29/09 – today is the day… Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome new character by Lauren Child, will finally meet her avid readers! Ruby Redfort: Look into my Eyes is the first new adventure in the new series by the creator of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean. By popular demand from Clarice Bean fans the world [...]

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The shortlist for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize has been announced today and not one, but TWO HarperCollins books have been chosen! ‘First Week at Cow School’ by Andy Cutbill and ‘Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School’ by David Mackintosh have been shortlisted for children aged six and under by a brilliant selection of [...]

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‘When Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree he tried pulling and swinging but it wouldn’t come unstuck’… What would you do if your favourite kite got stuck in a tree? Well, Oliver Jeffers (and his character Floyd) decides to start throwing things at it. Whales, orang-utan, rhinoceros… Floyd starts to throw literally EVERYTHING into the [...]

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 Following Oliver Jeffers’ tales, we got LOST and we had to FIND each other again, we went UP and then DOWN. And now we are ready to get STUCK into an exciting new story. ‘Stuck’ by picture book sensation Oliver Jeffers is launching today and we are all very excited here at HC! As Oliver once said ‘Stuck [...]

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