Introducing our marvellous Children's Book of The Month for May... Alex Vs Axel The Impossible Quests, a hilarious, fantasy adventure by the brilliant Sam Copeland, with captivating illustration throughout by Dotty Sutton! ⚡️

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Alex vs Axel has everything you could wish for in a children's book - a gripping premise that delivers, worldbuilding to fire imaginations, absolutely hilarious scenes and real heart-filled ones too! Congratulations Sam Copeland on being Waterstones Book of the Month!

Last but by no means least, our Children's Book of the Month for May! A studious schoolboy swaps places with a monster-slaying hero in Sam Copeland's hilarious, fish-out-of-water comedy, Alex vs. Axel: bit.ly/4aZhRzi #BOTM

I'm SO SO excited to say that ALEX VS AXEL is Waterstones Children's Book of the Month!! It's an absolute dream come true and I'm over the moon!

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⚡ Skandar and the Chaos Trials is the number one book in the children's charts and number two overall! This series continues to soar A.F. Steadman 💛 ⚡

BLOODTHIRSTY UNICORNS ARE NO.1, BABY! A.F. Steadman is one of the most generous, hard working authors out there - we’re all over the moon for her. The team at Simon & Schuster Children's Books have poured huge ambition, energy and love into Skandar and they deserve this too. Sam Copeland 🎉💛🎉

NUMBER ONE!!! Skandar and the Chaos Trials is #1 bestseller in the children’s charts in its 1st week. AND NUMBER 2 in the entire books market!
I don’t have enough capital letters for this—thank you to all the fans who came back for Book 3! And to Simon & Schuster Children's Books YOU ARE PURE MAGIC!

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Fabulous, fantastic and funny, I really enjoyed Alex Vs Axel: The Impossible Quests by the brilliant Sam Copeland. With shades of Terry Pratchett, The Princess Bride and Tolkien (if he'd carried on writing comedy after Chapter One of The Hobbit!) readers are going to LOVE this!

If you thought Jessica Gunning was amazing in Baby Reindeer on Netflix then you might like to hear her as #MargeryKempe in the BBC Radio 4 version of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain- available on BBC Sounds for just TWO more days! 📻🤩💙

I'm so excited that my new book ALEX VS AXEL is finally coming out THIS WEEK! And look at these extraordinary illustrations by Dotty Sutton 😍

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Brilliant kids read! Loved it. Laughed so much. ⁦PuffinBooks⁩ ⁦Penguin Huddle⁩ ⁦Sam Copeland⁩ #AlexVsAxel

Some news! I'm now represented by the brilliant Sam Copeland at RCW Literary Agency. Very much looking forward to new literary adventures with Sam.

Hannah MacInnes 'When they pick up on something that you weren't expecting from the books...'

In our first ever #Nibbies podcast episode, A.F. Steadman - author of Nibbies-shortlisted Skandar and the Phantom Rider (@simonschusterUK) talks to host Hannah MacInnes about reaching readers, the…

the FABULOUS Jenny Pearson has the audience in stitches FCBG #FCBG24 conf. I love all of Jenny’s books but my absolute MOSTEST FAVOURITIST is Operation Nativity. I LOVE IT Fritha Lindqvist Usborne Publishing Authors Aloud UK Can’t wait for her new book Shipwrecked coming in July

We enjoyed The Bear Behind Sam Copeland & now can find out what happens when Ivor's best friend plays with someone else.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

BOOK THREE IS AMAZING!
A.F. Steadman has literally blown my mind with book three! Harry Potter fans will explode for this book! Prisoner of Azkaban is a fan favourite! This book is EVEN BETTER!!!

Right folks, you can buy Liz Truss’s book or you can buy #Hunted . For the sake of the country and your kids, do the right thing and lettuce hope for the right result. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/abirmukherjee

Utterly blown away that FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN is Blackwell’s Fiction Book of the Month!!!!! 🥳📚💙