Adam Ming – illustratör

You know the story … now let’s change it! WINNER! BASH (Book Award St Helens) 2026, 5+ categorySHORTLISTED! InspiREAD Book Award 2025 Have you ever wondered why the Mean Old Witch is mean? Or why the Big Bad Wolf is bad? They weren’t always that way… The Big Bad Wolf used to be small and sweet. But when a witch was mean to him, everything changed …The Mean Old Witch used to be young and kind, singing to the birds and picking up litter, until an unfortunate encounter with a Horrible Stinky Troll … Discover how unkind words and actions can have consequences – and how a simple apology has the magical power to transform everything! The magical new picture book from award-winning children’s book creator Leigh Hodgkinson and exciting emerging illustrator Adam Ming.

Anansi the Spider meets Jon Klassen in this wickedly witty debut.When a suspiciously polite fox attempts to coax his next meal out of a burrow, he is met with a clever rabbit who has been cooking up a surprise for this very moment!Careful readers may spot what is in store for fox before he does in this darkly funny cautionary tale that roots for the underbunny.

Follow Bird as she discovers how animals make their homes in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness! Caves, holes, hills, hives and especially nests – they all make GREAT homes for animals but there are SO many MORE. From snow drifts, webs and shells to logs, pebbles and tunnels and even a hot underwater volcano, follow Bird as she discovers how over 50 different animals make, find and build their homes in this super-fun collection of awesome animal tales. Find out whose home is also used as a trip wire, wrapping paper, parachute . . . and  submarine?! (Spider!) Or which animal clears a tidy a path to their log-pile house to make it easier for visitors? (Rattlesnake! But watch out, visitors . . .  this animal plans to gobble you up!) Whose home has a larder, dining room and super-slidey escape tunnel?! (Mole!) Plus find out which house ends up being the BEST after all. And guess what? It’s not just birds who make nests as this this little Bird is about to find out! Children will love discovering all the different kinds of animal homes and which clever creatures made, found and built them with awesome facts that are easy to remember to make learning about the animal world fun.

Follow Zebra as she discovers how animals live and work together in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness! Packs, flocks, hives, prides and especially herds – there are lots of amazing animal groups but there are SO many MORE. From chicken broods, shark shivers and meerkat mobs to baboon troops, tuna shoals and even a cauldron of bats, follow Zebra as she discovers how over 50 different animals live and work together in this super-fun collection of awesome animal tales. Find out who twists, swoops and flies with her flock? (Starling!) Or which animals hum to tell others in their group that they're nearby? (Giraffe! But watch out, visitors . . .  this animal has a mean karate kick!) Which animals clean each other, play together and look after each other’s young? (Lion!) Plus find out which group of animals ends up being the BEST at working together. And guess what? It’s not just zebras who live in herds as this little Zebra is about to find out! Children will love discovering all the different kinds of animal groups and which clever creatures live in them, together with awesome facts that are easy to remember to make learning about the animal world fun.Also available: I'm Building a Nest

Argentinian star athlete Lionel Messi is the most decorated player in the history of professional soccer. Readers get to know him through ten fast-paced stories that showcase his astonishing skill, his commitment to the game, his creativity as a playmaker, and his love of his family and his sport.Each book in this collectible series is an exciting combination of the perpetually popular 5 Minute stories format and nonfiction biographies for young readers genres. The series' unique approach, with each book containing ten exciting stand-alone stories in the life of a genius plus bonus informational content on the science, craft, and history behind each story, creates an engaging reading experience for young readers. 5-Minute Genius explores a broad range of noteworthy individuals with STEM appeal for readers ages 6-9, from scientists like Albert Einstein and Ada Lovelace, to athletes like Lionel Messi and Simone Biles, to activists like Rosa Parks and the Suffragettes.

A funny and fascinating guide to the world of working animals – packed with astonishing facts!Is your doctor a donkey? Is your postman a platypus? Probably not, that would be . . . amazing! But bee-lieve it or not, many animals do have jobs. Get ready for a whirlwind tour around the globe where you'll meet some of those amazing animals and learn all about the incredible jobs they do – from bomb-sniffing bees and detector dolphins to caddy llamas and the bodega cats of New York City.  Readers will discover:The role of therapy animals in helping people feel more calm in airports (including LiLou – San Fransisco’s superstar therapy pig!) How llamas can help golfers get around the course (without ever leaving a mess behind!) How bees can be trained to detect illnesses (Un-bee-lievably!) And much, much more! Simon Philip’s witty, fact-filled text pairs perfectly with Adam Ming’s captivating contemporary art, making this book the perfect gift for any child who loves animals.

*Winner of The Week Junior's Children's Book of the Year: STEM 2024!**Shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2024!*'Laugh out loud funny - and you'll learn lots too!' - Adam Kay, author of Kay's Anatomy and Kay's Incredible Inventions.'If I had had such a book when I was 10 or 11, I might well have set my sights on becoming a geneticist or some kind of biologist...' - Stephen FryGo on an extraordinary adventure through millions of years of human history and learn the story of our species from evolution to dinosaurs to YOU! Along the way, you will meet kings and queens, Pharaohs and Vikings, and see just how far and wide humans have migrated around the world. You'll discover why we're related to a super cheesy man and that no matter what skin colour you have, language you speak or place you are from - we all share the same small pool of ancestors.Mind-boggling, entertaining and illuminating, this is the epic story of you and everyone who has ever lived!'A BRILLIANT book about biology and belonging. Packed to its covers with fascinating facts, science and joy; I have a ten year old son who will LOVE this book.' - Dr Alice Roberts, author of Wolf Road and The Incredible Human Journey'Funny, silly and utterly rigorous - a book that will inspire awe and wonder in all that read it. It stands a better chance of making the world a better place than any book I've read recently.' - Dr Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra Processed PeopleWinner: Children's Book of the Year: STEM - The Week Junior Book Awards, October 2024Shortlisted: Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, November 2024

A bright, fun, read-aloud non-fiction picture book about animals and their feelings for curious young readers. Showing readers how animals are not so different from us!With a different emotion per spread, this funny, moving and adorable picture book explores emotions such as sad, happy, grumpy and kind. Children will love making connections between their own feelings and their favourite animals – including elephants, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, monkeys, deer and much more.With rhythmic text, informative facts and adorable animal characters, this book will help children identify basic feelings, while introducing ideas of empathy and animal welfare.

*A BookTrust Great New Book of 2024-2025*Learn all about the incredible daily routines of animals in this bright, fact-packed sequel to Does a Monkey Get Grumpy?Did you know that some crabs get dressed? Or that young meerkats have to go to 'school'? Or that sloths have very particular pooping habits?From brave plover birds who clean crocodile teeth, to orangutans who make cosy treetop beds, animals have the most fascinating routines - just like us! Whether they're keeping clean or using tools to catch their dinner, explore the daily habitats of 15 animals across the planet - including sloths, meerkats, alpacas, wolves, foxes, crabs and more. With bouncy rhythmic text and fascinating facts, this book will help children identify daily activities, while teaching them how very similar the lives of humans and animals really are.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLiPPA AWARDS – the UK's leading prize for poetry for children Discover a secret world thriving right underneath your feet. From beetles to butterflies, spiders to scorpions, meet the most bizarre and awe-inspiring bugs ever to walk the Earth! Here is the insect kingdom in all its glory – and here is a book that children will want to read over and over again.Author Simon Mole turns fascinating facts into poems full of humour and heart; Adam Ming’s illustrations are a riot of colour and energy, helping these extraordinary creatures to jump off the page.

Posey Pearl is a Curious Girl is a rhyming picture book about how families can be different but still be full of love, exploring feelings that children can have about their families and how they may be different from others.In a quiet little town called Tilbury Downwas a mysterious noise in the air.While the town slept, the eerie sound creptover roofs and through the dark square.When Posey Pearl hears a strange song coming from afar in her little town, she thinks, just maybe, it’s someone who needs a home. But what she finds at the end of her journey – and along the way – is quite unexpected! For ages 3 and up.

A hideous monster needs YOUR help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help?“Excuse me? You – yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me!”Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown up), and, well you don’t want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right and he’ll return to his true form and be gorgeous again . . . or so he thinks.An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!