On Sleepy Hill, it’s time to say goodnight. All the baby animals are returning to their homes to settle down for the night. Fox cubs, ducklings, geese and caribou are all being rounded up by their parents to settle in burrows, nests and hollows. Tumbling, bobbing and swooping, the little ones are determined to get their last bit of play in before darkness falls and stars begin to twinkle.
Everyone in Mouseopolis has gathered for the grand unveiling of The Big Cheese, the most magnificent morsel of cheese the city has ever seen. With great excitement, the citizens await for the moment when the curtain is pulled back to reveal…The Big Cheese has been stolen! The news of The Big Cheese theft spreads rapidly through Mouseopolis and a list of dastardly suspects is revealed. But who can they call on to track down these cheese-stealing crooks when there is nothing left but a few stinky crumbs? This is a job for…Supermouse!
This book offers readers a new and gripping dystopian thriller in YA fiction. It is a thought-provoking novel that tackles the subject of traditional gender roles and explores the theme of societal power dynamics. Quite pointedly, society is split between men and women whereby the men are either auctioned to the ‘female elite’ or live a life buried underground in the mines.
A companion to the highly successful and beautifully illustrated picturebook The Girls, The Boys follows the lives and friendship of four boys – Rey, Nattie, Bobby and Tam – through the years of babyhood to adulthood. We first meet the boys on a beach with their mothers and follow them through their adolescence and into adulthood. Throughout the book the beach plays an important role for the boys; as they learn and grow, the beach at times seems to be its own character.
Welsh says that this book is based on her memory of a seaside outing to Perran Sands, Cornwall, as well as on her experience of having a family member who suffers from dementia. At the heart of the book is the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. At times he gets confused and forgets things. The child narrator admits that she gets cross sometimes with him. She worries that someday he might forget her. Yet her empathy breaks through too, as she tries to imagine how frightening it must be for him to forget the people he loves.
What would you do if you lived on the edgecof the galaxy in a space station far from Earth, with just your granny, and then one day whilst exploring said space station you found an enormous disused rocket? Derek’s granny explains that it is a space train, a magical train that once travelled across the universe visiting thousands of other space stations. This can only mean one thing to lonely Derek – with a space train like this he can find friends. Together with a grumbly toolbot and robot chicken, Derek and his granny set to work fixing this monster machine.
Nibbles is a little yellow monster, whose huge appetite results in him nibbling through books. Children may be familiar with our eponymous hero from his first book, Nibbles: The Book Monster which saw him chewing through a book of fairy tales and disrupting the stories within. This time Nibbles is back and chomping through a book about dinosaurs. However, the little monster is in danger of being chomped himself, as he encounters triceratops, diplodocuses, velociraptors and even the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex along the way.
As Mouse scampers along a branch, he hears a horrible howl ringing through the deep, dark wood. One by one, the animals of the forest clamber up the tree, perturbed by the awful sound. As Owl, Bear, Moose, Goose, Dove and Cub group together to ponder the mystery of the monstrous cry, the branches of the tree soon begin to buckle…
Cat has made a mess. Quite a big one, too, that appears to include bits of trees, gifts, and other animals. Dog wisely suggests tidying up, but Cat wants to take the easy way out—even if that ends up being far more effort. Cat tries to dump the mess in the forest, sink it in the sea, and hoover it all up, but nothing works.
