Walker Books

Warm, rich and funny — a beautifully illustrated title from acclaimed picture-book maker Inga Moore. When two Little Pigs leave their home-made huts one morning, two very large friends move in — Moose and Bear. It's very nice to have your friends stay, but not when they cause your home to collapse! The solution: build a house in the woods where all four of them can live together, little and big. With some help from the beaver builders and A LOT of peanut-butter sandwiches, that's exactly what they do. Set in an idyllic woodland world, this stunning new title from Inga Moore is sure to entrance readers — both young and old. Inga's titles have sold over 1.5 million for Walker.

This is a beautifully illustrated cut-paper souvenir, featuring twelve of Berlin's most important sights. Bring Berlin to life with this amazing three-dimensional expanding city skyline. The unfolding guide features twelve of the city's most important sights: the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Alexanderplatz, Checkpoint Charlie, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Gendarmenmarkt, Museum Island, Eastside Gallery, Charlottenburg Palace, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Siegessaule and the Berlin Zoo. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this is the perfect souvenir for anyone wishing to remember a trip to Germany's capital. The skyline is presented in a beautiful slipcase and unfolds to a length of 1.5 metres. Featuring twelve different sights in Berlin and a map showing their locations around the city, this is the perfect alternative to a postcard. It is an ideal souvenir or gift. It is part of a series of city skylines. Previous titles include London, New York, Paris and Rome.

Britain's most popular artist presents a brilliantly original format that very young children will delight in time and again. The witch has hidden a trick and a treat in her magical kitchen cupboards! Which one you find depends on how you open the doors. Whether its frogspawn or popcorn, lollipops or rabbit plops, there are hilarious rhymes to discover inside in this innovative new novelty book from Nick Sharratt. Perfect for children to read again and again, this spooky title is great not only for Halloween but all year round. This is a funny Halloween title. The clever novelties are sturdy and will stand up to many re-readings.

This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

It's Mr Large's birthday and Mrs Large has prepared him a meal, as they're going to celebrate with a quiet night in. But as usual in the Large household, things don't go to plan, and Mr and Mrs Large fall asleep on the sofa! So the little Larges sneak off to bed with all the lovingly prepared food...

These are nine stories of Ancient Egypt, wittily retold in comic-strip style. Full of mystery and adventure, the stories of the Egyptian pharaohs and their ancient gods are steeped in thousands of years of history. From the creation myth to the curse of Tutankhamen and the fall of Cleopatra, Marcia Williams' classic comic strip retellings bring new life to the myths and wonders of this ancient civilization. You can open the gatefold pages to reveal the curse of Tutankhamen. You can discover fascinating facts, such as how the Egyptians mummified the bodies of their pharaohs.

Mum is crazy about spots — spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes; Dad loves stripes — stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets. No wonder they make their son laugh — mind you, they think that he's funny in his grey patternless clothes. When they go to the safari park, Mum goes wild about the big cats, while Dad enthuses over the zebras. Packed with glorious patterns of stripes and spots, this book also contains a clue on each spread as to the nature of the little boy's obsession — from a pink elephant toothbrush-holder in the bathroom to a bun in the cafe!

This is a fresh new animal book with charming illustration and wonderful tactile features. Come pet the lovely animals, feel their lovely fur and feathers! Stroke the lion's mane and tickle the monkey's tummy, but beware the snapping crocodile! This is a touch and feel animal book with stylish and endearing illustrations. It is one of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker series. It features charming contemporary artwork to stimulate and excite your baby's Imagination. This is a perfect introduction to animals.

This is a new urban fantasy full of vampires, werewolves and shape-shifters from the bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series. It's London, 1878: sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray's priority should be finding her brother, not falling in love, especially with two boys. She is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove fatal. Tessa will need all her strength to save her brother and stay alive as she learns the chilling truth of what really lurks on London's streets after dark. Discover more about the mysterious and sexy Shadowhunters in this thrilling prequel trilogy to the bestselling Mortal Instruments sequence. It is supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign. The Mortal Instruments series has been translated into 19 languages and has appeared on bestseller lists in the US, Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The No. 1 bestselling creator of 'Alex Rider' gives horror a whole new look in this mischievous collection of macabre tales, presented in an exciting new, larger format. Stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat and uncontrollable robots, to life-sucking MP3 players and reality TV where death is the penalty — all told with dark humour and gruesome relish, and made even more flendish by retro illustrations, chilling facts and a puckish message from the author. This is Anthony Horowitz at his most wicked. Old-fashioned cover look that belies the gruesome interior: makes for a great marketing story. This is a deliciously macabre collection of horror stories told with retro illustrations and lashings of gruesome relish.

Join the Beatles as they set off on a magical adventure to bring music and love back to Pepperland in this extraordinary collaboration of talent. All you need is love... But tell that to the Blue Meanles! The Meanles want to sneeze sunny, laughing Pepperland away for ever, and if they get their way, it'll mean the end of music. But there's hope — young Fred manages to climb aboard the Yellow Submarine and escape, travelling 80,000 leagues through monstrous seas to Liverpool, where he finds four fab musicians who might just be able to help... Originally Inspired by the song Yellow Submarine from the Beatles' Revolver Album, the film Yellow Submarine was hailed as a visionary masterpiece. This amazing picture book of that film will beguile adults and children alike.

This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead – this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smithers' ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.

This is a stunning board book for babies, with delightful illustrations and stimulating patterns. This is an eye-catching book for babies that explores animals through graphic patterns in a simple, contrasting and novel way that is perfect for young babies who are just beginning to develop their visual skills. Each animal is presented on its own and then as a part of a fascinating pattern, introducing rich texture and quality art to the very young. This is one of the first of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker series. It features engaging contemporary artwork to stimulate the development and imagination of the very young. It encourages a lifelong enjoyment of learning.

Goodnight, everyone, says Harry. Zzz, goes Lulu. Snore, goes Ted. But Harry the elephant can't get to sleep. He reads and tidies, he wriggles and worries. Will sleep ever come to Harry? Perhaps his friends can help... Walker Books have collaborated with King Rollo Films to create this gently animated DVD packaged together with the classic picture book. Read by Emilia Fox (Silent Witness, Rebecca), with specially composed music, this is an innovative combination that will delight and entertain young viewers again and again.

Love, blood, betrayal and revenge — the stakes are higher than ever in the fourth book in the bestselling Mortal Instruments sequence. The Mortal War is over and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and — most importantly of all — she can finally call Jace her boyfriend. But nothing comes without a price. Someone is murdering the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine's Circle, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. And when Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to de[illegible]ve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace. This title is supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign. 'The Mortal instruments series' has over one million books in print. It has been on The New York Times bestseller list for six months straight. The books have been translated into 19 languages and have also appeared on bestseller lists in Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

This is a visually stunning introduction to shapes for babies. This bold, eye-catching board book explores shapes through graphic patterns in a simple, contrasting and novel way that is perfect for youngest babies who are just beginning to develop their visual skills. Each shape is introduced as a part of a fascinating pattern with holes in the pages to inspire interactivity. It is one of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker series featuring the best quality art and design for babies. It stimulates development through engaging artwork and innovative novelties. It features gorgeous illustrations to encourage a lifelong love of books.

When the impish Mouse comes to spend the night, Bear is in for a rude — and very funny — awakening in this irresistible bedtime story starring the unlikely pair. Bear must have absolute quiet when he goes to bed. He likes to set out his glass of water, adjust his nightcap, fluff up his favourite pillow and then drift peacefully off to sleep. But the effervescent Mouse, small and grey and bright-eyed, finds it terribly hard to be as quiet as a... well, you know. With masterfully paced slapstick humour, droll repartee and comic visual detail, A Bedtime for Bear sees the curmudgeonly Bear and his irrepressible friend Mouse return in a third wry adventure that will have readers of all ages laughing in recognition. This is the longed-for return of the hilariously mismatched pair from the bestselling and award-winning A Visitor for Bear. Another terrific read-aloud picture book that's perfect at any time — not least bedtime! On publication this was Amazon's 'Best of the Month'.

Explore London in this pop-up tour of one of the world's greatest cities. This title helps you follow the River Thames through the famous, funny and fantastic sights of London from Kew Gardens to the Olympic Village, with amazing interactive pop-up buildings to explore on the way. With ever-inventive Jennie Maizels as your guide, the journey is full of surprises, secrets and spooky stories. Find out where you can see a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers, have a conversation with a floating ghost or see peregrine falcons hunting. Full of fun and facts, this is a delight for all, whether introducing this great city to novices or revealing unknown treats to the capital's long-time fans.

Remember New York for ever with this exquisite cut-paper souvenir. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this stunning memento features twelve of New York's most famous sites: the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, the Flat Iron Building, Macy's, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, the Guggenheim Museum and the Yankee Stadium. Stylishly illustrated and folding out to a length of 150 cm, this is a perfect souvenir for anyone visiting America's most famous city.

Features twelve of London`s most famous sites: Harrods, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, The Houses of Parliament, The London Eye, St Paul`s Cathedral, The Globe Theatre, The Tower of London, Tower Bridge and The Royal Observatory.

Spot all your favourite nursery story characters in this lively rhyming tale! Nothing much happened round here, says the little boy to his dad at the end of the day. But the pictures tell a different story! Goldilocks, three little pigs, a wolf, a witch, Humpty Dumpty — all have paraded outside the little boy's window! So maybe it wasn't such a dull day after all... Each spread has six different cutouts to choose from. Just slot the one you want into the picture to create your own story — time and time again.

This is a piratical pop-in-the-slot picture book where the reader gets to decide the story! Ahoy there! Pirate Pete is about to set sail on a buccaneering adventure. What will he see in the sky and in the sea? And what's in the treasure chest? The reader decides! On each double page spread there are six cut-outs to choose from. Slot them into the picture to create a new story time and time again. Each spread has six different cutouts to choose from. Just slot the one you want into the picture to create your own story — time and time again.

Available for the first time as a paperback picture book, this exquisitely illustrated re-telling of Aladdin is a must for any child's library. Aladdin is one of the best-loved fairy tales of all time. Retold by Berlie Doherty, this enchanting story is beautifully illustrated by award-winning Jane Ray. It is a fairy tale magic to treasure forever. The titles that are publishing this month include: Beauty and the Beast, and Rumpelstiltskin.

See how a horse trots, canters and gallops, and learn about its habits, diet and more in this picture book which combines story with information. Previously part of the acclaimed Read and Wonder series, A Field Full of Horses has been re-launched in the new Nature Storybooks series with a brand new look and accompanying CD with fun facts, songs, sound effects and a story reading by TV actor Stephen Tompkinson.