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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
When Aunt Lucy cooks up her special Peruvian stew recipe, it is so delicious that Mrs Brown makes up a new word to describe it ('Scrumflumptuous!') and everyone in the street wants to eat it! Aunt Lucy appoints Paddington as the perfect bear to take charge of her takeaway business to make sure everyone in the street gets some, but he soon discovers being a businessbear is much harder than it looks.
43) The baby unicorn
Author
Publisher
Farshore
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
A baby unicorn in Happyland? Now that would be a surprise! Mr Wrong is going on a unicorn hunt, which would usually mean no hunt and no unicorn, as Mr Wrong is never right. But he does find a baby unicorn and no one is more surprised than Little Miss Surprise! Though the surprises don't stop there as the baby unicorn has a cheeky streak and this combination of mischief and magic spells mayhem! How can she learn to help people instead?
45) A bad news day
Series
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
When Tiny saves the other dinos by reporting on the erupting volcano, she's inspired to start her very own news show! Rocky, Mazu and Bill try to report the real news, but Tiny finds that reporting made up stories gets a much better reaction. But what happens when the dinos stop believing her lies? Will they believe Tiny when she reports the truth? Will there be good news at the end of the day.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
'Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law?' A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental damage. At the forefront of this movement, pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for the people fighting for their homes and livelihoods, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species. In 'A Barrister...
48) Basil dreams big
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Basil the bat doesn't believe he can fly. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't do it. But when a thundering storm threatens the safety of his beloved friend, Moth, will Basil find his wings and believe in the bat he can be?
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Gerda and Orlo are best bear friends. When Gerda was there, Orlo always had time for a game or a story, a joke or a rhyme. He was never too busy to listen, to talk, to help, to share, or to go for a walk. But slowly, something starts to change. Orlo reveals he is ill, and as he softly explains to Gerda, he is not going to get better. Gerda is overwhelmed by emotions she cannot quite explain, but Orlo gently helps her prepare, so they can spend their...
Publisher
Seven Dials
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the Hairy Bikers' hugely popular series of cookbooks, this is a definitive collection of the best-loved recipes from the nation's favourite cooking duo. For over two decades, Si and Dave have shared their love of food with the nation, enthusing and entertaining millions with their books and TV shows. Now, 'The Best of the Hairy Bikers' brings together over 120 of their most admired, talked about, and cooked recipes in one place. With dishes...
Series
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Heard about the poisonous tree in the Amazon rainforest that grows exploding fruit? Did you know that manatees control their buoyancy with farts? Or that the first vending machine was invented in ancient Egypt? In this compendium of obscure facts readers will be treated to baffling scientific knowledge they would never learn at school. Broken into chapters including engineering, space, and biology, a team of experts has scoured the margins to find...
Author
Publisher
HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Journalist and lifelong twitcher Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin's beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, birds are commonplace miracles. No wonder they have inspired our artists, writers and songwriters. Whether rare or abundant, the author visits some of the best places in Britain to watch birds, searching for some species he has...
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple transaction. Many treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst and violence. In the case of the Black Grouse, the bird at the centre of Matt Ridley's investigation, the males dance and sing for hours a day, for several exhausting months, in an exhausting and sometimes deadly ritual called a 'lek'. To prepare for the ordeal, they grow, preen and display fancy, twisted, bold-colored...
Author
Publisher
UCLan Publishing
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
1960 is knocking on the door, and 18-year-old Margaret 'Birdy' Arbuthnot, presently of Surbiton, wants more than her current existence in the dull suburbs. She wants to live - in capital letters! Could Soho, with its bright lights and dark corridors, hold the key to a life more novel-like and less. Surrey? (Even if Mummy thinks it is a square mile of vice, full of men with overly shiny shoes.) At the cusp of the new year, Birdy resolves to only say...
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