Charlie Chirps

‘Lawks! Wot’s that?’

Like any couple keen to be parents, Mr and Mrs Chirps were thrilled when Egbert the Stork drifted over Big Ben with three baby Sparrows in a bag for them. There was Esmerelda and Griselda, and a cheerful little stranger called Charlie.

Shocks all round! Charlie’s speech is, well, different. He’s a cockney Sparrer, and somehow he’s landed in the wrong nest. An identity crisis looms…

Join Charlie in his streetwise search through London for friends, nest mates, a job to suit his talents and ultimately romance. Will it be a chic little French tourist, or someone closer to Charlie’s ‘Lunnen’ roots?

Follow his frenetic, humorous and heart-warming voyage of discovery, and find out for yourselves.

Charlie Chirps
Angela Sanderson
ISBN 190401870X U.K. £5.99
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The Tasks of Chronavon

When sensible 12-year-olds Alfred and Alice meet a mysterious angel called Chronavon in a church vestry, it seems that someone is playing a practical joke on them. After all, angels don’t just pop up in vestries and they certainly don’t enlist the help of two young humans to journey back in time and prevent a devilish time-traveller from altering the course of history.
Yet it soon becomes clear that Chronavon’s incredible story is true. As Alfred and Alice are whisked backwards through centuries, they become immersed in the rich customs and costumes of the past, from Henry III’s troubled reign to the pomp of Tudor England.
The Tasks of Chronavon is an exciting, informative tale for young readers, which effortlessly weaves fact and fiction with a sprinkling of humour, and shows how little human values have really changed over time.

The Tasks of Chronavon
Ray Filby
ISBN 1904018580 U.K. £6.99
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Step Into My World

Tania is a bright, curious 15-year-old who possesses a strange but wonderful gift. When she looks at a painting or a photograph, she can ‘escape’ into that scene and experience the subject’s pleasure, pain and dreams.
From the young girl in medieval Scotland who dies at the hands of a rapist, to the plucky miner’s daughter who turns a family tragedy into hope, Tania travels between her present and past selves, reliving history and learning vital lessons.
But can she see the future by slipping into a new identity? As Tiamat, living in a subterranean refuge, she seeks out the truth about Earth, but is it too late to halt the destruction of our planet?

Step Into My World
Lucienne Pickering
ISBN 1904018181 U.K. £5.99
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The Lost Princess

When Foxglove, a woodnymph, sets out on a quest to deliver a scroll from the Wizard Master Querus to his witchsister, Dame Dyna Fernvale, Foxglove does not know of its dire contents.
Nor does she recall her real origins as the beautiful and incorruptible Princess Melina of Illyria, whose presence at court thwarted her wicked uncle's ambitious plans to seize power from her father the King, and led to her transformation into a spellbound flower-slyph of an Enchanted Forest.
Aided only by a loyal fox, whose vulpine features conceal his real identity as her beloved cousin Felix, Melina must use all her wits and goodness to fight the evil power of Querus and restore the kingdom of Illyria to its rightful ruler.