HOTEL MAGNIFIQUE
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EMILY J. TAYLOR A deliciously decadent YA fantasy set in a magical hotel
We’re very excited to be introducing the spectacular titles that make up our list for the first half of 2022. First up, Emily J. Taylor’s deliciously decadent novel Hotel Magnifique. You will be welcomed into the magical hotel that changes location every night – but does something sinister lurk behind the glorious façade? Prizewinning author Ele Fountain returns with Fake, another blistering adventure story that dives deep into the world of virtual identities. Our youngest readers will be fascinated by two new picturebooks: mindblowing science explained in simple terms with wondrous illustrations (Atoms) and a brave
The legendary Hotel Magnifique is like no other: a magical world of golden ceilings, enchanting soirées and fountains flowing with champagne. It changes location every night, stopping in each place only once a decade. When the Magnifique comes to her hometown, seventeen-year-old Jani hatches a plan to secure jobs there for herself and her younger sister, longing to escape their dreary life.
ladybird’s stunningly beautiful journeyto find a safe place to lay her eggs (A Perfect Spot). From moving stories of sibling bonds (My Brother Ben) to enchanting, timeless classics (The King of the Copper Mountains) to spellbinding fairytale adventures (Echo North), there is truly something here for every young reader.
Luck is on their side, and with a stroke of luminous ink on paper the sisters are swept into a life of adventure and opulence. But Jani soon begins to notice sinister spots in the hotel’s decadent façade. Who is the shadowy maître who runs the hotel? And can the girls discover the true price paid by those who reside there – before it’s too late? emily j. taylor was born and raised in California and has since refused to stay put. She’s lived in four states and two continents, all of which have given her an endless amount of story fodder. Hotel Magnifique is her debut novel.
format: Demy Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782693475 publication: May 2022
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dimensions: 216 x 135mm extent: 400pp territory: UK & Comm. ex Can reading age: 12+ years
FAKE
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MY BROTHER BEN
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ELE FOUNTAIN
PETER CARNAVAS
A thrilling novel about our digital lives from the author of Boy 87
A stirringly beautiful, heartwarming story of brotherly love
A world where antibiotics have stopped working. A society kept apart to minimise risk. A girl who learns an explosive secret.
Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketches birds, while Ben leaps off the Jumping Tree. The boys couldn’t be more different, but they share a special bond.
Finally attending boarding school at 14, the girl flourishes among her friends and becomes a keen mathematician and coder. But things at home are getting worse – her younger sister is ill, and her medical costs just keep rising. Frustrated, the girl decides to use her new skills to hack the pharmaceutical company – and discovers a shocking truth. What the girl does with this knowledge will mean the difference between life and death for her family. In a breathless race against time, can the girl outwit the system and challenge the powers that hold society in their grip?
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When a local competition to win a boat is announced, the boys spring into action, dreaming of exploring the creek together. But with changes coming and high school looming for Luke, will their friendship be able to survive?
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ele fountain is the author of the acclaimed, multi-award-winning novels Boy 87, Lost and Melt. A former editor in children’s publishing, she lives in Hampshire with her family.
format: B-format Paperback price: £7.99 isbn: 9781782692904 publication: June 2022
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peter carnavas’s career as a primary school teacher inspired him to embrace his passion for children’s literature. He is the author of several award-winning picture books. The Elephant, his first novel, won the Queensland Literary Awards’ Children’s Book Award and is also available from Pushkin Children’s. Peter lives on Australia’s Sunshine Coast with his family, a dog called Florence and a cat named Harry.
format: B-format Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782693505 publication: April 2022
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dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 192pp territory: UK & Comm. ex Can and ANZ reading age: 7+ years
ATOMS JOHN DEVOLLE This book will blow your child’s mind! Big Science explained simply
The perfect picturebook to introduce little minds to big ideas! Atoms combines bold, colourful illustrations with jokes and incredible facts to explain some amazing scientific concepts in terms that a four-year-old can understand – from atomic theory to the Big Bang, evolution and the fact that you, your dog and everyone you know are all actually made of stardust! john devolle studied Fine Art at the University of Westminster and has since run an art gallery in East London, been a graphic designer/art director, and, since 2010, worked as an illustrator on numerous children’s books. John currently lives and works in London.
format: Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782693437 publication: April 2022
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dimensions: 248 x 294mm extent: 32pp territory: World reading age: 2+ years
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A PERFECT SPOT ISABELLE SIMLER A stunning picturebook following a ladybird’s journey
A ladybird is looking for a safe place to lay her eggs. But nature is full of surprises, and every time she sets down, thinking she’s found the perfect spot, she finds herself being shooed away by animals camouflaged in the vegetation around her. The poor little ladybird finds herself being pushed around by everyone she encounters and has nowhere to go! Will she find a place to lay her eggs? In A Perfect Spot, young readers will follow our brave ladybird on a journey across a stunning landscape, and meet a host of amazing creepy crawlies who live there. Two spreads at the end of the book provide information on all the creatures encountered in the book. isabelle simler is a French author and illustrator who has written and illustrated over a dozen books for children. She lives in Paris.
format: Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782693574 publication: May 2022
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dimensions: 205 x 290mm extent: 56pp territory: UK & Comm. ex Can reading age: 5+ years
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SHOO!
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WRITTEN BY SUSIE BOWER
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ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCESCA GAMBATESA The raucous picture book from the author of School for Nobodies
Mrs Golightly doesn’t like animals - and now a whole zoo has moved next door! No matter how hard she tries to shoo them away, she finds animals everywhere: a kangaroo on the loo, a giraffe in her bath, and even ants in her pants. What can she do to get rid of these stinky, bothersome creatures? Bursting with colour, delightful rhyme and outrageous humour, Shoo! is acclaimed children’s author Susie Bower’s first picture book.
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By the time she hit her teens, susie bower had lived in 8 houses and attended 7 schools. This theme continued in her working life: she’s been a teacher, a tour-guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She formerly wrote and directed TV programmes for children at the BBC and Channel 4, for which she won a BAFTA Award, and she currently writes audio scripts. francesca gambatesa illustrates picture books and middle-grade series for publishers in the UK, US and Italy. She lives in London. format: Paperback price: £7.99 isbn: 9781782693161 publication: June 2022
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dimensions: 285 x 234mm extent: 32pp territory: World reading age: 2+ years
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THE KING OF THE COPPER MOUNTAINS
THE LITTLE CAPTAIN PAUL BIEGEL
PAUL BIEGEL A timeless and enchanting children’s fantasy classic
A beloved classic seafaring adventure
At the end of his thousand-year reign of the Copper Mountains, old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down. When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure.
One morning, after a fierce storm, the people of the harbour come down to find a strange ship called the Neversink stuck fast on top of the sand dunes. Inside is only a small boy with a big cap – The Little Captain. He and his ship stay marooned on top of the dunes until one day a giant wave sweeps the Neversink to freedom.
The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kingdom’s inhabitants arrive with theirs; the ferocious Wolf, the lovesick Donkey, the fire-breathing three-headed Dragon. Last to arrive is the Dwarf, with four ancient books and a prophecy that the King will live for another thousand years - but only if the Wonder Doctor returns in time.
And so The Little Captain sets sail once more, this time with three of the town’s children, Podgy, Marinka and Thomas, as his crew mates. Together they are determined to find the island of Evertaller, where legend has it children turn into grown-ups overnight and never have to go to school again...
paul biegel was one of Europe’s most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers, and the author of more than fifty books for children. The King of the Copper Mountains won the award for the best Dutch children’s book of the year, and is still his best-loved work.
‘A triumphant piece of magic’ Observer
format: B-format Paperback price: £7.99 isbn: 9781782693390 publication: February 2022
This enchanting seafaring adventure is beloved by generations of children in the Netherlands. ‘Paul Biegel has a grain of real gold in his imagination... [A] curiously thrilling narrative’ Naomi Lewis
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paul biegel was one of Europe’s most acclaimed and best-loved storytellers, and the author of more than fifty books for children. The Little Captain was first published in 1970 and was Biegel’s bestselling title.
format: B-format Paperback price: £7.99 isbn: 9781782693376 publication: June 2022
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dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 160pp territory: World English reading age: 7+ years
ECHO NORTH
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JOANNA RUTH MEYER A spellbinding, romantic YA fairytale adventure Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf – the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: if she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.
title: When Life Gives You Mangoes author: Kereen Getten price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 138mm extent: 224pp isbn: 9781782692645
title: The Murderer’s Ape author: Jakob Wegelius price: £8.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 640pp isbn: 9781782691754
title: How to Be Brave author: Daisy May Johnson price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 304pp isbn: 9781782693253
title: The Wanderer author: Peter Van den Ende price: £16.99 format: Hardback dimensions: 305 x 230mm extent: 96pp isbn: 9781782692867
In his enchanted house beneath the mountain, Echo starts to uncover centuries-old secrets, and a young man who seems to need her help... joanna ruth meyer writes stories about fierce teens finding their place in the world, fighting to change their fate, save the ones they love, or carve out a path to redemption.She lives with her dear husband and son, a rascally feline and an enormous grand piano in Mesa, Arizona.
‘Epic and engrossing. Magic pulsates through every page. . . Readers will ache when it’s over and want to start all over again’ Kirkus Reviews
format: B-format Paperback price: £8.99 isbn: 9781782693550 publication: January 2022
dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 400pp territory: UK & Comm. ex Can reading age: 9+ years
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title: Reckless IV: The Silver Tracks author: Cornelia Funke price: £12.99 format: Hardback dimensions: 200 x 148mm extent: 368pp isbn: 9781782693291
title: Bearmouth author: Liz Hyder price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 320pp isbn: 9781782692430
title: The Three Impossibles author: Susie Bower price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 320pp isbn: 9781782692928
title: Dragon Skin author: Karen Foxlee price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 336pp isbn: 9781782692997
title: Lost author: Ele Fountain price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 256pp isbn: 9781782692553
title: Boy 87 author: Ele Fountain price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 224pp isbn: 9781782691976
title: Lampie author: Annet Schaap price: £7.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 336pp isbn: 9781782692621
title: The Letter for the King author: Tonke Dragt price: £9.99 format: Paperback dimensions: 198 x 129mm extent: 512pp isbn: 9781782690818
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