Focus On: Children's Fiction!
Here are our children's fiction picks for autumn/winter 2024! Have a browse through to help focus your gift buying for this season, and beyond!
Press Start! Robo-Rabbit Boy, Go! (Thomas Flintham)
Sunny's playing his favourite video game again: Super Rabbit Boy! Oh no! Queen Spooky and her ghosts have kidnapped Super Rabbit Boy. Only a TRUE HERO can stop her.
Robo-Rabbit boy is fast and strong like Super Rabbit Boy. But can a robot really be a true hero? Sunny's ready to PRESS START and find out! The seventh in a full-colour series of graphic novels about - and for - kids who love gaming! Join Sunny as he and Super Rabbit Boy take on the world, one move at a time!
Call the Puffins! Muffin and the Shipwreck (Cath Howe & Ella Okstad)
Welcome back to the island of Egg, where a group of young puffins are training to join a search and rescue team.
Meet Forti, the newest recruit. He's a bit of a dreamer and the other puffins have their work cut out looking after him! When an old wreck washes up in a storm, the puffins are told to keep away - but Forti cannot resist swimming right up to it for a closer look. But then disaster strikes and Forti's leg gets stuck in the rigging. Can Muffin, Tiny and the other puffins remain unflappable in the face of danger and save the day?
Murder! By Narwhal! (Alex T. Smith)
When the tyrannical family patriarch Sir Ignatious Gristle is murdered on his 90th birthday at his country estate, every one of his gathered family members is a suspect. Trapped by a snowstorm with no way to contact the police, it's up to his mettlesome granddaughter, Edna, and her trusted tortoise, Charles Darwin, to determine whodunnit!
Full of head-scratching clues, page-turning twists and a lot people acting suspiciously this is the first in a funny, spoofy middle-grade murder mystery series from bestselling author Alex T. Smith.
Maisie vs Antarctica (Jack Jackman)
Maisie thinks her dad is the most boring person in the world. For fun he likes to do origami (but only basic triangles) or jigsaw puzzles of a cloudless sky (yep, every piece is blue). He writes cool-sounding books like How To Wrestle A Crocodile and How To Defuse A Bomb, but he's never actually done any of the awesome things he writes about. But Maisie has to admit weird things happen around Dad. Unexplainable things...
When childcare falls through and Dad has to take Maisie to Antarctica to research his next book, How To Survive In Antarctica, Maisie realises there is definitely something unusual about Dad, and is determined to find out the truth!
What she doesn't realise is that she'll discover some things about herself and what it really means to be a hero along the way. One thing is for sure - it's going to be the adventure of a lifetime!
Bunny vs Monkey: The Great Big Glitch! (Jamie Smart)
When Bunny, Monkey and friends discover that all of existence is a virtual reality simulation, life gets a little bit crazy! Bunny declares himself The Woods' Magical Protector, Pig becomes a superspy, Weenie grows some serious muscles...but just what nefarious scheme is Skunky planning?
Impossible Creatures (Katherine Rundell)
Christopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, in a bid to save both the islands and the world beyond them from a rising evil – before it's too late.
Skandar and the Skeleton Curse (A.F. Steadman)
As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good, and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar. As more and more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves literally racing for their lives.
Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost for ever? Get ready for unlikely heroes, elemental magic, sky battles, ancient secrets and ferocious unicorns in this highly anticipated adventure that will keep you reading after lights out!