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Celebrate Summer with HarperCollins Children’s Books!

This year, to celebrate summer, we’re releasing sneak peeks and extracts of some of our favourite audio and ebooks!

Each week we’ll release chapters in both audio and ebook formats from a wide selection of books. Listen to our audio chapters in the morning and follow the story through our ebook chapters in the evening. You can find them all below!

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course).

Oh yeah. And dead.

Then there’s his sidekick, Stephanie. She’s… well, she’s a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out…

Check our Skulduggery Pleasant playlist below for full chapters of the audiobooks every week!

Want more Skulduggery Pleasant? Follow on from the audiobook chapters with the ebook! Find chapters 2, 4 and 6 below.

Read Chapters 3 & 4 of Playing with Fire here!

Read Chapters 2 & 3 of The Faceless Ones here!

David Baddiel is the author of 10 bestselling hilarious children’s books which have sold more than a million copies in the UK alone!

This year marks the 10th anniversary of his best-selling children’s book The Parent Agency, which also won the Laugh Out Loud book award. And keep an eye out for his new novel, Small Fry, which will be out in October.

As part of our Summer Bookathon, we’ll be releasing audio and ebook chapters from some of our favourite boredom-busting blockbuster books by David Baddiel. Check our David Baddiel playlist below for full chapters of the audiobooks every week!

Follow on from the audiobooks with the ebooks!

Read Chapters 4 & 5 of The Person Controller here!

Read Chapters 5 & 6 of The Parent Agency here!

Read Chapters 6 & 7 of Head Kid here!

Read Chapters 4 & 5 of AniMalcolm here!

Read chapters 4 & 5 of The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked ​here!

Read chapters 3 & 4 of The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked ​here!

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Peru when the Brown family first met him at Paddington Station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same… for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.

For more than sixty years, Paddington Bear has touched the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures.

Check our Paddington playlist below for full chapters of the audiobooks every week!

Follow on from the audiobook with the ebook chapters below!

Read Chapter 3 of A Bear Called Paddington here!

Read Chapter 3 of Paddington Takes the Air here!

Read Chapter 2 of More About Paddington here!

Read Chapter 2 of Paddington Goes to Town here!

Read Chapter 2 of Paddington Abroad here!

Read Chapter 2 of Paddington at Large here!

Enjoy summer this year with the nation’s favourite storyteller Michael Morpurgo.

Michael has written over 150 moving and heart-felt children’s books over his career. For our Summer Bookathon, we’ll be celebrating by sharing chapters of some of our favourite titles across ebook and audio.

Check our Michael Morpurgo playlist below for full chapters of the audiobooks every week!

Follow on from the audiobooks with the ebooks!

Read Chapter 2 of Private Peaceful here!

Read Chapter 2 of The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips here!

Read Chapter 2 of Running Wild here!

Read Chapter 2 & 3 of Shadow here!

Read Chapters 2 & 3 of The Butterfly Lion here!

Read Chapters 2 & 3 of The Butterfly Lion here!