For us, 2023 was the year when SF’s Tyger carried all before it: awards, sales, rights, the lot. It’s not often that a book makes such an immediate impact: wins at the British Book Awards, and The Week Junior. Children’s Book of the Month for Waterstones, Children’s Book of the Year for Foyles and a very exciting dramatisation already in the offing.

This was also a year of debuts, for us: Marcela Ferreira, Catherine Cawthorne, Alessandra Requena, Stephanie Taylor.

We’re so proud of their first books. There will be much more to come from all of them – and from Sarah Edmonds and Karen George, two illustrators making their debuts for us as writers.

And we’re particularly delighted to see an old favourite, Emer Stamp’s Top Secret Diary of Pig, return in full colour.