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Phil Earle
A warm football adventure uses Pickles’s humorous viewpoint to explore a family trying to stay together while money problems and housing insecurity affect everyday life.
Jana Curll
Expect a playful ecology read: Fern leads attempts to raise a fallen tree, while forest characters contribute information about their roles. Its main pleasures are inventive puns, cartoon exchanges and the eventual shift from rescue mission to ecosystem insight.
Chris Riddell
This is a richly illustrated mermaid adventure about protecting a home from development. Its diary format, playful language and underwater world may invite shared reading, visual exploration and discussion.
Robin Jacobs
A playful search story built around surprise: Louis’s failed-looking tricks become an entertaining show. Its visual humour, colourful illustrations and diverse audience create a warm, upbeat reading experience, with a final reveal involving the rabbit.
Jennifer Killick
A creepy, energetic adventure that combines frightening creatures and suspense with banter, humour and an emphasis on four unlike students learning to support one another.
Mikey Please
Expect an imaginative café adventure built around peculiar food requests, mythical creatures and the partnership between Rene and Glumfoot. Its rhyming, visually led presentation makes the story’s grotesque culinary comedy a central part of the experience.
Jan Fearnley
A playful animal story centred on making and sharing pancakes. Its appeal lies in comic trouble, recognisable characters and the contrast between refusing help and wanting the finished food.
Steven Butler
Expect a playful fantasy adventure centred on an unusual hotel, magical visitors and comic world-building. The story appears designed for momentum and imaginative enjoyment, with short chapters, action and humour rather than a complex plot.
Alex Wheatle
A lively, voice-led coming-of-age novel combining humour and friendship with family strain, social pressure and gang-related danger. Lemar’s art and relationships offer warmth, but the story also reaches a killing and difficult choices.
Roald Dahl
Expect exaggerated gross-out humour, insults and repeated cruelty from the central couple. The monkeys’ resistance and the bird’s help provide a counterpoint, but the overall comic style may make harmful behaviour feel deliberately outrageous rather than realistic.
Paul Fleischman, illustrated by David Roberts
A lively, comic team caper in which classmates use specialised talents and improvised devices to recover a confiscated ceramic cat. The noir-like text, expressive illustrations and exaggerated characters make the adventure feel deliberately outlandish.
Raymond Briggs
Expect an imaginative, detail-rich portrait of an invented society rather than a tightly plotted adventure. The book invites readers to notice how ordinary routines, customs and values look when viewed from an unfamiliar culture.
Kieran Larwood
Expect a lively, illustrated fantasy quest built around an underdog team. The story combines dungeon challenges, comic world-building and a friendship arc, while Kit’s impulsive decision creates the central problem.
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