Books published by publisher Scribe

They said the legend was just child's play. They were wrong...Everything was perfect in his island home set in the ancient Greek isles...until one dream changed it all. Now the young prince can't shake the nightmare of losing his parents forever. That night has also raised new questions for this precocious child that will change the way he views his parents and even how they may see him. In the days to follow he has to sort through the troubling questions that's causes him to question what he thought he knew. But he has no idea that an earth-shattering event will rock the island to its core in less than three days. It's a race against time to defy his biggest fear from coming true. The question is: can he save them before time runs out?

Little Mouse has a lot of things to do today … and he can do them all by himself! It’s an exciting day for Little Mouse. His friend Pip is coming over to visit. But first, there are chores to do around the house, like cleaning, laundry, and cooking lunch. Little Mouse is determined to help Mummy Mouse with all of them. And after that ― playtime! The second picture book from well-loved Finnish author/illustrator Riikka Jäntti to feature Little Mouse ― the small kid with the big personality ― Little Mouse Helps Out is sure to become another read-aloud favourite.

Angelika lives with her parents and her sister Susi on a beautiful Mediterranean island. She loves roaming the island with her favourite doll, Hippi, and when she adopts a piglet called Paulina, they have lots of fun together! When a farmer wants to take Paulina away, Angelika knows she has to save her best friend. And thus begins their exciting adventure … Published for the first time in English, My Pig Paulina is a splendid companion to the classic bestseller My Donkey Benjamin. With compelling, naturalistic photographs that allow children to imagine themselves into the story, it’s the perfect addition for any child’s bookshelf.

A spellbinding adventure and a captivating tale of first love. Alex and Jenny are sixteen. He lives in Milan; she, in Melbourne. For the past four years, they have glimpsed each other at random moments, while they are both unconscious ― a telepathic communication that occurs without warning. During one of these episodes, they manage to arrange a meeting. But on the day, though they are standing in the same place at the same time, each of them cannot see the other. This leads them to a startling discovery: they live in different dimensions. In Jenny’s world, Alex is someone else. And in Alex’s world, Jenny died at the age of six. As they try to find each other, the Multiverse threatens to implode and disappear, but Jenny and Alex must meet ― the future of the Earth depends on it.

Turn out the lights on another endless day in Trump's America with this sharp parody … In the very classy room There was a golden mirror And a silver spoon And a broadcast of -- A half-baked story from a fake newsroom … In the very classy golden bedroom of the White House, it is bedtime for the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. This wickedly funny parody offers readers the chance to put America's man-child-in-chief to bed early, so children everywhere can have sweet dreams without fear of being torn from their homes and families.

Thomas is a fifth-grader who loves to learn, but not just at school. When Thomas goes home, his mind is like a sponge. He soaks up everything he could possibly learn so that he could grow up to be like his parents. One thing he enjoys most is spending time with his family at home. He has many friends and shows himself very confident. But when things get a little rocky at school, Thomas has to use what he learned at home, along with his confidence, to get himself out of a sticky situation.

WINNER OF THE 2016 BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNG READERS, SWEDISH CRIME WRITERS ACADEMY Vega Gilbert is 16 years old when the police come knocking on the door looking for her older brother, Jakob. Vega hasn’t heard from him in days, but she has to find him before the police do. Jakob was involved in a terrible crime. What no one knows is that Vega was there, too. In the rural Swedish community where the Gillbergs live, life is tough, the people are even tougher, and old feuds never die. As Vega sets out to find her brother, she must survive a series of threatening encounters in a deadly landscape. As if that wasn’t enough, she’s dealing with the longing she feels for a boy that she has sworn to forget, and the mixed-up feelings she has for her brother’s best friend. During a damp, raw week in October, the door to the adult world swings open, and Vega realises that once she has crossed the threshold there is no turning back. PRAISE FOR CHRISTOFFER CARLSSON ‘The desolate landscape is the perfect backdrop for this taut tale of old family feuds and unfurling secrets.’ The Irish Times ‘ ... And exciting it is. The seasoned crime writer Christoffer Carlsson always has intrigue under his control, and slowly turns up the mystery and drama.’ Dagens Nyheter

Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city. The girls had always imagined that beyond the remote regions lay another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless, and alone, the city is a dangerous place ― a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people like themselves are confined to life’s shady margins. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other ― or just to survive. Narrated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Black Glass is the work of an exceptional new talent.

This joyous debut from well-known writer and editor Jennifer Higgie (Frieze Magazine) celebrates both the individual and the diversity of the world around us. In kaleidoscopic colour, Higgie takes young readers on a journey from some of life’s most important things (baked beans!) to some of life’s biggest wonders (stars!). The perfect early picture book for budding art lovers!

Paul Keating: the big-picture leader is the definitive biography of Australia’s 24th prime minister, and the first that Keating has cooperated with in more than two decades. Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior’s rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age; serving as a minister in the last days of the Whitlam government; his path-breaking term as treasurer in the 1980s; his four-year prime ministership from 1991 to 1996; and his passions and interests since. Bramston has interviewed more than 100 people who know and worked with Keating, including his family, parliamentary colleagues, advisers, party officials, union leaders, public servants, and journalists. This book includes interviews with Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Doug Anthony, Bill Hayden, Andrew Peacock, Ian Sinclair, John Hewson, Alexander Downer, Peter Costello, Kim Beazley, Simon Crean, Cheryl Kernot, and Bob Carr. Bramston has secured access to Labor archives, and he also documents key debates in once-secret cabinet papers, reveals caucus minutes for the first time, draws on the unpublished diaries of Neal Blewett and Bob Carr, discloses meeting records from the archives of US presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, talks to former British prime minister Tony Blair, and shares his new discoveries from the personal files of Gough Whitlam, Bill Hayden, Bob Hawke, and John Howard. Paul Keating saw political leadership as the combination of courage and imagination, a belief that powered his public career and helps explain his extraordinary triumphs and crushing lows. Keating blazed a trail of reform with a vision for Australia’s future that still attracts ardent admirers and the staunchest critics. This book chronicles, analyses, and interprets Keating’s life, and draws lessons for a Labor Party and a country still reluctant to fully embrace his legacy.