FOR READERS AGED 6-8

INDIGO WILDE AND THE CREATURES AT JELLYBEAN CRESCENT

By Pippa Curnick,

Hachette, £9.99

THIS is creative, colourful and full of beans. Indigo’s explorer parents have filled the house with weird and wonderful creatures, from goblins to dragons and yetis. Then they send the children a creature that eats its way out of its box before they can open it, disappears and wreaks havoc around the house.

What is the creature? Can Indigo catch it before the neighbours learn how wild the

Wildes are?

PANDA AT THE DOOR

By Sarah Horne,

Chicken Shed, £6.99

Callum is crestfallen to receive a birthday present of an “adopted” zoo panda – until Pudding the Panda escapes and appears on his doorstep. Pudding channels her inner Mary Poppins to turn Callum’s collapsing life around.

An upbeat read full of illustrations.

A MONSTER ATE MY PACKED LUNCH

lively

By Pamela Butchart,

Nosy Crow, £6.99

Izzy and pals take an overnight school trip and learn about terrifying local legends. They decide to investigate – but are soon out of their depth in this lively comic caper.

AN ESCAPE IN TIME

By Sally Nicholls, Nosy

Crow, £6.99

Ruby and Alex’s time-travelling mirror transports them to 1795 to help a survivor of the

French Revolution

– but their mission is not at all what it first seems.

THE WORRIES

By Jion Sheibani,

Puffin, £6.99

The Worries is an amusing but wholly empathetic read about Sohal who deals with anxiety by drawing his worries as cartoon characters.

But when they come to life will he be able to control them?

TAKE OFF YOUR BRAVE

By Nadim (aged 4), illustrated by Yasmeen

Ismail, Walker, £12.99

Nadim offers a moving and eloquent child’s-eye view of the world in an enchanting, evocative and gloriously illustrated collection of poems on subjects close to the hearts of very young children.

THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE

By Alex Cotter, Nosy Crow, £6.99 Tense and gripping, this is a fabulous read full of twists and turns.

Faith lives in a house on the edge of a cliff but it’s becoming dangerous with the crack on the edge getting bigger every day. Then her father goes missing, followed by her brother.

Can Faith solve the mystery of their disappearances before her home falls into the sea?

THE SUMMER WE TURNED GREEN

By William Sutcliffe, Bloomsbury, £7.99 Luke’s sister and his dad have gone to live in a commune with people protesting against airport expansion.

His mum is always at work so Luke must learn to be alone.

Will he ever feel part of a family again?

This tale of rebel climate protestors is an engrossing and relatable emotional rollercoaster, full of drama and vividly written.