Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar

These are the books that got me reading

Price knew all the right buttons to press to excite a young reader - exotic locations, nasty villains, wild animals and lashings of peril

Marie Lu's dystopian novel is a 'Legend' in the making

An addictive Jason Bourne/Pittacus Lore/Harry Potter mash-up. Nonstop action and a richly layered plot propel at a breakneck pace

Mini Grey's extra details and clues in her artwork are always so entertaining and hopefully this is just the beginning for this charming and astute mouse and his detecting friend Emily.

It's full of hilarious tiny details, which our sharp-eyed hero - and clever parents and children - can spot to solve the mysteries.

This is picture book storytelling at its best. Text and illustration perfectly integrated so that the eye moves easily across the page and the attention is held. Every page is carefully designed allowing different perspectives, creating excitement and movement through the juxtaposition of whole page and split page spreads as well as techniques adopted from graphic novel or film. There are not enough picture books that can reach older children. This is one - and it is a delight.

This is an utterly delightful book, packed with quirky text and illustrations and reall unusual.

How can you not want to read this book over and over again? How can you not want to share it with everyone you meet?

Mini Grey is as skilful as ever as she unravels a complex, tragic and very funny story through action-packed illustrations, captions and speech bubbles.

A gentle, entertaining story.

A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year—and it's an "Outstanding Merit" title!

The pace is relentless

Action-packed.

A cut above anything else in the genre

Borrow this one from your teen's nightstand while they're at school

A cut above anything else in the genre

Borrow this one from your teen's nightstand while they're at school