When Claudia and her family move to Unicornia she is not prepared for the magic that seems to be everywhere. Then she finds herself attending a school of magic, where people seem to assume that she knows as much as those who grew up in the city. Thankfully Claudia makes some friends who are able…
If you were asked to describe the many children you have known, would you suggest there might be a Feather Child, and Immaterial Child, a Scribbly Child, a Flying Child or an Elastic Child? Or how about the dreamy Cloud Child, or the remarkably memorable Splotchy child? Probably not, but those are just a small…
An absolute delight for all lovers of felines. The story is set in Paris and specifically in a cat hotel, where pets go to be looked after when their humans go on holiday. The main characters are the owner, Magda and the four permanent house cats, Bobine, Mulot, Carpette and Couscousse. This story centres around…
This attractively produced book, the latest in a growing series, has a worthy aim: to encourage young readers to ‘make friends with books’. To this end it explains that literature is to teach us important things, it goes on to summarise the history of writing from early marks on clay through the invention of paper…
Taking tests can be a very stressful thing and particularly when it is maths, and you really don’t like the subject. Arun is really scared and is trying to find a way to miss the test, but nothing seems to be working. He eventually gets some advice from Mr Patel, his neighbour, who says that…
Day and night, the town of Starspill lies cloaked in fog, bound in its grey, shadowy swathes. No one alive can recall a time before the fog, a time before the wolf swallowed the sun and cast the world into shadow. When a black kitten named Jinx arrives in his bedroom and tells Zac that…
Windrose Island is a wild and wonderful place filled with the calls of thousands of seabirds and the ever-changing songs of the sea. Remote though it is, Anna loves her island home which she shares with her stepfather Caleb. Anna does not know it, but everything is about to change, and the ominous arrival of…
This intriguing tale begins in the dark, seldom-trodden depths of a Parisian sewer beneath Rue Morgue. Here, a young sewer sweeper discovers a glittering gold object, a locket engraved with a strange spidery script. It appears to have a life of its own, twitching in his palm, throbbing with a strange energy . . .…
Are we alone in the universe? Is anyone out there? These iconic questions have been asked for generations and now eleven-year-old Roswell Johson from South Carolina finally has a definitive answer: we are not alone. For as long as he can remember, Roswell has been obsessed with space. After a disastrous school science fair presentation…