2025 Catalogue
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The Old Forest Path
By Jamie Catto
Illustrated by Kanako Wakabayashi
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Rights: 9781857144963 5+
Hardback 261 x 213mm
32pp £12.99 WORLD
In an enchanted forest live magical fairies who delight in music and dance, however they always follow the old path through the woods, having been told to do so will keep them safe. It happened one afternoon, when the sun was casting its hypnotic patterns through the branches above, that from somewhere out of sight, a new and unheard music reached the delicate ears of those magical creatures. It began as a flute but then turned into a pipe.
April 2025
It moved like a drum but then pulsed like a stamp. The music reached high and yet still rumbled down low and it moved them all as it filtered so invitingly from its origin unknown. One fairy is bold enough to leave the path in search of the source of this beautiful sound...
AUTHOR: Jamie Catto is a British musician, video director, photographer, and script editor. He was a founding member of Faithless, before leaving in 1999 to form 1 Giant Leap and co-created a documentary film with the same title. He wrote the self-help book “Insanely Gifted” published in 2016 by Canongate. This is his first book for children.
ILLUSTRATOR: Kanako Wakabayashi is an artist and illustrator who creates the gentle world of fairytales and fantasy, using a variety of materials. Her inspiration comes from nature, the spirits inhabiting it, and also her imagination and dreams. Kanako holds an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, U.K., and her work has also been widely exhibited in her home country, Japan.
Of Serpent Skins
By J. Zacharias
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9781857144987 12+
Paperback 197 x 130mm
140pp
£7.99 WORLD
The third novel in a trilogy with further profound adventures for Anitha, who travels to Kerala, India to stay with her grandmother and learn more about their magical powers. Anitha become embroiled in a conflict with a corporation who seek to develop an ancient sacred woods. Through telepathy and her paranormal powers, Anitha helps the local community save their beloved forest. A fascinating tale exploring the emergence of matriarchal power coming out of traditional patriarchal themes and parallel timelines.
J. Zacharias has written another enchanting story in this her third novel.
AUTHOR: J. Zacharias was born in Singapore, and has a BA in Southeast Asian Studies, Political Science and Ancient Philosophy from The National University of Singapore. Zacharias subsequently went on to train as a Secondary School teacher in the National Institute of Education. Her hobbies are dancing, chanting and walking in the countryside of Yorkshire where she lives. July 2025
Of Serpent Born
£6.99
Of Serpent Dreams
9781857144918 • £7.99
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The Long Walk
Petr Horácek
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Format: Extent: Price: Rights: 9781857144994 4-8+
Hardback 305 x 250mm
48pp
£14.99
WORLD ENGLISH
Frank was a garden gnome.
For years he stood in the corner of the garden, watching time pass by. Frank gets on with the birds that visit his garden and listens to descriptions of their adventures. He doesn’t like the cheeky sparrows however, as they tease him for never leaving the garden.
Sept 2025
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Then one day Frank does something extraordinary. He starts walking. Frank walks through rain and sun, up hills and down mountains, through deserts and across beaches. He sees some incredible places and has many adventures. Then, a little older and wiser, Frank returns to the garden. Now it is his turn to share stories with the birds, fascinating them with stories from his own amazing journey.
Petr Horáček is an internationally published illustrator and author of children’s books including: Blue Monster, Tiny Owl’s Scary Day, The Perfect Present, A Best Friend for Bear and many others. Petr was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and his books have won many awards including 2018 Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English (Song of The Wild), 2017 School Library Association Information Book Award (A First Book of Animals) 2017 Sheffield’s Children Book Award for toddlers (The Greedy Goat) to name a few!
Yoga for Kids
By Olivia Shirley
Illustrated by Shalini Soni Mazumdar
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9781857144970 3+
Paperback 240 x 215mm 32pp
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Yoga for Kids is a simple look at what yoga is and how it can help us come into balance, with wonderful illustrations and a glossary of some of the commonly used Sanskrit terms.
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AUTHOR: I was based in Tanzania from 1996 - 1998 and began to practise yoga when expecting my son in 1996. On return to Europe in 1998 I began to study with the College of Ayurveda at the Kailash clinic in St John’s wood, London. I then trained in yoga and Ayurveda in Coimbatore, India in 2002 at Arsha Yoga Vidya Peetam Trust and later qualified as a yoga teacher in 2006 with the British Wheel of Yoga. I have also worked intermittently in the world of children’s books - so I’m delighted to have the opportunity to combine these two worlds in Yoga for Kids.
ILLUSTRATOR: I paint professionally and have also worked as an illustrator for mainstream and scholastic children’s books. I draw inspiration from the works of artists like Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Gustav Klimt, and illustrators like Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, Maurice Sendak and Quentin Blake. I did my graduate diploma in applied arts and later went on to get a master’s degree in art history. I have also studied the traditional art of Rajasthani miniature painting. For my work in traditional and contemporary art, I have received merit awards at the state and national levels. I am a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), the only professional body for individuals who write, illustrate and translate for children and young adults. I’m a big animation movie buff, and enjoy watching cartoons with my son. We share a love for books by Ronald Dahl, J.K. Rowling, Enid Blyton and Ruskin Bond. I am currently based in New Delhi, India.
The Village that Vanished
By Ann Grifalconi
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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6+
Paperback 292 x 230mm
40pp
£7.99
UK & Eire
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The slavers are coming! Young Abikamile listens as her mother prays to her ancestors’ spirits to protect the people of her village from the violent men from the north who intend to enslave the Yao tribe. Her mother has a plan – they must disappear – destroy the village and vanish into the deep forest. Only old Chimwala, the oldest of the village elders, will remain, as if always she has lived there alone. But the tribe will need more than faith to save themselves, they will need courage too. A moving tale from the history of the Yao people of East Africa, retold by Ann Grifalconi.
AUTHOR: Ann Grifalconi won the Caldecott Award for her book The Village of Round and Square Houses. She has created films, as well as writing and illustrating many stories inspired by Africa.
ILLUSTRATOR: Kadir Nelsonis an award-winning African-American artist and the illustrator of a number of eye-catching picture books. He is twice winner of the Caldecott Award.
4-11 Award for the Best Children’s Picture Book for 2002 for Key Stage 2 Fiction ENGLISH ASSOCIATION Jane Addams Peace Award 2003
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For the Heart
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Just for You
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