The Zebra's Great Escape

Into the Jungle

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

The Girl Savage

Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales

The Vanishing of Billy Buckle (The Fairy Detective Agency Book 3)

Mike Falls Up

The Queen's Tale

It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher's world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth – with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Zebra's Great Escape

Katherine Rundell, 2022

Into the Jungle

Kristjana S Williams, Katherine Rundell, 2018

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

Katherine Rundell, 2011

The Girl Savage

Katherine Rundell, 2011

Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales

Gregory Maguire, 2004

The Vanishing of Billy Buckle (The Fairy Detective Agency Book 3)

Sally Gardner, 2013

Mike Falls Up

Candy Gourlay, 2022

The Queen's Tale

Kaye Umansky, 2013