Oi Dog! by Kes Gray and Claire Gray & Jim Field

Frog's had enough, he's the changing the status quo! Cat insists that there are rules - only mules sit on stools, no one but hares should sit on chairs and however irritating, dogs MUST sit on frogs. 'Well, I'm changing the rules,' said the frog.'From now on, dogs sit on logs, not frogs!'And everyone else is going to have to sit somewhere else too. Will Cat want to sit on gnats instead of cushy mats? Will spiders like sitting on gliders? Will whales be happy to sit on nails? And, most importantly, where is FROG going to sit?

Hachette Children's Group

Chicken Nugget by ​Michell Robinson & Tom McLaughlin​

My name is Nugget. Chicken Nugget. This is my family.I'm the smallest. And when you're the smallest, nobody ever listens. When Nugget's long-lost-cousin Franz turns up, all isn't quite as it seems. There's definitely something fishy - or foxy - about this chicken. This is Nugget's chance to save the day, because sometimes the bravest hero of all is just a little chicken.

Penguin Books Ltd

Grandad's Island by Benji Davies​

After the phenomenal success of The Storm Whale and On Sudden Hill, this new book by Benji Davies deals with the emotional topic of losing a grandparent. Subtly told, this beautifully illustrated book tackles a difficult subject with great sensitivity and depth.

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Gracie Grabbit and the Tiger by Helen Stephens​

Gracie Grabbit is going to the zoo with her dad, but she has one
problem - her dad's a cheeky robber! She needs to stop him spoiling
her day, but how? Luckily, a friendly tiger is on hand to help
out - with lots of fun and mix-ups along the way.

Scholastic

An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo​

The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time.And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing. It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could have made - a mistake he must put right before it is too late...

HarperCollins Publisher

​The Accidental Pirates (Voyage to Magical North) by Claire Fayers​

Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past . . . if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she's spent every day since housekeeping for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice, Peter.But everything changes when Brine and Peter accidentally break the magician's starshell and need to flee the island. 

Pan Macmillan

The Jam Doughnut That Ruined My Life by Mark Lowery & Hannah Shaw

A jam-fuelled week of disaster is set in motion by a single doughnut! Roman Garstang is obsessed with food - particularly Squidgy Splodge raspberry-jam doughnuts - but he is about to learn that things are not always as sugar-coated as they might seem. 

Templar Publishing, Bonnier 

One by Sarah Crossan

Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. And what about love?

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Car-Jacked by Ali Sparkes

Jack Mattingly is a genius. He has an IQ of 170. He speaks fluent Mandarin and Latin. And he can calculate the square root of 1,673,549 in his head. But when Jack's parents' car is hi-jacked, with him inside it, for once he's as clueless as the rest of us. 

Oxford University Press

Mistletoe and Murder: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery ​ by Robin Stephens​

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful spires, cosy libraries and inviting tea-rooms - but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College

Penguin Books Ltd