Black boy joy is? Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voice-and your rhymes-during tough times. Flying on your skateboard like nobody?s watching. And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.

Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests. Then one day a particularly in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay. There is something very suspicious about her, with her growly voice and her heavy trunks and her beady-eyed tortoise. And why does no one know her REAL name? There can only be one answer, Mabel decides ... this guest is a SUPERVILLAIN. But even supervillains...

Eric Doomsday loves doing magic tricks. But even though his best friend, Vinnie Mumbles, thinks they?re great, they do always seem to go a bit ? wrong. When some very important School Inspectors threaten to close down Eric?s school, his headmistress decides to put on a talent show. A talent show with Eric in it. And Eric?s magic tricks. Thank goodness the Earth isn?t being inspected by aliens at the same time! Because magic, aliens and talent shows...

I?ll be beside you. Every step until the last. Dylan and Tristan have escaped death and conquered destiny. But their actions have caused an imbalance. The afterlife is owed two souls - and it wants them back. Exiled from the world of the living, Dylan and Tristan face a loss worse than death: each other. Their love has got them this far, but can it survive a final heartrending sacrifice?.

Mup?s dad has been kidnapped by witches, and Mup - along with her mam, brother and dog - must journey to an enchanted world to rescue him. Danger awaits them. Witches Borough is a beguiling place of rhyming crows, talking cats and forbidden magic, ruled by a tyrannical queen and her band of raggedy witches. And Mam seems strange on this side of the border - striding, powerful and increasingly distant. Even if they can save her father, Mup knows that...

It is 1913, nine years after the end of A Little Princess saw Sara Crewe escape Miss Minchin's orphanage. Lottie, the smallest girl from the original story, learns about the Suffragette movement from Sara, who returns to visit from time to time. Soon Lottie finds herself sneaking out of the orphanage to attend a demonstration, in defiance of her cold, distant father. A father who has a secret to hide about her own missing mother ... A story about...

In the nursery, only the toys that are old and wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The Velveteen Rabbit, a newcomer to the nursery, asks one of the most knowledgeable toys, the Skin Horse, what being real means. "Real isn't how you?re made," says the Skin Horse. "It?s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become real. It doesn't happen all at once....

Happy face or sad face? The future of Tom?s school trip depends on an emoji! Welcome back to the AMAZING world of Tom Gates! But right now, it?s not looking quite as amazing as usual. Tom?s trying REALLY HARD To stay out of trouble. But he?s got THREE sad faces on the school achievement chart. Just one more sad face means Mr Fullerman will ban him from the SCHOOL TRIP. Moany Marcus is making things worse. And now Tom?s upset his grumpy sister Delia....

The whales of Bathsheba?s pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra, they fight a never-ending war against men. So it has been, so it shall always be. Then the whales attack a man ship, and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself ? With their relentless Captain leading the chase, they embark on the final hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of whales and men.

Wish is a warrior girl with a Magic spoon and a Magic eye ... Xar is a Wizard boy with a dangerous Witchstain on his hand. Wish and Xar are now outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards and worst of all, by WITCHES ... Can they find the ingredients for the spell to get rid of Witches before the Kingwitch gets his talons on Magic-that-works-on-iron? This Quest is the most terrifying and treacherous of all ... And SOMEONE is going to betray them...