A very special pop-up Christmas countdown with Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits! Play some harmless fun pranks at Christmas with the book tucked behind the door in the lefthand corner which teaches fun and safe Home Alone inspired pranks to play on family and friends. Begins with a huge colourful 13" pop up tree across the double page spread with scenes from the famous festive film. Behind each of the 24 doors is a special keepsake which can be used to decorate the tree and other memorable moments from the film in this very playful centrepiece for the entire month of December, complete with tree topper and guaranteed to bring smiles. All in colour, approximately 13" square.

Sponsored by the WWF and based on a Netflix original documentary series, this is the official children's book to accompany it. It is a glorious visual celebration of the natural world combining extraordinary photography from the series with stunning illustrations from acclaimed artist Richard Jones. In spectacular close-up detail we appreciate the humpback whale which roams the open ocean, a fox in a Ukrainian forest, pelicans in Australia, cheetahs hunting wildebeest, an elephant reaching for ana leaves and a desert elephant family, plus learning about our deserts and grasslands, wild meadows, anchovies and fancy fishing and all about our coastal seas, jungles, frozen worlds, forest and fresh water. There is a useful glossary and some images about filming behind the scenes of the series and a beautiful colour map of our planet's different habitats. 96 very large pages packed with colour, 21 x 30cm.

Each title in the Stickmen series features cut-away friendly illustrations, diagrams and fascinating nuggets of information as our accident-prone stickmen add a touch of humour to these important facts about trains, cars, aircraft, watercraft, and gigantic machines. They take you right inside the workings of Formula One cars, jet engines, helicopters, container ships, bucket-wheel excavators, semi-submersible rigs, construction cranes, hovercraft, submarines, aircraft carriers, passenger ships, rockets, motorcycles, right up to the armour-plated and very dangerous Abrams tank and the Large Hadron Collider which hurls tiny particles up to the speed of light. With big fold out poster included, designed for ages 9-11 years. 96pp, 21.6 x 28cm.

With over 200 colourful stickers and packed with games, colouring, posters and things to make and do, the first is making faces on the front of Thomas the Tank Engine himself using your stickers. Press out the big card pages and make a door hanger which you can colour in, your own Thomas hat, play the memory game, press out two pages and slot them together to make your own 3D Thomas in blue and with the number 1 down the side. Press out the useful stencils to trace and colour in buffer-busting pictures of a steam engine, top hat, bell, SODOR etc. and slot the many characters into their stands to create your own scene. After the stickers there are eight pull-out pages, some already coloured, others to colour in, and spread these out from the folded pages to make your play scenes/posters. 22 x 27.7cm large softback, colour.

The cut-away cover of this colourful board book has pink, orange and yellow soft strokable fur poking through so we can touch and feel the unicorn's head. "Unicorns love cuddles more than magic rainbow cake. So always hug a unicorn - it won't be a mistake!" Flowers in the sun we can touch the petals of the foil insert, the little rainbow fish we can touch the actual rainbow scales on the fin, songs in rainy weather touch the rainbow fabric on the umbrella, and dancing and playing party games with the unicorns on the final double page spread there is green, blue and purple soft unicorn hair to touch. 12 big pages 17.8 x 17.3cm with a real rainbow touch for ages 3+ and delightful illustrations by Stuart Lynch.

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021, the novel is a fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock, squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. One day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade. A mysterious friendship develops between them. Treacle Walker has magical powers and bestows magical gifts on the boy and a human-like spiritual creature who lives in a bog. Possibly written for young adults in a slightly old-fashioned, comic book style and with many made up words like 'clanjandering'. A slim quick read, 152pp, paperback.

Discover a treasure trove of movie secrets in this small, deluxe pop-up book showcasing three dimensional renderings from the Harry Potter films. Open the door in the middle of the front cover with the sturdy magnetic closure and elastic loops hold each pop-up firmly in place for a perfect stand alone display. Designed for children, this is a Bloomsbury first edition for collectors of all ages. Full of magical mayhem there is a flying car, a hat that sings, from the wonders of Hogwarts to Newt Scamander's enchanted case, the wizarding world is full of incredible objects and creatures. There are scenes that bring the world of the films to life as we join a nervous Harry Potter moments before the Sorting Hat bellows 'Gryffindor!' through the Great Hall, uncover a New York City bank vault with Newt Scamander chasing after an escaped Niffler and much more. Includes two pop-ups related to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and pull-out flaps which feature text that delves into the items on each spread and how they were achieved in the films. 12 pop-up pages, all in magical colour.

With a big heavy bottom and squidgy round belly so that he sits upright very easily, or lolls in a laidback way, with incredibly soft tactile fur, little padded feet, brown nose, shiny brown eyes, little ears and floppy arms, we adore this brand new product from friends of ours at Ashridge. They are the people at #66books, the TikTok phenomenon. Measures approximately 36cm or 15" top to toe and a companion to our super-sized Teddy from the same supplier code 90662.

With 50 creepy stickers and five bright crayons in white, yellow, orange, green and purple, aimed at 7-9 year olds and with 48 pages measuring 22.23 x 26.7cm, this is unique in that the paper is actually black with white outline drawings of fun yet creepy ghosts, mummies, witches, wizards, plus Egyptian artifacts, monsters, owls, bats, pumpkins, frogs and more. Make them truly come alive with these very bright colours and spooky stickers in this colouring book with a difference. The 50 colourful stickers could be used for all kinds of craft projects and include ghosts, Dracula, witches and witches hats and cats castles, werewolves, bound mummies, creepy crawlies and more. Large softback.

Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985 where London's criminal gangs have moved into a lucrative literary market, and Thursday is on the trail of the new crime wave's Mr Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage, but solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Literary detection with suckers and biters and a runcible spoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, Thornfield Hall, the death of Marlowe and Shakespeare's curious double life and more literary detection. 373pp. Ages 10-14.