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\n Impossible Creatures · Book Three<\/span>\n\n

The Neverfear<\/h1>\n\n

Set sail for the Glimouria Archipelago<\/p>\n\n

\n by Katherine Rundell<\/strong> ·\n #1 New York Times Bestselling Author\n <\/p>\n\n

\n \n <\/svg>\n 27th August 2026\n <\/span>\n \n <\/svg>\n Disney 5-Film Adaptation\n <\/span>\n \n <\/svg>\n Waterstones Book of the Year\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

\n Masked bandits, kidnapping, daring quests... the race is on. The Midsummer Feast\n on the Islet of Glimt should be a night of celebration, but reports of masked men setting\n villages ablaze are sweeping across the Glimouria Archipelago. When Christopher and Anya\n are ambushed and someone they hold dear is taken from them, the stakes have never been\n higher. With Anya Argen, former Princess of Dousha, Ratwin the ratatoska and Jacques the\n Jaculus dragon at his side, Christopher boards the Neverfear on a voyage to reclaim three\n priceless treasures. Giants, a perilous race, and ruthless enemies stand between them and\n the people they are desperate to save.\n <\/p>\n\n

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The Complete Impossible Creatures Series<\/p>\n

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\n 1<\/span>\n
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Impossible Creatures<\/div>\n
2023<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n 2<\/span>\n
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The Poisoned King<\/div>\n
2025<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n 3<\/span>\n
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The Neverfear<\/div>\n
2026<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n 4<\/span>\n
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Book Four<\/div>\n
TBA<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n 5<\/span>\n
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Book Five<\/div>\n
TBA<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
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More from Katherine Rundell<\/p>\n

Beyond the Archipelago<\/h2>\n

\n Before the Impossible Creatures saga and the Disney deal, Katherine Rundell built a body of\n work that has been translated into more than forty languages and won the Waterstones Book of\n the Year, the Costa Children's Book Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Here are her\n other novels and books worth knowing.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Novel · 2013<\/span>\n
Rooftoppers<\/div>\n
Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2014<\/div>\n

A shipwreck, a cello case and a girl named Sophie searching the rooftops of Paris for her lost mother.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Novel · 2015<\/span>\n
The Wolf Wilder<\/div>\n
Russian wilderness adventure<\/div>\n

Feo and her mother train tame wolves to be wild again, until soldiers come for them and Feo runs.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Novel · 2017<\/span>\n
The Explorer<\/div>\n
Costa Children's Book Award winner<\/div>\n

Four children survive a plane crash deep in the Amazon and discover a hidden city.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Novel · 2019<\/span>\n
The Good Thieves<\/div>\n
Foyles Children's Book of the Year<\/div>\n

Prohibition-era New York, a stolen castle, and a heist pulled off by four unlikely children.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Novel · 2011<\/span>\n
The Girl Savage<\/div>\n
Also published as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms<\/div>\n

Wilhelmina's wild Zimbabwean childhood collides with the cold reality of an English boarding school.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Picture Book · 2022<\/span>\n
The Zebra's Great Escape<\/div>\n
Illustrated by Sara Ogilvie<\/div>\n

A picture-book adventure about Mink, a runaway zebra and a string of stolen animals to set free.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Novella · 2021<\/span>\n
Skysteppers<\/div>\n
A Rooftoppers companion story<\/div>\n

A short return to the Paris rooftops, written for World Book Day with the same cast Rundell readers love.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Picture Book · 2017<\/span>\n
One Christmas Wish<\/div>\n
Illustrated by Emily Sutton<\/div>\n

A lonely boy makes a Christmas Eve wish and four old tree decorations come stumbling to life.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Companion · 2018<\/span>\n
Into the Jungle<\/div>\n
Origin stories for Kipling's Jungle Book<\/div>\n

Estate-approved tales filling in the lives of Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and Shere Khan before the classic.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Non-Fiction · 2019<\/span>\n
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise<\/div>\n
Essay<\/div>\n

A short, fierce defence of children's literature as serious art, by one of its most acclaimed practitioners.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Non-Fiction · 2022<\/span>\n
The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure<\/div>\n
Illustrated by Talya Baldwin<\/div>\n

A bestiary of endangered creatures from seahorses to lemurs, told as a love letter to the wild.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Non-Fiction · 2022<\/span>\n
Super-Infinite<\/div>\n
Baillie Gifford Prize winner · on John Donne<\/div>\n

Rundell's prize-winning biography of the Renaissance poet who lived a dozen lives in one.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n