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  • Clive Penguin Learns to Fly, Sort of

    Clive Penguin Learns to Fly, Sort of

    • Huw Lewis Jones, illus Ben Sanders
    • Little Tiger
    • ISBN13: 9781838918347
    • Published: 04-09-2025

    Who's ever heard of a flying penguin? Clive Penguin is back, and, affronted by the narrator's praise for 'majestic' swooping seagulls, is determined to take to the sky himself. He's going to fly! Who says penguins can't do it?  A funny, deadpan tale of reaching for your dreams and ignoring nay...

  • Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings: Six Bone-Chilling Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!

    Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings: Six Bone-Chilling Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!

    • Susan Martineau, Vicky Barker
    • b small
    • ISBN13: 9781916851207
    • Published: 04-09-2025

    Do ghosts really exist? Perhaps you think you've seen one! Next time you're reading under the covers, past your bedtime, just ask yourself . . . (well, maybe don't actually!) . . . what was that?! From the award-winning team behind Real-life Mysteries, these terrifying...

  • Cosmic Cadets and the Universal Uni-korn

    Cosmic Cadets and the Universal Uni-korn

    • Ryan Crawford, illus Rochelle Falconer
    • OUP Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9781382054348
    • Published: 04-09-2025

    Gloria is the first ever human to get into the Cosmic Cadet Academy and she's determined to make a splash. But she quickly realizes it might be harder than she was expecting . . . On her first day, Gloria goes to class with the headteacher stuck to her shoe (it turns out some...

  • Sisters in the Wind: From the award-winning author of Firekeeper's Daughter

    Sisters in the Wind: From the award-winning author of Firekeeper's Daughter

    • Angeline Boulley
    • Oneworld
    • ISBN13: 9781836430674
    • Published: 04-09-2025

    An explosive story about seeking justice for a past that won't let you go. Lucy Smith is on the run. Years in foster care have taught her to be smart, cautious. But when the kind-eyed Jamie Jameson and his "friend-not-friend" Daunis track her down and show interest in h...

  • Unicorn Post (The Post Bag)

    Unicorn Post (The Post Bag)

    • Emma Yarlett
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529525175
    • Published: 28-08-2025

    An enchanting novelty book about a quick-thinking little girl and a unicorn, with magical surprises to open throughout.On a day full of rainbows, a little girl finds a unicorn knocking on the door of her treehouse. The unicorn must be lost! Luckily the girl knows just...

  • A Totally Big Umbrella: A reassuring story about conquering anxiety

    A Totally Big Umbrella: A reassuring story about conquering anxiety

    • Sarah Crossan, Rebecca Cobb
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529512021
    • Published: 28-08-2025

    A tender picture and insightful read-aloud picture book about anxiety: showing children aged 3-7 years old they do not have to carry their worries alone - there's always room under your umbrella for someone else.Tallulah doesn't like the rain. It spoils her new dress....

  • Small Wonder

    Small Wonder

    • Ross Montgomery
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529526127
    • Published: 28-08-2025

    From the award-winning author of I Am Rebel, Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2024, comes a hotly anticipated fantasy adventure of one boy, his brother and a loyal horse on a quest to save their kingdom.'Remember everything I...

  • Oxford Blood: A gripping YA murder crime thriller

    Oxford Blood: A gripping YA murder crime thriller

    • Rachael Davis-Featherstone
    • Walker Books YA
    • ISBN13: 9781529519846
    • Published: 28-08-2025

    For fans of A Good Girls Guide to Murder and The Secret History, this riveting murder mystery thriller from a brilliant new voice in YA fiction explores themes of privilege, prejudice and identity. Eva has one dream: to study English at Oxford University. Not only...