An unputdownable new story for younger readers on finding magic everywhere and discovering who you are on the way.
Mab’s mum is so obsessed with fairies that she even named her after a famous fairy queen. While she’s learned to put up with her mum’s fairy lights, fairy houses and fairy stories, she thinks it’s gone too far when she receives a fairy dress for her birthday and has to wear it to school!
But Mab’s fairy-loathing takes an unexpected turn when she finds a real-life (and especially grumpy) fairy hiding in the pages of an old Victorian book. Despite her spiky personality and slightly scary fairy appearance, Bindweed helps Mab and her family to heal as they come to terms with her dad leaving. Tasked with ultimately returning Bindweed home to live among the flowers again, Mab’s resilience and patience are tested, while she also discovers that fairies aren’t the soppy creatures she’s always imagined.
Jacqueline Wilson is a multi-award-winning author and a former UK Children’s Laureate. She has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Gold Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book of the Year Award, and was appointed a Dame for services to children’s literature. Her books have been borrowed more than 25 million times in UK libraries since 1995 and she is the author of over 100 titles, selling more than 40 million books worldwide in over 30 languages. Many of her books have also been made into TV series and films, and the recent adaptation of My Mum Tracy Beaker set a new record for CBBC’s most successful programme launch ever, with 2.1 million streams on BBC iPlayer.
The world of Jacqueline Wilson
Rachael Dean is a British children's book illustrator based on the coast near Liverpool. She studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Liverpool John Moore’s University and works traditionally painting images which are vividly rich and bold. She has illustrated a host of children's books, including Moonchild by Aisha Bushby and Deep Secret by Berlie Doherty.
WEL Publisher: Penguin Random House Children’s (September 2022)
Editor: Kelly Hurst
Primary Agent: Caroline Walsh
Film/TV Agent: The Haworth Agency
Extent : 336 pages
Co-Agents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media; Japanese - Tuttle-Mori
Rights Sold: ****All rights available
