K2 has the Atlas Gift, the ability to draw maps of places he has never seen and create doorways to them. There are five child characters: K2 and his twin sister Izzabird O’Hero, Theo and Mabel Smith and little Annipeck O’Hero-Smith. After their father mysteriously disappears (presumed dead), they acquire a new family who they need to keep their secret from. There are some great chapter titles, like A Stranger Enters the Story and the Story Gets Stranger Still, that really drew me in.

From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once comes an out-of-this-world new adventure . Annipeck, their baby sister, has been kidnapped and they’re getting some family bonding time, whether they want it or not. Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. a joyously anarchic story which addresses the theme of childhood loss with real psychological acuity.I absquo-lootely adore books where someone can say, ‘Something’s spooked the toothbrushes …’ and it makes perfect sense. Cressida Cowell is the number one bestselling author-illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once book series. There are several villains, pirates, beasts, a missing father, a dog, a bounty hunter and aunts and mums to be saved. So I am happy to give it five stars and I highly recommend it as an imaginative, escapist, rollicking adventure not to be missed.

Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat?Then they have two lesser main characters that are either, organised and protective or a kind and caring young girl. Then the narrator of the story (we find out who this is at the end) takes us back in time to how this came to be, and it’s a totally thrilling tale which centres on what happens if the fantasy worlds children draw become real? I’m looking forward to getting to know the Aunts better; they have the potential to be fabulously fun to follow around.