Chicken House

24/01/2025

1 week left to enter your dinosaurs!

TEACHERS! Did you know that your kids could be in with chance of naming a monster in book 3 of hit dinosaur series?

Find out how to enter here: https://www.scholastic.co.uk/designadino

23/01/2025

Discover the critter-filled adventure, BEETLE BOY by MG Leonard TODAY ONLY FOR 99P! 🐞 https://loom.ly/_hEJF_E

22/01/2025

One of the hardest things about writing is considering the age group of who you’re writing for ... 📚

Here's Publisher Barry Cunningham, as he explains all you need to know about using your childhood as source material for your writing! https://loom.ly/kUhp1X8

17/01/2025

2 weeks left to enter your dinosaurs!

TEACHERS! Did you know that your kids could be in with chance of naming a monster in book 3 of hit dinosaur series?

Find out how to enter here: https://www.scholastic.co.uk/designadino

13/01/2025

👻COVER REVEAL👻

Packed full of spooky ghosts, time-travelling steam trains and ancient English mythology, THE SCREAM OF THE WHISTLE by EMILY RANDALL-JONES is out 5th June. All aboard for the ghost ride of your life!

Ruby is miserable. Her parents have split up, and now she’s stuck in a run-down old village. She decides to hurry home, following an old train track and the eerie scream of a whistle in the dark.
When an ancient steam train appears, Ruby can’t resist stepping aboard.
But it’s May Day Eve, when the veil between worlds is thin, and she soon realizes she’s on the ghost ride of her life . . .

This beautiful cover was designed by Micaela Alcaino!
OUT 5TH JUNE 2025

10/01/2025

✨The Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition is BACK for 2025!✨

If you'd like to find out more about the possibility of winning a £10k publishing deal (amongst other prizes👀), buckle up! We're once again searching for original ideas, a fresh voice, a diverse range of entries and stories that children will love! We’d particularly like to encourage entry from writers from underrepresented backgrounds.

So, if you have (or are likely to have soon👀) a completed full-length novel suitable for children/young adults aged somewhere between 7 and 18 years – WE WANT TO SEE IT! To find out all the information and entry requirements, take a look here: https://www.chickenhousebooks.com/submissions/. We can't wait to read your work!📚

10/01/2025

3 weeks left to enter your dinosaurs!

TEACHERS! Did you know that your kids could be in with chance of naming a monster in book 3 of hit dinosaur series?

Find out how to enter here: https://www.scholastic.co.uk/designadino

Closing 31st Jan

09/01/2025

🦋The Island at the End of Everything🦋

An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreaking tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother.

From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK & STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding your way home …

READ THE ISLAND AT THE END OF EVERYTHING THIS MONTH ON KINDLE FOR ONLY 99P!

08/01/2025

Jurassic Park meets Wimpy Kid, packed with humour, supsense and adventure!

The second in the all-action adventure series from is OUT NOW.

Grab your copy today➡️ https://loom.ly/TPFSCJY

Mission: Manta Ray - the second hilarious action-packed adventure in the Mission: Microraptor series

04/01/2025

Looking for your first read of 2025?👀

Check out this gripping exploration of societal pressures on young girls in the dark YA novel blurring the lines between fantasy and reality:

THE WILDERNESS OF GIRLS by Madeline Claire Franklin🖤🐺
Pre-order now: https://loom.ly/hiUBY6c

The Wilderness of Girls: a dark, gripping and unflinching debut for young adults

31/12/2024

CALLING ALL TEACHERS/PARENTS! 1 month left to enter!

Did you know that your kids could be in with chance of naming a monster in book 3 of hit dinosaur series?

Find out how to enter here: https://www.scholastic.co.uk/designadino

Closes Jan 31st

23/12/2024

"Once Upon A Time, we were the wilderness. And then we were caged."
THE WILDERNESS OF GIRLS by Madeline Claire Franklin - OUT 2ND JAN 2025 🖤🐺
Click the link to read the first chapter➡️ https://loom.ly/89AnHOA
Please see attached graphic for content warning (16+)

18/12/2024

Are you ready for your next mission❓
Dive into an action-packed dinosaur adventure with deep-sea disturbances, and a perilous underwater mission!

Head to our website for a sneak peek▶️ https://loom.ly/d_ZQxlg

17/12/2024

CALLING ALL TEACHERS/PARENTS!

Did you know that your kids could be in with chance of naming a monster in book 3 of hit dinosaur series?

Find out how to enter here: https://www.scholastic.co.uk/designadino

14/12/2024

THE WILDERNESS OF GIRLS by Madeline Claire Franklin 🖤🐺

An unflinching exploration of how the world teaches young girls to cage their wildness—and what happens when they claw themselves free . . .

Chosen as one of Barnes and Noble's Best Books of 2024, THE WILDERNESS OF GIRLS is coming to the UK on 2nd January 2025! Available to pre-order now✨