When Tilly wins a competition to help protect red pandas in Nepal, she finds herself riding a yak, looking at poo, and outwitting poachers to save a pregnant red panda. But Stanley and Manjit didn't LITERALLY mean to flood the toilets when they should have been monitoring the playground. A raucous, fast-paced, joy of a book, that if it doesn't get your child snorting before the turn of the first page, I will personally and LITERALLY eat my imaginary lockdown hat.

The Worst Class in the World series Joanna Nadin interview: The Worst Class in the World series

This book is aimed at children (the 7 and 10 year olds in our family loved it), but I honestly enjoyed it just as much as they did.With two side-splittingly funny short stories, it will delight mischievous children and strike fear into all teachers. Ray Grey doesn't have any weather magic, unlike everyone else in the Weatherlands, high up in the sky. For one in seven children (and one in five receiving free school meals), this will be the first book of their own. After all, there was the school trip to the zoo when Harvey Barlow smuggled a penguin back on the bus, the time they tried to tunnel to Finland, and the Show and Tell incident with Manjit’s dog, Killer… Everyone has bad luck though, and after reading this very funny book, most people will agree with Stanley Bradshaw and decide they wouldn’t have 4B any other way.

The Worst Class in the World in Danger! by Joanna Nadin The Worst Class in the World in Danger! by Joanna Nadin

Highly illustrated and featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these books are just right for children ready for their first chapter books.These include two books for the Oxford University Press "Project X" series designed to encourage boys to read.

Great Books Guide 2022: 8-9 | BookTrust

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers. She has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Best Book Award and Queen of Teen, and Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Furious that he must suffer indignities such as attending school and doing chores, Loki struggles to be good. When Rikin isn’t drawing you’ll find him listening to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, munching away at pizza whilst watching a movie, trying to talk to the birds and stray cats in his garden — or working at a primary school as a Year 6 learning support assistant.Climate change and global warming is a huge problem but this utterly fabulous and uplifting book tells children all about the new inventions currently being worked on by scientists, from insects as a new food source to making fuel from fatbergs. For me, humour is in the exaggeration of the everyday, and in the gap between how characters see themselves and how we as readers see them. A thoroughly entertaining read, enhanced by marvellous graphite illustrations, full of character and humour.