29th September is here!

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 over, Lauren Child has taken Ruby Redfort from the pages of her best-selling books and brought her to life in a brand new series! Ruby is a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Ready to crack codes with her and follow her adventures? Sure you are, buster!

As if that wasn’t enough, today we are releasing the literary equivalent of buried treasure – seven newly-discovered stories by Dr. Seuss! The first new Seuss stories to emerge since 1990!

Every story features Dr. Seuss typical style and amazing illustrations. Dr. Seuss fans will not be disappointed…

29^th September is also the release date of the long-awaited third installment in the creepy, captivating Larten Crepsley series by Darren Shan. In this book, Larten finds out what it means to love… but is he also damned to find out what it means to lose?

Watch Darren as he reads a brief extract from Palace of the Damned…

And if you’ve always been fascinated by the story of Jack the Ripper, we have also something for you! Thrilling ghost-hunting teen mystery, The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson is also OUT TODAY! Sixteen-year-old American girl Rory has just arrived at boarding school in London when a Jack the Ripper copycat-killer begins terrorising the city. All the hallmarks of his infamous murders are frighteningly present, but there are few clues to the killer’s identity. “Rippermania” grabs hold of modern-day London, and the police are stumped with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. In an unknown city with few friends to turn to, Rory makes a chilling discovery…

And we know you want the cherry on the cake – well, we have it for you! Today we also release Bumble-Ardy, a brand-new picture book from Maurice Sendak, the creator of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE! BUMBLE-ARDY is a glorious picture book about a mischievous pig who has reached the age of nine without ever having had a birthday party. But all that changes when Bumble throws a party for himself and invites all his friends, leading to a wild masquerade that quickly gets out of hand…

And what about Shadow PB?  Also out today… The moving story about an Afghan boy and his dog by Master Storyteller Michael Morpurgo will make you smile and cry at the same time.  

Daring code-crackers, stories by the creator of the Cat in the Hat, vampires, Jack the Ripper, Morpurgo and Maurice Sendak… Here at HarperCollins we have literally EVERYTHING to quench your reading thirst…