IPG Children's Publisher of the Year

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam

  • Author: Tracey Corderoy
  • Illustrator: Steven Lenton
  • Publication: 2 May 2013
  • Age: 3+

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who decide on a career-change after one bungled burglary too many.

Vulgar the Viking and a Midsummer Night's Scream

  • Author: Odin Redbeard
  • Illustrator: Sarah Horne
  • Publication: 2 May 2013
  • Age: 7+

The best Viking festival of the year is fast approaching and Vulgar is REALLY excited! There’ll be feasting, staying up all night and a massive bonfire for burning stuff! Bring on Midsummer’s Eve!

The Rescue Princesses: The Lost Gold

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 2 May 2013
  • Age: 7+

Princess Isabella loves her rainforest kingdom and its amazing creatures. So she’s very worried when treasure hunters start digging up the forest and scaring all the animals…

Faerie Tribes: The Crystal Mirror

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 2 May 2013
  • Age: 9+

Laney’s thinks the summer’s going to be boring but how wrong she is! From the moment she sees a blood-red moon, things take a turn for the magical.

Troll Swap

  • Author and illustrator: Leigh Hodgkinson
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 3+

Timothy Limpet feels out of place in the troll family – he likes things to be just so, and most trolls, frankly, don’t. Tabitha Lumpit likes things to be loud, loopy and messy and she feels a fish out of water in her very neat family.
Sometimes they wonder if their families really see them for who they are, so when Timothy and Tabitha meet on the bridge they decide each other’s family is a better fit and they swap places . . .

Weasels

  • Author and illustrator: Elys Dolan
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 3+

Weasels – what do they do all day? Find out in this hilarious, off-the-wall debut picture book from a shiny new star in the children’s book firmament, Elys Dolan.

Magical Mix-Ups: Pets and Parties

  • Author: Marnie Edwards
  • Illustrator: Leigh Hodgkinson
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 6+

It’s Sapphire’s birthday and she longs for a pet of her own. Emerald’s present is the next best thing – tickets for an amazing animal magic show!

Guinea Pig Party paperback

  • Author and illustrator: Holly Surplice
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 2+

Count to ten and back again with the world’s sweetest guinea pigs in paperback!

Bunny Boo has lost her teddy!

  • Illustrator: Jannie Ho
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 1+

It’s bedtime for Bunny Boo but where is her teddy?

Teeny Weeny looks for his mummy!

  • Illustrator: Jannie Ho
  • Publication: 4 Apr 2013
  • Age: 1+

Teeny Weeny is a little bit worried: he can’t find his mummy anywhere. Still, she can’t have gone far.

Littleland

  • Illustrator: Marion Billet
  • Publication: 7 Mar 2013
  • Age: 2+

Hello and welcome to Littleland!

Baby and Me

  • Author: Emma Dodd
  • Publication: 7 Mar 2013
  • Age: 3+

If you had a little baby, a baby of your very own, how would you look after her?

The Rescue Princesses: The Magic Rings

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 7 Mar 2013
  • Age: 7+

Princess Lottie and her three friends are the new Rescue Princesses! And they’re set for their first adventure…

Books Always Everywhere

  • Author: Jane Blatt
  • Illustrator: Sarah Massini
  • Publication: 7 Mar 2013
  • Age: 1+

A joyful celebration of the physical book in all its glory! For the very young, books can be anything – from a chair, to a tower, to a hat – but the best thing they can be . . . is a book.

Olivia and the Great Escape

  • Author: Lyn Gardner
  • Publication: 7 Mar 2013
  • Age: 9+

Jack Marvell’s latest stunt is to stay up on a high-wire for thirty days and nights.

Vulgar the Viking and the Terrible Talent Show

  • Author: Odin Redbeard
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Type: Fiction
  • Age: 7+

From singing and dancing to doing things with pickled herring – the villagers of Blubber are gifted in many ways. And they’ve decided to have a talent contest to prove it. 

Noodle Loves the Zoo

  • Illustrator: Marion Billet
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Age: 9 months+

Noodle and his dad are having a fun day at the zoo.

Mega Mash-Up: Cowboys v Trolls in the Arctic

  • Author and illustrator: Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Age: 6+

What if some cool Cowboys and some hairy Trolls wanted to be RICH? What if they went digging for gold in the Arctic? What if the ice started to CRACK and they all FLOATED OUT TO SEA?

Noodle Loves the Park

  • Illustrator: Marion Billet
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Age: 9 months+

Noodle and his mum are going for a walk in the park

Open Very Carefully

  • Author: Nick Bromley
  • Illustrator: Nicola O'Byrne
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Age: 3+

What would you do if you were settling down for a quiet bedtime story and you realised that a crocodile had fallen out of one story and into yours and was – not to put too fine a point on it – furious? Would you slam that book shut, cram it in the bookshelf for evermore or would you be brave enough to peek?

Dear Scarlett

  • Author: Fleur Hitchcock
  • Publication: 7 Feb 2013
  • Age: 9+

A funny, moving and absorbing story about a young girl’s attempts to learn more about her dead father through the objects she finds in a cardboard box he’s left her.

Shadows of the Silver Screen

  • Author: Christopher Edge
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Type: Fiction
  • Age: 10+

A mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn Montgomery Flinch’s sinister stories into motion pictures.

The Rescue Princesses: The Snow Jewel

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Age: 7+

The Rescue Princesses are sledging through the beautiful snow of Northernland when they meet Princess Freya.

Pip and Posy: The Super Scooter (paperback)

  • Author: Nosy Crow
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Age: 2+

In this, the paperback edition of the hugely popular hardback, Pip’s playing happily with his scooter in the park, when Posy comes along and decides she wants to have a go.

Pip and Posy: The Little Puddle (paperback)

  • Author: Nosy Crow
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Age: 2+

In this, the paperback edition of the hugely popular hardback, Pip comes to Posy’s house to play, and they have a lovely time. But Pip is having such fun he forgets he needs a wee.

Bizzy Bear: Pirate Adventure

  • Illustrator: Benji Davies
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Age: 1+

Today, Bizzy Bear is packing his ship, hoisting the jolly roger and setting sail on an exciting pirate adventure! All little readers will love helping Bizzy steer his ship, dig for treasure and open the treasure chest.

Bizzy Bear: Fire Rescue

  • Illustrator: Benji Davies
  • Publication: 10 Jan 2013
  • Age: 1+

Bizzy Bear is lending a hand at the fire station when he receives an emergency call summoning the team’s help. Join the fire-fighters as they race to the rescue in this action-packed story for the very young!

The Snowman's Journey

  • Author: Birdie Black
  • Publication: 1 Dec 2012
  • Age: 3+

Based on The Journey, the hugely popular John Lewis Christmas 2012 television advert, The Snowman’s Journey is a book to treasure this, and every Christmas.

Just Right for Christmas

  • Author: Birdie Black
  • Illustrator: Ros Beardshaw
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: 9 months+

First paperback edition of our acclaimed Christmas tale celebrating the joy of giving – with a sparkling foil cover for even more appeal.

Snow Bunny's Christmas Wish

  • Illustrator: Rebecca Harry
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: 2+

One snowy Christmas Eve, a small bunny goes in search of Santa to ask him to make her Christmas wish come true. Another perfect seasonal picture book from Nosy Crow, with foil throughout for added sparkle!

Playbook Farm

  • Author: Corina Fletcher
  • Illustrator: Britta Teckentrup
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts (choking hazard)

This brilliant and ingenious novelty package comprises a pop-up storybook, which then unfolds and transforms into a 3D farmyard landscape playmat, with cut-out cardboard animals and a tractor for total fun on the farm!

The Rescue Princesses: The Stolen Crystals

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: 7+

The Rescue Princesses are having such fun staying with Jaminta!

Pip and Posy: The Snowy Day

  • Author: Nosy Crow
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: 2+

It’s a beautiful snowy day and Pip and Posy can’t wait to go out and play. They have all sorts of fun, until they decide to build a snowman, when things start to go a bit pear-shaped.

Olivia's Winter Wonderland

  • Author: Lyn Gardner
  • Publication: 4 Oct 2012
  • Age: 9+

It’s winter and everything is cold and crisp and even. Olivia is spending a lot of time working on her skating skills!

The Princess and the Peas

  • Author: Caryl Hart
  • Illustrator: Sarah Warburton
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 3+

Lily-Rose May will not eat her peas. Even when her father hides them in her food, Lily can always tell they are there, and throws a terrible tantrum. Luckily, the doctor knows exactly what to do. He diagnoses an incurable case of Princess-itus and sends Lily to live at the palace. Unfortunately for Lily- Rose May, the perfect food for a princess is . . . well. That would be telling!

Magical Mix-Ups: Friends and Fashion

  • Author: Marnie Edwards
  • Illustrator: Leigh Hodgkinson
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 6+

Welcome to the second book in our brand new Magical Mix-Ups series – the sister series to our hilarious and innovative Mega Mash-Up series – a unique combination of fiction and doodle books.

The Grunts in Trouble

  • Author: Philip Ardagh
  • Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 7+

Meet Mr and Mrs Grunt and their son, Sunny, who isn’t really their son because they stole him off a washing line when he was a baby. Follow their adventures in their homemade (badly made) caravan, drawn by Clip and Clop (whom the Grunts took to be one donkey until they realised that they could see them both at once)…

Icky Sticky Monster

  • Author and illustrator: Jo Lodge
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: Not suitable for children under 3 years (small parts)

Icky Sticky Monster is just the most DISGUSTING monster imaginable! He picks his nose, eats rubbish from the bin, plays peekaboo in the loo – and now he’s coming to give you a lovely…. KISS! YUCK!

My Best Friend and Other Enemies

  • Author: Catherine Wilkins
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 9+

When Jessica’s best friend goes off with new-girl Amelia, Jessica is hurt but determined not to take it lying down. She has a plan, and a secret weapon – her felt-tips.

Whizz Pop, Granny Stop!

  • Author: Tracey Corderoy
  • Illustrator: Joe Berger
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Age: 3+

There is more trouble afoot for the little girl whose granny is (still whisper it) a witch, whom we first met in Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble.

Vulgar the Viking and the Spooky School Trip

  • Author: Odin Redbeard
  • Publication: 6 Sep 2012
  • Type: Fiction
  • Age: 7+

Vulgar’s new teacher is called Otto the Bone-Cruncher and he’s a proper Viking!

Dinosaur Zoom!

  • Author and illustrator: Penny Dale
  • Publication: 2 Aug 2012
  • Age: 2+

The dinosaurs are back and this time they’re revving, roaring and racing… to a dinosaur birthday party!

The Rescue Princesses: The Moonlit Mystery

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 2 Aug 2012
  • Age: 7+

Princess Lulu is finding royal life very troublesome.

Guinea Pig Party

  • Author and illustrator: Holly Surplice
  • Publication: 5 Jul 2012
  • Age: 2+

Count to ten and back again with the world’s sweetest guinea pigs!

Noodle Loves to Drive

  • Illustrator: Marion Billet
  • Publication: 5 Jul 2012
  • Age: 9 months+

From playing with his noisy digger to pedalling his tricycle, Noodle just loves things that go! A busy little touch and feel board book for vehicle-mad kids.

Mega Mash-Up: Secret Agents v Giant Slugs in the Jungle

  • Author and illustrator: Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson
  • Publication: 5 Jul 2012
  • Age: 6+

What if some Secret Agents had their HQ in the Jungle? What if some Giant Slugs lived nearby in a huge pool of revolting goo? Would they all play sneaky tricks on each other? And would everyone get covered in oozy slime? You’ll have to finish the illustrations and find out…

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  • Publication: 18 Jun 2012

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Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games

  • Author: Odin Redbeard
  • Publication: 7 Jun 2012
  • Type: Fiction
  • Age: 7+

Every year, the village of Blubber competes against the neighbouring town of Gulp in the Viking Games, and every year, the Blubberers get thrashed.

Olivia's Enchanted Summer

  • Author: Lyn Gardner
  • Publication: 7 Jun 2012
  • Type: Fiction
  • Age: 9+

School’s out for summer! Olivia and her friends are going to be spending August in Edinburgh, home to the world-famous Fringe Festival.

The Rescue Princesses: The Wishing Pearl

  • Author: Paula Harrison
  • Publication: 7 Jun 2012
  • Age: 7+

The Princesses are staying on the tropical island of Ampali for the summer. It’s idyllic, until Clarabel finds the wounded dolphin and it becomes a race against time to save its life. How will they get it to safety before the tropical storm hits the island?