How hard can becoming a genius be? 🤔✨ In just one year (no refunds given), this book will take you from an ordinary kid to an absurdly intelligent, super-brained hyper-genius! 🧠⚡ Coming May 2025 ! 🚀📚 From the brilliant Mike Rampton, illustrated by Gareth Williams!

Take a look at this! This is Through the Forest by yijingli, published by Lantana Publishing, the perfect picture book to get children aged 2-11 excited about reading!

Introducing the new Brambly Hedge Nature Colouring Book! This follow up to the Festive Colouring Book features illustrations from Spring Story, Summer Story, Sea Story, and Poppy’s Babies. Launching in the UK on the 13th March 2025. Pre-order here ➡️ bit.ly/3EtWA5L

The countdown is on just 1 month to go until Manon Bucciarelli's Nature is out! 🌿 Discover the wonders of the natural world with stunning illustrations and fascinating facts.🍃 We'll be sharing a fact each week from the book in the run up to publication, Stay tuned 💚

Happy World Book Day from Glumfoot and Rene, who have taken some time off at the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods to help out in Waterstones East Kilbride today! (Glumfoot may have tried to help in the cafe) We have our Bookseller Rebecca as Glumfoot and Barista Lucy as Rene!

Congratulations to our Illustrator of the Year shortlist: Dav Pilkey, Mariajo Ilustrajo, Jim Field, Jamie Smart, Oliver Jeffers and Rob Biddulph ✨ 🔗thebookseller.com/british-book-a… #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies

A sweet treat for Paddington fans this Easter! Come and join Paddington's Easter Egg Hunt for mischief, marmalade and mishaps 🥚🐣🐻🐰 amzn.to/41n5NVc

The Brambly Hedge Nature Colouring Book has just launched in French! Available here bit.ly/4i9qgmE

Perfect day with our Paddington Story Time 🐻 So wonderful to see so much creativity and enthusiasm for reading ❤️ Waterstones Kids 📚

Tune into BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live from 9am this morning to hear the brilliant creator of #PercyTheParkKeeper, Nick Butterworth, share some wonderful stories with Nikki Bedi & Adrian Chiles. Plus, hear more about his exciting new Percy book, Once Upon a Journey, landing 24 Apr!

‘A Visit to Brambly Hedge’ will publish in 4 weeks! You can get 25% Off pre-orders exclusively from the Waterstones website and app using code ‘SUMMER25’ at the checkout here bit.ly/44ONpYa Offer ends at 23:59 31/07/2025

Publishing today in the USA.

45 years to the day since our first feature in the Sunday Times, and we’re back! The Times and The Sunday Times

.HarperCollins Children's Books has signed The Kingdom of Tigers - the debut picture book by author Felicity Yeoh and illustrator Megan Snyders has an afterword from actress Michelle Yeoh bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

.Harper Fire has struck its first non-fiction deal with They Called Us Witch by Ellen Ryan, which 'reveals ten women who shaped their cultures and inspired change through their magic and wisdom' bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

Out Now Venture back to The Café at the Edge of the Woods in another adventure from Mikey please A new picture book by the brilliant Stefania Aldana Trujillo! Where to Hide a Star by @oliverjeffers, is in paperback! Get ready for Halloween with this wickedly funny rhyming book!

Our favourite family cat #Mog is back for more mischief and mayhem in the new hand-drawn adaption of #JudithKerr's beloved picture book, Mog’s Bad Thing by @lupusfilms for Channel 4. We cannot wait to see this tale of tabby trouble on the big and small screen in 2026! 🐱📺

Capy, the capybara, is about to have a wonderful adventure. But it's your turn to tell the story! 🎨Colour in each page and then fill out the adventure yourself on the dotted lines underneath! Get creative with this brand new colour-your-own-story book by Guilherme Karsten!✨

CAPY – THE ADVENTUROUS CAPYBARA by Guilherme Karsten arrives next week! But we've got a special early treat for you, learn to draw Capy and Birdy! 🎉 This colour-your-own-story book is perfect for little storytellers! Out Oct 23rd!🎨 amzn.to/3W8WGoL

Which to choose? There’s plenty of options at the Epping Forest Chingford Visitor Centre this week if you are heading out into the Forest.