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Nick Sharratt
A playful celebration of an unusual hairstyle, built around rhyme, bright illustrations and visual discovery. Its main pleasure is noticing who has a mullet and uncovering the final whale surprise.
Thiago de Moraes
A lively fantasy about an ordinary child entering an extraordinary school, balancing comic invention with peril, uncertainty and the discovery of friendship. Its invented gods and visual humour are central attractions.
This is a colourful, surreal graphic-fantasy adventure about belonging, friendship and trust. Its comic situations and unusual magical community sit alongside a possible trap, anxious feelings and a conflict that may slow the story’s momentum.
Rebecca Anderson
A frank, humorous YA novel about Rose’s difficult first sexual experience, a medical complication, relationship pressure and the shame surrounding bodies. It also follows friendship, online support and uncertainty about the future.
Sonora Reyes
A coming-of-age story about identity, belonging and disclosure, balancing painful social pressures with friendship, family love and romantic possibility. It offers a queer Mexican American protagonist whose choices are shaped by school, faith and immigration-related family separation.
B Wheeler
A fairytale-flavoured queer romance centres on Em helping Carla find a prince to break a curse, while Em would rather kiss Carla herself. Friendship, identity and first love are foregrounded.
Dee Benson
Lara balances football training with her friends’ ideas for a school business competition. The book follows her effort to pursue sporting ambitions while managing friendship, feelings, competition and apparent pressure from people who enjoy seeing her struggle.
A comic fantasy adventure about leadership, strained relationships and finding workable compromises. Vampire lore, artificial blood and absurd food details sit alongside sincere treatment of self-doubt, responsibility and adolescent romance.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
This is a lively, comic adventure about identity, family and belonging. Film-making, mistaken identity and celebrity create the fun, while Rafa’s disrupted home life and concern for Cillian give the story a more serious emotional thread.
Nadia Shireen
A comic election story about leadership, campaigning and judgement. Its animal cast and illustrations suggest a playful presentation, while hidden agendas and a particularly mean villain may make some scenes more intense.
Ben Sanders
A brisk, playful comic mystery built around a bomb-disposal mission. Its main pleasures appear to be wordplay, visual clues, gadgets and a narrator who may not be entirely trustworthy.
Pépé Smit
A lively, self-aware picture book about a deer who tries to reshape his story. Its humour comes from Fred’s increasingly specific demands and his direct tussle with the illustrator.
Morag Hood
A humorous emotional story about a seahorse who feels furious and rejects attempts to help. Its pictures add information beyond the repeated insistence that nothing will improve, creating a gentle contrast between words, feelings and what others observe.
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