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Our Latest SJF Feature books of the Week

20th Feb 2026

For our complete 2025-26 list, please click here. Thank you.

I Try 

Susie Brooks


I Try (Paperback)




Waterstones Says


Empowering little ones by building resilience – learn techniques from the animal world!

Spiders’ webs are super strong, but when it breaks they have to spin a new one.

Birds aren’t born flying but learn by making a brave leap.

Using pitch-perfect examples from the animal kingdom, this book encourages little ones to try new things, build their confidence and become resilient in all aspects of life. The cute and relatable cast of children work together and support each other, showing that there is always help around, especially when venturing into the unknown.

Illustrated throughout in Cally Johnson-Isaacs adorable, humorous and characterful style.

The perfect follow-up to I Breathe, a book of yoga poses for kids from the same author/illustrator pairing.

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Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Dominic Sandbrook

Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Adventures in Time (Paperback)



Waterstones Says


Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true

'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'

Step through these pages into the Tudor world: a dangerous place, where one miss-step could cost your life.

Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the twists and turns of a dramatic age. For no one is safe from the wheel of fortune: it can take you from a golden throne to the Tower of London...

The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...

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