Farah’s infectious smile alone, beaming from the lively cover, ought to ensure it bounces off the shelves. My toddler loves anything he deems yucky or rude and this ticks all the boxes, while also strangely being educational. Farah Loves Mangos by new author-illustrator Sarthak Sinha (Flying Eye), about a young girl obsessed with the fruit from her grandpa’s tree, is like a dose of bottled sunshine. The only slightly disconcerting but undeniably topical note is the final image of Amy and her poo ship sailing out to sea!

His follow-up, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, sold over 500,000 copies in the last three months of 2019, and saw him become the first author to have simultaneous Sunday Times number ones for both hardback and paperback nonfiction titles. It's not totally correct, as your breakfast will have been turned into liquid long before your dinner gets into your stomach, and food isn't absorbed out of your stomach in whole pieces. Without these cookies, we won't know if you have any performance-related issues that we may be able to address.His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies. It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC. This is Going to Hurt has sold over two million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and is the bestselling narrative nonfiction title of the decade, spending over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. She passes reassurance onto the other bits of food as they are absorbed into Noah’s body to be used for important tasks.

Paker’s vibrant and zany illustrations, here in full colour glory, are the perfect foil for Kay’s nerdy enthusiasm for explaining how bodies work. When Oliver finds a little rusty bundle in a field one day, his mum cleans it off, and the metal bird they discover starts slowly coming to life. The trend for acclaimed novelists of adult fiction to sidestep into picture books shows no signs of abating.Named Iron Robin, the bird manages to survive the fiery tongue of Oliver’s soft toy Draggi before being thrown on to the school roof and lost by some older kids. Of course, you don’t need to be a literary star to publish a cracking debut picture book (though all those contacts surely help! Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Meanwhile, Fly Boy, the children’s debut from novelist and poet JJ Bola, seems a natural extension of his previous writing for adults on issues including masculinity, home and identity. The non digestion of sweetcorn is legendary and to pick the only vegetable that could tell the full sticky story is a stroke of genius.