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Portis’ latest picturebook follows the life cycle of a little sunflower seed, turning something that might seem ordinary, into something extraordinary.

Spring is a perfect time to explore nature and the world around us, and this delightful pop-up book does a wonderful job of bringing the beauty and wonder of the average garden into the reader’s hands. Minibeasts is a non-fiction pop-up treasure for young minds, with six wonderful spreads which each feature a ‘minibeast,’ usually of the insect kind, that can regularly be found in a European garden.

The World at Night is a deep exploration into what goes on when we’re sleeping. Split into multiple sections, each double-page spread explores nocturnal life all over the world. From an exploration of the night sky to a myriad of different biomes and climates, it shows the delicate ecosystems that sleep during the day and rise to live during the dark.

Dadbot is a great little adventure, with plenty of peril, excitement and most importantly, cool robots!

This boardbook is small but mighty. There are close to 200 brightly coloured illustrations, and pop-up flaps scattered throughout. The very youngest of readers will enjoy flipping through its pages and manoeuvring open the flaps to see the surprise picture underneath.

Every year, the town of Stemville is transformed into a Formula 1 racetrack. This story follows the fortunes of Frankie Thunderfoot, a hare, and Wilbur Hardshell, a tortoise, as they compete to earn a place on the finishing podium. The story balances Frankie and Wilbur’s rivalry with a sense of fun and healthy competition, never losing sight of the importance of friendship and enjoying the journey.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, and best exemplified with Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories, that an ideal way to get young people excited about the past is to focus on the gross-out humour angle, and then to slide in engaging facts and context along the way. In this gorgeously illustrated book we’re exploring the history of medicine, looking at how healers across the world and across the ages have dealt with diseases, sanitation, and ideas about the human body.

This gripping and exciting book examines the aftermath of an apocalyptic event involving artificial intelligence and humans, called the Flood, in which the world as we know it has ended with not many survivors left. Humans and machines were connected to each other via a link called the Hive that short-circuited, and almost everything has been destroyed.

Marking the 10th Anniversary, this edition of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls has been expanded to include twenty-two new women, organized alphabetically by first name. Women included span history from 1479 BC to present day and represent countries all over the world as activists, athletes, conservationists, creators, performers, politicians, and scientists, among other occupations. However, mastery takes dedication and persistence, no matter how naturally talented one is. The volume’s message is clear: it does not matter what you do so long as you enjoy it.