The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge

Stephen Mangan, Anita Mangan

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

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4 out 5 (5 reviews)

  A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan.  Grumpy old King Chisel has a problem. He needs an heir to his kingdom - fast! So he challenges the best kids from across the country to compete in the Crown Duels, with the ultimate winner becoming king or queen. Step forward: GLORIA SQUAT-FURTHER: champion athlete HUXLEY BEELINE: mathematical genius JONNY MOULD: artistic ace GOSSAMER FOUNTAIN: empathy expert HARRY SPONGE: ordinary boy. Not to be underestimated... The ridiculous prime minister, Farting Bernie, is in charge and the contest swiftly descend into chaos. Who will rise to the top and survive wild sabotaging, saggy royal pants, the most disgusting meal ever invented, and a pair of frisky goats? The wildly funny, brilliantly silly adventure from the bestselling author and illustrator of Escape the Rooms and The Fart That Changed the World. Wildly funny, delightfully imaginative storytelling with a message that any kid can be a hero! Packed with pictures by Stephen Mangan's sister Anita Mangan.   Escape the Rooms and The Fart That Changed the World have been huge bestsellers: Stephen and Anita are comic dynamite.   Praise for Stephen and Anita's books: Escape the Rooms: ""A brilliant, clever, kind of genius book"" Graham Norton, Virgin Radio 'Richly imagined and deeply heartfelt' Hadley Freeman, Guardian 'Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time' Good Housekeeping 'A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination' Edith Bowman   The Fart That Changed the World ""A sure-fire way for kids to entertain themselves. What’s more, it’s also excellent for reading aloud"" LoveReading4Kids ""Laugh-out-loud stuff"" Ray D’Arcy ""A high-energy, brilliantly imaginative and laugh-out-loud tale that is guaranteed to blow away young readers"" Lancashire Evening Post   The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge “After the runaway success of joint debut novel, Escape the Rooms, and the hilarious The Fart That Changed the World, the dynamic duo return with an all-action, marvellously manic and laugh-out-loud tale with a message that any child can be a hero” Lancashire Evening Post ""hilarious ... A right royal romp"" First News   ABOUT THE MANGANS Stephen Mangan is an author, script-writer and actor with huge range across TV, radio, film and theatre. From classic comedy such as Green Wing, Episodes and I'm Alan Partridge and acclaimed drama such as The Split, Stephen also presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and regularly appears on stage, most recently as a highly praised Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Stephen also voiced the title role in Postman Pat: The Movie. He has been a member of the judging panels for the Costa Book of the Year prize and The Laugh-Out-Loud Awards (The Lollies). His children's books are the bestselling Escape the Rooms and The Fart that Changed the World. Stephen on writing for children (interview on ITV's Lorraine): “Every page has to grip them, make them laugh, be interesting because they can drop it. There are screens everywhere that they can pick up. That’s part of the reason why I started writing books because I had such fun as a kid reading books. I always had my head in a book. I wanted to write books that were unputdownable for children, that were full of adventure and crazy big characters and made them laugh.” Anita Mangan is a celebrated graphic designer and illustrator who has designed over 60 books including for Leon Restaurants, Gizzi Erskine and Fearne Cotton. She illustrated the best-selling Be a Unicorn series. Her first children's book was the bestselling Escape the Rooms.  

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Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story To Make You Squirm

Lynne Reid Banks

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (6 reviews)

As soon as their two little heads poked out of the tunnel, they saw it! A Thing. A monster. They had never seen or dreamt of anything half as big, awful and scary… Harry may be a poisonous centipede, but he’s not very brave. He would be quite happy never to venture into the dangerous no-top-world above, where flying swoopers, furry biters, belly wrigglers and the dreaded Hoo-Mins live! But his best friend George is full of mischief, and Harry just cannot resist a dare…

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The Enemy's Lair

Max Chase

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

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4 out 5 (5 reviews)

Book 3 in the stellar series from the team behind Beast Quest and Dinosaur Cove - guarantees young readers non-stop action, giant aliens, cosmic warfare and courageous characters from the Intergalactic Force Academy

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Charlie (Dream Dogs, Book 5)

Aimee Harper

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

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4 out 5 (6 reviews)

The fifth exciting adventure from the gorgeous series set in a glamorous pooch parlour, for animal-crazy girls who love dogs and looking after them. Animal-crazy Bella is so excited to discover the headmistress of her school has a dog and is desperate to catch a glimpse of the mysterious pooch. Bella gets a big surprise when her wish comes true and Mrs Frost brings Darcy to Dream Dogs, her mum’s trendy grooming parlour, for a pampering session. But there’s an even bigger shock in store when Bella’s younger brother plays a very naughty trick at the school fund-raiser, held to raise money for a new assembly hall, with very colourful consequences!

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Squishy Taylor and the Vase that Wasn't

Ailsa Wild, Ben Wood

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

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4 out 5 (8 reviews)

How could a vase disappear from a locked apartment? How come everyone else is getting Dad's special forehead kisses? Why does toast taste better on a balcony? How do you get rid of a warrior ghost? Squishy Taylor will get to the bottom of these mysteries!

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Class Six and the Eel of Fortune

Sally Prue

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (7 reviews)

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Nerds Book Four: Book Four: The Villain Virus

Michael Buckley

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

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4 out 5 (5 reviews)

A virus has infected Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, and it’s much worse than your run of the mill flu. Instead of coughing and sneezing, the victims of this voracious virus are transformed into super-intelligent criminal masterminds! Soon nearly everyone, including some of the NERDS team, is plotting to take over the world! And who’s to blame for this nasty infection? None other than the NERDS’ former teammate, Heathcliff Hodges. With more people breaking out into evil cackles every day, it is up to Flinch, the hyper-active super-spy with a sweet tooth, to stop the virus. To do so, he needs to destroy the virus at its source, and to do that he’s going to have to get inside Heathcliff’s head, literally. Flinch will have to miniaturise himself and take a fantastic voyage through the supervillian’s body to fight white blood cells, stomach acids, and a nest of nasty nanobytes in hopes that he can save the world from the Villain Virus.

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Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns Pack A of 4

Joey Ellis, Matthew K. Manning

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

Xander Stone is your average twelve-year-old boy. - one puked on him. Filthy, sticky-icky, rainbow-coloured puke. If seeing is believing, Xander got beliefed all over his favourite trainers. At that moment, Xander Stone vowed to protect them and their disgusting secret at all costs - oh, and to keep his trainers squeaky clean.

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Between Tick and Tock

Louise Greig, Ashling Lindsay

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

The second magical picture book from the author and illustrator of The Night Box. High above the bustle of the city, are eyes that watch, and hands that know, it’s time to pause the clock … and for one tiny second between tick and tock, the city stops! Liesel notices the things that everyone else is too busy to see. When she hears a stray whimper and watches a lonely boy on a roundabout, she decides it’s time to pause the clock and lend a helping hand. While the city freezes, Liesel quietly carries out little acts of kindness and breathes colour, life and happiness back into the city. Louise Greig’s lyrical storytelling highlights the magic in everyday experiences and is accompanied by Ashling Lindsay’s warm, endearing illustrations. A wonderful picture book about the importance of kindness, looking out for others and taking time to appreciate the world around you. Louise and Ashling's debut picture book, The Night Box, has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Teach Primary Book Awards and the Klaus Flugge Prize. Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and a children's picture book author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic children’s writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Her debut picture book for Egmont, The Night Box, has been translated into 10 languages and has been nominated for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Association of Illustrators (AOI) and the Teach Primary Book Awards. Louise lives in Aberdeen and when not writing is a director of a dog rescue and re-homing organisation. The wild solitude of Scotland and the beauty of nature remain strong influences in her life. Ashling Lindsay is an illustrator and animation director from Belfast. She was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards two years running (2013 & 2014) and was also shortlisted for the AOI Serco prize for illustration (2015).

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Mummies in the Morning

Mary Pope Osborne

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (6 reviews)

Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when The Magic Tree House carries them back to ancient Egypt. Trapped inside a pyramid they meet a ghost-queen. She needs them to solve a puzzle so she can rest in peace. But can Jack and Annie solve it and escape, or will they become mummies themselves?

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Alfred and the Blue Whale

Mina Lystad, Ashild Irgens, Sian Mackie

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (8 reviews)

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Young Bond: Double or Die

Charlie Higson

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• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (6 reviews)

The explosive third title in the mega-selling Young Bond series. Kidnap. Violence. Explosions. Murder. No ordinary weekend. But then, James Bond is no ordinary boy . . . In a North London cemetery a professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. A suspicious letter crammed with cryptic clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the deadly mystery, James Bond must take a series of dangerous gambles. Once the code is cracked, he has just forty-eight hours to save the professor from the dark forces that threaten to destroy them both. And, if the professor can't escape, it's not only his future under threat. It's the rest of the world's . . .

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