Your Guide to World Book Day Books 2026

Jamie Smart's bestselling Bunny vs Monkey series expands with a hilarious, giggle-guaranteeing joke book! The silliest joke book ever! Join your favourite comic characters for the craziest joke book ever published. Bursting with hilarious side-splitting gags, to make you and your friends fall about with laughter. Also featuring jokes from readers of The Phoenix comic! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788453349 • Author: Jamie Smart • Publisher: David Fickling Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 128 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9cm

Your favourite comic duo are back in the latest adventure and #1-bestseller from creative genius and illustrator of the year, Jamie Smart - now in paperback! When Bunny, Monkey and friends discover a glitch in reality, life gets even crazier than normal: Bunny declares himself The Woods' Magical Protector, Pig becomes a superspy, plus there's complete metal Monkey mayhem! Brought to you by comic powerhouse The Phoenix, this latest addition to the Bunny vs Monkey series is packed full of the laugh-out-loud humour readers have come to love and expect from this bestselling series, along with full-colour illustrations that leap off every page. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788453097 • Author: Jamie Smart • Publisher: David Fickling Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 1.4 cm

Your favourite comic duo are back in the latest highly anticipated adventure in this million-selling series from creative genius Jamie Smart - it's OUT OF THIS WORLD! There's a new mischief-maker in The Woods - Little Monkey! A smaller, cuter, and even stranger Monkey than our beloved chaos-causer. But as Bunny and friends try to work out his motives, they are led far from the woods . . . into OUTER SPACE! And on Planet Monkey, the laughs are positively intergalactic! Brought to you by comic powerhouse The Phoenix, this latest addition to the Bunny vs Monkey series is packed full of the laugh-out-loud humour readers have come to love and expect from this bestselling series, along with full-colour illustrations that leap off every page. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788453271 • Author: Jamie Smart • Publisher: David Fickling Books • Format: Hardback • Pages: 224 • Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 2 cm

Join time-travelling penguins Pablo and Splash on an unexpected adventure to the time of the dinosaurs in this brilliantly funny full-colour graphic novel. Perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey or Dog Man. Antarctic penguins Pablo and Splash are polar opposites and besties for life. Pablo is a home-bird and a careful planner. Splash is easily bored and hungry for adventure. Sick to her flippers of the harsh, freezing weather, Splash persuades Pablo to go on a holiday with her. But far from the luxury beach destination that Splash has in mind, the pair end up in a time-travel machine that takes them back to the age of the dinosaurs! Suddenly their icy homeland doesn't seem so dull. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781526662606 • Author: Sheena Dempsey • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 240

The Maniacal Badger has arrived, and he's determined to take over the Woods! Wasn't that Monkey's plan?  This cannot happen! What japes await in this brand-new adventure, when Bunny and Monkey team up to beat this new menace?! They've never managed to work together before... And will Skunky rediscover his passion for evil inventions, to defeat his rival at their own game? One thing's for sure... Laughs are guaranteed!  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781788452809 • Author:  Jamie Smart  • Publisher:  David Fickling Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  240 • Dimensions:  14 x 1.6 x 21 cm 

Introducing the all powerful…Pig?! The Woods are in uproar! Pig has vanished!  What could have happened to him? And who is that familiar-looking bearded figure sitting on a cloud? Could they be connected? Clever and original, embark on the adventure in this new addition of this best-selling comic sensation! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781788453127 • Author: Jamie Smart  • Publisher: David Fickling Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  240 • Dimensions:  14 x 21cm

"Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist." One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant! Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children. But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat. Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241558348 • Author:  Roald Dahl  • Publisher:  Puffin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  384 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone. Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind. But her parents have decided she's just a nuisance who wastes too much time on reading and stories. And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up. Now it's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241558317 • Author: Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm

Start the search for Wally in the original eye-boggling classic activity book! The original book which kick-started the worldwide Wally phenomenon! Search for Wally and his friends as they hike round the world - on the beach, at the train station, at sea... They're fiendishly hidden in every intricately-detailed scene - and there are lots of other things to look for too. Hours of fun and games await. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781406305890 • Author:  Martin Handford  • Publisher:  Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions: 31.7 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm

The unmissable follow-up to the phenomenal bestselling and award-winning The Last Bear. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold. April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But, over a year later, she can’t stop thinking about Bear. When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she’s convinced it’s her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers. But along the way, she discovers much more than she bargained for – a tiny polar bear cub, desperately in need of her help. In freezing temperatures, April must navigate the dangerous Arctic terrain and face her deepest fears if she’s to save him. Beautifully illustrated by Levi Pinfold, Finding Bear is a stunning story of survival and a heartwarming tale of love that shows us how hope is born from the smallest of beginnings. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008582043 • Author: Hannah Gold • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 18.5 x 13 cm

Lets get creative with this fun exciting Peppa Pig activity book full of fantastic dressing up mayhem! From princesses, pirates, astronauts and nurses, your little one will be entertained for hours by dressing up Peppa and friends. With a page of stunning sticker art, bring your book to life and add your personal touch to all of Peppa's fun adventures! Product Information: ISBN: 9780241430071 Author: Neville Astley & Mark Baker Publisher: Ladybird Books Format: Paperback Pages: 32 Dimensions: 29.8 x 21 x 0.3cm

Discover how some of today’s most talented footballers rose from their humble beginnings to become the best in the world. Read the STORIES, look up the STATS and relive the MAGIC MOMENTS in this 10-book mega pack! Featuring: • Haaland • Mbappe • Bronze • De Bruyne  • Rashford • Grealish • Messi • Salah • Ronaldo • Kane Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804538562 • Author: Simon Mugford & Dan Green • Publisher: Hachette Children's Books • Format: Box Set • Number of Books: 10