I just finished the brilliant ALEX VS AXEL: THE IMPOSSIBLE QUESTS by Sam Copeland from PuffinBooks. Wonderful, hilarious and heart-wrenching, I adored it!

Fantastic window display in Waterstones Epsom for Alex vs Axel Sam Copeland

Quite simply; landed.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Thank you to Literature Wales.
Congratulations to all other shortlisters.
#WBOTY24

#FirstLineoftheDay
The story had to end.
- Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests by Sam Copeland 2 May PuffinBooks Sam Copeland
(Good to start with what sounds like the finish.)

Sam is visiting us next week to sign our CBOTM! Sam Copeland PuffinBooks

'They are metaphors for real-life battles, because we all have battles in life'

On the blog, Children's Book of the Month author Sam Copeland discusses the proud history of heroes in children's fiction: bit.ly/4bkLk6F #BOTM

Schools are invited to join us online for a very special, free virtual event with Sam Copeland (Sam Copeland) as he presents his hilarious new fantasy adventure story & May children's #BOTM Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quest!
Event details here: bit.ly/4dricg0

Super excited for our children's book of the month for May, Alex vs Axel!

A role swapping fantasy adventure that really hits the spot, very funny and with cracking illustrations! 😃

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'Really, the only thing you have to be is kind and to have love in your heart.' Our May Children's #BOTM author Sam Copeland on heroes in children's fiction, read here on the blog: bit.ly/3JJuF0G @puffin

We are so excited that Alex vs Axel by Sam Copeland and illustrated by Dotty Sutton is Waterstones Kids Book of the Month! Join Alex and Axel on their epic, wild adventures (and maths tests...)
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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! ⚡️

Shop our exclusive edition: bit.ly/3JGD1GE

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

WAAAHHHHHH!

⚡ 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!