The Whisperwicks: The Impossible Trials

Author: Jordan Lees

Reading age: from c 8 years

Published on 26 March 2026 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Whisperwicks' series.

Paperback | 464 pages
197 x 129 x 31mm | 370g

‘Completely fantastic’ A.F. Steadman, bestselling author of the SKANDAR series on The WhisperwicksThe spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. ‘Magic forged at Midsommer is the strongest and truest of all magic – both fair and foul.’When Benjamiah discovers a strange fragment of witchstone, he find himself transported to the labyrinthine streets of Wreathenwold - a world of spectacular adventure and impossible magic.

Along with his friends Elizabella Cotton, Mea and Silas the mapmaker, Benjamiah embarks on a dangerous quest involving a strange collection of fairytales - The Book of Barely Believable Stories. The gang must undertake a series of magical trials to save the missing children of Wreathenwold, before Midsommer ends and they are lost forever . . .