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CHILDREN’S Fiction Due sept Due sept Kensy and Max 4: Out of Sight The Land of Roar 3 Funny Kid Slapstick: 5 Matt Stanton RRP $14.99 Max has been forced to join the local ice- hockey team, and there's nothing funny about slipping over and getting a frozen bum. Or is there? Max is the funny kid...and this time he's skating on thin ice! Jacqueline Harvey RRP $16.99 Kensy and Max's next spy mission sees them head to the City of Lights. This is the fourth instalment in the action-packed Kensy and Max series! Due sept The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton RRP $14.99 No-one can protect a city like Rock, Frillback, Tumbler, Homey and Grandpouter. But who will protect them when they don’t even know how to SWIM? The world's greatest crime- fighting pigeons are making a BIG SPLASH as they try to solve the most puzzling mysteries yet. Due AUG Jinxed: The Curse of Cora Bell How to make a Movie in 12 Days Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse now has 13 new storeys. Prepare for more wonderfully wild and wacky adventures in The 117-Storey Treehouse! Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up! 27 19 Fiona Hardy RRP $16.99 Twelve days. Five kids. Many special effects. One giant mystery. Hayley has dreamed of making a horror movie. But before she even calls 'Action!', strange things start happening... This story is a love song to movies, friendship and the summer holidays. Due sept Activity BOOK 3 Atticus Van Tasticus Where’s the Footy? Andrew Daddo, Stephen Michael King RRP $14.99 Ella Meave RRP $16.99 Where’s the Footy? will have you searching for footies, flags, hot pies, mascots, whistles, coins, food trucks and loads more. Join in all the excitement of the footy season as Josh and Hazel try to find all the items they need for their junior footy club. feature TITLES Andrew McDonald, Ben Wood RRP $14.99 Due AUG In Jinxed Cora is thrown into a world filled with magic, necromancers, shape- shifters, enchantresses, fairies, nightwalkers, witches and giants. This is an exciting magical new series from the author of Whimsy & Woe. Now that twins Arthur and Rose are eleven, the magic Land of Roar is just a memory. But when they help Grandad clean out the attic, Arthur is horrified as Grandad is pulled into the folding bed and vanishes. Is he playing a joke? Or is Roar...real? Real Pigeons Splash Back T.C. Shelley RRP $14.99 Rebecca McRitchie, Sharon O’Connor RRP $17.99 Jenny McLachlan RRP $16.99 1 The Monster Who Wasn’t The Monster Who Wasn’t is a brilliantly rich and strange fantasy adventure that will make us all believe in monsters be they good, bad or somewhere in between. 1 A ten-year-old pirate captain? Absurd? Not in the world of Atticus Van Tasticus, a fabulously funny new illustrated junior fiction series from the brilliant and whacky creative minds of Andrew Daddo and Stephen Michael King. Give a gift card Due sept 1 WeirDo #13: Weirdomania! Anh Do, Jules Faber RRP $15.99 Everyone is going nuts for WRESTLE-CRAZIA, the coolest wrestling show around! Can Weir come up with an awesome idea to WIN tickets for his whole family to see the show? It wont be easy... but it will be FUNNY! Atlas of Monsters and Ghosts Lonely Planet Kids RRP $26.99 Join famous monster hunter Van Helsing on a globetrotting quest to find haunted castles, restless spirits, terrifying dragons, wicked witches, gremlins and lots more. Available in-store and online collinsbooks.com.au