. But disaster strikes when Coco disappears. Suddenly she’s lost and all alone on the huge, busy beach … Will she ever find her way back to Ruby?
Worldwide bestseller Holly Webb makes her Barrington Stoke debut with a truly adorable sausage-dog tale!
Alfie Small, the intrepid explorer, embarks on an amazing sea-faring adventure. He encounters a friendly sea dragon, a fierce pirate captain who makes him walk the plank, and a motley crew of mutinous pirates who make him captain of their ship. And he still gets home in time for tea.
Shabba me whiskers! It’s one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton. They’re only the craziest, funnest most amazing books for children in the world. This is the third book!
Well, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They’re a-schemin’ and a-hatchin’ an’ making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. And why? Because they’re raising up an army of goblins to stink up the town of Lamonic Bibber once and for all! Can the brave travellers (the wise old man Friday O’Leary and the small girl Polly) make it past the Three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town from a fate worse than something very bad indeed? In an epic tale of courage, valour and plain idiocy only one thing is sure: The truth is a lemon meringue!
Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl and David Walliams.
Have you collected all the well brilliant Mr Gum series?
You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum
Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire
Mr Gum and the Goblins
Mr Gum and the Power Crystals
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
What's for Dinner, Mr Gum?
Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree
Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout
Praise for Mr Gum:
‘Smooky palooki! This book is well brilliant!’ – Jeremy Strong
‘Worryingly splendid’ – Guardian NOT FOR BORERS!
Andy Stanton studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. Before becoming a children’s writer he was a film script reader, a market researcher, an NHS lackey, a part-time sparrow and a grape. Today he is best-known for the hilarious and much-loved Mr Gum books, which are published in 34 countries worldwide in over 30 languages. The series has won numerous awards, including the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Red House Children’s Book Award and two Blue Peter Book Awards.
Bestselling author Vashti Hardy transports us to a world like no other in a steampunk, fantasy adventure with family at its heart.
""Warden Griffin at your service. Can I ask if you've seen a monster in the area …?""
Grace's family are wardens of the Griffin Map, using its teleport technology to fight crime across Moreland. Although Grace is still too young, she longs to go on missions herself. After all, if her brother, Bren, can do it, why can't she?So when Grace finds herself alone with the map when a distress call comes in, she jumps at the chance to prove she's up to the task. But the map transports Grace to a remote village where nothing is quite as it seems … Has she taken on more than she can handle?
Be transported to a world like no other in this steampunk, fantasy adventure with family at its heart from Blue Peter Book Award-winner Vashti Hardy.
In this enthralling follow up to Precious and the Monkeys we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and love!
You might think this story is an intergalactic adventure filled with
laser blasters, black holes, killer robots and some very weird-looking
aliens. And you'd be right. But it's mostly about a boy
called Jake, his dad, and an awkward truth that starts in a supermarket
...
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet ...That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and people and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet.
A frozen palace and a sparkling secret – an epic Russian adventure awaits!
Anna Orlov might be the luckiest girl in the world. She is the daughter of a Russian Count and lives in a beautiful snowbound palace that is home to a menagerie of wonderful animals: tigers, wolfhounds and, of course, horses. And she is also the owner of a beautiful heirloom – a diamond necklace with a secret past.
But when Anna defies her father’s wishes and secretly raises a young colt alongside her pet tiger cub, her actions will have far reaching consequences. And soon Anna, her tiger and her horse will be fighting for survival in the frozen tundra of Siberia…
An epic adventure of horses, friendship and sparkling secrets!
In The Marvels, Selznick crafts
another remarkable artistic and bookmaking achievement that weaves
together two seemingly unrelated stories - one in words, the
other in pictures - with spellbinding synergy. ""The
illustrations take you by the hand, and they don't let go""
- The Guardian
The illustrated story
begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck,
and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five
generations.
The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph,
who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling
house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together
many mysteries.
Filled with mystery, vibrant characters,
surprise twists, and heart-rending beauty, and featuring Selznick's
most arresting art to date, The Marvels is a moving
tribute to the power of story.
A stunning gift
to be treasured for a lifetime.
Perfect for fans of theatre,
history and beautiful pencil artwork
Brian's first
book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, was the winner
of the esteemed Caldecott Medal, the first novel to
do so, as the Caldecott Medal is for picture books & made into a
feature length film, HUGO, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring
Jude Law
