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This offers a participatory version of a familiar pig story: readers help determine what happens, then add their own drawings. Its main appeal is choice-led storytelling rather than a fixed narrative.

This is a brief, metaphorical story about a sad bird who has stopped flying. A surprising horse offers companionship and a question, while the illustrations and open ending invite readers to imagine what happens next.

This is a story about enjoying an unexpected passion and resisting pressure to conform. Arthur’s dancing becomes a way for the group to reconsider its assumptions, with acceptance, apology and friendship central to the resolution.

A dark, atmospheric fantasy for readers who enjoy folklore, mystery and psychological unease. Alice’s search for her mother carries questions about trust, belonging and who has the right to shape a story.

This is a grief story with a supernatural or possibly imagined presence at its centre. Jade’s friendship with Vicky is loving but unequal, and recovery involves recognising control, facing guilt and accepting help.

Expect a quiet, imaginative story in which painted scenes become a route into experiences Madurer cannot have outside. Its emotional centre is the growing creative partnership between a confined child and the artist who works for him.

This is a thoughtful, wistful fantasy about a child resisting change. Its strongest appeal may be the combination of village detail, imaginative uncertainty and emotional honesty, while its pace and melancholy mood may suit readers who enjoy reflective stories.

A fast-moving magical quest gives Chompa a determined central role while opening discussion of Indian and South Asian folklore, colonial power and cultural loss. The journey spans India and London, with friendship and new skills supporting her search.

This is an imaginative story about making a world that reflects one person’s ideas. Its main appeal is the inventive detail: Wesley turns a plant into resources, culture and communication, then sees others respond.

A playful poetry collection that treats ordinary experiences as material for writing. It offers rhyme, rhythm, comic images and prompts to help a child move from enjoying poems towards trying their own.

A high-energy fantasy adventure centred on a family of explorers, with Brian and Wren facing an unusual threat alongside their driver and butler. Its tone appears deliberately extravagant rather than realistic.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure centred on artistic powers, paintings, supernatural creatures and a demanding conflict between family loyalty and protecting others.

A gentle-looking story about Fanny turning her own creation into a picture-book character, with storytelling and a birthday gift linking her imaginative work to someone she loves.

A gentle introduction to poetry as observation, imagination and self-expression. Daniel’s encounters with park animals offer different ways of noticing the natural world before he shares a poem of his own.

This is a strange, fairy-tale-inflected escape adventure about a child discovering a wider world after a highly restrictive upbringing. Its appeal lies in Liberty’s unusual circumstances, imaginative discoveries and search for a personally meaningful future.