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Death Wish

Thalia’s job as a tooth fairy is almost too easy, until her first shift in the Courier Department. Caught up in a freak accident and corrupted by rotten teeth, she’s transformed into a creature that shouldn’t exist.

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Siti and Cahya

Siti is a 10-year-old girl who lives in a small village in Borneo, Malaysia. She spends her days dreaming of exploring the magnificent jungles that lie beyond her village. Siti’s father orders her to forget such fantasies and focus on what he considers important. But one day Siti wanders into the jungle and gets lost. She is unable to find her way home until she is rescued by Cahya, a small gibbon who has lost her family, too.

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The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling

I had the idea for The Ickabog a long time ago and read it to my two younger children chapter by chapter each night while I was working on it. However, when the time came to publish it, I decided to put out a book for adults instead, which is how The Ickabog ended up in the attic. I became busy with other things, and even though I loved the story, over the years I came to think of it as something that was just for my own children.

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The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain Children in Lockdown

Completely free for all children and families, the extraordinary collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators. This book is dedicated to the doctors, nurses, carers, porters, cleaners and everyone currently working in hospitals: you are the stuff that wild, heroic tales are made of.

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