Paker’s vibrant and zany illustrations, here in full colour glory, are the perfect foil for Kay’s nerdy enthusiasm for explaining how bodies work. This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of Amy, a small piece of sweetcorn who is eaten by Noah, a medium-sized boy. Instead, he lashes out at school, continuing the cycle of violence, before a calming friend teaches him “you can’t fly angry”. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

From the duo behind the award winning and best-selling Kay’s Anatomy and Kay’s Marvellous Medicine we have a debut picturebook that proves they are just as successful at communicating biological facts accurately for three-to five-year-olds, as they are for older readers. Dear NHS", edited by Adam Kay, was an instant Sunday Times number one with all profits donated to charity. The only slightly disconcerting but undeniably topical note is the final image of Amy and her poo ship sailing out to sea! Amy’s story follows her adventure through Noah’s digestive system, and she is very excited about it. My partner who is a nurse in an endoscopy unit is taking this in to show all his colleagues after he found it highly amusing too.

Without these cookies, we won't know if you have any performance-related issues that we may be able to address. You can understand the allure: children’s publishing is booming and the task of conjuring a whole world in a slim clutch of pages must seem a tantalising exercise in efficiency and imagination for authors more accustomed to turning in dozens of chapters. Hours of gruesome fun guaranteed’ i ‘Like listening to a teacher who makes pupils fall about’ Sunday Times ‘Totally brilliant!

His follow-up, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, sold over 500,000 copies in the last three months of 2019, and saw him become the first author to have simultaneous Sunday Times number ones for both hardback and paperback nonfiction titles. Genteel readers may wish to skip over the next book, about Amy, an excitable piece of sweetcorn with a look of SpongeBob SquarePants who is swallowed on a kid’s pizza slice and ends up coming out of his bottom. This is Going to Hurt has sold over two million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and is the bestselling narrative nonfiction title of the decade, spending over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller chart.Of course, you don’t need to be a literary star to publish a cracking debut picture book (though all those contacts surely help! Jacqueline Wilson ‘Fun and informative’ Malorie Blackman ‘Very funny – this exciting book is bound to inspire the next generation of medics’ Sunday Express Praise for Kay’s Marvellous Medicine: ‘A ridiculously funny read that will delight, gross out and educate all at the same time’ Independent ‘Educational and entertaining. The trend for acclaimed novelists of adult fiction to sidestep into picture books shows no signs of abating.

The non digestion of sweetcorn is legendary and to pick the only vegetable that could tell the full sticky story is a stroke of genius. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies.

Young children are completely fascinated by everything toilet related and immediately recognising the emoji style poo on the cover, will find the book irresistible.