What’s new this January!

Harley Hitch Takes Flight by Vashti Hardy and George Ermos

Harley Hitch returns for an airborne adventure in this highly illustrated fiction series about a determined young inventor from award-winning author Vashti Hardy.

The Aviation Parade is coming to Forgetown this summer, and Harley has her sights set on creating a flying machine that will really stand out: a robot hippogriff! And if the creature impresses Cosmo’s mum enough, surely Cosmo will be able to keep it as a pet?

But Harley wants the flying machine to be a surprise for everyone. She soon finds that keeping secrets leads to tricky explanations and lots of trouble – especially when REAL hippogriffs arrive and cause chaos!

Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary and Martin Brown

Discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons with history’s most horrible headlines.

All the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons are ready to uncover, including: who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.

Fully illustrated throughout and packed with horrible stories – with all the horribly hilarious bits included and with a fresh take on the classic Horrible Histories style, perfect for fans old and new. This is the perfect series for anyone looking for a fun and informative read.

Get your history right here and collect the whole horrible lot. Read all about it!

Signed Sealed Dead by Cynthia Murphy

From best-loved YA thriller author, Cynthia Murphy, comes an explosive new mystery!

True-Crime obsessed Paige, and her family, move across the Atlantic to her father’s eerie hometown, and it’s not long before she uncovers the town’s dark history – a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s. And then notes start appearing at their dilapidated old home, about the secrets the house is keeping. The clues lead Paige to a diary concealed in the walls that belonged to one of the missing girls.

Could this be the key to solving a quarter-of-a-century mystery, or will this make Paige the next target?!

The Adventures of Invisible Boy by Doogie Horner

Think your wildest wish can’t come true? Just wait!

It’s his first day at a new school, and Stanley wishes he could disappear. He can hardly believe it when, after a big spill at the science fair, POOF! Stanley is invisible! It’s awesome! He can do anything he wants, and no one will know!

But Stanley isn’t the only one who turned invisible. The inventor of the potion is not happy about the accident and takes his anger out on kids all over town. Stanley wants to use his power for good … which means going up against the one person who can make him visible again. Get ready for a battle of the ages.

This Tale Is Forbidden by Polly Crosby

Control the story, control the world…

Nesta believes in the fairy tales – the true stories of powerful magical women who shaped and ruled the world decades ago. But the world has changed since then, and now, she is forbidden from wandering too far from the isolated woodland cottage where she lives with her grandmother.

Nesta longs to see the city that lies beyond the forest, and when her grandmother is abducted, she journeys there in the hope of rescuing her. But once there, she is horrified to see her grandmother’s warnings were true: girls are forced to wear certain clothes and punished if they don’t behave in certain ways. The city’s Authorities have rewritten history, replacing the fairytale heroines with weak girls who must rely on men.

Can she evade the Authorities long enough to rescue her grandmother and liberate everyone else, bringing magic back into the world?

The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom: Rise of the Zombie Pigs by Emily-Jane Clark and Jeff Crowther

A laugh-out-loud, brilliantly wacky, highly illustrated adventure for readers of 8+ from an award-winning comedy writer.

Someone or something in the village of Knobbly Bottom is eating up EVERYTHING! When a chocolate cake goes missing, nine-year-old Maggie McKay gets the blame. But when entire vegetable plots are devoured overnight, huge bite marks are found in garden furniture and even her friend Fred’s grandad’s disgusting courgettes are gobbled up, she kicks off an investigation!

However, when the ravenous local pigs start turning green and doubling in size, Maggie and Fred wonder whether they might have bitten off more than they can chew… How can they fend off the rise of the ZOMBIE PIGS?

Babysitters Club: Claudia and The Bad Joke by Ann M. Martin and Arley Nopra

A brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by newcomer Arley Nopra!

Claudia isn’t worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a big practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy’s jokes. Now Claudia is feeling like baby-sitting might be too dangerous and she’s talking about quitting the club! Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson, and that the baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out, Betsy Sobak.

The joke war is on!

Bird & Squirrel (book 1 and 2 bind-up) by James Burks

A full colour bind-up of the first two installments in the full colour BIRD & SQUIRREL series.

Squirrel is afraid of his own shadow. Bird doesn’t have a care in the world. And Cat wants to eat Bird and Squirrel. Join this trio as they head south for the winter in a hilarious road trip. Then, after Bird and Squirrel crash land in the South Pole during a raging blizzard, a penguin named Sakari thinks Bird has come to rid her village of a hungry Killer Whale.

But when Squirrel finds out that Bird will actually be fed to the Killer Whale as a sacrifice, they hatch a crazy plan to escape…

Pig #3: The Seriously Extraordinary Diary of Pig by Emer Stamp

The third book in the Diaries of Pig series of chapter books in full colour – with Pig’s hilarious illustrations, wisdom and awful grammar on every page.

Hello. I is Pig and this is my newest diary. I is not sure why such CRAZY things is always happening to me. All I wants is to eat yummy slops and play games with Duck and Cow, but somehow things never seems to go to plan…

Pig and his friends are safely back on their farm, spending their days playing games and having fun – until a game of hide-and-seek goes badly wrong. Then Pig’s attempt to make it better goes even more wrong when his friend Cow gets kidnapped! Pig and Duck are the only ones who can save her. Join them on their mission which will take them across land and sea.

With more fun, parps, slops and unbelievable adventure from this much-loved set of characters. Complete with colour illustrations throughout.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel #4 by Scott Cawthon

Five Nights at Freddy’s fans won’t want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .

Some things must be learned the hard way . . . Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son . . . Sergio acquires a unique novelty toy that instantly brings good luck, but is the toy really leading him to happiness . . . or to a more monstrous end?

In this volume, three stories from the New York Times bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans.

You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai by Dean Robbins and Maithili Joshi

Make way for Malala Yousafzai!

It’s Malala like you’ve never seen her before!

Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an activist and trailblazer. The third book in the exciting nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai focuses on Malala’s lifelong mission to bring educational equality and justice to all – especially young girls.

Maithili Joshi’s spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and back matter instructs readers on how to be more like Malala!