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New sequels & series January 2023

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January 8, 2023

Happy New Year!

Lots of new sequels and series out this month. Click on the title for the link to the childrensbooksequels.co.uk website where you will find the whole series and order the books. If you buy anything through the affiliate buttons on childrensbooksequels.co.uk I get a tiny affiliate fee which helps towards the webhosting. I don’t make enough to take a wage but every little helps, so thank you for supporting childrensbooksequels.co.uk

Hannah Peck – Kate on the Case:3 – The Headline Hoax

Megan Rix and Tim Budgen – Lizzie and Lucky:3 – The Mystery of the Disappearing Rabbit

Tamzin Merchant – Hatmakers: 2 – The Mapmakers – Out in paperback 19/01/2023

Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid:16 Big Shot – Out in paperback 19/01/2023

Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham – Baby Aliens:13 – There’s a Beast in the Basement!

Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps – Dragon Storm – 6 – Erin and Rockhammer

John Patrick Green – InvestiGators:5 – Braver and Boulder – Out in paperback 12/01/2023

P.J. Canning – 21% Monster:2 – Ice Giant

Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault – Monster Hunting For Beginners:2 – Monsters Bite Back

Vashti Hardy – Harley Hitch:3 – Harley Hitch and the Fossil Mystery

Adam Blade – Beast Quest:Series 29 Book 3 – Draka the Winged Serpent

Adam Blade – Beast Quest:Series 29 Book 4 – Lukor the Forest Demon

Katie Tsang, Kevin Tsang – Space Blasters:2 – Suzie and the Moon Bugs

Amy Sparkes – House at the Edge of Magic: 3 – Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

India, Incredible India by Jasbinder Bilan & illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti

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October 5, 2022

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From the illustrated endpapers to the tiny details on the pages, this is a wonderful book about a big country, with a story running through it.

Thara often stays at her Nanijee’s (Grandmother) house and tucked away in a corner of her bedroom is a carved wooden trunk. Every Friday night Nanijee will take an item from the trunk and tell Thara the story behind it. The items range from a little metal tuk-tuk, a stamp, a seed pod, and a train ticket.

Each item is given a double spread with space for Nina Chakrabarti’s evocative illustrations and Jasbinder Bilan’s words describing the landscapes, noises, smells, and colours of that area of India and the people who live, or who have lived there. There are little extras like the countdown from 10 – 1 in Hindi on the Space Centre pages and an historical timeline at the back which puts everything into context.

I loved the idea of a technically non-fiction book but with a story woven through it like the river Ganges. There were people mentioned who I know, it makes me want to discover more about them, which is always good. An amazing book with something for everyone. If you’re lucky enough to have a school library, this should be on the shelf.

Order a copy here. India Incredible India

Swarm Rising: Swarm Enemy – Tim Peake and Steve Cole

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August 8, 2022

This is my blog tour stop for the Swarm Rising series 2- Swarm Enemy from astronaut and author pairing, Tim Peake and Steve Cole.

Read on for a list of Steve Cole’s Top 5 Space Book Picks. Click on the title to order the book.

1. Doctor Who and the Daleks by David Whitaker

A key inspiration to the writers of the modern TV take on the Time Lord, the first ever Doctor Who book from 1964 throws the mysterious Doctor and his unwilling companions into an epic struggle for survival on the planet Skaro.

2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A year before Doctor Who first aired on our screens this lively modern classic gave us Mrs Who, the original mysterious alien to travel the universe with unlikely companions. Three human children are recruited to join the battle against the evil Black Thing, traversing the universe via wrinkles in space-time.

3. Larklight by Philip Reeve

This tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space presents an alternative reality where Sir Isaac Newton’s discoveries have made the conquest of space possible. By the Victorian era, ramshackle houses orbit in the deeps beyond the Moon, with British Standard Gravity to keep their occupants on the ground.

4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The superbly silly pan-galactic adventures of Arthur Dent began over 40 years ago but are still just as fresh and funny today.

5. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

Best-known for his Narnia books, Lewis also turned his hand to space adventures underpinned with thoughtful philosophy. In this, the first of his so-called Cosmic Trilogy, we visit the planet Malacandra (that’s Mars to you and me) and meet many weird and wonderful aliens. But the real menace on Mars is human greed, and there’s a reason Earth is known throughout the solar system as the ‘silent planet’….

To discover more about the Swarm Rising series here: https://childrensbooksequels.co.uk/series/name/swarm-rising

Discover more books and series on space at childrensbooksequels.co.uk/series/search/space

My thanks to Namishka at Hachette for thinking of childrensbooksequels.co.uk and the blogtour stop.

Swarm Rising: Swarm Enemy is out now: find out more at www.hachette.co.uk/titles/steve-cole/swarm-rising-swarm-enemy/9781444960877/

You can find out more about Tim Peake and this book at: www.timpeake.com/books/swarm-enemy/

Follow author, Steve Cole on Twitter as @SteveColeBooks

The Unexpected Tale of the Bad Brothers by Clare Povey

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July 30, 2022

A Bastien Bonlivre Adventure

The second Bastien Bonlivre adventure, set in Paris, starts with a map with some familiar names on it.

Bastien is celebrating the launch of his first book at his favourite bookshop, Le Chat Curieux, with Alice, the owners daughter, Theo and other friends from the orphanage. It should be a wonderful evening but when the shop is plunged into darkness, Bastien knows something isn’t right.
While Xavier Odieux is locked up in prison for life, his brother Olivier is free and it’s time to begin his great plan. Soon fires are burning across Paris followed by a mass break out at the prison. Are these isolated incidents? Bastien & his friends don’t think so and start to discover what is really going on.

Bastien is a great character, loyal, curious and intelligent whereas Olivier is a horrible person, a nasty piece of work who won’t stop at anything to get what he wants and feels he deserves.
A great story, set in a beautiful city. I’m growing very fond of Bastien & his friends, and hope there are more adventures to come.




The Good Turn by Sharna Jackson

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June 16, 2022

Josie wants more, more of everything, learning, adventure but she’s got a little brother about to be born and all she’s hearing at home is conversations abut prams and baby names. Apparently names have meanings, Jodie discovers and then does some more digging about famous Josephine’s. Suddenly there on the screen is another Josephine – Josephine Amanda Groves Holloway who founded the first Black Girl Scouts troop in Tennessee in the 1920’s. Here was someone worth learning about. Josie shares the ideas with Wesley & Margot, friends who live in the same little close as her, are in her class at school, and The Copsey’s are born. Copsey Close is in Luton, and the Close backs on to a wilderness, otherwise known as the Outback, and a large derelict factory, Chicane Cars, where Wesley’s grandfather used to work.

So begins a series of adventures, small ones at first but then after seeing lights on in the empty factory building Josie wants to explore a bit more and everything becomes a lot more serious.

The characters are well defined, you could almost smell the inside of Wesley’s house and the cacophony of noise, compared to Margot’s house where it’s just her and her dad. Josie is brilliant, sassy, confident, most of the time, and is big enough to apologise when she has to. I hope there are more adventures for The Copsey’s.

I loved this story, I hadn’t read the reviews so wasn’t expecting the narrative to go in the direction it did, but I did need tissues at the end. It’s going to be one of those books that should be in every school library.

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