Giles Andreae (text) & Sarah McIntyre (illustrations)(David Fickling Books) Meet Morris: He feeds off the snotty green bogiesThat lurk up his big hairy noseAnd sometimes he nibbles the poisonous mouldWhich he scrapes off the ends of his toes Revolting isn’t it? This book claims to be the most revolting book of the year, and it’s …
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Glister: The Haunted Teapot
Andi Watson(Walker Books) Strange things always seem to happen around Glister Butterworth so when a teapot appears, unannounced, on her doorstep, Glister doesn’t batter an eyelid and busies herself making a cup of tea for herself an her rather unorthodox father. But the teapot is haunted and Glister soon finds herself enrolled in fulfilling the …
Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan(David Fickling Books) Teenage mother Liga escapes to her own alternative world after enduring unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father first then a gang of town boys.The world she escapes to is a mirror image of the one she comes from apart from all the cruel and evil people from her village …
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Catherine Jinks(Quercus Books) Yes, I know, everybody is sick of vampire/supernatural fiction. It’s everywhere isn’t it? And it’s getting hard to decipher between the good from the “I want a bit of Stephenie Meyer’s fame” books! But if you are sick of all the vampires (I am not, I’ll admit!), then this is the book …
Little Bo Peep’s Troublesome Sheep
Cressida Cowell (Hodder Children’s Books) Hurrah! One of my favourite picture books ever has been reissued after being out-of-print for many years. Little Bo Peep’s Library Book, now renamed Little Bo Peep’s Troublesome Sheep (why the change of title I wonder?) has been relaunched by Hodder Children’s Books in a new bigger format (my old …
Blood Hunters
Steve Voake(Faber & Faber Children’s Books) In the middle of the Mexican jungle a small scientific team prepares to embark on an exploration of the world’s deepest sinkhole; a naturally-formed underwater shaft, the bottom of which no one has ever reached. What they are about to discover could change the world forever.Three thousand miles away, …